Emergency Landing...Dislocation...Fracture...not a good way to start a holiday

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March 4th 2012

Published: April 24th 2012

The last 6 months have seen us have some bad luck with flights – one flight, in November, had us abort a landing where the wings of the plane were literally touching the tops of the palm trees below. At the very last minute the plane pulled back up and re-attempted the approach from a different direction. However, this latest piece of bad luck when we were on our way to Bangkok was something we ... Read Full Entry

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Donna and Neil

We saved for 3 years and then went Hoff to travel the world. Chris Columbus and Magellan eat your heart out...do you reckon other people will have already discovered the places we are going to? You bet! About Us Neil, originally from Hartlepool, UK and Donna, originally from the Wirral, UK have known each other for 19 years. We bought a house, got cushy jobs in Nottingham and always had a passion to travel and see what more was out there in the big wide world (sounds corny or what?). The opportunity came when we were both made redundant and given nice r... full info

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24th April 2012

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deleted_49612

:)
Geez, you have been on some scary flights. Am I just lucky, or are the experiences you had the usual... Hope the rest of your trip is a bit less eventful, in the bad luck areas of travel. :)

24th April 2012

Donna and Neil
Donna and Neil

flight bad luck!
Well until the last 6 months we had never had anything like this happen to us either with flights. Today, for instance we had another incident...we ended up circling the airport for 30 minutes as a military plane had to make an emergency landing. Maybe we are now jinxed with flights?!

25th April 2012

The Travel Camel
Shane Dallas

If you cannot afford insurance, you cannot afford to travel!
Sorry to read about what happened to Paul, but he was lucky to have a loving family around him at that difficult time. Glad that he will make a full recovery, but that scar is even scarier looking than that "horribly poisonous" spider!

25th April 2012

Donna and Neil
Donna and Neil

Agree...never travel without insurance
Exactly, Shane and this has highlighted to us how essential travel insurance is. The scar looks a lot better now, but that spider had us a little bit scared!

25th April 2012

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deleted_46288

Double Ouch.....but at least you are all still in one piece :)
Sounds like you had a barrel of laughs :/ Why can't my holidays ever be this eventful.... I always get turbulence free flights and hire bikes that work....although I did once end up in a ditch after swerving round a cow in India......anyway, I hope Paul is recovering well. Yup, gave Chavy Chaweng a miss completely and sadly it seems that Lamai is going in exactly the same direction. I was chatting with a fellow teacher the other day who is in his 60s. He was telling me wonderful stories of an untouched Ko Samui that he visited back in 1973.

25th April 2012

Donna and Neil
Donna and Neil

Eventful holidays
Well we would have definitely preferred an uneventful holiday but despite everything we still had a good time and spent lots of family time together. Ahh, those fabled tales of the Samui of old...unfortunately everywhere changes but at least it's still possible to find a little slice of heaven even on a developed island.

25th April 2012

Sophie and Dale
Sophie & Dale

Glad all was ok
Hi guys Good to hear what you are both up to. Sorry to hear you had a bit of a bad time with Paul but it sounds like he was very well cared for both in the hospital and by you both so hopefully it didn't spoil his holiday too much.. that scar will be an everlasting reminder though! Hope you are both great, we are heading over to Asia in January so maybe we'll bump into you again! Fingers crossed that is the last of your bad luck for a good long while xx

26th April 2012

Donna and Neil
Donna and Neil

Fingers crossed!
Hellooo! Looking at it statistically, the number of flights we do chances are something will go wrong at some point but we do actually have our fingers crossed that our bad luck concerning flights is over! Let us know your plans closer to the time, we would love to meet up with you and catch up! xx

26th April 2012

Andy and Nicola Bickley
Andrew & Nicola

What a tale!
Wow, we are headed to Koh Samui in Feb next year for a wedding (Staying at the 'Peace Resort') and after reading that I think we will be looking at car hire rather than moped! Would you be able to pass on the details of the guy you used? Also any recommendations on things to do/places to visit? We are short on time so will only have about 5 days there.

26th April 2012

Donna and Neil
Donna and Neil

tips and recommendations
Hi Andy and Nicola, happy to give you tips and recommendations - we'll send you a message with details. Feb is a good time to visit, the weather should be nice!

29th May 2013

miss jalan jalan
miss jalan jalan

travel insurance
OMG, I feel bad for Paul... Sometimes i feel foolish to purchase travel insurance but sounds like i should continue buying it!

30th May 2013

Donna and Neil
Donna and Neil

Thanks for the comment
Thankfully Paul is fully recovered (just over a year on) and has full movement back with his arm. Yes, travel insurance really is so important, never feel foolish buying it as you never know when you will need it!

9th August 2013

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

A bucket of vodka
You've had pretty good luck in the past...but this one...ugh. I'm thinking the vodka was indeed the way to go. Bing nurses we like to go to hospitals and have a look around when we visit foreign countries but we like to look and leave...not become customers.

10th August 2013

Donna and Neil
Donna and Neil

Bad luck indeed!
Yes, it was very bad luck. You would have been fascinated by the hospital...although we would definitely have preferred not to have seen inside one and so would Paul! Vodka buckets seemed like a good remedy and did help a bit ;)

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