Recently I have had to take a few quick business trip usually day trips or overnight, and the tickets are about 30-40% more expensive then that was a few months ago. Everyone is traveling, I love that the streets of Kuwait a really empty and you can drive to places without being stuck in traffic for 20 mins. But the prices are ridiculous, all plane prices are up, with British Airways leading the way, Emirates is pretty damn expensive too, even Jazeera raised their prices. Its funny I just had to take a quick trip to Amman and Jazeera’s business class was just as expensive as Wataniya’s Business Class when Jazeera’s business is just a regular economy class with an extra seat next to you. Wataniya’s prices are up too, booking short notice is not the best idea, but at least it wasn’t too damaging. And now from the last few weeks of July to the first two weeks of August its almost impossible to find tickets back to Kuwait, everyone left for summer and they are trying to squeeze as much vacation as possible before coming back for Ramadan. Its going to get packed as soon as everyone is back.

Trip adviser has made a list of hotels ranked by their pools and some of them look amazing. Makes me want to get on a plane and go anywhere that isn’t dusty. The pools are ranked by its features, a major one being infinity pools and secondly what it overlooks. At the top of the rank is Hotel Caruso Ravello in Ravello, Italy shown in the first picture.

The ones I like from the list are:

• Hotel Caruso Ravello in Ravello in Italy
• Six Senses Hideaway Zighy Bay in Oman
• Perivolas, Santorini, Greece

Link: Luxist

The hotel features 2,560 rooms that would cost you $520 a night. Designed by Moshe Safdie, the structure is said to be based on the design resembling a deck of cards. The hotel décor includes an indoor canal that has Sampan boats to ride in, a casino, an outdoor plaza, a convention centre, a theatre, a crystal pavilion and a lotus flower shaped museum. The resort will open employment to over 10,000 locals, enough to generate $72m each year.

During my visit to Singapore I passed by the Marina Bay project and at the time they just opened the Marina Bay Sands Hotel. It looks amazing, three curved buildings and it looks like a big boat is set on top of it which is the infinity pool above. It now surpasses the hotel in Abu Dhabi, UAE, as being the most expensive hotel in the world. Its a very nice hotel and very much worth visiting but its a little off on its own, about 20 minutes from the downtown area, but the view is fantastic. The rooms have a modern feel to them and I’m assuming the service is going to be good since they have been working on this project for a while.

Link: LuxuryLaunches

The SCI-FI AIR SHOW’s purpose is to preserve and promote the rich and varied history of Sci-Fi/fantasy vehicles. Through display and education we seek to celebrate the classic design and beauty of these ships and the rich imaginations that created them. When the cameras stopped rolling, many of these proud old ships were lost and forgotten. Please join us in working to keep these rare and beautiful birds soaring!

An event for all movie and tv scifi fans, one they can only imagine. These are all photoshopped pictures of what a scifi air show would like, these pictures are created by special effects artists for film and TV. This event is in the mind of Bill George who worked as visual effects supervisor on six Star Trek and two Star Wars films. I would mind getting in the Millenium Falcon or a Battlestar Gallactica Viper.

Link: GeekTyrant

Breakfast of kings! I’m not usually one to have breakfast, but their breakfast and room service was something else. Even the breakfast at the buffet was fantastic and tasted amazing. I’m usually the type of person who looks forward to lunch but this breakfast couldn’t be resisted. Perfect scrambled eggs with the chicken sausages, then the amazing tasty fruit. I’m not much of a coffee drinker but those who drank it said it was very refreshing. The buffet is very good as well with a variety of foods to choose from, and I had a really good omelette with bell peppers and cheese. I always judge the hotel by room service, and in this case the St.Regis set a new standard.

There is always a lot to do in Singapore during a visit, I didn’t have enough time to go to all the places I wanted to this time around but we still managed to squeeze a lot into our schedule in 2.5 days. The perfect amount of time is 4 to 5 days and you get to see a lot in the city. The best part is the public transportation, I honestly enjoyed getting into their cabs, the older the better, the older ones are really clean and spacious, there are a lot of new ones and many of them are Mercedes C/E class but the old cabs are worth enjoying. Walking around is just so refreshing, and I love all the udner ground walkways, you literally find so much around these underground malls, to say that Singapore is space efficient is an understatement. This is just a short list of places to go to and where to stay in Singapore, and there is always a new development, and I love that the it is so clean.

Restaurants

• Long Beach Seafood @ Dempsey Road
• Ooch @ Dempsey Road
• Min Chang – Chinese Food @ Goodwood Park
• Tatsu Sushi – Amazing Japanese & Tapenyaki @ Chijmes

Where To Stay:

• St. Regis – Right In the Main Shopping Area
• Ritz Carlton – A Bit far but very nice hotel
• Marina Bay Sands- Amazing hotel in the new Marina Bay Project but also a bit far

Have To See It Once

• Night Safari – Lots of Animals to See, and fun show
• Jurong Bird Park – Every kind of bird you can imagine
• Orchard Road – All the shopping Area
• Takashimaya – Like Harrods but a Japanese Chain
• Cineliesure – All the movies in one building, lots of screens and great popcorn

Singapore has to be one of my favorite cities, my first visit was last year and this time we went for work and I enjoyed every moment there. We took Emirates airlines since it fits our schedule, and I slept on both flights to Singapore and from Singapore, the flights to Kuwait is a short 50 minutes duration so not enough time to sleep. And on the route to Singapore they use the new Boeing 777s which have very comfortable chairs, I basically slept for 7 hours straight, from the plane taking off until it landed which is perfect in both cases and kept me going the first day there and when I got back to Kuwait. We were only there for about 2 and half days, some work got finished and we still had a lot of fun, Singapore is one of my favorite cities to visit. A very diverse culture made up of Indians, Chinese and Malaysians, the main language of the country being English and everyone is extremely nice. I think they have the best public transportation I have seen period, and when you get in a taxi cab they always have a story to tell and some of them are insane which makes the ride that much more fun.

During the last trip to London I had some free time to walk around before my flight and later the day before. The weather was just fanstatic, cool and sunny, everybody just wants to be outside. The usual in London are people just spilling out of bars with their beers, its the only city that I know that people can stand outside with their beers.

I was walking around trafalgar square and there seemed to be some event going on, and lots of kids playing in the fountains, after that I headed over to Piccadilly to visit some other areas. I just love walking in London, and the combination smell of fresh air and double decker buses can only be found in London. 48 hours in London is just not enough, it felt like taking a small bite of a very tasty meal and having to leave early.

I heard about the elephants all around London a while back, I read it somewhere online but never realized that they were going to place it in public places all around london. 250 brightly painted elephants around London, I managed to see just a few while walking around between meetings, or a few while I’m in a cab going across town. Each one is painted by an artist or a celebrity, the goal is to raise £2 million for the Asian elephant and benefit 20 UK conservation charities. This idea is genius and I love when they can get a charity together that gets the public involved, and later they will be auctioned off on the 26th to 28th of June. I liked some of them, but the one with the dog really got to me, every person has a story.

Link: ElephantParadeLondon

This is one of my favorite streets to walk around while in London, it is also one of the most insanely expensive streets in London. The list of expensive boutiques on this street would scare anyone’s savings away. But I just love this street, its so authentic and pure British high end streets, and Europe’s high end luxury jewelry and boutiques. There are a couple of restaurants on the street over which are pretty good, and a couple of good places around the corner to check out. Window shopping at some of these stores would require you to sell your car, but there is always something good to look at. The best part is the walk and taking a look around, then continue to New Bond street which does have some nice stores as well. London is a city that is made for walking, I really do love walking around there.