Day 292, From Hong Kong to Singapore to Mumbai, India
We are pros at the early morning airport run. We can get up, pack our gear, clean up the apartment, in our sleep. Everyone has their little packing routine down. By 4:15 we had already hailed a cab and were on our way to the airport, 15 minutes ahead of schedule.
The Hong Kong airport was super slick and well designed.
We used our extra time to grab some coffee and muffins at the Starbucks. 
We took Singapore Air from Hong Kong to Singapore, and had a layover for 6.5 hours. If you’re going to have a layover of any length of time, Singapore is rated the number one airport multiple years running. After having been to dozens of airports this year, we agree wholeheartedly. Never before have we wished for a longer layover. Feels more like a city than an airport.
There are gobs of services you can use. Normally a nap room would be the most attractive offer at an airport, but not at this one. Cali and I had a free foot massage.
Our favorite part of the airport, was the Butterfly Garden, a two-storey atrium with a waterfall.
Cali and I could have probably stayed there all day, but there where other things to see and do at the airport. There was a forest with Koi pond. No where are trees more appreciated than in an airport. They are living promises that a world does exist out there somewhere beyond these secure walls.
This next photo is a slice of airport paradise. Let me ‘splain why. Here we are sitting in comfy chairs, where each person has their own individual charging station and table for their phone and computer, there is honest to goodness wifi that you don’t have to submit all your personal information to access, next to a koi pond and the sound of soothing rushing water, with personal items carts so we don’t have to haul our technology heavy packs on our backs, while sitting under real honest to goodness oxygen producing trees, sitting underneath a balcony of international food restaurants where parents can just ask the kids below what they want to eat while they can submit online assignments, and I can get a foot massage without leaving the room. That there, is an unheard of airport experience. But it wasn’t over.
There are dozens of stations like this one where you can watch tv, with adjustable sound systems in each chair. Each screen is set to a different channel. The girls thought it was funny that in front of the screens showing sports, all the men were passed out sleeping.
There were ponds with flowers and plants throughout the terminals. So many huge orchids in bloom.
There was a four-storey slide, and a movie theater playing movies round the clock. We watched the latest Mission Impossible. There were different games areas.
The Sunflower Garden.
We took a little nap in the Sanctuary, which had the sound of a meditation room, and the first airport lounge I’ve seen surrounded by vines. You could watch the planes land through the greenery.
Took a little nap, then set off to board our plane. Our 6 hour flight on Singapore Airlines was as amazing as our stay in the airport. The entertainment options, amenities on board, food, service, everything, over the top excellent. We were on the top floor of this A380, a beast of a plane. Best airport and flight experience yet, we’re ruined for good.