Changi Airport - Singapore

Changi Airport Terminal 3 - Butterfly Garden

2012-02-05T21:02:00.000+08:00

I had the opportunity to visit the Butterfly Garden inside the Transit Area of Changi Aiport Terminal 3 last year when I was waiting for my flight to Taipei.

Glad that I visited it.

There were so many beautiful and colourful butterflies flying around me in the garden.

Good place to take close up shots of these butterflies.

Had a close up view of how the butterfly suck up the nectar from the flowers.

Besides butterflies in the garden, there were also many interesting plants to look out for.

Changi Airport Terminal 3 - Giant Topiaries

2012-01-14T22:18:00.004+08:00

Last month, I was at Changi Airport Terminal 3 for my flight to China and I saw all these giant topiaries adorn Changi Airport Terminal 3. It was so huge and beautiful.

Angry birds were there too...lol.

Inside the transit area, there was the Eiffel Tower's topiary.

Changi Airport Terminal 1

2011-05-04T15:01:00.004+08:00

Recently, get the chance to take some photos of Changi Airport Terminal 1 when I went on a holiday to Penang. Much changes inside T1, a lot of renovation going on and will be completed next year.

My favourite part must be the duty free shop.

Surprised to see a cozy corner at T1 where we can dine there.

Took photo of this huge teddy bear at one of the shop.

Christmas at Changi Airport

2009-12-21T23:34:00.004+08:00

Saw these beautiful christmas decoration at Changi Airport.

This year the theme seems to be these huge christmas ornaments.

Enjoying the ambience in T3 Changi Airport

2009-10-11T21:58:00.003+08:00

Changi Airport Terminal 3 is so huge that people go there even if they are not taking the planes.

Some even studied there.

Changi Airport - Food

2009-10-11T13:25:00.004+08:00

Changi Aiport is so cozy and beautiful that you dont have to be there only to send or received friends or family members.

We do actually go there just to have our lunch/dinner....lol. Best there are no GST charges at the restaurants in the airpot.

Eateries and shops at Terminal 3 of Changi Airport.

At the basement there is a food court which offer cheaper food and local flavours.

We are so spoilt with so many choices.

Sculptures at Changi Airport Terminal 3

2009-04-13T23:00:00.001+08:00

Saw these pair of sculptures at Changi Airport terminal 3.

They were inspired by flora and the artist is Han Sai Por.

This pair of sculptures represent the abundant growth of flora. It is made of marble. Click on the photo above to read more about them.

Click on the photo to read more about the artist.

Celebrate Christmas at Changi Aiport 2008

2008-12-27T12:02:00.004+08:00

This year Changi Airport is decorating their christmas with disney characters. They are so beautiful. Catch them before the decorations are changed to chinese new year decorations.

White Christmas at Airport Hotel

2008-12-26T11:47:00.001+08:00

It was white christmas at the airport hotel. Crowne Plaza Hotel Changi Airport is located within Terminal 3 of Singapore Changi Airport.

Love these beautiful white christmas trees.

Closer look at the decoration pieces.

Close up view of christmas ornaments on the trees.

Christmas Decoration at Changi Airport (Part 1)

2008-12-21T10:34:00.006+08:00

This year, the christmas decoration at Changi Airport were decorated with some disney characters.

I am at T3 (new terminal) taking photos of Mickey and Minnie Mouse in the restricted area from Level 2.

The whole of T3 are using computer controlled lights and air conditioning to save electricity. Do view my early post on the computer controlled butterfly reflectors in here.

T3 is really very huge and spacious.

T3-Changi Airport-Departure Hall

2008-12-17T13:53:00.000+08:00

I love this departure hall look at T3 Changi Aiport. It is a good meeting point to meet up friends, we wont get lost in the huge T3...lol.

I love taking photo of the departure hall from where I am standing, it showed the big and spacious T3 and this is just the departure hall.

From the uniform of these air stewardess, you could guess which airline they worked for...yes that is SIA. :)

Basement of T3, Changi Airport

2008-12-16T14:29:00.001+08:00

What do you normally expect in the basement of an airport?

The basement of T3 are filled with many shops and eateries and some fun corner. The above photo showed some entrepreneurs trying to sell their products. I am surprised to see so many people in the basement...lol.

The train ride is part of a promotion by Visa for its clients. Free train rides if you paid for your purchases by Visa at T3.

This fun corner is fun, papers and colour pencils are provided to trace images from the wooden blocks.

Playground for kids

Flight Information

2008-12-16T12:09:00.000+08:00

Flight information at T3

Food Court in Restricted Area in T3 Changi Airport

2008-12-15T14:20:00.006+08:00

Inside the restricted area of T3, there are many choices of food, you could eat at restaurants or food court or fast food restaurants.

Or you can down some beer before you flight but dont get too drunk or you would miss your flight.

T3-View gallery

2008-12-12T20:40:00.005+08:00

I revisited T3 Changi Airport and noticed many nice features and many shops are opened for business.

One thing that caught my eyes is the viewing gallery. They have removed certain panels from the window panels after many complainted that they could not see the planes. You can see my earlier photo which show the difference in here.

Visa Promotion-Candy House

2008-12-11T21:58:00.004+08:00

Does this candy house looked so yummy?

This candy house is located at T3 Changi Airport.

It was a promotion by Visa and if you paid your purchases by Visa, you get to get some free candy and a lucky draw.

And yes, the house is made of candies.

Trolley

2008-12-10T14:03:00.000+08:00

Look at these neat patterns of the trolleys.

Changi Airport Terminal 1

2008-04-12T17:02:00.004+08:00

After taking so many photos of our new Terminal 3, I have lost interest in the photo-taking of Terminal 1...lol. But the good news was that there would be a major renovations for Terminal 1 and budget terminal.

The check in hall of terminal 1. It looked so old as compared with the new terminal 3.

Taking the long travellators to our gate for boarding of our plane to South Korea.

Cheap cosmetics at the duty free shop in Terminal 1.

Delightful and many cute toys for the kids.

Changi Airport Control Tower

2008-03-15T12:41:00.001+08:00

This is the control Tower of Changi Airport. Soon I will be visiting the airport again. Hopefully I could take more photos and post it here.

Changi Airport Terminal 3

2007-12-27T22:36:00.000+08:00

These few photos are my best personal shot of Changi Airport Terminal 3 where it shows the very spacious halls of the airport. I like these photos the best.
Above photo is the departure hall.

Another section of the departure hall where the check in counters are.

Above photo is also another part of the departure hall.

From the departure hall, we can view into the transit hall. This is the main transit hall where performance, etc are held.

I have now come to an end of my posting of Changi Airport Terminal 3 open house. I would only post future photos of T3 when it is fully operational and when all the shops and eateries are open. Hope you enjoy my virtual tour of Changi Airport Terminal 3 and look out for its official opening on 9th January 2008.

Changi Airport Terminal 3

2007-12-26T10:06:00.000+08:00

Here are all the luggages belonging to Changi Airport, all lined up for testing before the opening of Changi Airport Terminal 3 on 9th January 2008.

Changi Airport Terminal 3 - Basement

2007-12-25T14:01:00.000+08:00

This is the basement of Changi Airport Terminal 3. The basement consists of many shops and eateries too. And I had repeated many times that T3 is like a big shopping mall....lol. And I am coming quite close to finish posting all the T3 open house photos.

Changi Airport Terminal 3 - Sky Train

2007-12-24T13:44:00.000+08:00

This new inter-terminal skytrain system comprises 16 train cars, each with a capacity of 97 passengers. It will ensure that you get to the other terminals (T1 and T2) in no time. There is also a shuttle service to transport you to the further end of the 'A' gates. The previous posting of photos belong only to 'B' gates as 'A' gates are closed for renovations. That is how big T3 is. (Source: T3 open house guide)

Hopefully I get to go T3 when I next travel and post more photo of 'A' gates.

The building under construction on the right of the above photo is the yet to be open 4 star Airport Hotel, the 9 storey Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Changi Airport Terminal 3 - Glass Lift

2007-12-22T12:00:00.000+08:00

The extensive use of glass in Changi Airport terminal 3 allows passengers and visitors to see both the airside and landside shopping and dining areas. Even the lifts are not spared, they are glass walled too and very spacious.

Changi Airport Terminal 3 - Luggage Trolley

2007-12-21T10:07:00.000+08:00

Have you all been guessing about the puzzle no. 1 ?

Alex from UK has the right answer. Thanks for playing but sorry no prize ......

Changi Airport Terminal 3 - Viewing gallery

2007-12-20T10:51:00.001+08:00

I am really impressed about the whole of Changi Airport Terminal 3 but the viewing gallery was badly designed that draws a lot of complaints.

There were external structures that were blocking the views of visitors trying to look at the aeroplanes taking off and landing. But the authorities had since removed part of the external structures after much complaints. I guess the external structures could have meant for blocking the sunlight.

Puzzle No. 1-Changi Airport Terminal 3

2007-12-19T15:53:00.000+08:00

Just a little puzzle to anyone interested in guessing.

What am I? Answer will be published at later post.

Sorry, as I am not a popular blogger so I do not have any sponsors, so no prize for guessing correct, this is for fun only.

Maybe a sponsor would read my blog and sponsor the prize.....lol

Changi Airport Terminal 3 - Green Wall

2007-12-18T13:49:00.001+08:00

This is the much talked about green wall. It is a five storey high and 300 m wide vertical garden featuring 25 species of climbing plants which can be view from both the departure and arrival halls. This is fantastic and very beautiful.

This photo is taken from the arrival hall where the luggage belts are. So the next time you visit Singapore, do remember to look at the green wall as you wait to collect your luggages.

The plants are watered automatically. (Those white vapours you see in the below photo are actually water being pump out of sprinklers.)

I spotted flowers growing from the plants. This is cool.

Closer view of the green wall.

This photo is taken from the departure hall. No concrete wall in here, most of the walls are glass panel walls. Very impressive.

Sorry, my lens could not take the whole 300 m wide green wall, this is as wide as I can take.....lol

Changi Airport Terminal 3 -Sandstone Art Wall

2007-12-18T11:21:00.000+08:00

At the base of the Green Wall (photo will be posted later), is a 300 m wide hand-sculpted backdrop carved with tropical flora and fauna and dolphins, and with multi-language welcome messages. Spot your hometown greeting! (Source: T3 Open House Guide)

Changi Airport Terminal 3 Open House Tour

2007-12-16T22:48:00.000+08:00

More gate holdrooms over this end..........wow T3 is definitely very big.

Walk on the travellators to B5-B10 and it take only 9 mins.....hmmmm this shows how big terminal 3 is. I was so tired that day when I walked around Changi Airport terminal 3 and you have yet to see the basement. Changi Airport Terminal 3 is just like a huge shopping mall.....

Transit passengers can take the sky trains to T1 and T2.

The huge immigration hall for arriving passengers, just look at how shiny the floor is. Hmmm, I will wear pants instead of skirts when I walked through the hall....lol

Arriving passengers can view their friends/family members above them through the glass panels. (Majority of Changi Airport Terminal 3 are glass-walled, so you can see all around you....this is cool and I like it and very impressed.)

At the automated lanes, the card holder inserts his/her Access Card into a card reader and places his/her right thumb on the fingerprint scanner for verification. The automated gate will open for the holder to exit once the system authenticates the holder's fingerprint.

Changi Airport Terminal 3 Open House Tour-Butterfly Garden

2007-12-16T19:07:00.000+08:00

There will be a butterfly themed garden in Changi Airport Terminal 3. It is still under construction when we visited. From the picture plans, we could see there will be a nice waterfall in the garden. I think it would look beautiful once it is completed.

Changi Airport Terminal 3 Open House Tour (T3 Gate Holdrooms)

2007-12-16T14:34:00.000+08:00

Travellers coming to Singapore are spoilt with choices. The airport had free movies, transit hotel, hairdresser, shower, gym, lounge, shops, restaurants, etc

T3 Gate Holdrooms are different from T1 and T2.

T3 common gate holdrooms come with A380 ready gates, each with a third aerobridge arm to facilitate the boarding and disembarking of passengers from the jumbo aircrafts upper and lower cabins. Another new feature of T3 are paired gate holdrooms with mezzanine levels in some of them.

This is interesting, our tour guide told us that these are very expensive chairs. The below photo shows the chair that costs $850, so most of us sat on these chairs to feel the expensive chair.... lol

But when the guide told us that the below photo's chair cost $1,200 each, we all changed position to sit on the more expensive chairs.....lol (This is so funny and we all burst into laughter although we are some school kids.)

Changi Airport Terminal 3 opening 9th January 2008

2007-12-15T19:41:00.000+08:00

We were among the thousand of Singaporeans to visit the yet to be open Changi Airport Terminal 3. It is scheduled to open on 9th January 2008. Terminal 3 is set to further enhance Changi Airport's Status as the leading air hub in the region.

This is our tour guide for the new terminal 3 open house tour. Was told by him that terminal 3 was planned way back in 1970.

Our tour guide was asking everyone of us to look up above us.

These are what we saw....butterfly shaped reflectors. They are computer controlled to allow optimum amount of diffused sunlight to stream down through 919 skylights so as to make us of natural light instead of using electrical lights. (Not a good photo cause I forgot to put on auto flash for my camera but the rest of the photos are okay even without flash light as the terminal 3 halls are quite bright with all the natural lights).

Above the departure hall, are many nice restaurants and some shops.

Workers doing renovation works in the Transit Area.

This is the departure transit mall where there is a waterfall display. Many renovations are still being carried out in here. Once completed, this will be the place where performance and events will be held. From here, we can view friends/family members up above in the departure hall and wave to them.

Many shops are still not open and many renovations are still being carried out. I noticed many of my favourite brand of shops in here. Geez, I think I will be shopping even before I board a plane to travel......lol

From the transit area, we can view the arrival of aeroplanes. (Noticed that my camera is not auto-flash, which resulted in the darkness of the photo.)

The runway outside terminal 3

Changi Airport Budget Terminal

2007-12-12T21:15:00.000+08:00

The Changi Airport - Budget Terminal (BT) opened on 26 Mar 2006, is designed to support the budget airline business.

I had the opportunity to visit Budget Terminal this year when I travelled to Macau by Tiger Airlines.

Here we are queueing to check in our luggages just the same way we would do in the normal airport terminals. But the difference was the free checked baggage allowance is one item of baggage up to a maximum of 15kg per person. Arggghh, I think I would overload on that on my return trip after all those shopping.

Before going into the departure hall, we had our breakfast at Hans Cafe. The menu was good and the prices were reasonable.

Inside the departure hall are more cafes.

For more details on Changi Airport - Budget Terminal-
http://www.btsingapore.com/abt_bt.htm

Changi Airport

2007-12-10T19:19:00.000+08:00

I am starting this new blog on Changi Aiport. As a Singaporean, I am proud of our country achievements.

The reason for starting this blog was I realised my photos of Changi Airport are much viewed by people all over the world. So as I still have a lot of photos in my album, why dont I share with those who are interested. So this blog would acted like my photo album of Changi Airport.

This blog will only features everything about Changi Aiport, i.e. Budget Terminal, Terminal 1, Terminal 2 and the latest yet to be open Terminal 3.

Now, I am not sure if you all still want to see T1 and T2 after seeing T3.......lol

I am also very impressed with Changi Airport Terminal 3.

2007-11-26T17:38:00.000+08:00

After a tiring day at the preview tour of the yet to be open Changi Airport Terminal 3, we rest and have some nice desserts and drinks at Secret Recipe.

Hot Chocolate

The mashed potato looked pretty, I though it would be like KFC whipped potato. It costs $1 only.

$4.90 Oreo cheese cake - this is niece's favourite.

Dining at T3, Changi Airport

2007-11-26T17:34:00.001+08:00

We had a sumptuous lunch at Thai Lerk, a Thai Restaurant. The food is good and the price is reasonable. Yummy...........I guess I will go to Changi Airport Terminal 3 very often lots of choices for shopping and dining...yayyyyyy.

Beef Kway Teow

Tom Yam Soup

Tofu with sweet and spicy sauce (I like this dish very much, goes very well with white rice).

Chicken with lemon sauce

Sambal Kangkong