From Singapore to Los Angeles

12-Day Southeast Asia Cruise on Diamond Princess December 7~19, 2018

Post-cruise - Singapore to Los Angeles via Xiamen December 20, 2019

Finally, it was time to go home after two weeks. We still had the morning free before going to Changi for our flights home. After having the included simple breakfast at the hotel we headed out for a walk nearby, including another visit to Chinatown.

Robertson Quay Hotel

Walking across the bridge to the other side.

I thought these trees were interesting with branches hanging down.

I did not take many photos this morning, I guess I was tired and really ready to go home.

From Chinatown we took the subway back to Fort Canning station.

Then walked back to the hotel.

An easy walk following the path behind the station.

Hello birds!

Goodbye to the beautifully decorated Christmas tree at the hotel.

We took two separate Grabs to the airport. For some reason it was not easy to get a driver willing to respond so ET and I arrived while SC and CiC continued to wait for the next driver.

Departure level at Changi.

Mural on the wall.

After waiting for a while, we decided to get in the check-in line as it was getting to be very long. Fortunately, they arrived just in time for us to check-in together.

Airside of terminal 1

Just loved the Christmas decorations everywhere.

We found the SATS Premier Lounge for our wait and some food before boarding the plane.

Rice noodle with fish balls, not bad at all!

And the curry dishes were all delicious!

It was quite crowded for a little while.

Then it got empty.

Noodle station

It was an OK lounge but I prefer the other Premier Lounge better.

Meal served on this flight from Singapore to Xiamen.

Arriving Xiamen Airport one more time for a quick transit.

Our plane was rescheduled for a later time leaving Singapore so it did not give us a lot of transit time here. Just went to the restroom quickly and then checked back for departure.

Back into the immigration and custom checks.

We made it for boarding right on time.

Settled in our seats comfortably. This time there was an empty seat between another traveler and myself making this flight a much better ride. ET also had an empty seat on her side.

First meal served on the Xiamen to Los Angeles leg.

Second meal served before landing.

So happy to be home, finally arriving Tom Bradley Terminal at LAX!

This conclude my trip report on this exceptional cruise on the Diamond Princess. 

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"And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ-to the glory and praise of God."   Philippians 1:9~11