Staycation at Landmark Village Hotel, Singapore

I am very honoured to have 1 night stay at Landmark Village Hotel from OMY, Singapore Press Holding.

Landmark Village Hotel is located Bugis. It is very popular place for the local and the foreigners. Landmark Village Hotel is near to many famous attraction and MRT (Metro) too. One can visit to Singapore's Oldest Mosque, 'Masjid Sultan', Haji Lane, Arab Street, Bugis Guan Yin Temple.

If you are hungry or want to do some shopping, do not worry as you are pamper with many choices around Bugis.

When you visit to Landmark Village Hotel, you won't find the hotel look pleasant to you as the building look old and not like the modern hotel which you wanted it to be.

Last Saturday, 2nd February 2013. I checked in at 1430 hours and the staff are so professional and polite. I required to deposit SGD$50 in case I used their phone or consume their food in their mini bar.

The staff also issued me the free complimentary WIFI access and breakfast buffet. I stayed at 10th Floor. After that, I went up to 10th Floor and official checked in to my hotel room!

When I opened the door, the room is so beautiful decorated! The management refurbished the hotel rooms! I loved the interior.

Inside my hotel room, I can see the beautiful scenery and my room facing the Queen Street Bus terminal (To Malaysia). I am fortune to stay here just one week before the Chinese New Year. As I can see the Chinese New Year decoration and shop the bazaar over there.

It was so crowded as usual and Chinese New Year (CNY) is approaching, you can see many people buying goods and stuff. If you are hungry, why not come by to Albert Food Centre and try the local food?

You will be very tempted to try all the food there. Most of the stalls are very famous and featured in various food magazine, food channel and even newspaper.

If you feel tired, you can simply walk back to LandMark Village Hotel to rest and even shower before going out again. Or, you can even use their gym facilities for free at 7th Floor.

Their Breakfast Buffet is not really appealing to me. Or perhaps I am not feeling well on that day. Their fried eggs already prepared in advance and it was so cold. It will be good if the chief could fried on the spot so that it could keep it freshness.

Their food is cold and they did not replenish it. I only can eat dull food due to my stomach not feeling well. There's room to improve in their breakfast buffet.

Their toilet ought to improve as well especially when the guest is shower. I do not want to use the rain shower head just because their shower tap was not working. And they should expand their glass so that it will not splash outside and their drain should make slightly bigger so that the water can flow down and will not cause it flood.

                               
During the checked out day, I called their Customer Service hotline if I could extend my check out till 1300 hours (Official check out time: 1200 hours)? Their customer Service officer allowed me to extend and she's very polite.

During the check out, It was rather crowded. I queued patiently and observed them. All their Customer Service officer (CSO) are friendly despite some of their rude guests.

Soon, it was my turn to check out. The CSO smiled at me and very polite to assist me in checking out.

I really enjoyed myself at landmark Village Hotel! Thank you for giving me such a pleasant and wonderful stay in your hotel! You have a Great Team of Customer Service officers! Keep it up the good work!!

Once again, I would like to thank for the following sponsors:

1. OMY (http://www.omy.com.sg), Singapore Press Holding (http://www.sph.com.sg)

2. Landmark Village Hotel, Singapore by far east hospitality (http://www.stayfareast.com/hotels/landmark-village-hotel.aspx)

Photographs taken by: Samsung Note II

Celebrate Lunar New Year with Gardens by the Bay

As we usher the year of the Snake, from now till 28th February 2013, Gardens By the Bay line up exciting Spring Celebrations 2013 inside their Flower Dome just for you!

You can expected to see the themed 'Spring Celebrations' with over 8,000 colourful blooms in the Flower Dome Cooled Conservatory. You will be able to see 8 featured flowers which are:  Penjing, Torch Bromeliad, Cherry Blossom, Chrysanthemums, Coralberry, Camellia, Peonies and Cymbidium Orchids.

When you are inside the Flower Dome, do head down to the spectacular blooms of Penjing which is up to 200 years old! This is one the featured flowers which you must not be missed!

Since this year will be the year of the snake in Chinese zodiac. Gardens By the Bay will displayed snake decorate inside their Flower Dome. You can able to find Chinese Lantern, Chinese Hut and different varieties of Kumquat (Citrus) plants. You also can smell the flowers too!

We should not forgetting the Lion Dance during the Chinese New Year. You can able to see the Lion head display.

I am quite disappointed that I saw Foreigners plucking the flowers and also plucking the Kumquat to eat inside the Flower Dome. Please refrain from plucking the flowers and Kumquat as the plants have life too. Due to our selfish act, we are actually destroy our environment.

After visited to the Flower Dome, you can visit to the Cloud Forest where you can walk through the World's Tallest indoor waterfall to see the plant life from tropical highland to 2000 metres above sea level. If you look up, you can see the bridge that look like M sharp or heart sharp.

You can experience yourself how the life of the plant in the highland and if you visit the Cloud Forest during the night time, you can see the beautiful landscape of Singapore inside the cooled conservatory.

Next, you can visit to the OCBC Skyway (Supertree Grove), If you are not afraid of height, you can go up and see the beautiful landscape of Marina Bay district and the surrounding view of Gardens by the Bay.

If you want something special, you can dine in or chill at IndoChine where you can experience spectacular scenery view in the 50- metre tall on top of the super tree!

You also can visit to Supertree Dining where you can taste from the mixture of Eastern and Western Food. Or if you would prefer, you can eat at the TEXAS Chicken as this is the only fast food chain in Marina Bay area.

If you want to taste the local cuisine, you can visit to the Satay by the Bay. You can able to try the local food like Satay (Malay food: Chicken in the stick which they use charcoal to BBQ it), Chicken Rice, BBQ Seafood and many more. There are selection of Halal- Certified food stalls around, so do not worry about the food choices.

There are many varieties of food chains around the Gardens By the Bay for you to choose. If you could not find any food which suite you.

I recommend you to sign up for their annual membership card at SGD$68 where you can visit the two cooled conservatories and OCBC Skyway unlimited time.

When you apply the annual membership, you can use this membership to get a discount or promotion rate at selected food chain in Gardens by the Bay.

You can visit to http://www.gardensbythebay.com.sg/en/home.html for more updates, promotions and event.

Celebrate your Chinese New Year with BreadTalk

Chinese New year (CNY) is approaching in two weeks time. I'm sure you will be busy shopping for CNY stuff at Chinatown street fair.

After you have completed your shopping at Chinatown street fair, why not drop by to the new renovated Chinatown Point.

At the revamped Chinatown Point, you can expected many new stores over here like Breadtalk Group, Daiso, FairPrice Supermarket, Taiwan eatery and many more.

To usher the year of the snake and the CNY, BreadTalk group especially prepared new creations for everyone to get the CNY atmosphere!

At Breadtalk, there are many choices of bread for you to choose for to have the feel of CNY atmosphere. The bread are: Prosperity Polo, Strawberry Blossom, Fortune Snake, Golden Dragon Carp, Mandarina Luck, Bak Kwa Treasure and Chestnut Ingot.

After you choose your CNY bread, you also can order a drink and dine in at BreadTalk! Do you know that Chinatown Point is the first and only outlet which has small cafe to allow patrons to dine in!

What more, simply spend minimum of SGD$8.00, you can entitle one instant lucky draw and CNY Ang Bao.

Across the breadtalk, you can find Toast box and the relaunching of cultural and local favours, Thye Moh Chan which is around in Singapore for 70th years! They are famous in Tau Sar Piah. Tau Sar Piah is a popular confectionery item with a sweet or salty bean-based filling covered with an outer skin of flour. You should try it as this is crispy and nice!!

Enjoy your CNY Fest with Chinatown Point.