Stop over in Sinapore/KL/wherever or get flight over and done with?
Nov 28th 2005, 7:51 am
#16
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Re: Stop over in Sinapore/KL/wherever or get flight over and done with?
Originally Posted by jad n rich
Stopping over can become a nightmare if your bringing some mega luggage allowance as many immigrants do and juggling 2 small kids as well, especially if your going somewhere luggage security is an issue like the states. If your going to do it keep the baggage down.
Worth checking if it is possible to do this as it saves lugging cases around.
The other alternative is to spend a night in the airport transit hotel. There is one in KL and in Singapore.....saves having to go through customs etc.
G
Nov 28th 2005, 9:31 am
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Re: Stop over in Sinapore/KL/wherever or get flight over and done with?
Originally Posted by belleandscone
Hi, when you have flown to Australia do you just get the flight over and done with in one go or are people staying for a few days in Singapore/kl/dubai etc to break up the trip?
I think I would like to just get there and recover but with 2 small kids is this wise or do you recommend stopping off for a few days and break up the journey? All advice greatly received.
I think I would like to just get there and recover but with 2 small kids is this wise or do you recommend stopping off for a few days and break up the journey? All advice greatly received.
Nov 28th 2005, 9:46 am
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Re: Stop over in Sinapore/KL/wherever or get flight over and done with?
Personally I prefer to go straight through and via HKG as it is the quickest route, approx 22.5hrs inc refuel stop. Tried stopping over but found that I could not adjust to the halfway timezone so slept very little and felt worse arriving in Sydney.
Last month I flew upto London for an overnight stop on business training, left Monday pm, arrived back Fri am. Found this reasonable as I did not adjust to UK time enough to upset me, not really a holiday though.
Last month I flew upto London for an overnight stop on business training, left Monday pm, arrived back Fri am. Found this reasonable as I did not adjust to UK time enough to upset me, not really a holiday though.
Nov 28th 2005, 10:16 am
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Re: Stop over in Sinapore/KL/wherever or get flight over and done with?
Originally Posted by belleandscone
Hi, when you have flown to Australia do you just get the flight over and done with in one go or are people staying for a few days in Singapore/kl/dubai etc to break up the trip?
I think I would like to just get there and recover but with 2 small kids is this wise or do you recommend stopping off for a few days and break up the journey? All advice greatly received.
I think I would like to just get there and recover but with 2 small kids is this wise or do you recommend stopping off for a few days and break up the journey? All advice greatly received.
Nov 28th 2005, 10:43 am
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Re: Stop over in Sinapore/KL/wherever or get flight over and done with?
Hi, going against most of the flow I'm afraid just to confuse you. 
We have done the trip three times now. The first time with a nine month old baby (return to UK, ie Sydney and back to UK). The second time with a 3yo and a 5yo (return trip again but to Perth) and then when we moved here (Melbourne) with a 5yo and 7yo. Each time we flew all the way through and it was fine, no faffing around trying to adjust to 2 different time zones, it would have killed me having to book in places and chill all the time thinking I've got to do it all tomorrow, what if we miss our flight etc...
We just write off a full day but think it will all be over in 24 hours and like I've posted a few times, my sister in law gave me the best advice when flying from Chicago to London with a 1 week old, 18 month and a 3 yo without her hubby:
"It is one day, if the kids eat crap for 1 day it won't give them any lasting damage, If they have a little less sleep for 1 day, they will get over it and If you are sat near unchild friendly people on the plane and your kids aren't the angels they normally are, well you will probably never see those people on the plane again so don't worry what they think just get through the flight"
if you want to have a bit of a holiday on the way, go for a stopover but if it's just your journey I would get it over and done with every time. Oh the Perth trip was a doddle as it's about 4 hours less than Syd and Melb.
Good Luck, it's really not that bad.
Louise
We have done the trip three times now. The first time with a nine month old baby (return to UK, ie Sydney and back to UK). The second time with a 3yo and a 5yo (return trip again but to Perth) and then when we moved here (Melbourne) with a 5yo and 7yo. Each time we flew all the way through and it was fine, no faffing around trying to adjust to 2 different time zones, it would have killed me having to book in places and chill all the time thinking I've got to do it all tomorrow, what if we miss our flight etc...
We just write off a full day but think it will all be over in 24 hours and like I've posted a few times, my sister in law gave me the best advice when flying from Chicago to London with a 1 week old, 18 month and a 3 yo without her hubby:
"It is one day, if the kids eat crap for 1 day it won't give them any lasting damage, If they have a little less sleep for 1 day, they will get over it and If you are sat near unchild friendly people on the plane and your kids aren't the angels they normally are, well you will probably never see those people on the plane again so don't worry what they think just get through the flight"
if you want to have a bit of a holiday on the way, go for a stopover but if it's just your journey I would get it over and done with every time. Oh the Perth trip was a doddle as it's about 4 hours less than Syd and Melb.
Good Luck, it's really not that bad.
Louise
