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| although there is some conversation about how to define "longest" (time vs. distance), our flight home is currently considered the longest commercial flight (we even had hotel employees in Singapore referring to it as "The Long One" LOL) |
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| we opted for business class seats that allowed us to sleep very comfortably when placed in the lie-flat position! |
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| very happy travelers |
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| wheels up 12:47 pm / Singapore time / Saturday, July 25 12:47 am / New York time / Saturday, July 25 |
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| wheels down 6:47 am / Singapore time / Sunday, July 26 6:47 pm / New York time / Saturday, July 25 |
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| our flight time was exactly 18 hours! |
The flight was awesome! I was a little worried about what I'd do to pass the time, but I ended up not even watching any movies or TV shows! I sorted pictures, wrote some blog posts, and slept and it was wonderful! We had two meals, plus drinks and snacks, and the service was amazing. The flight attendants come around and transform your seat into a bed when you're ready to sleep and while I'm pretty much always able to sleep on planes, even when we're in seats that don't recline, this was almost like sleeping in an actual bed. The 18 hours really did fly by - no pun intended - and we were more well rested than we thought we'd be!
Once we landed at JFK, it took us less than half an hour to de-plane, get through immigration (thank you, Global Entry!), and pick up our luggage at baggage claim! So quick!
We knew we'd be dealing with jetlag and because we weren't sure how we'd fare on the long flight home, we decided to stay at JFK for the night. We'd been wanting to stay at the TWA hotel there and hoped it was a cute and kitschy place, but I am thoroughly OBSESSED with it. Like, I want to live here! We will absolutely be staying here again either before or after any future flights we take in or out of JFK! We have stayed in some fabulous hotels over the course of our travels, including this very trip, but the TWA hotel is unreservedly the COOLEST hotel we've ever stayed in! The room was fairly basic, but the view allowed us to watch planes take off, which was certainly elevated the experience! I took a million photos as we explored as much of it as we could; it had a food court/snack bar, a coffee shop, a restaurant, a gift shop, a rooftop bar and pool, and a cocktail lounge inside a plane that is parked right outside! There are also great destination posters and aviation history displays and the staff was super friendly and all of the music that is played in the public areas is from the 1960s! I felt like we'd traveled back in time! The area stopped functioning as an air terminal in 2001 and in 2019, the hotel opened and it's the only one within JFK. It was something I saw on Instagram a few years ago, which we tucked it away as a "maybe someday" idea, and I'm so glad we remembered it last year when we were booking everything for this Asia trip! Trul one of my favorite hotel stays ever!
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| we were squinting because it was so bright out and we'd left our sunglasses in the room LOL |
The final stage of the trip was a quick flight from JFK to Dulles. After our Singapore-JFK flight, our seats home were decidedly less glamorous on a 2x2 Delta plane, but it's soooooo nice to be sitting in my own house after 27 days of traveling!
Happy Tails to you!
