KUL-SIN lounge crawl 9 June 2019

[Kiwi_Flyer]

See you all tomorrow. It was nice having catching up with some in MEL F including the rare @penegal sighting.

 

[serfty]

Doing a pretest of the MH Emerald dining before heading to the main terminal for my flight to Sri Lanka ...

 

[Mal]

Amazing who you meet on some flights!

I'm now in SIN (thanks for an hour delay BA) and having my hawker delights!

 

[Aeolus]

Hilton must had thought I needed rehydration View attachment 168716

Never seen so many bottles in the H-Kul room before. Did u get a suite?

 

[RichardMEL]

so totally unaware of all this amusingly I was inMEL F and now in KUL... and I'll be on 36 with about half of you it seems. Lol!

I thought some looked familiar in the lounge but wasn't sure. Duh!

alas I am on the MH613 so will miss most of you though was planning to get to MH F around 1 for the dining....

i plan to check out BA and QF in SIN. See if I get any kind of recognition as F/P1.

the crew who flew 35 to SIN today are doing 36 tomorrow inc the super chatty and friendly CSM Steph

 

[RichardMEL]

Correction. I am on MH605 at 1610

 

[Hvr]

Am now back in my hotel after a great night with another five AFFers. Great food and conversation and I've eaten durian for the first time.

See you all tomorrow.

 

[JessicaTam]

Question: what time do we meet tomorrow? Is there a group meeting at KL sentral tomorrow too?

Make it to KUL when it suits you. I should be there about 10.30-11.00.

There is a rough itinerary in the first post.

 

[JessicaTam]

A view down the street as we looked for dinner.

 

[Lowjhg]

just got into KUL. See you all tomorrow!

 

[Hvr]

Quote of the night:

"My elbows are too wet."

 

[serfty]

In CMB now, doung turnaround ... will be back at KUL in about 4 hours.

 

[JohnK]

The SIN-JHB crossing last night took around 3 hours. That was in a private car. A nightmare. Why the governments do this...

Looks like the car queues were awful yesterday. Bumper to bumper well before SIN CIQ and continued that way across the causeway.

I was on the 1:15pm bus at Changi. Got to checkpoint just after 2:00pm. Everyone scattered as the bus was waiting 15 minutes only. I chose wrong queue and stuck behind 2 different cases with issues who were escorted back. Over 20 minutes to process the 10 people in my queue. Bus well and truly gone.

Outside is chaos. Get on first bus you can see. MYR 2 to go across. All buses fully crowded. CIQ on the other side took 20-30 minutes and again I chose slow moving queue.

All in all took about 2h15m to get from SIN airport to JB Sentral which in hindsight is good.

Don't know why I rushed to get on 4:00pm bus to JHB airport. Nothing much to do there and probably unsurprisingly no facilities for USB charging. Went to gate early and flight delayed 20 minutes. LOL. Slept most flight.

That was my fun for the day and still feel guilty leaving home.

 

[serfty]

Now in KUL ... time to hit the dorm ...

 

[JohnK]

As I am on the first 'main lounge crawl' flight into SIN I will head to the BA lounge which from memory opens at 3pm.

I think I'm on early flight too. There's nothing much by way of food in BA lounge before 5:00pm. I'm heading to Transfer C and straight to EK lounge. I like the variety they offer.

 

[serfty]

straight to EK lounge. I like the variety they offer.

I believe the EK lounge does not open until 500pm and possibly 540pm

 

[Austman]

All in all took about 2h15m to get from SIN airport to JB Sentral which in hindsight is good.

That’s 1.5 hours for the crossing itself, which is not too bad! Busses get priority lanes and if on foot, there can be priority processing.

Still ridiculous however!!

 

[Hvr]

Am now in the MH lounge just after immigration.

 

[eagleflyer]

I have arrived in Singapore and at the SATS lounge in terminal 1. Will be on 3k663 which arrives at klia2 at 1040am. I need to change terminals but should hopefully be in the main terminal around 11am.

A question - if I have checked in and have my boarding pass with carry on only, do I need to clear immigration? I wouldn’t have thought so. But thought i should ask.

 

[Lowjhg]

I have arrived in Singapore and at the SATS lounge in terminal 1. Will be on 3k663 which arrives at klia2 at 1040am. I need to change terminals but should hopefully be in the main terminal around 11am.

A question - if I have checked in and have my boarding pass with carry on only, do I need to clear immigration? I wouldn’t have thought so. But thought i should ask.

Yes you have to as KILA2 and KLIA has no airside transfer between them.