Trip Reports
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Review: Carlton City Hotel Singapore
Read this review of the Carlton City Hotel in Tanjong Pagar, Singapore, with details on the location, rooms, and more.
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Review: Garuda Indonesia A330neo Business Class (CGK-SIN)
Garuda Indonesia flight details Two weeks after flying back from Hong Kong, I again set off on my next portion of this trip to Singapore! Before figuring out my itinerary, I saw that Garuda Indonesia was flying their newest jet, the Airbus A330-900neo to Singapore. As I hadn’t flown Garuda’s version of these jets yet,…
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Review: Cathay Pacific A330 Business Class (HKG-CGK)
Cathay Pacific flight details After spending four days in Hong Kong, I flew back to Jakarta on Cathay Pacific’s Airbus A330-300 Business Class again. Although the airline used to regularly roster its Boeing 777s and A350s on this route, this hasn’t been the case in a while. As such, because the flight features the same product as…
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Review: Qantas Lounge Hong Kong (HKG)
Qantas Lounge Hong Kong Opened in 2014, the Qantas Lounge Hong Kong is one of the airline’s few remaining lounges in the Asia Pacific region. The 2,000 square metre lounge is designed by SUMU Design and David Caon, the latter of whom has been behind the airline’s latest design language. While it was supposed to…
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Review: Cordis, Hong Kong
Cordis, Hong Kong Opened in 2004, the 664-room Cordis Hong Kong is Mong Kok’s first and only five-star hotel. Previously known as the Langham Place Hotel, the hotel was rebranded into Cordis Hong Kong in August 2015 following a major shake-up of the properties of the Langham Hospitality Group. This coincided with the introduction of…
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Review: Cathay Pacific A330 Business Class (CGK-HKG)
Cathay Pacific flight details To kick off my Emerald Farewell trip, I flew Cathay Pacific’s Airbus A330-300 Business Class, a product I know all too well. Being the backbone of the Hong Kong flag carrier’s fleet, the Airbus A330-300 gets rostered on most regional and Middle Eastern routes. I’ve even reviewed the aircraft’s Economy Class product on…
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Introduction: An Emerald Farewell
Hello from San Francisco! Thank you for continually supporting us here at JakartaPotato! We’ve just finished writing the final review in our previous report, Sleepless in Seattle. As my beloved oneworld Emerald status will not be renewed, I decided to take a trip to make the best of the remaining time I had. As such, we’ll…
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Review: Japan Airlines 787-8 Economy Class (NRT-CGK)
Japan Airlines flight details Following a short 40 minutes at the JAL First Class Lounge, it was finally time to conclude this trip and fly home to Jakarta. This will be a much shorter review as I have explained about the booking process for this trip in the first instalment. I will also skim through the cabin…
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Review: JAL First Class Lounge Tokyo (NRT)
JAL First Class Lounge The JAL First Class Lounges are the airline’s most exclusive lounge category, reserved for its First Class passengers and highest-grade frequent flyers. Despite its apparent exclusivity, the lounge actually welcomes many passengers each day, owing to Japan Airlines’ massive pool of frequent flyers. In the past, Narita had two JAL First…
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Review: Japan Airlines 787-8 Economy Class (LAX-NRT)
Japan Airlines flight details After spending about two weeks on the West Coast, it is finally time to head back to Asia! I have explained about the booking process for this trip in the first instalment, which you can read here! This time, we’ll be flying on a SkySuite-configured Boeing 787-8, identical to the product we flew earlier…