Hello SQTalkers!
Long time stalker here - Been enjoying the reports and pictures for years, living the adventures through the forumers, and spoiling myself silly with the accounts of others' premium travels. I'm going to share with our kind readers here my trip to NYC in May this year.
Preambles
A long awaited trip - Coordinated with much difficulty between 4 working adults with nearly unmatchable schedules. Half of us will fly to the US on the SQ Suites while the other half will utilize the humble(r) EVA Royal Laurel.
EVA Air had been covered before by a fellow SQTalker SQueeze flying from SIN to TPE while there are a number of other reports elsewhere detailing the trans-Pacific EVA sectors. Whilst I'm not offering anything earth-shattering or sky-splitting here, please allow me to indulge in the joys of writing my own TR!
(I didn't know that the airline name is pronounced as E-V-A. Been referring to her as Eva, you know, the name that brings to mind a svelte dirty-blonde short-haired young woman..)
Being the excitable person that I am, weeks before the actual travel, I did the following:
- Watched the in-flight safety video on YouTube
- Listened to the boarding tunes
- Looked out for the movies available during the flight
- Checked out the SkyShop catalogue
- Pondered over what to order in their version of Book the Cook
Anyway..
First important task of the day was to shoo this black cat who was waiting to jump across our paths when the lift door opened. Taxi was easy to get on this Saturday morning. A smooth check-in at the T1 SATS premium check-in area, minimal queue at the immigrations and we were Skytrain-ing to T3 within 30 minutes of arriving at the airport.
Courtesy of our friends who were to fly SQ Suites (lucky b******s), were guested into the SKL First Class area, a first time for me. While I understand why some may feel that this area of the SKL is less cosy, I appreciate the peacefulness in here. The Business Class area, at 7 plus in the morning, was a hive of humans and activities.
The prerequisite lounge champagne shot - Bollinger Cuvée. With ice-cream. Who doesn't eat ice-creams for breakfast?
Prata (instant/frozen but freshly heated up) with rather tasty fish curry, scrambled egg = Egg prata haha!
Satisfying the foreseen local-food-craving before the trip..
After bidding goodbye to our friends who were enjoying themselves in TPR, we whiled away a couple of hours drinking and catching up on reading. It was rather reassuring to feel the occasional gentle rumble on the chair/floor as some giant planes outside did their takeoff roll. :-)
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