Changi stopover Singapore, Singapore
By
Richary on 13-Jun-06. Waypoint GA0472
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
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| Type: | Virtual |
| Container: | Other |
| Coordinates: | N1° 21.370' E103° 59.300' (WGS 84) |
| 48N 387452E 149921N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 12 m |
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Description
Stuck in transit?
Singapore seems a common stopover for travellers from Australlia to other parts of the world. Unluckily time doesn't always allow us to get out and explore, go caching, or your visa may not let you outside.
If you are in Terminal 2 and waiting there is at least now one cache you can get. Find a view of Gate F30 and email me the coordinates displayed on the outside for a succesful log. One possible vantage is the smoking room nearby, but you should be able to spot it from next door if you don't want to breathe the fumes.
After getting the cache and if you still have time to kill, one of the bars there had some great blues music when I visited. Changi has to be one of the best airports I have visited in terms of facilities.
Logs
With 3 GC caches and 2 GCA virtuals at Changi airport, I decided to see how many I could get during a 2 hour stopover between Melbourne and Dubai. This was second of what would ultimately be 4 as I noted the coordinates for sending to the CO at 00:10.
Thanks richary.
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Thanks richary.
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Heading to London for a month and while on a stopover in Singapore heading over to this terminal and made the find for this one. Took a couple of minutes to find the best vantage point. but once that was located, all was good.
Info sent to the CO who responded with thumbs up.
Singapore is great airport. I had 6 hours to fill and thee was certainly enough to see.
Thanks Richary....
Info sent to the CO who responded with thumbs up.
Singapore is great airport. I had 6 hours to fill and thee was certainly enough to see.
Thanks Richary....
Rated: for Overall Experience
On a summer trip with Xearanth, route: Helsinki - Doha - Hong Kong - Macau (- Hong Kong) - Taipei - Manila - Sydney - Brisbane - Singapore - Johor Bahru (- Singapore) - Doha - Helsinki. After staying a few days in Sydney, we headed home, but had a short layover (enough for finding two caches) in Brisbane and a three-day stop in Singapore (with an afternoon visit to the other side of the Malaysian border to find the border cache on the Malaysian side) on the way. We went to the airport early enough to visit the geocaching.com cache GC1HA96 after checking in our hold luggage, and while we were shuttling between the terminals by Skytrain, I noticed the presence of this virtual cache. There was still some time remaining, so we checked out this one as well. It was already getting dark, but I was still able to figure out the text on the sign anyway. Loved the cactus and butterfly gardens, Changi is definitely one of the best airports I have ever visited. I have sent the answer to the CO and received his permission to log this virtual cache as found. Many thanks for the virtual cache, it's much nicer when you have something else to do at the airport than just waiting for the boarding to begin!
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These sky trains are easy, just go from T3 to T2 with it hassle and do your stuff there. Two out of two, not a boring moment here! Will mail the photo.
#GA3416 - 23:20; I was passing through Changi Airport on the way home from a trip to Thailand and Singapore and thought I should make the effort to gather the information I needed to claim a find on this cache. Checked in for our flight and I headed off on the hunt while the geohoney took care of some last minute retail therapy. The Sky Train certainly makes things easier getting between the terminals, but it was still a long stroll down to the gate. Managed to find a vantage point to gather the required information and have sent it off to the CO for the OK. TFTC richary 
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We have a few hours to fill in while waiting for our next flight so caught the train over to T2. Soon found the smoking room. Had a good look around and then we saw th coordinates we were looking for. Great idea for a cache! 
Answer has been emailed.
Thanks heaps Richary.
Answer has been emailed.
Thanks heaps Richary.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Well we eventually found what we needed, Wazza9 is sending you the information required. What a great idea for an Australian geocache. Thanks to Richary.
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Our visit to Singapore started at Terminal 3 arriving at 5 PM 13th July when soon after we located GC1HA96.
What a great start and this morning our Geocaching tour on foot for about 5 hours resulted in 8 finds including 2 EarthCaches and 4 DNF's with one being given a NM.
After booking our bags in Nana nel wanted to go back to the Butterfly Garden and so we went to Terminal 3 and passed through security there. She suspected there may have been 2 caches but was proven to be wrong.
Then time to get the SkyTrain to Terminal 2 and make our way to Gate F30. Now what is this GCA Virtual all about, there is nothing at the gate so a walk around the corner was needed and without going into the smooking roon, everything revieled itself to us.
Wow what a special cache.
With our departure looming for 11.40 PM on the 14th July, our 30 hour stopover is reaching an end.
Information will be sent to the CO.
What a great start and this morning our Geocaching tour on foot for about 5 hours resulted in 8 finds including 2 EarthCaches and 4 DNF's with one being given a NM.
After booking our bags in Nana nel wanted to go back to the Butterfly Garden and so we went to Terminal 3 and passed through security there. She suspected there may have been 2 caches but was proven to be wrong.
Then time to get the SkyTrain to Terminal 2 and make our way to Gate F30. Now what is this GCA Virtual all about, there is nothing at the gate so a walk around the corner was needed and without going into the smooking roon, everything revieled itself to us.
Wow what a special cache.
With our departure looming for 11.40 PM on the 14th July, our 30 hour stopover is reaching an end.
Information will be sent to the CO.
A quick visit to Singapore last week called for some caching between meetings and conference.
I accidentally launched GA Cacher, and curiosity got the better of me - I wanted to see the closest GCA cache.
As it turns out, it was not 2000km away... less than 10km...what?
With my phones battery dying quite prematurely (sigh new phone time :\) I made a mental note of the details.. so when I was leaving, I quickly detoured and looked out the window, scanning the window for anything obvious.
Well.. that is obvious indeed. I wrote the Co-ords down on my hand.. noting the lack of digits! (not just the fact that it's 1 Degree North!).
I remembered the logs said something about smoking... I turned around and realised what that was all about. How could you smoke in a room like that.. anyhow.
Powered phone back on at a charging spot, took photo of my hand.. hopefully the co-ords I got were right
I accidentally launched GA Cacher, and curiosity got the better of me - I wanted to see the closest GCA cache.
As it turns out, it was not 2000km away... less than 10km...what?
With my phones battery dying quite prematurely (sigh new phone time :\) I made a mental note of the details.. so when I was leaving, I quickly detoured and looked out the window, scanning the window for anything obvious.
Well.. that is obvious indeed. I wrote the Co-ords down on my hand.. noting the lack of digits! (not just the fact that it's 1 Degree North!).
I remembered the logs said something about smoking... I turned around and realised what that was all about. How could you smoke in a room like that.. anyhow.
Powered phone back on at a charging spot, took photo of my hand.. hopefully the co-ords I got were right
Well with 5 hours to kill in route to China to visit Zhaoy how could I not? I even found a non smokey vantage. I had no business being in this part of the airport but the lure of a new country to add to the stats was always going to win! Plus the terminal trains are very good... which is lucky as you may be needing them soon >:) Email sent to Richary
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Found with MTRAX! After not finding the butterfly house cache (it was archived, the area closed off, upper deck gutted, and very dark in there) it was nice to at least be able to get this one. Had to do something to kill 2 hours at the airport! The last of 37 caches found with MTRAX on a 4 day Singapore caching trip, from Canberra Australia. Thanks Richary!
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We had our Geocaching holiday in Singapore, but now time to leave, but the butterfly cache is gone, so glad we got this one
Thefourbees landed in Singapore for a stop-over on our way to London. So after a bit of obligatory shopping, it was time to go caching. We were in T3, so it was onto the shuttle to T2, so efficient. No entry into the gate area, so we wandered around until we spotted a vantage point and then the grey matter kicked in - "smoking room", that's where we have to go.
A deep breath, through the doors and out to the outdoor area, a quick photo and back out. Got a couple of strange looks, but caching is good for your health.
CO has confirmed the co-ordinates.
We had been to Singapore a few years ago but hadn't even looked at GCA caches.
TFTC richary.
A deep breath, through the doors and out to the outdoor area, a quick photo and back out. Got a couple of strange looks, but caching is good for your health.
CO has confirmed the co-ordinates.
We had been to Singapore a few years ago but hadn't even looked at GCA caches.
TFTC richary.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Funny...
This was the exact gate where we caught our flight to Cochin- before knowing about geocaching
Next time... Next time...
This was the exact gate where we caught our flight to Cochin- before knowing about geocaching
Next time... Next time...
We have just returned from 10 days in Sabah and Singapore so we passed through Changi airport three times including a 4 hour layover so it was great to have 2 caches to do in the airport. Changi airport is amazing and it is easy to fill in time here, shopping, the gardens, massages, pool, free movies and free internet.
TFTC
TFTC
Logging with permission from Richary.
Been through Changi a few times since I noticed this cache, but either forgot or didn't have to opportunity to get the required data.
Had the chance tonight, when my onward flight to LHR was delayed by 3 hours.
Thanks for the cache.
Been through Changi a few times since I noticed this cache, but either forgot or didn't have to opportunity to get the required data.
Had the chance tonight, when my onward flight to LHR was delayed by 3 hours.
Thanks for the cache.
Rated: for Overall Experience
A great idea. Thanks Richary for getting back to quickly with the confirmation.
My plane from Penang arrived at the gate next door and a quick toilet stop revealed that the necessary information is easily seen from the men's toilets.
I am surprised that this one isn't collected more often.
TFTC
My plane from Penang arrived at the gate next door and a quick toilet stop revealed that the necessary information is easily seen from the men's toilets.
I am surprised that this one isn't collected more often.
TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
Was good way to pass the time while waiting for my plane home. First off went in the smoking room and nearly died so went next room over instead. TFTC
Logged this one on a short layover from Aus to Malta via Franfurt.
thanks for the quick response Richary and for giving me a distraction while hanging out a changi airport.
A clever idea for a virtual in this location. i sure noticed a lot more co-0ords while taxiing out.
cheers
thanks for the quick response Richary and for giving me a distraction while hanging out a changi airport.
A clever idea for a virtual in this location. i sure noticed a lot more co-0ords while taxiing out.
cheers
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B-Team find while waiting for a flight to Penang. Managed to find cache details without endangering my health in the nearby smoking room. TFTC & the speedy confirmation richary.
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Had a couple of hours here in Terminal 3 so left my backpack with mum whilst I took the train over to terminal 2 and braved the masculine crowd in the smoker's room. My first Virtual. Thanks for the chance to do this richary.
About time this one had a visit 
). email on the way with co-ord. Thanks for helping to fill in some time on the stopover
). email on the way with co-ord. Thanks for helping to fill in some time on the stopoverI'm not that interested in international travel myself, but my geo-parents obligingly hopped on a plane to go and bag this cache for me. They decided as they'd come this far they'd continue on to Vietnam rather than come straight home, so it was good for them to have something to do while waiting for the connecting flight Thanks richary!
Thanks richary!Rated: for Overall Experience
