Singapore

As my computer is on it's last legs I'm going to try to wrap Singapore up in one post.

First off, the trip from Dubai to Singapore turned into a farce. We arrived early at Dubai airport to see if we could get emergency exit row seats. They only had one, so I grabbed that and Chris retained her original seat. On boarding the plane I discovered the stupid booking clerk hadn't allocated an emergency exit row seat but instead dumped me between 2 other people in an ordinary seat! This meant that Chris & I had been split up and I ended up with a worse seat than I originally booked. Thankfully the lady in the aisle seat next to me agreed to swap with Chris so we did sit together but not where we wanted to be.

So, we arrive in Singapore to be met by a chauffeur driven Merc, that cost us a cool $107 to take us to the hotel.

On arrival at the hotel we were offered an upgrade at $70 a night. We checked out both rooms and went for the upgrade. That lasted all of one night as the room was small and if you were sitting on the toilet you had no privacy at all as the stupid designer had made the toilet a glass enclosed compartment!!!!!

Anyway, we are both still a bit under the weather, but have snuck out a few times for food etc. We got to the entrance to Universal Studios but never went in. However we did spend a few hours at the casino and managed to get to the famous Raffles Hotel.

Went to the Hard Rock one night (live band) and another night to the hotel bar that also had a live band.

I'm going to dump some pictures below (that's if the computer doesn't crash) but there is some good news. Emirates have upgraded us to business class on the way home (Singapore to Brisbane) so we are looking forward to that.

Raffles

Singapore Sling at Raffles (Only $27!!!!)

The Merlion outside our hotel

Outside Universal