Matta Fair 2008

Was terribly thirsty earlier on and had to quench the thirst with a good cold apple aloe vera..wow, the chewy blocks of aloe vera was sooo good! every sip was like a life saver to my dehydrated cells

So..all this, thanks to what?Matta fair and obviously i'm owing it to pyotravel and i ain't going to be an angel on this one. just wanted to share my tiny experience to readers who are curious if matta fair really is offering that good of a deal to its visitors. (which most of my friends commented that it is not)


anyways, to be neutral , i must say that there are, of course, good and reliable agencies around but definitely not found in the package offered by pyo . I just thought the whole scam was to lure unsuspecting victims on board.


my friend and I have been keen on going out somewhere together and bali seems to be a pretty interesting one with a reasonable price. well, being students, we have to make plans for budget travels and this one was really cheap for 4 days and 3 nights! what's more, we'll have one whole day for free and easy roaming on the island all by ourselves (i'm visualising us riding bicycles going round for some adventures on the island..woo-hooo)

And it all totals up to the tune of RM 800 only!
definitely what we were looking for! so the itinerary goes: D1, we'll get a complimentary city tour and on D2, we'll go temple raiding (Lara Croft style...LOL..nah)..D3 is free and easy while D4 is free till departure time. i'm dreaming of a good balinese spa and massage...hmmmmmm

so, it sounds great as we made comparisons to the other packages and thus, we make a full payment on an instant. there's when the trouble comes.

we asked of the time of arrival and all, only to find out that we will be arriving late on the first day and so, we asked, "then we wouldn't be able to go on for any excursions on the first day?"

the travel assistant (presumably a new one since he isn't sure of how the tour was like and kept ahh-ing here and ehm-ing there) said that we could do our day visits on our 4th day.

hey-- that isn't what we wanted and if we did want to have something like that, we might as well get another more suitable package? Things get frustrating when another lady came over and told us that we can't cancel and all, but could help us to change the arrival date and time.

she spoke like if matter-of-factly that it's all stated under the rules and regulations; telling us that you've signed the agreement and that's why they can't cancel our bookings. she added that the endnote stated very clearly that the tour is complimentary and that if we didn't manage to arrive on time for it, it will be deemed canceled.

then again, who will thought that pyo arranged all flights to arrive at 6ish in the evening? that's like half of the day gone! and it's not like i'm interested in going to the museum or art caft centers (which i thought were all craps when you go on island visiting -- but just bear with it since i'm going with my friend...gotta respect her point of interests too) but it was stated in the itinerary that those were the places included in the tour. thus, the inexperienced assistant told us that the museum is opening till late and so, we could still have our tour as scheduled.

my foot..by the time we reached and get to the hotel, it'll be about 7ish to 8pm...who is he trying to kid?

obviously my friend and i didn't back down just because of some stupid scam-agreement!

to cut the long story short, we managed to cancel the bookings after 30 minutes of waiting. and guess what? while at that, we saw another assistant went to that lady and told her that all of their flights for the bali packages are scheduled to be in the evening.

so, see? what honest agency would offer such package? well, my little two cents here are always check on EVERYTHING before making a confirmation eventhough the assistant fails to mention. heck...me and my friend didn't think of that initially and there we go; a lesson learnt.

besides that, yesterday's sky was really clear and beautiful but geez..my nokia's 1.3mp camera is too slow to catch it (was driving).

there...not a nice shot...ahh.never mind..it's still will be captured in my mind's