Introduction


Hello from Toronto! - the city with the most diverse ethnicities in the world and the NHL’s most frustrating hockey team. 😀

The Mrs was kind enough for the 2nd year in a row to grant me permission and fly off to lands unknown (well not really unknown but you know what I mean) to celebrate my birthday. The trip this year was based on getting award seats on two of my two most coveted bucket list airlines - SQ and QR in F. As luck would have it, a seat opened up on both airlines on the exact dates I needed to travel on.

The initial plan was to fly to Indonesia and spend a week on a local island for scuba diving. I then happened to see a friend post a story on instagram about a dive group heading to the Maldives on the exact dates I was travelling and it instantly sealed my decision to divert from Indonesia to the Maldives.

After a week in the Maldives, I would have 2 days each in SIN and BKK before making the long trip back home.

The final itinerary:

Air Canada J - YYZ to LGA
Renaissance Hotel - 1 night
Singapore Airlines F - JFK to FRA
Out and about in FRA
Singapore Airlines Suite - FRA to SIN
The Private Room
Singapore Airlines F - SIN to CGK
Sheraton CGK
Singapore Airlines F - CGK to SIN
Yotel SIN
Singapore Y - SIN to MLE
Maldives - fun in the sun … and underwater too
Singapore Airlines J - MLE to SIN
Serangoon House - 2 nights
Singapore Airlines J - SIN to BKK
Waldorf Astoria BKK - 2 nights
Qatar Airways F - BKK to DOH
Zombie mode in DOH
Qatar Airways J - DOH to IAD
United “F” - IAD to YYZ + continued zombie mode