SJJ - KUL

Sat 21/9/24

Time to go back today. Before checking out we went for the hotel buffet breakfast which is included in the room rate at 7am. There was a tourist crowd already at breakfast and the buffet spread was just so so but sufficient. We had latte with croissant, eggs, yogurt and fruits.

breakfast at hotel

We checked out at 9am, filled up the tank at the petrol station just beside the hotel and drove straight to the airport, reaching there within 10 minutes. We parked the car the airport car park just in front of the Sixt office and returned the car keys to the staff for inspection. The inspection was swift and there were no further charges.

We went to the check in counter to check in our bags and get our boarding passes. We managed to finish up our remaining cash in BAM, buying lokum, fig pastry, fridge magnets and a croissant before going in for security check. The shops after security and passport control only accept payments in EUR.

We utilised our MH's Enrich and QR's Privilege Club membership to access the Business lounge while waiting to board our flight scheduled for departure at 12.30pm. We boarded a bit late but the plane was ready by 12.30pm However, we were delayed on the tarmac for 45 minutes and only departed at 1.15pm

SJJ business lounge

For lunch we chose the Irish beef stew with mashed potato .

Irish beef stew with mashed potato

We were worried that we would miss our connecting flight due to the delay from SJJ airport as our layover time was only 1 hour 30 minutes. True enough, when we landed at Doha, the ground staff was already waiting for us and handed us 2 pairs of new boarding passes heading to Phuket (HKT) instead of Singapore (SIN) and the onwards flight to KUL. As the DOH-HKT flight was ready for boarding, we made our way straight to the gate. Again, we didn't have enough time to enjoy the lounge at Doha. Our flight departed on time at 8.50pm, one hour after our original DOH-SIN flight.

For dinner we chose the slow cooked mustard beef with parmesan.

slow cooked mustard beef with parmesan

We landed at HKT at 7.15am and again was greeted by the ground staff. We were told to go to passport control, collect our luggage and check in again at the counter to get a new boarding pass to KUL and check in our luggage again. This whole process took almost 2 hours when we finally get to relax a bit at the Coral Executive lounge, utilizing our MH's Enrich and QR's Privilege Club membership. We had some breakfast at the lounge of eggs, croissant and latte. 

HKT Coral executive lounge

Our flight back to KUL departed on time at 10.30am and we reached KLIA airport at 1pm local time (Thailand time is 1 hour behind Malaysia time) and the flight only took 1 hour 30 mins. We were served with water and sandwich on the HKT - KUL flight.

water, mushroom sandwich and peanuts

On hindsight, we would not book a flight with less than 1 hour 30 minutes transit time to avoid missing our connection flight. Although Qatar airways did arrange for an alternative flight for us, however, we lost some Enrich, Avios and QR points due to the change of flight.