time to finish this off. a bit of a shambles at home with Covid and pouring rain. mrsdrron had a positive RAT on returning. mine is negative though. Officially I am now the servant
The last of the Voco. Virtually no one in the lounge apart from a german guy who probably was plastered when he entered. plus non stop coughing. Our room had not been serviced and we asked why. Turns out they only service them every 2 days. Voco orchids.
Alarm off at 0500. Quick showers and pack. A nice guy on the desk for check out with no problems. mrsdrron went outside and got a taxi straight away. It was now 0545. Definitely took us the long way to Changi. Probably cost us an extra $2 which i normally tip so he did not get his.
Although we both had an email on the day before that our DPD was not complete and mine had disappeared from my account we had no problems checking in. just wanted to see our vac certificate. just asked if we had done our DPD and took our word for it.
Straight to the lounge. Again pretty busy but got a pair of comfortable seats straight away and had some breakfast. it certainly wasn't all serenity with a few screaming toddlers. One kept going constantly for over an hour.
Left a little early as our flight was switched to a gate in terminal 1. The Skytrain was packed. Nearly all of them for our flight.
As well there was total chaos at the gate. hopelessly disorganised with a couple of agents continually switching the way you lined up or going from 2 lanes to one and then back again meaning lots of folk upgrading themselves in the queue. No priority line as there was when we left for BKK a week earlier.
The situation was made worse by about 50 elderly Sikhs being first in the queue. each had at least 2 coats on. They had to be told to take them off. For each coat they emptied the pockets of the coat. You would think after the first coat came off they would know what to do but no they had to be told for each coat to take it off.
Then the agents were the exact opposite to those a week before. told him about my knee so had to take watch,belt and shoes off. Mrsdrron had a bottle of water which she handed over to the agent supervising the line. he told her to put it back in her case. Naturally she was then pulled aside for her case to be searched and the bottle taken out.
The plane departed late for "technical" reasons. Everyone knew it was because there were still people waiting to get through security.