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I did a google and tried searching the hotel website. Cannot find the info. Any bro here parked there before? Know the rates?

Hi all, anyone uses the carpark at Shangri-La Hotel before? Is this an open space in front of the hotel or in the basement? Are the lots narrow also by the way? Heading there for a wedding dinner so just want to check before i make a wrong turn, and definitely do not want to use valvet parking. Thanks

Hi all, Back in Sep 2009, AA Singapore organised a 23 days driving trip into Li Jiang, Yunan. I'm starting this thread to guage the interest level from like minded drivers here, looking to explore the possibility of driving our car into Yunan, China.. We will go slightly further than AAS...We will head into Kunming, to Li Jiang and into Shangri La.. Lijiang : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijiang,_Yunnan Shangri La : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhongdian You may ask, why Shangri La ? haha.. simply becos i been to both Li Jiang and Shangri La twice - i am familiar enough to bring fellow participants to the various place of interests.. How many days do we need ? and how much is the cost ? It probably going to take 3 weeks.. AAS took 23 days - we could skipped some of the places in Bangkok, Laos.. and the cost ? For the trip by AAS in 2009, each AA member has to pay $4,488 and there is a registration fee per car of $1,208... surely we dont need that much if we to plan the trip ourself.. I know in Li Jiang and Shangri La - lodging cost is only between S$20 to $30 for a decent, clean enough room.. as such, i dont think each person will have to come out with $4k plus for the trip.. . I know there will be alot of hurdles/problems/issues infront of us for planning such a trip. However, like AAS's slogan then -its a "Drive of a Lifetime!". if we could gather sufficient interests, we could make this driving trip a reality.. Below is the itinerary of AAS Drive of a Lifetime! Auto venture to China in 2009 There is a blog that document the trip : http://journeyofgreatdiscovery.wordpress.com/ Happy reading --------------------- Drive of a Lifetime! Auto-Venture

http://www.passudiary.com/2011/10/to-mr-kh...you-expect.html (This is in reply to National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan of Singapore on his comments made on our country ) Dear Mr. Khaw, I was not surprised when you said Bhutan is not the last Shangri-la on Earth, because I had a friend from your country who found Bhutan only "full of mountains and valleys". When you visited Bhutan, what did you expect? Those flying mountains you saw in Avatar? or Every Bhutanese merrily dancing in designer clothes? Well, you must have at least expected fancier cars and taller buildings but we only have taller mountains (not flying ones) and thicker forest (truly natural). I am not surprised even when you said "Most of the time, I saw unhappy people, toiling in the field, worried about the next harvest and whether there would be buyers for their products." because I heard a proverb in school that goes, "Two men looked through the prison window, one saw the mud and other saw the horizon". I am only surprised that you have spend "Most of your time" in Bhutan looking in the fields. I am amazed at your ability to figure out whether the people are happy or unhappy just by looking at them- O' you even knew they were "worried about the next harvest". No wonder you country export human resources. The Man who didn't find happiness in Bhutan. Source:channelnewsasia I visited your wonderful country sometime ago, and it felt like a city from the future. The transportation system held me spell bound, Cleanliness of the street is so much that I didn't find a fragment of dust on my shoes after walking for the hours, Every building and car looks new, and there is no question about the civic sense among the people. Four days after I landed in Bhutan I woke up and started sharing the stories of your wonderful country- yes it took me four days of sleeping to shake of the hangover of many sleepless nights in your 24X7 country. I read the amazing history of your country and thought to myself, if Bhutan's to develop, Singapore can be our vision. But since you questioned the presence of happiness in Bhutan, let me answer by telling you few things that you overlooked when you visited my country. Those people you saw in the fields weren't unhappy, if you have gone closer you would have heard them singing and enjoying the social lives, perhaps you won't understand that. If you have spent a little longer time watching them, you would have seen and a woman with basket on her back and holding arms with several children coming with steaming food- we don't have McDonald or KFC. Then everybody will sit down to eat their lunch, laughing and joking, feeding babies, for over an hour- you wouldn't have had so much time to sit and watch I know, times means money in your country. But we have luxury of time. People don't worry "about the next harvest and whether there would be buyers for their products." In fact, we don't do much commercial farming, we do most of them to keep with the tradition. And when the sun sets, doesn't really matter what time, people leave for their homes where they have a large family waiting. Large family because we don't chase away our children when they become 18 or children cast away their parents when they age. We don't need Health Insurance to survive, no have to go for Education Loan for educating our children. We don't hang the drug users, we counsel them to hang on to their lives, we don't have to have a job to survive, and when we fall sick even the furthest cousin comes to attend without having to update Facebook status. If you reread our history you will find that our wise kings have hidden us from the outside world so that we could remain the way we are today. If we start mining our mountains and lumbering our forests, we can become Singapore in a year but no matter what you do you can never become Bhutan. It is far too difficult. We shall be the last breath of oxygen on earth. Bhutan may not be the Last Shangri-la but we are happy.

Hey guys, any of you have visited the place lately or this year? Planning to make a visit there, are the food standard still as good? Heard they serve lobsters as well(but i didn't see any the last time i visited there sometime back). What's the current price of the buffet like now? It used to be lower than greenhouse, but I've heard my friend saying that they are charging more than $80 per pax(before discount) now, anyone knows the current price? Would be of great help if anyone could comment. Thanks!

Just to share with everyone, check out the following link. Shang is running this promotion again. Bon Appetite http://dine.slsrewards.com.sg/

Was inform of this event last minute and quickly rush down to Shangri-La to catch all the action. Shouldn't say so much, the pictures mean a thousand words There are too many pictures to be posted, so i shall link to sgForums where i originally posted all the pictures. Here is the link: http://sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=297116 Some pictures Now, this is rare! Aston Martin DB9 Volante

Who remember this silly movie? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlE0Lb46rVE Based on the James Hilton novel. I didn't watch the Frank Capra one but this one I did. Was some silly musical. I was only 7 but the name stuck.......Shangri-La. That plus Olivia Hussey very chio then.