My Todd's Travel Diary at 19 months

 

We have been very blessed with opportunities to travel.
Miss K started her air travel when she was 6 months old. We went to Berjaya Hills (Colmar Tropicale) at Kuala Lumpur and then up to Penang by budget airlines Jetstar and AirAsia.
Review on Airasia (SIN-KL-PEN):

Short trip from Changi T1 to Malaysia was rather comfortable.

Stroller was retrieved at the gate when we disembarked the plane.

Milk, water and snacks for infant were allowed on board the plane.

I had to ask for an infant seat belt else am not sure whether I will be given one.



Review on Jetstar (PEN-SIN):

I was given an infant seat belt as soon as I entered the plane.

Air stewardess came to make sure I was familiar with the usage of the infant seat belt.

Drinks and snacks for infant were allowed on board the plane.

Stroller was retrieve only at the baggage claims belt.

At 14 months old, I brought Miss K to Europe and we endured the 16 hours (with 2 hours transit) flight to Berlin. We flew with Singapore Airlines, which was supposed to have the best service in the airline world. However, we did not get very good service then.

Review on SIA (SIN-MUN):

No food for infant until we enquired about it. Food selection (only a choice of 2 types of baby food) arrived after 15 minutes. Took another 30 minutes to heat up baby food. By that time the food came, baby has already fallen asleep, hungry.

Requested for hot water and air stewardess courteously asked for bottle so she could fill it up.

Bassinnet was given as soon as seat belt signs went off. Extra blanket and pillow were also given.

No toys for baby.


We then took Lufthansa for our Munich-Berlin-Munich leg before flying over to london.


Review on Lufthansa (BER-MUN-BER-LHR):

Suprisingly very good service (Travelled form SIN-MUN-SIN once and it was a bad experience)

Baby was given a toy as soon as we board the plane.

For one of the leg, she was also given a cloth book in addition to the toy.

Air stewardess were very friendly with baby.


We took SIA back from London to Singapore. The crew for this flight was much nicer. Service was prompt. Miss K was given a blue soft toy and there were more choices of baby food on board.

It was a pretty smooth ride throughout, just a little struggle to get Miss K to fall asleep on the plane and instances when I had to carry her out of her bassinnet when we flew through turbulence zones, the rest was pretty manageable.

Tonight, we will be flying off to the United States via Dubai on Emirates.

With my 19 month old who is already showing signs of the Terrible Twos, I guess I have to wish myself Bon Voyage (literally) a hundred times over.