Singapore (October, 2014)

On the way home from Tokyo, Cody and Eliza spent a day in Singapore.  We arrived to Singapore after midnight from Tokyo and had booked the Crowne Plaza Changi which is located in the Singapore Changi Airport and is right next to the train in Terminal 3.  We booked it using 40,000 IHG points which saved about $250.  With Eliza's IHG Platinum status, we were upgraded to a club room and given complimentary breakfast in the hotel, which was great.

After some much needed sleep and breakfast, we headed into the city on the MRT (Singapore's excellent public transportation system).  We headed to Chinatown on our way to BreakOut, which is within walking distance from Chinatown and one of the newer puzzle/escape room places in Singapore.  We did 2 different puzzle rooms, "The Scientist" and "Forever Young."  We didn't do so well with "The Scientist."  BreakOut prides themselves on having non-linear clues (meaning that there are a bunch of clues that can be accessed all at once and you have to figure out which direction to go in having more than one clue at a time).  The puzzle room that we did in Beijing was linear and we only had one thing going at once, so it was clear what direction we had to go.  I think the non-linear thing threw us for a loop because we really struggled.  We found all the clues, but had a hard time putting them together.  We needed some hints, and BreakOut was good to provide subtle ones without giving it away, but still, we did not make it out of the room in the allotted 60 minutes.  For "Forever Young," we did much better.  We made it out with only a couple clues.  All in all, we really enjoyed BreakOut and we find the puzzle rooms very fun.  Apparently, there are now more than 14 puzzle room companies in Singapore.

A good date in Singapore.

Eliza, being beautiful on Singapore's MRT.

After we finished our puzzle rooms, we got some lunch and then spent some time shopping in Chinatown, which was a bit of a letdown after our experience in the Silk markets in Beijing.

We headed back to the airport to pick up our bags from the hotel and to catch our flight back to Perth to see our kids.