After a long year of planning and anticipation, it was finally time to begin our 2018 exploration of Asia using the Holland America ship, MS Volendam. We really liked our two month cruise on her last year which began in Hong Kong and ended in Vancouver, BC. For 2018, we decided to board her earlier in Singapore, which was a city we last visited in 2015 when we sailed the old Statendam from Seattle to Singapore where it was refurbished and transferred to P&O Australia and renamed the Pacific Eden.
We typically fly standby but for this leg of the trip I cashed in some mileage plan miles for paid tickets. Just before we were scheduled to begin boarding there was another gate change announcement directing us to go to gate N3 right next to where we first started waiting! The incoming flight was late and the ground crew turned around the flight very quickly and we were on our way only about 1/2 hour late. Due to some tail winds, we arrived at LAX right on time.
We collected our luggage and made our way to the United Airlines ticket counter where we checked our luggage for the upcoming 17 hour flight direct to Singapore. Then we settled in for a 5 hour wait for our scheduled 9pm departure.
Our long flight's route took us up north over the Aleutian Island chain and then down alongside the east shore of Japan, over Vietnam and we landed on time at 6:35am in Singapore on Saturday, February 10, 2018. We totally lost Friday, February 9, 2018. What would be ahead of us for our first day in Singapore? Stay tuned.
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