Happy (belated) birthday to me. =)
Celebrated my own birthday by booking a club room at Village Hotel Albert Court, thanks to a promotion they have for their existing members. I have stayed at their sister hotel at Village Hotel Katong before, and honestly I prefer Village Hotel Katong a little more, as it’s refurbished and renovated. Village Hotel Albert Court is a little… hmm, dated.
The Club Room that they’ve upgraded for free for me due to it being a birthday stay, but then again we didn’t really make use of the club facilities, lol. Bruno was kind enough to keep me company (I would have gone alone otherwise) for the three days, hence the king bed. It’s wide enough for the two of us with plenty of space in between. He hates body heat, so space is necessary on the bed lol. Here’s some photo spam.
Yes, it’s an extremely huge room. But if you look closely at the TV cabinet, you’d see the corners have already been chipped off. I’m not that fussy, so I didn’t complain about it. The toilet light was flickering throughout our stay too, but it didn’t give us any trouble, so we just leave it as well. One issue I had with the room is that there’s no additional power outlet anywhere near the TV. Hence, there was no way I was able to charge my laptop while leaving it connected to the TV. Yes it’s extremely important… because I used it to watch dota matches on TV. =(
This hotel has the same issue as the Katong branch – and that’s the blanket is way too warm. Synthetic feathers are bad, sigh. But other than that, the bed is fine, towels are fluffy and white, and their water kettle has to be one of the cleanest and newest I’ve seen in a hotel, really.
We watched a movie on his USB stick – Alice Through The Looking Glass, before getting a late dinner on the first night at Swee Choon, a place where he never went to before. We ordered a couple of dim sum, and were generally pretty satisfied with the food. Then we went back to the hotel and watched more dota.
Sunday was truly a relaxing day. We did literally… nothing. Except watching dota and movie (caught up on The Mechanic Resurrection after dinner). We didn’t even walk too far for dinner, before going back for more dota matches. But because our sleep quality was pretty bad (thanks to the blanket) the night before, we went to bed earlier than expected and tried to catch some wink.
It’s an uneventful day today when we checked out, except for the fact that it was pouring cats and dogs when we left the hotel. We ended up really wet all around even though we shared an umbrella. The rain was just too big. And after I got home and was done washing my clothes, I’m just sitting here and trying hard not to doze off during the day. Don’t really wanna screw up my sleeping timing….
… but now I guess it’s time to go sleep.
28 more days to Japan trip! =)
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