All posts tagged: Singapore

LOUNGE REVIEW: Cathay Pacific Singapore Lounge, Changi Airport Terminal 4

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The Hong Kong Singapore Lounge is one of the latest in the Cathay Pacific’s network, opened less than 18 months ago when Singapore Changi Airport opened its newest terminal, Terminal 4. Being one of the major airlines operating out of Terminal 4 since the terminal opened back in 2017, the Cathay Pacific Singapore lounge is the only airline lounge at Terminal 4. It is a fairly cosy one, with 849 square metres of space and offering seats for over 200 customers at any point in time. Who can access this lounge? Apart from Cathay Pacific’s own business and first class passengers, Marco Polo Silver, Gold and Diamond members can also access the lounge when travelling on a Cathay Pacific flight out of Singapore. Oneworld sapphire and emerald members may also use the lounge as long as they are travelling on a oneworld-member operated flight on the same day, although I’m not sure if you should make the trek to Terminal 4 just for this lounge when the Qantas lounge at Terminal 1 is probably a …

REVIEW: Hotel Indigo Katong, Deluxe King Room

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In an attempt to complete the Double Points and More promotion (also known as the Acceleration promotion), I decided to spend the weekend at Hotel Indigo Katong. Given it’s off city centre location, this hotel is definitely not my usual choice. Having read some pretty good reviews and also to meet the ‘Stay in two or more brands’ requirement, I decided to check the hotel out. Back to the hotel. Hotel Indigo Katong is nested in the heart of Singapore’s peranakan enclave, Joo Chiat. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, Peranakans are essentially what Southeast Asians refer to as Straits-born Chinese. They are descendants of Chinese immigrants who moved to the Malay archipalego a few centuries ago and developed their own mix of heritage and culture. One thing for sure, their food is incredibly elaborate and delightful. The hotel is fairly new: built in 2016, the hotel is part of a rejuvenation plan which saw several new hotels pop up in the vicinity. The hotel is adjoined with Katong Square and Holiday Inn …

SilkAir to operate daily services to Cairns from 2 June 2019

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After announcing a massive scrapping rationalisation of services which saw many of its destinations transferred to Scoot, SilkAir is certainly springing a surprise here: daily services to Cairns from June to October 2019, the better half of the Northern Summer season. Currently, SilkAir is operating five weekly services to Cairns. The additional services will be on Tuesdays and Sundays, operated with SilkAir’s latest Boeing 737 MAX 8. The full schedule is as below: Route Flight Departure Arrival Flight Time Days Aircraft type SIN-CNS MI811 0110 0955 6h 45m Mon, Thu, Sat Boeing 737 MAX 8 SIN-CNS MI813 0845 1715 6h 30m Tue, Wed, Fri, Sun Boeing 737 MAX 8 CNS-SIN MI812 1045 1525 6h 40m Mon, Thu, Sat Boeing 737 MAX 8 CNS-SIN MI814 1815 2305 6h 20m Tue, Wed, Fri, Sun Boeing 737 MAX 8 SilkAir’s furthest destination At over 6 hours, Cairns is probably the furthest destinations on SilkAir’s network, even longer than the newly launched Hiroshima in Japan (that sits at 6 hours 15 minutes). That makes the flight an incredibly unattractive …

SilkAir moving 17 services to Scoot ahead of merger

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SilkAir has announced that it will transfer 17 destinations to the low-cost subsidiary Scoot progressively, starting from April 2019.  In the same announcement, Scoot will be stopping its Honolulu service, barely a year after the inaugural service. It will also be giving up four other destinations that is currently served by SilkAir and Singapore Airlines. SilkAir to Scoot transfers The destinations SilkAir will be giving up to Scoot, along with the dates that will happen, are below: Country City Date Laos Luang Prabang, Vientiane April 2019 China Changsha, Fuzhou, Kunming, Wuhan May, June 2019 India Coimbatore, Trivandrum, Visakhapatnam May – October 2019 Thailand Chiang Mai October 2019 Malaysia Kota Kinabalu December 2019 Indonesia Balikpapan, Lombok, Makassar, Manado, Semarang, Yogyakarta May – July 2020 SilkAir has earlier this year transferred 6 other services – Hangzhou, Kalibo, Kuching, Langkawi, Palembang and Pekanbaru – to Scoot as well. Observers who are following the merger keenly will know that 14 of SilkAir’s current fleet of Boeing 737-800s will be transferred to Scoot progressively as well, while Singapore Airlines will …

Earn miles for as low as 0.8 cent per mile with Citibank PayAll

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Citibank has unveiled Citibank PayAll this week, an option for you to pay large peer-to-peer expenses such as rent and tuition fees from your credit card, allowing you to earn miles or points from the payments.  There is a service fee for each payment, but you will also earn 1.2 miles per dollar spent on the Citi PremierMiles card. If you hold other Citibank credit cards that earn miles, Other Citibank cards that earn miles include the Citi Prestige and the Citi Ultima Card, earning you 1.3 and 1.6 mile respectively per dollar paid via PayAll. If you do not hold any of the above, you may also earn Citi reward points if you use the facility off the following cards: Citi Classic Citi Clear Platinum Citi Gold Citi Platinum Citi Rewards For the cards above, you will earn 1 reward point per dollar spent. This is not great, considering you can convert these points to 0.4 mile per point. The service fee ranges from S$24 to S$120, depending on how much you are paying …