In 17 days, we'll be catching an early morning flight to new york, beginning our long journey home to Singapore. first is a 2-hour flight to new york's JFK airport, followed by a 10-hour wait in the airport for the SQ flight to Singapore via Frankfurt. Been thinking of activites for that 10-hour wait. shall we take a cab downtown and walk along the streets just for the heck of it and for some decent lunch at the korean restaurant at 32nd? or shall we cab to the duty-free outlet shopping centre near newark airport for a shot at last minute outlet shopping?
it's a feat trying to convince the mister to cab out of the airport. first he says, the cab fare is crazy - $45 one-way. what's more, the wait between flights maybe shortened because of delays. and shopping? "you're going back to singapore, why do you need to shop BEFORE going back? Go back to shop lah!" he says. Makes sense somewhat, but he just doesn't get it that there are certain things/brands unavailable in Singapore anyway e.g. victoria's secret, H&M, etc. the decent meal in town is a better draw. so i shall continue my efforts in that direction to lure him out of the airport and try to sneak in a bout of shopping before and after meal times. now comes the part where i have to find out if we can check our bags in early for our SQ flight in JFK. i don't want to lug 2-3 big luggages around town... fingers crossed for early check-in.
BTW, just realised that we may be using T3 when we arrive/depart this time. i say "may" because apparently according to reports, only God knows which terminal we will be arriving in. I still think checking the Teletext 2 hours before arrival to see which terminal the bloody plane lands is bloody irritating. and my house in bedok doesn't even have teletext lor. must check internet. and i know how accurate the list on the website is. haha. why can't they just fix it for that particular route? sigh, yes yes, fuel is expensive, therefore must minimise taxi-ing. so they better don't add more fuel surcharges, or they got to explain big time why they didn't hedge against rises in fuel prices etc.
it's a feat trying to convince the mister to cab out of the airport. first he says, the cab fare is crazy - $45 one-way. what's more, the wait between flights maybe shortened because of delays. and shopping? "you're going back to singapore, why do you need to shop BEFORE going back? Go back to shop lah!" he says. Makes sense somewhat, but he just doesn't get it that there are certain things/brands unavailable in Singapore anyway e.g. victoria's secret, H&M, etc. the decent meal in town is a better draw. so i shall continue my efforts in that direction to lure him out of the airport and try to sneak in a bout of shopping before and after meal times. now comes the part where i have to find out if we can check our bags in early for our SQ flight in JFK. i don't want to lug 2-3 big luggages around town... fingers crossed for early check-in.
BTW, just realised that we may be using T3 when we arrive/depart this time. i say "may" because apparently according to reports, only God knows which terminal we will be arriving in. I still think checking the Teletext 2 hours before arrival to see which terminal the bloody plane lands is bloody irritating. and my house in bedok doesn't even have teletext lor. must check internet. and i know how accurate the list on the website is. haha. why can't they just fix it for that particular route? sigh, yes yes, fuel is expensive, therefore must minimise taxi-ing. so they better don't add more fuel surcharges, or they got to explain big time why they didn't hedge against rises in fuel prices etc.
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