Off to Singapore

It's been more than a year since batmandds and I enjoyed our last RTW. This year, we've decided to try some new First Class products including Singapore’s new A380 First Suites. And with our better halves surprisingly agreeing to 4 day hall passes, we are off on a decadent culinary and flight odyssey that includes Singapore First, Thai A380 First and Air France 77W La Premiere. The culinary highlights of the trip is our day in both Singapore and Bangkok where we’ll enjoy an early brunch at the Maxwell Food Centre and later that day, a 25 course tasting menu at iconic Gaggan in Bangkok. Now in its fifth year as Asia’s #1 restaurant, Gaggan just moved up to #4 in the world. From theworlds50best.com...

ANA First Class LAX to Haneda

We decided to rendez-vous in Shanghai to experience Singapore's new A380 First Suites to Singapore. While batmandds is flying LAX-PVG in the new Delta One A359 Suites, I found an ANA First Class award seat on their 1am LAX-Haneda 77W, and a Business Class SkySuite award seat on JAL's NRT-PVG 787. Not much traffic on the 405 at 10pm tonight but the LAX access roads were jam packed. I gave up on trying for the T4 garage and parked in the T3/TBIT garage.

Since I had checked in online and had my boarding pass, I bypassed check-in and headed directly for PreCheck or so I thought. Missed PreCheck closing by 15 minutes and then wasted another 20 minutes at the other end of security with the masses since there was no priority lane. Yeah, that makes perfect sense LAX.

Up to Level 6 and the Star Alliance Lounges. My first stop was the Star Alliance First Class Lounge which is FIrst Class in name only.

Pleasant staff but there is nothing special about this lounge as it has no view, weak serve yourself food options and/or a limited cook to order from a ratty old menu. An annoyingly loud father/daughter face-timing completed the ambience tonight. LOL. I did a round of pics...