Tuesday 27 July 2010

We're back!!

We've made it through yet another family holiday. This time it was PEK-SG-Bali-SG-PEK, total flight time 18 hours. The flights were seriously horrible because Mountain boy is too big for the bassinet, but too small to have his own seat. And he is in the crawling/walking stage so we really struggled a lot on the plane. Poor passengers next to us had to endure his whines and constant poking, somehow he thinks it's sociable and funny to "chochok" people but i really don't think the dude who sat next to us today thought so.

Tip to non-baby people: Do not reserve the first row seats especially the 3-in-a-row ones because those seats are usually for parents with young babies who don't respond to reason such as "please keep quiet you are disturbing others" or "stop fidgeting your elbow might hit the other passenger". The poor guy today must have thought that he made a smart move by reserving an aisle seat with alot of leg room. If you are on the tall side and want to get the best seats with leg room, choose the ones near the emergency exit door because those will not have bassinets.

I must commend all the SQ flight attendants whom i felt were very thoughtful and attentive on all the flights we've taken. They were friendly and made sure that we had everything we needed.

Anyway, i'm completely destroyed for the multiple flights and packing/unpacking so i'm gonna leave the photo uploading till my energy has recovered. So till then!!

PS: Mountain Boy is practically walking since we touched down!

4 comments:

judebabe said...

My longest flight with Amanda is 3 hours plus. Wasa very tired by the time we touch down!
I can't imagine flying any longer than that with an active baby.
Hee!

lovexiaolongbao said...

judebabe> she went back to SG before right?

judebabe said...

We stop-over at Guangzhou before flying to Singapore.

Have yet to try the 6 hours flight from Beijing!

Is it very tiring?

lovexiaolongbao said...

judebabe> if you have an energiser bunny like ours then yes it can get quite tiring. some people say the red-eye is better cos they sleep, but i can't sleep on the plane. I rather endure 6 hrs of fidget than not sleeping on the plane. i am slowly introducing him to TV. so i hope next time he sits on a long flight the TV will entertain him.