Curious, did they jack up the price of mask? I read about news in S. Korea the sellers goreng the price of mask until sky high.

SIA now is being very flexible with waiving flight change or cancellation fees for flights to affected countries in March (and I think May). Can give them a call and see.

Similar with hotels. My Tokyo Hilton booking in end March was non cancelleable rates but they agreed to let me cancel without penalty cos of the virus. Problem is Osaka Hilton (also non cancelleable rate, in early April) said no, cos for now their instruction is to allow exceptions only until end March. But I’m somewhat confident that they will extend this to April bookings too cos the numbers for japan are going up up up.

yes same thing told by my frens that have just cancelled their SIA flight to korea... will give them a call later for reschedule arrangement.
Accomodation wise i will check with agoda as 2 of my hotels are non-refundable booking, luckily the mt fuji hotel is cancellable, that cost me 3k++ myr, sighhh

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/2...navirus-school/

Man .. does this mean , will japan ppl have more free time to go out ?
Or vice versa

source

I am seriously considering to cancel coming trip in April.

Already got statement by KKM which discourage people from travelling to Japan and infected countries

Going back to my posted post previously. Glad I did not buy any ticket or hotel for upcoming trip (i am last minute person). Decide to junk the plan and just travel locally.

Not to mention the tour that I will join whenever visit Japan is also will be canceled/close for the time being.

Even my Japanese friend said it is better not to come due the stigma (you just came from japan i need worry abt you) associated to it (that latest case infected returning from from Japan doesnt help also).

The way it was handled is also very Japanese too vs Korea (slow response/high possibility of cover ups).

But being said, does everyone in Japan expected to wear mask when going about? Like no mask = wtf are doing, i should stay away from you.

This post has been edited by minizian: Feb 28 2020, 08:45 AM

Anyone booked with ANA last year? If I wanted to cancel the trips, is it refundable? Where I can request refund? First time booking with ANA and not sure where to get help.

I believe ANA can cancel as i saw someone posted in AA website while scolding AA why until now cannot do cancellation while still promote ppl to go out breath covid-19.

Where as they compare ANA (refunded) and AA (still promoting).

do you have any link for request refund?

Sorry i don't have

I only saw ppl compare other flight with AA in the comments section (Cause i'm also fighting to ask for refund now)

The AA FB pages day day flooded with refund comments >.<


But you can try this : https://www.ana.co.jp/en/jp/topics/notice200127/

Ok thanks.. hopeffuly can get refund

Unless the gov impose a travel ban to and from Japan, I won’t hold my breath getting a refund from AA. Maybe can pressure them to lower the cost for a ticket change.

same.

Ghibli and TeamLab announced they will be closed as well throughout March.

Redeemed JAL to Tokyo using Alaska Milage trick last year, now to reschedule need top up double the points due to devaluation.....

1 hour also only consider delay, not retime

it needs to be like at least 3 hours thn only they consider as retime


s.korea do not have short supply of their mask, they have tons of stock
u walk around myeongdong, many of the store are selling KF94(their equivalent of N95) @ 3000 won(every store selling same price)

Teamlab borderless just announced indefinite closure

Disneyland/Sea announced 2week closure, but if situation doesn’t improve I assume it will remain closed for longer.

I guess more places will start announcing more closures too.

Interesting... I was watching NHK world and they reported SK citizen dissatisfaction on the huge price increases for the mask, it didnt say anything about short supply tho.

My bro too is taking this opportunity for cheap travelling to Japan end of March but I'm seriously wanting to dissuade him as I don't want to risk catching the virus from him cuz I have a business trip planned for May which I don't want to miss.

I'm strongly hoping that AA will announce Japan flights refund. I'm planning to cancel my Olympics trip coming July.

just wanna double check Japan govt will NOT cover ur medical bills if ur quarantined for however long period and insurance that cover this is hard to come by?

read it here https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/2...s/#.XliLAqgzbDc

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/20...-on-virus-fears

go tokyo syok senderi stay in hotel.