Singapore City

What can I say...the unexpected upgrade to premium economy made our 10 hour flight almost enjoyable. We each had one of the most delicious airline meals ever. I had chicken breast poached in a fig and balsamic sauce with spinach and garlic whipped poatatoes. My habit is to use the butter in my airline meal to make it taste better or even make it taste like something. But this didn’t need anything. It was perfect. That was for lunch and for dinner we both had pork belly with rice and beans. It was up there as far as airline meals go but not as good as lunch. 

Landing at Singapore’s Changi airport was great and we had been picked up by our driver and on our way only half an hour after landing. Our accommodation for one night was the Rendezvous Hotel located a short walk from Orchard Road. 

Our room is adequate, small but perfect for one night. We paid $47 Singapore dollars (almost dollar for dollar with NZ) for an upgrade, free use of minibar (only 2 cans of beer and soft drinks) and breakfast for two. Pretty good we thought. The highlight is the toilet. Heated toilet seat front and back squirters, oscillating and pressure control and a blow dry for the nether regions. I WANT ONE!  

After dropping our bags and having a play with the toilet we wandered out for a walk. It is much more pleasant on the streets than in Hong Kong or Vietnam, still busy but at least you can walk next to each other. Orchard Rd is only a five minute walk so we made our way down and popped into the Orchard Rd Plaza (air con ahhhh). This is a smallish mall with at least 5 levels. In the middle where in Auckland you might have Santa or a couple of coffee counters they had fridges, televisions etc for sale. I made a couple of purchases in Uniqlo and we made our way back. We were pretty tired so popped down to the bar for a snack and a drink. Pretty ordinary really with a premix mojito but the deep fried bar food was okay and the wine (Australian) and Heineken were only $13 each. We were in bed by 9 and fast asleep by five past.