Hi folks,

I appreciate all the responses!

I did recieve a call from vancouver office today to tell me:
1- They r upset about what i wrote here! ( this is a good sign actually coz some airline staff look at these threads ) the person called me was not happy about the NO i mentioned since they said they will get back to me next day! I tried telling him/her that that NO was the immediate response I got that time, if I have not mentioned the "previous" arrangments and insisted in having them again I ve could have gone away with 12 hours stay out of the 23 hours "forced transit" !

2- They extended my stay up to the departure time but clearly told me it is A SPECIAL arrangment ONLY and no dinner again!

3- I asked if I can take it for granted that " SQ provides 12 hours ONLY hotel stay for their premium passengers regardsless how many extra hours they have to wait before the departure of next flight"

End of call.. I told them about my plan to get into PPS ( am left with this flight only!)..and thank for their call

Some of the suggestions came up were cool, but:

1- EK does not fly to west coast yet, what i do actually is flying EK from DUBAI to OSAKA in their private first class suites on airbus 345 then I go backward and fly SQ ( until this happened I thought SQ is a strong competitor to EK) to YVR!

2- I was surprised because in the previous 2 times i was never told that the hotel stay and 3 meals is a SPECIAL arrangemnt! ONLY this time!. I am not worried about the food but I like to relax in my bed before any flight ! it would have been better if that was made clear form the first day i started flying SQ ( 4 months back)! this flight is the only ONE having 23 hours forced transit!!! why cannot SQ have a special arrangement in effect , am sure i was not the first to fly from YVR to CMB in Raffels

3- I stayed in both biz and first class lounges at Singpaore Changi, they are good but OVERCROWDED most of the time!

4- I wish Singapore airlines has the same deals like EK, they have limo service in most of their destination to pick u up to/from home/airport

5- This is my 3rd rtn booking on raffels with SQ, I had some problems with them before, The simplest problem was my SEVERE ALLERGY to shrimps, I always call SQ office and tell them NO SEAFOOD watsoever at least a month in advance! and I get a copy of this NOTE on my reservation always with me GUESS what? in 2 different longhaul flights I got SHRIMPS! if I had trusted them..I would have been dead by now . Never credited any miles for my inflight duty free shopping...I said no problem. One of the times the hotel they booked for me in Sinapore was being renovated and you could imagine someone checking in at 1 am, and construction including drilling happens in the next room to him from 8 am -5 pm, called the SQ , no help .

I am sorry to disappoint some of SQ fans ( I was going to be one of them, but I don't think so)..I better credit my miles to someother *A member.

Unfortunately, I wrote to customer services about my experience with raffels class 3 times .... YET no answer

I had high expectations...I could be unfortunate in one flight but not ALL.

Guys,
I am not trying to be critical but FEEDBACK is important sometimes!

good day