Category: World Trip 2023
A 42-day trip visiting seven countries; Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Singapore, between 29 April 2023 and 9 June 2023
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When visited: 30 April 2023Time of day: Midnight Rating: 4.5 / 5 SUMMARY The Singapore Airlines SilverKris (Business Class) Lounge in Terminal 3 of the Changi Airport is an excellent business class lounge in Singapore Airlines home port. The lounge is a huge area with multiple hot and cold food options with an Asian focus…
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Saturday 29 August 2023.Highlights: Farewelling the cats, the Air New Zealand Koru (Business Class) Lounge, Business Class flight After years of planning, multiple delays due to COVID-19 restrictions and today is the first day of my first international trip since August 2019.
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Singapore AirlinesDate: Saturday 29 April 2023Gate: 14ASeat: 12K (Business Class Seat | Window)Plane: B777-300ERBoarded: 18:14Pushback: 18:56 (Scheduled 18:25)Departed: 19:11 Arrived: 00:17 (Scheduled 00:15)Scheduled Duration: 7 hour 50 minutesDistance: 6,025 kms This was the first leg of two flights on two different airplanes to get to my final destination in Istanbul, Türkiye. The next flight is…
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When visited: 29 April 2023Time of day: Late Afternoon Rating: 3 / 5 SUMMARY The Singapore Airlines SilverKris (Business Class) Lounge is an okay way to spend some time before a flight and especially good for a shower before your flight for hydration. It has an okay food and drink selection range. It’s not that…
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When visited: 29 April 2023Time of day: Late Afternoon Rating: 4 / 5 SUMMARY A very nice modern and large Business Class Lounge that allows some limited views of the tarmac from the underside of the airplanes. Very pleasant staff and a good range of food (loved the ANZAC biscuits). I found this better than…
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It’s now less than 2 weeks before my 2023 Central Asia and Türkiye World Trip begins. I’ve recently completed my research into the 6 new countries I’m visiting, they are all unique with very ancient traditions to experience: Flights all booked, long haul flights in business class (using points), hotels booked and paid, tours booked…
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I now have all flights booked and confirmed for my upcoming 2023 Central Asia and Türkiye World Trip.
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It’s now less than 75 days to my first international since I was in Colombia in August and September 2019 and I’m getting excited. This trip will see me visit seven countries, six of them for the first time; Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and short stopover in Singapore. This will be a bit…
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In exciting developments, I’ve now managed to book my flight home from Singapore to Melbourne (via Kuala Lumpur) using Qantas points. And I’ll be flying on Malaysia Airlines in business class 🙂
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