Introduction

Hello from Toronto! – the city with the most diverse ethnicities in the world and the NHL’s most frustrating hockey team. 😀

The Mrs was kind enough for the 2nd year in a row to grant me permission and fly off to lands unknown (well not really unknown but you know what I mean) to celebrate my birthday. The trip this year was based on getting award seats on two of my two most coveted bucket list airlines – SQ and QR in F. As luck would have it, a seat opened up on both airlines on the exact dates I needed to travel on.

The initial plan was to fly to Indonesia and spend a week on a local island for scuba diving. I then happened to see a friend post a story on instagram about a dive group heading to the Maldives on the exact dates I was travelling and it instantly sealed my decision to divert from Indonesia to the Maldives.

After the Maldives, I would have 2 days each in SIN and BKK before making the long trip back home.

The final itinerary:

Air Canada J – YYZ to LGA
Renaissance Hotel – 1 night
Singapore Airlines F – JFK to FRA
Out and about in FRA
Singapore Airlines Suite – FRA to SIN
The Private Room
Singapore Airlines F – SIN to CGK
Sheraton CGK
Singapore Airlines F – CGK to SIN
Yotel SIN
Singapore Y – SIN to MLE
Maldives – fun in the sun … and underwater too
Singapore Airlines J – MLE to SIN
Serangoon House – 2 nights
Singapore Airlines J – SIN to BKK
Waldorf Astoria BKK – 2 nights
Qatar Airways F – BKK to DOH
Zombie mode in DOH
Qatar Airways J – DOH to IAD
United “F” – IAD to YYZ + continued zombie mode