Singapore...5 stars all the way!

Christmas in Singapore, evening walk on Orchard Road

We arrived in Singapore, greeted by helpful English speaking airport staff that helped us buy our metro cards. We got on the cheap metro and went straight to the Fairmont hotel. Thank-you Natalia, Dave, Ela, Miro, Tanya, Marty, Agnes, Ewa, Andrew, Mags, Grace, Rudy & Rose!! We were counting down the days to take advantage of the wonderful wedding present from our friends. The Fairmont in Singapore is a 5-star, amazing hotel. This was our goodbye to Asia and ironically we sent it western style instead of eastern, but we can’t complain. We pretty much stayed in the hotel our entire time in Singapore, lapping in the luxury.

View from the Fairmont Singapore - 16th floor

We did manage to get out a little to meet up with Chad’s friends from Innisfail for a couple of visits. Great to see you Mark and Sara!! We got to hear about some of their travels, which gave us more ideas of where to go; so many places to see and so little time! We also visited little India and did some small Christmas shopping. Strange Singapore fact: Singapore doesn’t have weathermen or forecasts because it’s practically +29-33 every day with a 40% chance of rain. It rained nearly every day we were there and especially when we actually tried to go out and see or do something. Which, in turn made us head back into the hotel to take advantage our 5 star luxury (not trying to brag, but yea, it was that good ). We may be back to Singapore in the next few weeks/months since it’s a great hub for transportation around the region, which will give us another chance to better see the city. For now, we finally decided on our travel plans for the next weeks. Plane ticket in hand, we’re off for Perth, Australia to pick up a caravan and drive across Oz!

Dinner at Indochine with Mark and Sara

Singapore...5 stars all the way!

Singapore, Singapore