Hostel Costa Sands Resort (Sentosa)
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Late arrival
Our Jetstar flight was late leaving Auckland by 45 minutes because of the late arrival of the incoming flight.This combined with a headwind meant the flight was an hour late in landing. So after 11.5 hours on a plane, the boys were keen to get off.
We got two meals and an Ipad for entertainment which was a bonus.
On arrival we were …
Ku De Ta
... there just for the pool!
We headed back to the resort for a swim before the first conference funtion for dinner. This was beside the pool and it was lovely, but so hot. It seems that it gets even hotter of a night time with next to no breeze. Anyway, it was lovely to enjoy a glass of white wine with dinner. At $20 a glass over here wine has been out of our price ...
Singapore Summer
... has amazing smells as well. Every day, and almost every hour you can smell burning insense and paper fires. Apartments tend to have a small red altar beside the door for offerings of insense and food for ancestors and Gods. Larger shrines exist throughout the city with plates of oranges, cakes, beer, candles and offerings along with incense. People burn fake money for luck!
The students (some of mine too) prepared a ...
Good job Singapore's quite a lovely place
... it means I now know I need to leave the hostel about an hour and a half before I need to be there, not 30 mins as I was told! Arriving back at the hostel, I found an email from STA telling me they had tried but they couldn't re-arrange my flight to allow me to return back early. Really, what is the point in paying extra to have flexible tickets if you can't re-arrange a flight with over a months notice? So, the next few hours ...
A Universally Thrilling Day
... Ben Ellis eventually made it back to the resort, proving that 13 years of schooling still doesn't help with reading signs. I wonder who is his geo teacher... The afternoon was spent by the pool. We are soon heading over to Vivo City via the Angry Birds Cable Car for dinner then sampling other activities on the island ...
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