Dinner is nice and pleasant at 六月餐室 in Tanjong Katong area. Sumptuous tzechar: egg yolk crabs, pumkin prawns (yummy!), pork knuckle, steam fish and many more.
We were all full and rolly after dinner. Slowly we made our way back to MBS, reaching at about 10.30pm. We thought our last room should finally be ready and approached the front desk. They told us it's really and we are pleased that we got a room at the 45th floor along side with the other 3 rooms. Our happiness is shortlived as we soon found out that the room is on the 45th floor of Tower 2! @#$%...
Never mind, it's getting late and we believed that the hotel staff have did their best in getting a room for us. So we pack up and set off to our room in Tower 2. Stepped inside the room and walk to the TV console area and I backed off 3 steps. Erbao asked why do I walk in the reverse manner. I pointed to him that the room is messy and dirty. I'm not even sure if it is still occupied. Erbao stepped forth and checked things out. There is a Nokia phone still charging and a bag of clothes. Obviously the room is occupied by someone else who happen to step away. Gosh! What kind of hotel management and security is this?
We storm back to the front desk and demanded a change of room after telling them what we saw. Alas! There is no more room left. We were told to go rest at our other rooms while they keep looking for a clean room for us. Kinda left with no choice right?
I'm dirty and I'm tired. We waited until 11.30pm. I took a shower but there's no clean tower as my FIL & MIL both had taken their shower and have used the 2 clean towers. So I just reused one of them.
Erbao did not bathe and pace up and down, waiting for the front desk to call. I dozed off a few times. Erbao-mei wanted to take a shower and call the room concierge for clean towels to be sent to the room. To our dismay, they are even running out of clean towels! Erbao took over the phone and started giving them a piece of his mind. 4 pieces of clean and warm towels arrived in our room after 10 mins. Why do they lie about the towels, or are the staff so untrained that they do not know where the towels are kept? We are puzzled and angry.
Time passes by slowly. By 12.30am, finally someone called us to inform us that they found a room for us. We asked where is the room. It turned out to be a room at level 2, at Tower 3 (even further down). Erbao is wary of the situation and ask the guy to go to that room, checked out if it's a clean room and its facing and call us back from that room.
The phone rang. The guy told us that the room is clean, no one is using it but it comes with a Garden View. What the hell is Garden View? It has a big traveller's palm right outside the balcony that we can almost touch it. And why is the stupid palm tree there? It is there to shield the room away from ECP (Sheares Bridge). We are like 8m away from one of the busiest road in Singapore! That's Garden View for you.
Well, it's really late into the night and we are tired of scolding people. Afterall we have been scolding people since afternoon.
We managed our expectation and bunked in. Then more surprises came. The room is much smaller and it doesn't come with a bath tub!!! I cannot imagine a room in a 5-star hotel that down come with a bloody bath tub. WTH! Again, we won't get to enjoy the tub anyway because it's 1am. Erbao make do with the standing shower. Tick Tock.. Tick Tock... 10mins passed... He proved that our damn room has no hot water!!
Erbao walked back to MIL's room in his bathing robe and me following in my pyjamas in the so called posh hotel. I don't wish to dwell much into the shower. We finally retire for the day at 1.30am. We are tired of the whole day of queueing, scolding and waiting. Felt that a Saturday is wasted. :(
