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Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam: Lukewarm feelingsMore Hits than Misses, but one expects moreVisited Jan 2016Published Apr 2016After great stays at Intercontinental Amstel and the Andaz, and not-so-great W Amsterdam, I arrived at the last and most expensive hotel of this trip to Amsterdam for one night.This also meant I had...

Andaz Amsterdam: Deserves an A and no lessSmooth from the Start to the EndVisited Jan 2016Published Apr 2016EntranceAfter the elegant (and missing George Clooney) Intercontinental Amstel, my next hotel was the Andaz which I was keen to try as a new Hyatt Diamond member.There are 2 Hyatt hotels in...

Intercontinental Amstel: Sharing the hotel with George ClooneyMost Color Coordinated room everVisited Jan 2016Published Apr 2016View of Intercontinental Amstel from the BridgeThis was my second hotel in Amsterdam, having moved from W Amsterdam (the previous review).The original plan was to stay at the Intercontinental for a few days, but...

Not the Finished Product yetPublished 7th April 2016Visited Jan 2016It is now a year since I experienced my inflight emergency, and in that unfortunate (with reference to the elderly gentleman) event, I got a upgrade voucher from Singapore Airlines as a gesture of goodwill.Unfortunately (again), when I was considering...

W BangkokImpressed by the breakfast! And the great Thai service quality Visited October 2015 Bangkok is definitely a popular destination for many Singaporeans as well as foreigners around the world.Having been to Bangkok many times, and stayed in many different hotels, I have not typed a review for some of them.Remarkably,...

St Regis BeijingChina is definitely one of the great places for hotel stays and I finally visited Beijing for my birthday.The main objective of this trip was to see the Great Wall of China and 2 sections were close to Beijing, namely the Badaling and Mutianyu sections.I decided on...

 View of the hotel pool and beachKoh Samui is one of the resort islands in the Gulf of Thailand, arguably the most visited in that region, definitely contributed by the presence of an airport on the island itself.For this trip, I flew via Silkair Business from Singapore to Koh...