Sunday 5/30/09
Each day we have had quite a spread for the breakfast buffet. (See pics). We have been extremely impressed with how much the staff at the hotel is so eager to please and they are sooooo polite. Today I have to do some work. I need to prepare the content for several of the things I will be working on in Bangalore, India next week (since I just found about a few days ago and it's not ready.) So, it's relax by the pool and work on the content. A true mix of work and pleasure :)Tonight it's pack up and get ready to leave early tomorrow.
Monday 6/1/09
Had to make the 5:50am bus, so grabbed some apples and oranges in the room, made some coffee and headed out. Things go smoothly here, I'm impressed. I must say the Asian airlines are great. Clean and the service is extremely friendly, I find myself bowing back to them all the time without even thinking about it because they're so friendly and polite. Our first flight was a six hour flight to Singapore. We had a five hour layover there. We were advised that it might be enough time to get into the city and back, but it right on the edge of enough time. So we didn't chance it. We explored what was the best airport I've ever been in. It had several lounges, a movie theater, a gym with a pool, several places where you could stop and use a computer on the internet, a few different "entertainment" areas set up with PS3's and XBox's with games. (No Halo though). One room set up with what looked like one of the "Band" outfits. (the drums and other instruments). Tons of different restaurants. And mostly very high end shopping. Cartier, Monte Blanc, Tiffany, ...The prices were pretty expensive there though. The highlight though was that we found a secluded area of the airport that had four massage chairs. These were the very high end expensive massage chairs. So we laid back in them for a half hour or so and tried all the settings. Here's some pics for the Singapore airport: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2016195&id=1633509060&l=c6e46dd260
Then, aboard another flight (four hous) to Bangalore. What a difference from Seoul. The airport center was actually pretty nice and new, but not so the surrounding area between the hotel and the hotel. We saw a lot of what we might consider poverty. Beat up shacks and buildings, trash around, rubble, dirt roads,... And then we turn into our hotel, the Leela Palace.
You can check out the pics here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2016199&id=1633509060&l=2fe92c02ec
Each day we have had quite a spread for the breakfast buffet. (See pics). We have been extremely impressed with how much the staff at the hotel is so eager to please and they are sooooo polite. Today I have to do some work. I need to prepare the content for several of the things I will be working on in Bangalore, India next week (since I just found about a few days ago and it's not ready.) So, it's relax by the pool and work on the content. A true mix of work and pleasure :)Tonight it's pack up and get ready to leave early tomorrow.
Monday 6/1/09
Had to make the 5:50am bus, so grabbed some apples and oranges in the room, made some coffee and headed out. Things go smoothly here, I'm impressed. I must say the Asian airlines are great. Clean and the service is extremely friendly, I find myself bowing back to them all the time without even thinking about it because they're so friendly and polite. Our first flight was a six hour flight to Singapore. We had a five hour layover there. We were advised that it might be enough time to get into the city and back, but it right on the edge of enough time. So we didn't chance it. We explored what was the best airport I've ever been in. It had several lounges, a movie theater, a gym with a pool, several places where you could stop and use a computer on the internet, a few different "entertainment" areas set up with PS3's and XBox's with games. (No Halo though). One room set up with what looked like one of the "Band" outfits. (the drums and other instruments). Tons of different restaurants. And mostly very high end shopping. Cartier, Monte Blanc, Tiffany, ...The prices were pretty expensive there though. The highlight though was that we found a secluded area of the airport that had four massage chairs. These were the very high end expensive massage chairs. So we laid back in them for a half hour or so and tried all the settings. Here's some pics for the Singapore airport: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2016195&id=1633509060&l=c6e46dd260
Then, aboard another flight (four hous) to Bangalore. What a difference from Seoul. The airport center was actually pretty nice and new, but not so the surrounding area between the hotel and the hotel. We saw a lot of what we might consider poverty. Beat up shacks and buildings, trash around, rubble, dirt roads,... And then we turn into our hotel, the Leela Palace.
You can check out the pics here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2016199&id=1633509060&l=2fe92c02ec
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