Stay-cation part 1
I couldn't stop smiling when I know that my advance celebration with my boy will be held at Studio M. Indeed I was thrilled and surprised with all the planning made. I wouldn't say its a surprise from him but im truthfully enjoyed myself throughout the whole journey. This stay-cation wasn't our first time together, we had our batam trip together way back ago but having to stay in a Singapore Hotel with him was my first ever time (: Yet again, a time for us to have another memorable memories together. This stay-caption was a celebration for my advance 21st and set aside that, time flies. In a blink of an eye, we "PAK-TOR" together for 1 year! Our year anniversary! Still in our honeymoon period. And that is also a reason for us to celebrate. Hehehehe.
We went on a staycation at the highly popularized boutique-ish hotel, Studio M Hotel.
We wanted to go away actually : the plan was to leave Singapore but sadly an NS man is not allow to leave Singapore. Therefore, we decided to just find some nice boutique hotels in SG and stay there to rejuvenate and unwind. So why Studio M Hotel? Well simply because I've seen so many photos of it online and read so many reviews on it. Im sure everyone have seen photos of their very unique lofts right? Where each lofts are "2 stories" Hahaha.
The reason why I said "2 Stories" in inverted commas is because they are technically not two stories, but just a design with a staircase at the side leading to a desk on the upper deck.
Just a small and cosy space, which we didn't use much. But it definitely was the selling point for us! And Im sure to many others too :) Studio M was having some promo when we booked at Agoda! I would say this apps is a super duper convenient for local people. One click and the page will bring you to all the hotels in Singapore ranging from 1 star-5 stars! We only paid like 180/night and without us informing them, they upgraded our room too!
I would say that service was good. Supposedly to check in at 2pm but we arrived super early, hoping they would allow us to check in earlier. And YES they did fulfill our enquires. Entered into the room with a 'WOW, SO COSY' reaction. Like a SUAKU SINGAPOREAN who invaded into a room. Lugged our luggage aside and went around being tourists (taking pictures of the room!) HAHA. So here's a small tour of our room.
Not enough? Nevermind, here comes our face. Sorry for the spam of photos of OUR SUAKU FACES.
Apparently I became Boy's model.
And yeah, those are part of our cam-whore session. There are many more to go if you continue reading it. Of course, we got hungry and went around to look for good cafes. I sweared by walking around robertson quay, I managed to find cafes that were inside my cafe lists. Cafes like Kith/ Hummerstons/ Book cafe/ Common man coffee roasters/ Baker & cook/ Epicurious/ Boomerang but of course our last decision was to have brunch over at TOBY'S
ESTATE!!
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The place was quite crowded and we were torn between sitting at the Alfresco sitting which overlooks the river or sit inside the elegant looking house.
Their coffee counter is quite tastefully done too. From the chalk drawings on the board, to the swanky looking coffee machines on the counter, you can see they want to put up a show.
Here to our start of Mocha ($5). I would wish for the ratio of chocolate to caffeine to be higher because I hate the bitterness inside it. Drank a few sips and pushed all to my boy.
Eggs Benedict ($14)
I can see you’re salivating with the flamboyant colors of the dishes. I must say, I love the dish as a whole. The English Muffin isn’t too soggy nor tough. The parma ham on the Eggs Benedict is definitely too heavy in salt for our liking. So I’d go for the latter for sure. The poached eggs were inconsistent though. Half of it were nicely done, while the other’s yolk were like those of a hard-boiled egg. At some point you can almost taste the vinegar too.
Boy ordered this but I couldn't remember what this dish was called. Something teriyaki. HAHA. So I'm gonna skip introducing this dish. Basically diced teriyaki chicken marinated with some spices.
We had a pretty pleasant dining experience at Toby's. Nice place to chill although I felt a bit uncomfortable at the huge communal table as we were inevitably caught in others' conversations. Would have loved to have a table outdoors! Oh anyway, the water that is served is purified by themselves to conserve the environment! Really cool isn't it!
Gst is included in the prices that you see on the chalkboard menu. There's no service charge so what you see is what you pay.
Toby's Estate
8 Rodyk Street #01-03/04
Singapore 238216
+65 6636 7629
After having a good brunch, we took a stroll down to Holiday Inn to get our alcohol. We ain't a alcoholic person but just for that today, we feel like having a good drink in the room. As many of us know that there is this small little convenience shop situated inside Holiday Inn which sells cheap alcohol drinks. I mean most teenagers will buy drinks from there before they enter into any clubs. So the two of us bought a small size of Barcadi with a mixer of 7-up back to the room. The uncle actually charged us cheaper and gave us 2 packets of ice.
Back to our room and got ourselves changed into our comfortable attire. Our beach attire and prepared to head down to the swimming pool and gym area. We definitely did some homework about this hotel and knew that they have swimming pool and gym facilities. I always look for these two facilities whenever I book a hotel.
HAHA, a no grade pianist wearing his BMT attire is playing a song for me. Oh ya, he almost crash this big instrument into many pieces .
After a good tour around the hotel, we decided to walk back to our room again. Before we entered into the lift, we saw this red cushion which we thought that it is good equipment to take pictures. So yeah, im his model again.
But I believed he took quite a number of good shots.
Making use of my timer and dragged him in into the pictures. This seat can never want to leave my butt away.
Till here to the first part of my post. I will be continuing the rest of the itinerary tomorrow. So stay tune for it (:
Till then.
