Greg’s obsession with earning and burning points and miles allows him to travel over 100 days every year, often in some of the most coveted business and first class products available.
Edited by: Kellie Jez
Kellie’s professional experience has led her to a deep passion for compliance, data reporting, and process improvement. Kellie’s learned the ins and outs of the points and miles world and leads UP’s c...
9 comments
Peter Nicholson
January 04, 2019
Hey Greg,
Thanks for the great review – did you try to eat with Lukas together, facing each other? Even with so much space, I would rather share the meal with my partner and not eat on the other side of the room.
Greg Stone
January 08, 2019
Hi Peter,
Thanks for reading and for the feedback! To be perfectly honest, when Lukas and I travel together we rarely sit together side-by-side as; 1) we both love a window seat and 2) we’re usually watching movies/working/reading so don’t have time to chat 3) it’s good to stretch the legs on a long flight so will stand up to chat to each other 4) if we’re going to be away with each other non-stop we really don’t really need to sit next to each other on a long haul flights also 🙂 So sitting on opposite sides of our Singapore Suites was actually eating closer together than on most flights so definitely wasn’t a problem 🙂 The crew can bring in an ottoman if you wanted to sit opposite each other however it doesn’t have a backrest so unsure how comfortable it would be.
CN
January 22, 2019
Hi Greg,
Thanks so much for sharing your experience. In order to book a confirmed ticket and also wait-list for first class suites, did you have to make sure you had 200K+ miles in your account (enough separately for each flight)? Or could you wait list for a first class suites flight after having used your miles to book the confirmed business seat? I’d imagine storing enough miles to reserve both flights in Singapore airlines is not ideal.
Greg Stone
January 23, 2019
Hi CN,
Thank you for reading the review. Before you book the confirmed seat, waitlist for as many flights as you want whilst you have all the miles in your account. However, I’ve also had call center operators add waitlist options to already confirmed bookings without the extra miles in the account (as they obviously know you will cancel one to take the waitlist). For the outbound flight out of Sydney, we had a three night stopover confirmed in Singapore and I had the SQ team add in a waitlist for a flight departing Sydney a day later than booked. This waitlist cleared a week before departure however we had already decided we wanted the three nights in Singapore.
David Steele
April 07, 2019
Thank you. I really enjoyed your review. We have booked SQ suites from Paris to Sydney later this year. Only one sector will be on the new style suites, the other three in the older style. I’m sure the older style are also going to be a fantastic experience. I’m even more excited about our trip now I’ve read your review so thanks again.
If any of your readers are interested, the fares out of Paris almost always seem to be much cheaper (ours were half) than London. It’s worth checking.
Erin Miller
April 07, 2019
Thanks so much for the kind words David — we’re glad you enjoyed the review! It sounds like you have quite the trip coming up… the new suites are stellar but even the old suites are fantastic!
Have you checked out our reviews of the old suites yet?
– Singapore Airlines Suites A380 Review – JFK to Frankfurt to Singapore
– Singapore Airlines A380 First Class “Suites” Review (JFK to Frankfurt to Singapore to Sydney)
We love reading reviews & scouring photos before we take a flight too. Just seems to up the excitement! Hope you have a blast and if you have the time, check back in and let us know how you enjoyed your experience!
Zvi
October 25, 2020
What a wonderful review!
Thanks so much for it.
I’m planning to surprise my folks for their 50th wedding anniversary with this product, and according to what you’ve written, they’re SO gonna love it. 🙂
liz
October 23, 2022
are the headphones for first suite class to keep or are they to be left on the plane?
Jarrod West
October 24, 2022
Hi Liz,
The headphones are to be left on the plane when you depart.
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