Day 0 - Gift of Time Day and Day 1 Up to the Meet and Greet Meeting
We headed out from the hotel towards the Singapore Flyer area with plans to walk around the ‘lagoon’ that sits in front of the Marina Bay Sands hotel and then back to the hotel. We found that the Formula 1 barricades being erected for the September race presented a bit of a challenge to our intended route. We eventually made our way across the Helix Bridge and went into the shopping center by the Marina Bay Sands Hotel. We went to the food court to hydrate and rest a bit (this was our first exposure to the Singapore heat/humidity). We continued our walk around the lagoon taking pictures along the way. The ladies posed in front of a fancy Louis Vuitton store on the shoreline. We continued our navigation of the lagoon when we reached the Merlion statue & fountain and then crossed the Jubilee Bridge. At this point we fumbled upon a route that took us via mostly underground and air conditions walkways most of the way back to the hotel (past the Raffles Metro station and through Raffles City shopping mall).
Day 1 - Meet and Greet Reception and Dinner at 6:00 PM.
The 18 tour guests met the Tour Director, Debra Grant, in the Raffles Hotel Library, got acquainted, and then had dinner in a meeting room in the hotel.
