We woke up at 6am and did some final packing before having our final Thai breakfast at 6:30. Sarah dropped a slice of pineapple in her cereal. At 6:50, we were in the hotel lobby, paying our room service bill, which came to an impressive 8000THB, which is about £130. This is quite a lot for a room service bill for the three of us, but it was pretty much our only expenditure on food for the week and works out at about £30 below my budget, so quids in! Our car arrived at 7 and we set off for the airport.
We arrived at the airport about an hour later and were confused to find a huge queue. We joined it and it disappated pretty quickly. Check in was painless and we had a Dunkin' Donut afterwards, before joining the very long immigration queue which took age to pass, but rewarded us with a nice purple stamp in our passports. The departures lounge was wholly unexciting, but we only had a short wait before we had to board.
The flight was fine. Lovely views over the ocean and islands on the way out, but turbulence as we came into cloudy Singapore.
At Singapore airport, we had a sneaky Burger King before getting a cab to our hotel. Hannah observed that it wasn't raining and minutes later, the heavens opened. As we go
t into the city, we passed Bugis station, where we had sheltered from the rain a week previous. Shortly afterwards, we arrived at our hotel.The Madras Hotel was nice and modern; it had only opened in January. The woman behind the counter was a bit obnoxious as she told us we had managed to only book a single room, so we had to wait as they changed the reservation. We were then shown to our room and it bore a striking similarity to out Phuket room. We settled in for a bit, waiting for the rain to stop. It didn't happen, so we ventured out into the rain to the local 7-Eleven. We bought more goodies and the girls bought umbrellas. We then walked into town for a browse.
We were very cultured and went into Topshop first. Sarah bought some shorts. Then we walked into the adjoining mall and had a look in some designer stores. There were some cool shirts which I couldn't really afford, but the girls bought some for $30 each. We then walked back to the hotel.
Later, we walked to a food court around the corner and had some awesome duck noodles for $3 each. This was pretty much the first local cuisine we'd eaten in over a week. After dinner, we popped into an internet cafe. $2 for one hour in a little cubicle with webcam and all. We chatted to each other on MSN about how the cubicles were a bit odd. I looked in the recently viewed sites and found a lot of porn, which made me feel a fair bit uneasy in my cubicle. I sent a few emails and checked my facebook.
Back at the hotel, we watched a (rubbish) British comedy show called 'Just for Laughs' and then the girls watched American Idol as I fell asleep.
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