hotel + flat

went down to look at Le Meridien today. wow, the hotel looks so much better than the Carlton. yucks, the Carlton was like so low class. there is only one 2 inch high red rose in one square glass vase loh, and the stage is like just one cake?!?

Le Meridien one is pillarless, and the foyer is more private. the Carlton one was the whole of the second floor, ahhaaha.. guess tt it reali makes a diff whether its 5* or 4* hotel loh. the more spacious and private foyer makes it easier for the guests to mingle around the area, as in got place to stand loh. tonite's deco for the ballroom was a mix of the "garden" and the "crystal" theme, cos got the dark roses (which belong to the crystal theme), and also got the hanging candles arch garden walk way stands (which belong to the garden theme). reali v nice.

read some reviews tt got bra shop beside the ballroom bt din managed to find it leh. mayb move away already.

then we decided to walk to Orch hotel to look at the ballroom. its the most exp out of all our short-lists at abt $1.2-1.3k per table, so we jus wana see if it reali worth tt price. on the way there, agent derrick call us n tell us got one flat at McNair ask us wana see anot. so we said ok, then he said timing to be cfm.

Orch hotel turns out to be having a private boxing charity event, so the bouncer dun let us in. As luck would have it, as we are walking down to the lobby, a hotel manager (distinguished by his suit) walked towards us. haha... so i walked up to him and asked if i can look at the ballroom cos i wana hold my hotel here, heee! then i dropped some names, and he brought me to see the ballroom! pillarless, reali dark inside, cant picture the wedding deco also, as its jus a boxing ring and many tables inside. so we left happily with the package, took a cab fm the hotel lobby to view flat.

disappointed agn. the flat's living room over looks another blk, whose tenants place all sorts of funny things (hang tonnes of clothes, lockers?!?) in the corridor, so it looks v complicated :( the neighbours are also one indian family tt hangs the clothes until this unit's side and another one had one v v noisy barking dog. so we'll PASS on this unit.

sitting at the bottom of the flat also realised tt there are a LOT of indians staying there! went hm myself via NEL n MRT. omg, it takes so long to reach hm. n the walk fm outram park NEL to MRT n the waiting time for the transit train to come :(