Summer adventures to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur – Back to Premium, dnata lounge, Singapore T3

Back to Premium, dnata lounge, Singapore T3
Summer adventures to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur

Contents

• Seriously – Take a holiday!
• Morning Manoeuvres in the dark, Terminal 5 and Galleries South
• BA776 London Heathrow to Stockholm Arlanda (Club Europe)
• Exploring Stockholm on the cheap (Travel Plus!) 
• Back to Arlanda, Stockholm Arlanda Lounge
• QR168 Stockholm Arlanda to Doha (Hamad International Airport) – (Business Class)
• Six Hours in at Al Mourjan Doha’s Lounge
• QR944 Doha – Singapore Changi International (Business Class)
• Intercontinental Singapore
• Exploring Singapore by boat
  
• From the Top of the Marina Sands
• Back to Changi T2, SATS Lounge 
• MH624 Singapore to Kuala Lumpur International Airport
• Into KL, Holiday Inn Express KLCC, Kuala Lumpur
• Adventures in KL
• KL Tower (or yes, Kevin is in yet another tall building)
• Back to KLIA
• MH611 Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Singapore Changi
• Exploring Singapore again with a tweep
• Back to Premium, dnata lounge, Singapore T3
• QR947 Singapore Changi to Doha (Business Class)
• A Dash through Doha…
• QR169 Doha – Stockholm Arlanda (Business Class)
• From Premium to Economy featuring the Aurora Lounge
• BA777 Stockholm Arlanda to London Heathrow
• To have flown, To Wait…
• I need another break…

With me through security there were I went to one single thing – I wasn’t interested in a new camera, new geek tech… or anything else.

I was more interested in the GST Refund ( on the gimbal I brought), and then heading to a lounge to get a few things done. With the GST Refund slightly hidden, it was a case of following the signs to a darkish area.

The GST refund was processed, and I decided to hunt for the dnata lounge.

dnata Lounge

IThe first thing that struck me was how small this little lounge was. Finding a seat wasn’t a problem, but it was … limited. Also the furniture wasn’t in top shape.

Slightly worrying.

I found a space to camp out and grabbed a drink and some snacks. And compared to the SATS lounge in Terminal 2 – this is lacking – end of matter, in terms of quanitiy and quality. Dishes weren’t refreshed often.

Wrapped sandwichses and sweets

Green Tea sponges 
Breads and hummus 

Worst Satay EVER. 

Western options

 
More sandwiches and drinks

Drinks

And there were instant noodles But I think this was a point of discussion that I had whilst I was there.

Instant noodles.

The other thing is if you’re going to do Satay, it isn’t meant to be as tough as old boots..

So onto the gem of a lounge – the ablity to work and use high speed wifi. One normally hinges on good qaulity wifi… and… oh dear.

There’s crap wifi, awful wifi, then theres the dnata T3 lounge wifi #showmethemegabits. #switchingbacktopublicwifipic.twitter.com/cwad3R6ZnP

— Kevin-Economy&Beyond (@EconomyBeyond) August 29, 2017

This is NOT what I’d call acceptable in any sense of the word. For a lounge, it was tired and need some serious work to bring up to spec.

Event the PUBLIC Wifi was doing a bucket better:

and here’s the public network speed at Changi T3. dnata need to up their game at the Changi T3 lounge. Fast. #showmethemegabitspic.twitter.com/4vl5RY0u1a

— Kevin-Economy&Beyond (@EconomyBeyond) August 29, 2017

And as this is a newish terminal – this is a case of “MUST DO BETTER”.

Eventually, I got bored, and headed out. I started to make tracks for the gate – doing a little shopping on the way (and successfully getting shot of some Malaysian Ringitt in the process).

I made a stop at an interesting machine which allows you to convert left over currency into iTunes or Starbucks vouchers.

With the equivalent of just under £5 left, I went to my default choice of coffee. A bit later – my voucher was ready for collection.

Again – a simple idea to use leftover money to something you want.

If this doesn’t scream instagram image, I don’t know what does…

Travellating down the travelator…

Eventually I reached A14 – and cleared security at the gate. And whilst i was early – the gate was looking very well packed out.

At least the A350 was looking it was ready for the flight onwards. The Wifi Dome on the outside even looke promising that I might have decent Wifi aboard.

Oh how wrong I was on that front.

Boarding was called for premium passengers, and I took my leave of the Merlion City Nation – with an intention to return sometime in the future.

Next: QR947 Singapore Changi to Hamad International, Doha.

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