Park Plaza Orchid Hotel

... 45RM per person. We ate at their Hornbill restaurant. The food was pretty good. After we finished we went across the street to the Orchid Park. The entrance is free on weekdays, 1RM on weekends. Then we took taxi from the Bird Park back to the hotel. The ...

... at the beach, while Georgie went shopping. That night we went to dinner along the beach front, and Georgie and I rode bikes that our hotel provides to guests for free! It was really fun, and after dinner we went for a further bike ride, right out to the ...

... We headed into town and had breakfast in a lovely bakery attached to a supermarket (at the bottom of Raffles City Plaza). We then went back to Raffles Hotel and visited the museum there - it has a nice collection of stuff charting the history of the Hotel ...

... nbsp; I did stop for a cookie because I was getting hungry again.  Once I got back to the central plaza - my orientation point - I headed for the hotel since I had put in a full day of touristing, although I would have liked more time in the National ...

... along with casual restaurants and bars. Window-shopping, people-watching, and pub-crawling are popular activities along Cavill, Orchid, and Elkhorn Avenues. We first did some souvenir shopping for the pitiful friends and family members who remained at ...

... very affable band of fellow travellers from Eastern Australia, Singapore and the UK. We kicked off our road trip, with a stop at the Orchid Farm at Soroa – one of the largest in the world, and located in a stunning setting amongst the palm tree clad ...

... ! Charlie and I had breakfast at a nearby comedor ($50). We packed up and checked out, thinking we would drive out to an orchid garden. However, the back driver side tire, which was soft a couple of days ago, was worse today. Luckily, after a few blocks ...

... . This is where artists make these pictures by combining small gems. After that we went to the Botanical Gardens and had a walk through the orchid garden. Returned to hotel had a swim in the hotel pool, had some dinner and packed up our stuff. Onto ...

... for massive NY celebrations and the Christmas Lights were spectacular as we headed off to the airport for a quick shower in the transit hotel - staffed by a couple of prison officers who issued us with stern warnings and a bar of soap, then a long wait ...

... . An hour and a half later and it has stopped raining enough to venture out, leaving the trees and shrubs all steaming. We enter the orchid park and I decide it's time to lay my trusty Vancouver cap to rest. It's been worn day in, day out on this trip ...

... public transport and so took the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit - the underground train) back to the stop nearest the hotel. In the evening we went down to a plaza on Orchard Rd (the main shopping area) and found some tucker, then made our way back to the hotel ...

... Parliament house & the KL Bird Park which houses over 4000 free flying birds, the largest covered bird park in the world. We further head to the orchid and hibiscus gardens, police museum, the Presidents House and the independent square with a stop on ...

... , Ohso Park & Swimming Pool, Nagoya Science Museum, Nagoya Festival, Osu Street Performance Festival. Ran-no-Yakata Orchid Gardens, Nagoya City Municipal Government Museum, Will Aichi, Tokugawa Art Museum, Hideyoshi Kiyomasa Memorial Museum, Nakamura ...

... the end of the evening Fred & I could hardly walk, but we managed to stagger back to our hotel.  The streets are so clean and the park we walked through was perfectly manicured with absolutely no signs of vandalism or tagging!  We also felt ...

... out orchids in the Castle offices. The orchids were gorgeous that we switched out. Offices can pay a yearly fee to get about 17 orchid switch outs a year. They don't get to keep them, when we switch them they come back to the greenhouses to recover and so ...

... asked him if he was possibly biased (ie, Malaysian) and he confessed that he was from Brunei. Walked to another Kopitam outlet at Plaza by the Park on the corner of Waterloo and Bras Basah and had a late lunch of duck and egg noodle soup with wontons. ...

... , and it was a winning meal regardless. We ended the night off atop a swanky bar in the Pennisula Hotel, where Andy' cosmo was garnished with an orchid, and Ryan's gin martini with olive was served with a bowl full of ...

... the brothers would catch up with us, but it wasn't until a longer break that they joined us.  Axel was carrying an uprooted orchid.  An old lady on the trail said something to him which seemed castigatory.  He hid it in a blanket.  ...

The beach promenade was bustling with people and holiday makers as it was a holiday. The Israeli girls are very pretty and have the features which are a mix of Asians and Europeans (best of both the worlds!). Besides the clear blue skies and the crystal ...