#RoadTrip : Almost Missed My First Flight

Arrived at the Husein Sastranegera Airport at 6.30 AM. My plane board at 8.40 AM, so right after I got my boarding pass etc, and enter the lounge, I took some breakfast.

This trip to Singapore is actually my first international flight. Tbh, I really excited about sitting next to the window but it turns out disapointing because of the window is dirty.

I arrived at Changi at 11.40 AM and do the immigration thing which took forever because I felt really nervous. Then after taking my luggage I took a taxi to get myself to my hotel at Elizabeth st. In my way to the hotel, the taxi-driver-which-I-forgot-what-his-name-is talk a lot about Singapore, he said that the traffic getting lighter when it is weekend or holiday because everyone is leaving the country, he also said that living there is getting hard and harder everytime because everything gets more expensive, then he gave me some advice for saving my budget during the stay. But then with a big smile he talked about his family, he was really excited when he talk about his first grandchild. After driving for about 25 minutes, we finally arrived at my hotel. As we arrived the driver said 'Whoah, this hotel is pretty fancy, must be expensive lah it's near the Orchard.' This trip costs 19SGD.

In the afternoon I took lunch at an Indonesian restaurant, in Orchard st. It's only 5 minutes walking from my hotel.The food here is pretty cheap (comparing to other place), with less than 10SGD you'll get a big portion of Nasi Padang with any side dish you want and a drink. This place is 8.5/10

In front of where I ate lunch, there's a korean shop. They sell lots of korean things especially the famous samyang noodle. There's a lot of noodle variety there if you don't like the samyang, beside noodle they sell korean spices and my favorite here is the instant tteobokki.

Before I get back to the hotel, I went to the nearest 7-11 to buy a Singapore phone credit. I used Star-Hub which costs 15SGD with 15SGD bonus 3SGD credit, but then it turns out I just use 3SGD during my stay because I usually use the public wifi or hotel wifi. Btw, please ignore the durex stacks in the right, honestly I just want to take a photo of the pre-microwaved meal fridge. If you're in budget, you can go to the nearest 7-11 because they are everywhere and will give you a lot of cheap food option. I usually buy some onigiri or sandwich for breakfast (my hotel doesn't provide breakfast) or snack.

I used the MRT during my 3 days stay, the nearest station is only 10 minutes walk from my hotel. Beside it's cheap, it also time saving.

This is one of the MRT station near the Merlion, the Raffles Place station. One sucks thing about using MRT is sometimes the place you're going to visit is still few blocks to go.

This is the first thing you'll see as soon as you get resurfaced from the Raffles Place station in the morning. But when it's rush hour, this place is very crowded.

It took a pretty long walk to get to the Merlion from the Raffles Place.

I arrived at noon and the sun strikes so hard, it's so hot out there and unfortunately I didnt have any umbrella or hat. I took only few photos here because it's pretty crowded and I wasnt comfortable with that situation.

I spent 3 days and 2 nights in Elizabeth st. I stayed in a hotel called York Hotel, it's located between the Mount Elizabeth Hospital and Quincy Hotel. I think this hotel is one of the best hotel I've ever visit, yet the most expensive. Their breakfast service costs 50SGD!

Night before checking out of the hotel, I went to this mall called Lucky Plaza, it's about a minute walk from the Padang restaurant I visit on the first day. There's a lot of cheap stuff here! Chocolate, bags, watch, perfume, and I guess everything! I recommend to go to this place to shop for hand gifts when you're on budget. But, if you want to have some branded stuff, just go to the lower ground floor of the Lucky Plaza and you'll find an underpass which will bring you to the fancy mall such Takashimaya or Ion Orchard and it also connected to the Orchard MRT station. One tip when you're walking in the underpass, watch your step. It's more than crowded there, especially when you go there at the evening.

And finally all the journey has to come to its' end. My last day here was a blast, I almost missed my flight. I was planning to came early to the airport and I did. But it turned out I spent too much time to have breakfast here and forgot that I should buy one thing here, the famous Garret's popcorn. As I entered the T1 duty free area I found out that the popcorn stall is in the T2 which will took 15 minutes to get there and it's 29 minutes left before my plane left me. First, I took the skytrain at the end of the duty free area, usually you have to wait for 5-10 minutes. Then I ran at the T2 duty free area to get my popcorn. After that, I shoud take the sky train again and run for about 2 km to reach my departure gate which located at the end of the T1's departure area and it's less than 10 mins before the plane departing. Fotunately I could reach my gate on time.

The plane was ready to depart as all the seats already occupied, so this is the end of my short trip to Singapore. I hoped I shouldn't have run all the way down the terminal to catch my flight next time. And I hoped that this blog post helps. Cheerio!

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