Blogs from Singapore, Asia - page 22

Uneventful flight SQ to Changi. Have to say the service on SIA seems to have declined since I last flew with them...its ok as in its as good as Business Class on say Korean Air now but way lower than Air New Zealand amazing service. SIA seem to have spent a lot of money making a new A380 interior look the same and one of their 20 year old 747's. Changi T3 smooth arrival and not too crowded so rapid passage to baggage and beyond! Stopped at the small convenience store in arrivals and got snacks and stuff (no minibar blow out four us!!) noted that wine was S$35 a bottle for plonk!! Checked into Crowne Plaza at the airport - also in T3 - this is a great hotel for transit and we have used ... read more

We left New Zealand enjoying it's hottest day of the year so far (30 degrees) and with promise of a whole week of warm weather.... At the same time Japan had suffered an earthquake and tsunami, and the UK was being battered by Storm Angus... so it seems strangely calm to be in Singapore where today's temperaturea is 31 (at least), with about 80% humidity! We spent yesterday wandering by the river, taking a very slow walk from Clarke Quay down to Marina Bay Sands. Contrasting architecture, interesting art and statues and a multiple of bridge types and ages that the Bridges Team at work would have found fascinating! But today was something totally different.... breakfast at Singapore Zoo where there is the opportunity to get close to the Orangutans... I just hope you can tell ... read more

Our journey home began with a short hop from Vilnius to Helsinki; from there, unlike all our long hops on the route to Europe, the 11 hours to Singapore were undertaken without exit-row or bulkhead seats to benefit our respectively long and dodgy legs. Happily, we slept a few hours each, which was unlikely to be the case for the neighbours of a hard-drinking, Putin-T-shirt-wearing Russian passenger a few rows forward, who was eventually refused further service from the trolley. Like our stopover in Malmo, Singapore was intended mainly as rest and only a little recreation, to break up the long journey home. We were surprised to hear from our taxi driver from the airport to the rather classy Goodwood Hotel (taxis are cheap there) that we had arrived in the middle of the Deepavali (called ... read more

I kind of knew this would happen that I would miss some days but will do better. In Singapore for 3 days getting ready to go to the orchid garden and then to board the orient express to thailand and Malaysi. Ok let's go back to Bali......as I said the hotel was wonderfu would like to have just spent a day to just relax and enjoy the hotel did get to go to go to a silver shot but this tou did not include it in so gave us very little time to shop! But you know me got Me a silver ring! Got into Singapore. Did a city tour I was in Singapore about 25 years ago and it is not the city I remember. i went shopping with 2 of the women on the ... read more

Geo: 1.28941, 103.856th October, 2016Luckily we have had a free mobile phone to use while we are here, I locked myself out of the Salary Sacrifice last night, but this morning rang ANZ and all fixed with a new password. Wanted to take it easy today knowing we fly tomorrow at 10.45am so we did not leave the Hotel until 11am, catching a taxi to the Gardens by the Bay to see the Flower Dome. As we approached the ticket counter a teacher approached us with a heap of tickets she bought for her students that did not work out, so was selling as many as she could. We picked up a ticket each for $10 and saved $20 between us. The Flower Dome was beautiful but not as good as the Forest Dome and we ... read more