Wednesday, 18 December 2013

USA Day 1 : SINGAPORE - SAN FRANCISCO

My long awaited 12 days tour to the Western parts of USA.
(in fact i spend only 10 days there as the flight time to and fro is already ONE day!) 

Signed up for the tour with EU Holidays during NATAS Fair for only $3900/pax, if i include in the Tips for Tour guide and driver + the optional tours (Helicopter rides for Grand Canyon and Las Vegas), the total cost per pax is ONLY $$4273.50. Which is a real good deal compared to the other travel agencies around.

Eu Holidays is worth trying as they focused on Quality of their tours and hotels so as to attract Quantity of customers. I went on tours with Dynasty Travel & HongThai Travel before but so far, EU Holidays is the one which makes me feel that my money spent is all worth it!


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Travelling to the USA with Angry Smurf, my best friend Serene and her Bf Captain A aka Gary.
Our Trip to the West of USA consisted of 

* San Francisco
* Monterey
* Las Vegas
* Grand Canyon
* Disneyland & California Adventure (Los Angeles)
* Universal Studio Hollywood (Los Angeles)

Our flight is at 920am and we are supposed to be at the airport for check-in @ 620am.
Set my alarm for 5am but ended up waking up at 615am!!!
Mad rush preparing and its the first time in my life i spent only 10min bathing and preparing to head out! (achievement unlocked!!!! LOL)

Arrived late at the airport but luckily Me and Angry Smurf ARE NOT THE LAST GROUP IN OUR TOUR TO ARRIVE!
Collected our things from the Tour Guide Hammond and proceeded with checking in!!! YAY!!!

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 Having our breakfast at SATS Lounge @ T3 before boarding.
Some photos while Smoking (Felt like smoking a whole pack of cigarettes as the flight is way too long! haha)


Too bored on board the flight so decided to play some Chua Dai Dee with Angry Smurf
(look at my deck of WINNING cards!!! But i still lost! WTF!)

As Usual, gotta take some pics of the flight meals


Arriving at Incheon Airport in Korea for our boring 1 hour transit (luckily we had enuff time to smoke!), it just finished snowing in Incheon hence the snow covered runway! NICE!!!

Again, our flight meals after boarding the plane to San Francisco





Arriving at San Francisco! YEAH!!!!!



Waiting for the rest of the group to gather before moving off!




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En-route to checking in at our hotel, first day is a free and easy day for us!

Hotel : Marriott Marquis San Francisco

Our hotel is located at the Downtown area of San Francisco which means that upon checking in, we can roam freely ourselves to many shopping areas like Macy's & Union Square. Which we did, and as usual, i dressed too little for the cold weather and im freezing throughout the shopping time!













After a short break to freshen up, we meet up with Serene & Gary for our dinner at Annabelle's Bar & Bistro just opposite our hotel.

We ignored the fact that America's Food Portion is BIG and went ahead to ordered too much. SERIOUSLY TOO MUCH!















After Dinner, we went to walk around the streets with no where in mind to go. just loitering around.












Just loitering around UNTIL WE FOUND MACY'S!


In Macy's, they actually have an animal adoption counter for the locals to adopt a dog/cat. so sweet!



Bought a Scratch & Win card in a 'MAMA SHOP', cost me 5USD and i don even know how to play!
(i said MAMA shop cos its opened by an Indian. hehehehe)


Vegetable Party Platter in Walgreens


The cutest homeless man i saw on the streets outside Macy's.



Headed back to the hotel after shopping for a long time inside Macy's as we are all tired and cold.
Jetlag big time due to the 16 hour time difference between San Francisco and Singapore! and also we have to wake up real early the next day to start our tour!

By real early i meant MORNING CALL AT 615AM! i go work also nv wake up so early la! but luckily im more than happy to wake up early for my holidays! hehehehehe! Human nature...

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