- Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
I've just arrived off a flight from Denang.
Watch that video, its a previous video to this one.
But we are an hour and a half late,
and I've gotta make a connection here
from domestic to international,
which means changing terminals,
which therefore means collecting me bag.
And being an hour and a half late
with only a two and a half hour connection,
this is gonna be tight,
so we'll see if we make it or not.
All right, it's me bag.
Let's roll.
All right now,
domestic and international here in Ho Chi Minh
are in two separate terminals,
which means even if you're on same ticket as I am,
you've still got to hot foot it across,
and recheck in your bags for the next leg.
And with a sort of two and a half hour connection
I had originally it wouldn't have been too bad,
but with an hour and a half delay,
I'm now gotta get over there
to the international terminal,
and the flight leaves in about an hour's time.
So just hope that some check in is still open,
and I can make it.
Oh gosh, it isn't easy.
If you're ever thinking about connecting
domestic to international here in Vietnam,
don't.
God.
I've gotta be down there.
I don't know how you get down there.
Nice job.
So you've gotta go outside to get back in again.
That's handy.
Hello, Singapore please.
Thank you very much.
Thank you. See you later.
Right, checked in at least.
I got this far.
My bag's dropped, so I'm now heads,
I've gotta head through now to departures,
make sure that we can get through a passport control
and security and everything as well.
So let's do that now.
All right, through security and passport control.
No time for the lounge today.
There is a lounge here,
I just don't have time to check it out.
So let's go and get to the plane,
'cause they're boarding any minute, I think.
Thank you.
Good morning. Thank you.
- Sit on the right hand side.
- [Noel] Thank you.
All right, made it on board.
That was stressful to say the least.
I made it on board this Vietnam Airlines, A321.
Very retro looking cabin.
Very 1980s isn't it?
But never mind.
I've got a seat and I'm on board.
I just hope me bag's made it now.
I have a rest now I think
for a couple of hours.
have come around with a newspaper.
We'll have a read of this in a little while.
The Vietnam news.
From the ground up.
See if there's any interesting bits in that
once we get airborne from Ho Chi Minh.
Might just sleep on this flight.
I don't know.
I think I've earned it after that run.
Now I've really been trying to focus
on getting my nutrition in a much better place lately.
And one way I've been doing that
is with my daily drink of AG1.
Now I've been drinking AG1 as part of my morning routine
for quite some time now,
and I'm finding it's really helping to get my gut
in a much better place after many years of fast food abuse.
And yeah, the taste of it's actually pretty decent.
It tastes a bit like a milkshake, a fruity milkshake really.
But here's the thing, it's not a milkshake,
because it doesn't have any lactose in it.
It's completely dairy free.
It's gluten free as well, and fully vegan too.
AG1's really easy to make
as part of your morning routine as well.
Just one scoop powder,
fill it up with water,
give it a little shake,
and you're good to go for the day.
If you click on the link down in the description,
you'll get a year's supply of vitamin boosting D3K2
and five travel packs completely free of charge
with your first purchase.
As we taxied out, I couldn't help but think
about the stark contrast
between the insane connection at Ho Chi Minh city,
and the zen and tranquility of the Vietnam Airlines A321.
This A320 looks particularly interesting.
It's owned by Cambodian Angkor Air.
Let me know if you'd like me to fly on them
on my next trip to this part of the world.
Today's route then takes me south out of Ho Chi Min City
to cross the South China Sea to Singapore.
Flight time today was one hour and 44 minutes,
cruising at 36,000 feet.
All right then, say goodbye to Vietnam
after an amazing couple of days there
followed by an absolutely horrendous airport experience
in Ho Chi Minh, but nevermind, we're on our way.
Just I won't be making that mistake again, definitely,
doing a domestic to international transfer
within a few hours.
I mean it's this transfer that they sold me.
Vietnam Airline sold that transfer
operated by Pacific on the last flight,
and then by their own metal on this flight.
But that domestics of international connection
is just two and a half hours with a bit of a delay.
All of a sudden you've sort of got no time,
so then you're just flying through the airport.
So like I was, I was grateful that I'm on board
can relax for a couple of hours now
until I get down to Singapore.
Crew so far have been absolutely delightful. Really nice.
seat itself's, really nice
apart from a little bit bare bones,
no entertainment or anything.
It's all up there on the screens.
We've got like, audio controls here,
controls to recline the seat.
Really old school just here.
And then you've got your tray table in here.
And that's pretty much it.
And I'm sporting my amazing Noel Phillips socks
which you can of course buy in the shop @noelphillips.com.
- [Narrator] It's time for the Noel Philips Loo Review.
- All right then time for a Vietnam Airlines
Loo Review very quickly.
And it's quite pleasant on the A321.
It's quite a tight bathroom.
There's fresh flowers here.
That's always nice, or leaves of some description.
What have we got?
Bang ve sinh.
Sanitary napkins.
We've got a socket to charge your razor up.
Signs dotted around.
An ashtray, which is interesting.
And yeah, although I did read somewhere though
that these ash trays are actually designed for a reason.
Currently they put them in so that if somebody did
end up inadvertently smoking in the bathroom illegally,
then it's safer for them to put it out in there
than it is to flush it down the loo.
So yeah.
Anyway, nice flight so far I'm enjoying the ride
with Vietnam airlines.
- [Narrator] That was the Noel Phillips Loo Review.
- All right, dinner time.
Let's have a look.
I've gone for the chicken today.
It was choice of prawns with noodles,
I think it was beef and rice, or chicken and potato.
And I gone for the chicken and potato today,
which looks quite nice.
It's in like a red wine sauce apparently.
You've got a little bit, few bits and pieces with it.
A glass of water as well.
So let's give this a go.
Goodness me, more cutlery than I know what to do with.
Let's pick these ones though for now.
Let's have a go.
That is absolutely delicious.
That's really, really good food.
Thank you Vietnam Airlines. Very good.
And one thing I do have to say is that the service
on board Vietnam Airlines been absolutely top notch.
The cabin crew were just so attentive,
constantly coming through the cabin,
topping off people's drinks, bringing people more drinks.
The second people have finished their food,
they're literally there to take the tray away.
Absolutely incredible service.
And just a shame that the seats aren't the greatest really.
Although it is only a short tour plane.
I guess it's only like hour and a half to two hour flight.
I would be really interested to try Vietnam Airlines
on their long haul routes
to see what they're like on the dream line, of course.
And yeah, see what they're like
on those long haul flights,
that'd be interesting, wouldn't it?
But the service honestly cannot be faulted from the crew.
It's just fantastic.
- [Stewardess] Ladies and gentlemen,
thank you for flying with Vietnam Airlines.
- [Noel] After a very sweet bow from all the cabin crew,
we started our approach into Singapore's Changi airport.
We touched down just after a rain shower had passed through,
and got treated to an amazing display of spray
as we slowed down on the runway.
This is absolutely one of my favorite sights to see
when I'm flying,
especially on larger aircraft like the A380.
It really does show the power of all the engines.
Thank you very much. Bye bye.
Thank you.
Welcome to Singapore.
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- [Woman] Are you on long term pass,
or are you just short term visiting?
- [Noel] Short visiting.
- [Woman] Use the iPad. Come.
- [Noel] The iPad's quicker, is it?
- [Woman] Let me know if you need help.
- [Noel] Thank you.
- No problem. Bye-bye.
- [Noel] Thank you. Bye-bye. - [Woman] Bye bye.
- [Noel] Singapore has a separate immigration line
for vaccinated passengers,
but with hardly anybody there I was three minutes.
Two thumbs?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
All right, that was all very easy.
Straight through immigration here at Singapore.
They've got like, a separate vaccinated and un-vaccinated
travel lane.
So you just go straight through the vaccinated one
after you're filled in your little form,
and straight through.
And next time, apparently I'm registered now
to automatically go through the auto gates
next time as well,
next time I come in.
So even better.
So just waiting for me bag,
and head out into the tropical monsoon rain of Singapore.
All right, this is where we find out if my bag
made that tight connection as well.
Let's see.
Oh, Look at that, the first bag off the belt.
Love it when a plan comes together.
All right, let's head outside.
All right, then, welcome to Singapore.
It seems like forever since I've been here,
since all the restrictions and everything.
It's all open for business again now.
Ooh.
And there's a shop all about me, look, 'Heavenly Wang'.
But anyway, we are in Singapore,
and yeah, not for long though, only for a few hours,
because I've got another flight
heading out of here in a few hours time.
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And I'll pop a link down to the next video as well
at the end of the video.
But yeah, in the meantime,
let me know what you thought of Vietnam Airlines.
I thought they were pretty fecking cool.
But let me know what you thought down in the comments.
In the meantime, as always,
thank you so much for watching.
Take care, and I'll see you on the next one.
Bye for now.