Cheap Southeast Asia trips, worked out flight by flight

Say where you start. We find the cheapest way through several countries, one flight at a time. How we work it out

Where do you start?

Type a city or a country, or pick “Anywhere in Southeast Asia” for the cheapest start. From Australia, Europe, North America, Japan, South Korea, India, the Gulf or Hong Kong, type your home airport (e.g. Brisbane or MAN): trips start with a flight from the nearest of 14 big airports there (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and more), and the budget covers it.

Then fly on toFrom Vancouver, Los Angeles or San Francisco, or an airport near them: a few places in Southeast Asia, one long flight on to Europe, a few places there, and home. Three long-haul tickets, all in the budget.

LeavingAny day, next 3 months

WhenAnytimeA windowFixed dates

Leave and come backto

Give or take

First flight betweenand

In the next

Prices go up to 12 Feb; later dates are added daily.

Trip4+ places, 2–4 nights each

Trip length

Trip length, first flight to lastto

EndsAnywhere

Where it endsBack homeAnywhereIn a city

Total for all flightsUp to €300

Budget for all flights Only a small under-seat bag (leaves out the cabin bag)Only trips low for their dates (under what their flights usually cost)Leave it empty for no cap. Back home counts the flight home. With a cabin bag, each flight counts its airline's usual price for one, or €60 where we don't know it (€65 on a long flight).

Travellers1 adult

TravellersEvery price, the budget included, is for all of you.

Checking visas? Add your passport

Set every detail: nights in each, kinds of place, countries, visasnights, places, countries +2 optional

Trip shape

Places to visitto4 or more. Your start and a finish city don't count.

Nights in each placetoAny: from 1 up to 14.

Also start from cities nearbyWhen you start from one city: trips can start from any city this close (straight line), and Back home can end at any of them.Last flight byEmpty: any day.Cities in each countryThe country with most of the trip can have more.Return to a country already on the tripCan a trip leave a country and come back to it later? Never keeps each country's cities in one go. Your start country counts too.

Which places

Places you must visit (up to 3)

Kind of placesCapitalsIslandsBeachesMountainsLakesOld townsSmall towns From our notes on each city. Start, return and must-visit cities don't count. Mixing them up compares the kinds you pick, or capitals, islands and beaches.

Mix them up: no two of the same kind in a row

Only these countries

Most of the trip in one countryat leastcities there

Skip countries

You Up to, for one flight

Flight timesandLocal time at each airport. We don't know every flight's times: a flight whose time we don't know stays in, marked for you to check.

Passports you holdLeaves out countries that need a visa.

Visas I already holdSchengen visaUK visaUS visaA valid one opens the countries that take it.

No visa at all: leave out e-visas, ETAs and visas on arrival too Leave each city from the airport I landed at

Prices are for one traveller, flights with a cabin bag, the cheapest seen lately.

TryFrom Kuala Lumpur: two weeks in December From Kuala Lumpur: two weeks around Southeast Asia

Cheap trips this month

Kuala LumpurSingaporePhuketDenpasar (Bali)19–26 Nov €185 with a cabin bag, From Kuala Lumpur, 19–26 Nov
Ho Chi Minh CitySingaporePenangMedan23–28 Nov €136 with a cabin bag, From Ho Chi Minh City, 23–28 Nov
JakartaKuala LumpurSingaporePhuket17–23 Nov €151 with a cabin bag, From Jakarta, 17–23 Nov
BangkokPhu QuocKuala LumpurSingapore1–5 Dec
Airport change in Kuala Lumpur
€159 with a cabin bag, From Bangkok, 1–5 Dec
SingaporeMedanPenangPhuket7–11 Dec €159 with a cabin bag, From Singapore, 7–11 Dec

Prices are per person and include a cabin bag. They're fares travellers saw up to 8 days ago, not held, so they may be higher now. A trip that ends away from its start doesn't include a flight home. Every start city

Where trips can go

Southeast AsiaCheap flights from place to place
EuropeOn the same trip from Vancouver, Los Angeles or San Francisco. Three long-haul tickets, all in the total.

Fares run 90 days ahead, to 12 February.

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