Sunday, December 28, 2008

Gan Family aussie trip - Day 1 & Day 2

Day 1 & Day 2 : Malaysia - Singapore - Perth - Brisbane

We started our journey to singapore early morning as our flight departed from singapore. well, our agenda of the day was to travel to singapore, take a flight to perth , transit at perth , continue flying to brisbane and finally to gold coast. therefore it took us almost 2 days to do it as most of the direct flight to brisbane was fully booked.

At changi airport...everyone was busy arranging the luggages.


Total big luggages = 9.


Vien thia took this opportunity to take some pictures with mw and joyce in the airport.



This was MW and MM virgin flight. at first i was very nervous but it turn out to be fine. MW and MM were very good and excited during the journey.

Arrive at Perth Airport after the 4 hours flight. The security was very very tight compare to those in London and United States. Our instant porriage for the kids was confiscated due to the egg content was more than 10%. besides that, the queue takes about 3 hours. This is crazy mann... no special privelege for pregnant woman , kids or even senior citizens...very very bad service. besides that we even stuck in the perth airport at 4 am waiting for the airport bus to take us from the perth international airport to perth domestic airport. Surprisingly, the driver charge us aussie 8 dollar per person!!!

Fortunately, we were able to get some help from the customer service manager to get us through the domestic airport without any charges as he said that its is suppose to be FOC if we have the flight tickets with us.


A lil help from MM to take my hand luggage...good girl.

The security at perth domestic airport was equally tight as well.




grandpa and MM waiting for the aeroplane to arrive and its 7am.

We continued our journey to brisbane for another 4 hours flight. we flew from singapore at 7pm on wednesday and safely arrive at brisbane at 1pm thursday....pheeewwwww....wat a challenge for me to make sure that the kids behave themselves.






Finally brisbane here i come.


Upon arrival to Brisbane, we went to the factory outlet, the harbor city located in gold coast. the journey from brisbane to gold coast took us almost 1 hour 30 minutes and the driver charge us an additional 150 dollar as this was not in the itinerary. however, based on both of my sis in laws, it really worth it.




the only store they patronize was the Ralph Lauren boutique. No doubts that the price was much more cheaper compare to Malaysia and Singapore.


While waiting for them, we notice that santa was driving around the outlet. So Vien Xuan and MW went to him to make a christmas wish.


Our dinner of the day was at the Malaysian Seafood restaurant that was located next to our hotel. There were alot of Chinese restaurants around and we can even find some restaurants with the halal sign on it.

Our attraction towards the restaurant was the king crabs. however we have to cancel it coz it really cost alot. 1 crab cost about 650 dollar = RM1500...Cant afford to eat such an expensive crab..kekeke....
We sleep early that night to prepare ourselves to the Warner Brothers Movie World the next day...