everybody welcome back to my channel in today's video i'm
going to give you a tour of our hotel room
and share with you some tips to help make your 14 day quarantine in singapore as good as it can be
hi everybody welcome back to my channel if you're new here my name's gemma and we spent my maternity
leave traveling the world and we've just left the united kingdom and moved to singapore for
two years as you can see behind me we're just at the end of our 14-day quarantine in singapore
so in this video i'll give you a tour of our room i'll share with you some of our experiences before
we arrived in singapore at the airport and whilst we've been in quarantine and i'll share with you
some tips to help make your stay as easy as it can be so let's take a look at the room
so
firstly let's talk about hotels and rooms if you're watching this video the chances are that
you're about to embark upon your own 14-day quarantine or you're just curious about what
the experience is like we did a lot of research when we're in the uk before coming here because
the thought of being trapped in a hotel room with a two and a half year old with no outdoor
access made me lose sleep i was really anxious about the situation and i have noticed on some
of the forums that i did join other families and other parents are experiencing the same
panic and anxiety let me tell you that we emailed every single hotel
that was on the government website that did stay at home notice we gave them our dates to request
if they had a junior suite which is the cheapest available option and all of them were fully booked
they're probably fully booked for the next three or six months the only suites that were available
were the executive suites that were around 5 000 singapore dollars or 5 000 united kingdom
pounds um which is way outside of our budget so before we came here we knew that the option
for a suite for us was not on the cards the second thing that happened is that we were
not able to select our room and or connecting rooms it's really look of the draw once we've
got through immigration at the airport we were taken to have our corvid test for all three of us
george included so all children under the age of 12 will have to be tested as well and then you
are escorted onto a bus once you're on that bus if you want to ask the driver where you're going
most of the time they will tell you and our driver told us we were going to the swiss hotel
which as you can imagine was a massive massive relief because we knew through our research that
there's only two hotels i think that have got balconies and the swiss hotel was one of them
so after a 12 hour flight four hours going through immigration covered tests with a two
and a half year old i'm hot i'm sweating i've got no water i need a wee and then i find out
at the swiss hotel it was a massive moment of relief and i'm not going to lie i almost cried
and once we got to the hotel we did request connecting rooms and there was some available
if you're looking to keep fit and active during quarantine you can rent exercise equipment for 3
7 or 14 days type into google happy shn and you'll see a variety of equipment that gets
delivered to your door we got ourselves a spin bike for 200 singapore dollars
for our 14-day stay and as you can tell i've only used it once totally out of breath
let's get off this machine and let's go and find the bathroom
welcome to the bathroom it's got a good sized shower with two heads i would suggest if you are
staying here with young children or you slightly unsteady on your feet that you request with
reception for a slip mat and that can just go in the bottom of your shower to avoid any incidents
towels you have to request from reception and you can only do that every three days you get
a big towel a little towel um bathmat flannel and a hand towel it's limited on space in terms
of storage and bear in mind you'll also be using your bathroom as your washing up area and your
clothes washing area if you don't use the laundry service so something here that i would recommend
is that from the uk we always travel with one of these we were hoping that we might have a bath for
george but we didn't get one and that's because the sinks in this hotel and when i've been washing
up or washing the claws it keeps getting stuck and so we've actually pulled the metal thing out
like this and then we just swap it and use this plastic thing got it off amazon is any size fits
all cost me about two pounds consider we brought with us some hands up the hotel does provide you
with soap but it's the little boys of soap which don't really work well with george um and we did
bring a sponge and um a sponge this is for wiping down areas and for doing our washing up you can
buy these items here um the main supermarket lazada i'm not sure if i'm saying that correctly
um but that takes two to three days to deliver so we just brought a few of these things with us
if like me you need several cups of coffee to kickstart you in the morning i would recommend
bringing your own cup the cups in the hotel are okay but they're not as big as this one
and it's just more comforting to have something from home we would also recommend bringing your
own cutlery as the ones provided by the hotel are wooden which is fine if the food doesn't require
serious work aka the chicken we also brought a massive bag of tea bags because
well i'm british can you ever have enough tea bags
the kitchen area does come with a coffee machine and then you are given mini cooler or
fridge that comes in our room quite small little plates and some cups on here would
be the red cups but they're in the washing up and then for the adults the wine glasses
so i'll just quickly show you in our connecting room how we have this set up for our family this
is the kitchen area that we've created in our hotel room we have brought items from home and
then we have used the apps and got next day delivery 7-eleven is an app that we've used
regularly because you can get one or two items and it's delivered within 15 or 20 minutes whereas as
i stated earlier some of the bigger items that were requested from the supermarket took up to
three days to get delivered so it's worth bearing that in mind right now we're surviving off peanut
butter sandwiches or jam honey and we're topping him up with fruit and yogurt veg where we can and
trying to limit the amount of sugar that he does consume because there's no way to burn
it off something that you might want to bring with you is ziploc bags and for any food that
they don't eat or consume that you want to maybe order a takeaway and save some pop it in your
ziploc bag and then you can keep it in the fridge another big thing to bring with you is bin bags
bed sheets you have to order your bed sheets from reception
and you have to change them yourselves and then pop them in an empty bag and then leave
them outside of your room every room in the swiss hotel stanford has this leather box which
i believe is for champagne in pre-curved times we've designated this as the toy area
obviously when you've got children i think one of the main problems or pressures is how
do i keep them entertained you've obviously restricted with your weight allowance as well
you'll find that most hotels do have a facebook page and you can go on there and you can request
any items to be sent to you or for people to share things we did that and we were fortunate enough
green apple we were fortunate enough to have some other families here that run out of
toys that shared them with us but successful items that we've brought have been balloons
yes paw patrol and toys which i don't wear much play-doh has been a massive thing
that's gone down really successfully here bubbles bubbles another one and
as you can see no no no as you can see paw patrol's on there we always travel with
our amazon fire stick and daddy suddenly figured out how to download a vpn for free
and that allows us to access my uk amazon prime account and we can access lots of other
television shows from different countries so amazon fighting is a really useful thing if you
don't want to be playing things from your laptop and using a hdmi cable because you're limited
on room as to where you would put the laptop especially if you've got children
i think it's fair to say that most people facing the prospect of 14 days
trapped inside a hotel room really want to have a balcony and here in our hotel room you have
to wear a mask when you are on the balcony so come with me and i'll show you the view
this is quite small but it's worked really really well and we found it really helpful
just to come outside and although you can't breathe fresh air per se mentally
it really helps we've had the door open and that's allowed us as well to try to acclimatise
to the heat and humidity of single poi and it's been a great view and you know
we're really really fortunate to have landed here in the swiss hotel stanford
a few other things that are worth mentioning you have to order your meals at the swiss hotel
stanford before 12 p.m if you don't you don't get any food the next day
every day you get a phone call from the ministry and they ask you how you are
and whether you are staying inside your hotel and check on your mental health i'm lucky enough to
be isolating with my family but i know of other people and colleagues that have been isolating
by themselves and they really enjoyed having these conversations the people are really upbeat
they're very friendly and more importantly they have the time to talk to you if you need them to
so all in all i think our experience here at the swiss hotel stanford has been really enjoyable and
we've seen some fantastic views from the balcony i've worked remotely nathan and george have had
a fantastic time hanging out and daddy daycare and i think you've really just got to make the
best of the situation lower your expectations and the pressure on yourself if you're here by
yourself or you're here with children and you know not everything's going to go swimmingly smooth and
you are going to have off days i had a really bad off day on a tuesday i think and i just decided
no i'm going to paint my nails i'm going to do my hair in the evening i'm going to have a face mask
and i'm going to order western takeaway food just to help get me through that so you just got to do
whatever you've got to do to get through it but we're almost there now tomorrow we get out and um
we can start appointment hunting and i can't wait to go and walk outside but it's been fantastic so
thank you very much to singapore to the swiss hotel stanford and let's get some freedom
you