arrived at hotel at 6 in the morning after a 14 hr flight only to be told my room would’nt be ready till 9, but i did get my room at 8 which was very nice and clean,after a kip i went to the pool side bar for a beer ÂŁ13 a pint BEWARE .
Very close to china town and clarkequey and the eye .good hotel but unsure about value for money,but i have stayed in worse hotel,and the staff were very helpfull……..
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A gleaming portal between east and west, Singapore polarises opinion. Praised as a clean, safe, efficient multi-cultural metropolis or derided as a sterile, paternalistic, monotonous temple to mammon. Well, it’s your choice to see it as one or the other – Singapore doesn’t really mind, as long as you spend up big in the city’s emporiums (and don’t chew gum while you’re at it). The city rose from the ashes of World War II – a corrupt, mosquito-ridden colonial outpost eking a living as a trading centre by virtue of its strategic position at the centre of S-E Asia and …
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Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 landing at Heathrow courtesy Wikipedia
In 2005, Singapore Airlines unveiled the slogan “First to fly the A380 – experience the difference in 2006″, to promote itself as the world’s first airline to take delivery of the A380-800 double-decker super jumbo, which was expected to occur in the 2nd quarter of 2006 but has since been pushed back to later in the year. Singapore Airlines was the first airline to offer free headsets and drinks. Its reputation for service quality has made it the world’s most awarded airline to date. Singapore Airlines has an in-flight entertainment system, KrisWorld, which screens the latest movies and includes Nintendo games. Each seat has it own personal television. Krisworld has recently been upgraded in all classes to feature On-demand video and audio.
Singapore Airlines has been around for 60 years and can trace its roots back to when a Malayan Airways aircraft left Singapore’s Kalang Airport en route to Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang on 1 May 1947. This thrice-weekly jaunt is how the airline got its wings, acquired more aircraft and …
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