Inaugural SQ 856 SIN - HKG

[KevSQ]

KevSQ,

Thanks for all the pics! They were great and hope to receive them to my mailbox soon..hee...

The SQ service ctr i told you is relocated to Atrium orchard and afterwhich will be shifted to Ion Orchard and no longer Paragon...the link below:

http://www.singaporeair.com/saa/en_U...loc_atrium.jsp

Latest news: SIN-MEL will be on big bird as well from Sept29th onwards. As you know i will be going OZ on J class in sept, so my plan might be to delay my trip for a week and take the inaugural MEL-SIN flight back...will let you know once that materialises...cool man! Another inaugural flight coming up!

SQ_Pax/LionCity,

Great knowing you guys on the flight as well and really hope to catch up with you real soon again, australia/s'pore...wherever possible!

rdgs

Our great pleasure & thanks for the information. Hmm...looks like we can plan for another inaugural flight...but Mel....is H1N1 really bad there?

I am sure KeithMel should know much better than us...

[LionCity]

Our great pleasure & thanks for the information. Hmm...looks like we can plan for another inaugural flight...but Mel....is H1N1 really bad there?

I am sure KeithMel should know much better than us...

We can plan for another inaugural flight to MEL. Let us be prepared to fly to MEL on 29 Sep and rope in SQ_0303 and SQ Pax or any others. The only thing is that 29th Sep is on Tuesday.

[KevSQ]

We can plan for another inaugural flight to MEL. Let us be prepared to fly to MEL on 29 Sep and rope in SQ_0303 and SQ Pax or any others. The only thing is that 29th Sep is on Tuesday.

Great! We should plan the whole itineary all togather...

[KevSQ]

Sorry for the delay as my hard disk was encountering problems and just managed to fix it and uploaded my photos into photobucket...

Let's continue...

After arrival from HKIA, went straight to the hotel limo which brought me to Langham Place and check at the 1865 check in counter at the lobby. Since i have already post the report and photos on my previous TR, this time around would only be some shots which includes the hotel entrance view from the shopping mall entrance (Langham Place is connected to the Langham Place shopping mall)

Here is some of the shots of the hotel entrance



And the legendary Langham Place sclupture (known as the ancient chinese soldier)



The hotel lift level description

Level 36-39
Club Langham

Level 40
Chuan Residence

Level 41
The famous and pricey Chuan Spa

Level 42
Star Room (Function room which caters for wedding function as the view is awesome from the 42nd floor which overlooks the whole HKG island)



And some photos on my room level - 31





And the view of HKG island from my room

[KevSQ]

The next day, was preparing my trip to Macau which includes a night stay in MGM Grand, seafood, ferry ride...

Ticket price for the turbojet premium class was HKD 312 one way which the timing was not really to my liking as per compared with the usual ones. The journey from HKG to Macau is 50 mins..Not too bad for a journey with the premium class...

The seats with light biege leather seats...



The LCD which was showing Macau places the whole journey





Food was serve after the ferry begins it's journey...with orange juice, choices of pastaries and fruits..



The on board magazine...Horizon



After the meal, i took a short nap and before i realise it, we were already in Macau...cleared the immigration in 20 mins as the queue was rather long that day...as soon as i walked out the immigration, there were so many hotel representative awaiting at the arrival hall with signeage which will guide you to the hotel shuttle buses...the journey from the ferry terminal to the hotel took us 10 mins

The lobby of MGM Grand - pretty impressive







The hotel card...quite a decent colour as a hotel card holder...

[KevSQ]

Next, after a few shots of the lobby, i went straight for check in and was told that my preffered room was not available at that particular time as i reached Macau at 11am...and check in time was supposed to be 3pm

The reception girl told me that they have double queen bed on a smoking floor...but i have requested non smoking floor with king size bed...was thinking with my luggage and my notebook, i was not really comfortable placing it at the conciege counter till i get my desired room..and went on to accept the room offer...which is the smoking floor twin queen size bed

Well, it turned out not that bad...the smoke smell in the room i should say was quite ok to cope with

Here is the walk way to the rooms...



My room level - 9



View from my room...Wynn



My room...pretty pleasant room

[KevSQ]

More photos of the room toilet and surroundings..as you can see the curtain which covers the bedroom and the washroom, it's actually electrical operated..pretty cool!





The shower room



Pretty cool bath tub





The amnities



Kindda of like the design of the water bottle..



The 46" LCD...

[KevSQ]

Took more snapshots of the view from my room...it's actually facing the ocean...







Then went to the concourse level whereby you can see the great artwork of more on a victorian design which connects to the casino...











And a shot of the hotels surroundings once again...the one with the unique design is Grand Lisboa

[KevSQ]

Next, was feeling hungry and decided to take a cab to a nearby town called Colonae (hope i spelled it correctly)

It's a suburb village where you can find the famouse portugese egg tart and the local seafood

The Lord Stow portugese egg tart shop





Didn't manage to finished it all...was to greedy to get half a dozen of them



After having a slice of it, i proceed walking to the seafood village and ordered some seafood

Baby mussels steam with pepper gravy



Orded a set of garlic bread to go with..



Pork chop with fries and tomato sauce...



Last but not least, my fav drink in HKG...cream soda

[KevSQ]

After lunch, decided to take a cab to Venetian which is located in taipa town which is just 10 mins drive from where i was...went roving around for 3 hours...

View from outside Venetian



The lobby of venetian







The casino area



Slots...

[KevSQ]

Enough with Venetian, decided to get back to MGM as it was already almost late evening...

On the way back in the cab, managed to capture the Macau tower...



My room door...



The night view of the concourse level which i have taken earlier..







Having snapping all the time, well, was getting hungry yet again

Decided to try the buffet in MGM (Rossio) - an open concept kitchen buffet style where you can see the chef at work...some sort like Hell's Kitchen

[KevSQ]

After dinner, after stuffing myself with all the food (feel like vommiting then) , went for a stroll and took the exterior of the hotel for the night view

The legendary MGM lion..









After done with, decided to call it a night...while i was walking back the elevator, saw a warning sign...Typhoon level 1! I was thinking Gosh, am i able to go back tomorrow to HKG?



Next day, took the 11am ferry back to HKG...some snap shots while i was in the shuttle bus which transfered me to the ferry terminal



Wynn shuttle busses

[KevSQ]

Another good look of the hotel once again...see you soon MGM..hopefully









The turbojet taking me back to HKG...



Next - Hong Kong and food

[KevSQ]

Did nothing much after i arrived in Langham Place once again...managed to catch up with SQ 0303 at the club lounge at night where we spent 2 hours talking...was it?

Next day, woke up rather early and decided to try the local breakfast...had toast bread with luncheon meat and fried egg...and HKG milk tea to go with it

Photo of the street level of the hotel....rather empty for Mongkok area at that hour..



The restaurant which i was in





The set meal...



The milk tea..



And full set...

[KevSQ]

After breakfast, decided to take a walk around Mongkok to digest my food





This stall sell all kinds of pork...



Photo of Langham Place from the outside





Next, decided to go to Causeway Bay (Hong Kong Island) to hang around and kill time Took the MTR (train) and saw an intresting advert

SQ A380

The chinese version



The english version of course!



Rather crowded place in Causeway Bay





Visited Times Square shopping mall as well which is located in Causeway Bay