Originally Posted by Berkeley92

Recently, Changi Airport won Best Airport at CNN.

Perhaps the airport is nice, though I prefer the shops in HKG.

However, the security staff is simply ridiculously over the top. First of all, we often are searched ON ARRIVAL. Of all the countries I've been in, this is the first time where our bags and our bodies are invasively searched on landing. Yesterday, the security staff asked me to take out my iPad, then sent the iPad back through the xray machine by itself.

Today, I was thoroughly groped (patted) down. Just to be sure, he frisked me three times per limb. Firmly. And went through my wallet. It made me prefer to take my pants off in public just to avoid the overly invasive procedure.

I appreciate Singapore as a country and it is a very nice and orderly place. However, what they are doing with the security check is simply over the top. It really made me wish the TSA were running the security in Changi.