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GK86

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Oct 25, 2017
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Open to everyone, not just air travelers.

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A stunning new airport building has opened in Singapore that has already proven popular with travellers due to its incredible design and unique offerings. Called Jewel Changi Airport, the 135,700-square-metre complex houses a mirror maze, a viewing deck with a playground and slides, a giant trampoline, a number of restaurants and dining experiences, a hotel, as well as an indoor forest complete with a waterfall.

Visitors to the building are greeted by the sight of the 40-metre HSBC Rain Vortex, the world's tallest indoor waterfall, surrounded by the manicured grounds of the Shiseido Forest Valley. Play attractions such as the Manulife Sky Nets, the Hedge Maze, the Mirror Maze and Discovery Slides have been designed to blend into the indoor garden environment, and are due to open to the public on 10 June 2019. Next month will also see the opening of the Changi Experience Studio on Level 4 of the complex, which will bring visitors on a virtual journey through Changi Airport with interactive games, projection experiences, immersive shows and gallery exhibits.

In conjunction with the development of Jewel, Changi Airport's Terminal 1 has also been expanded to increase capacity by another three million passenger movements per year, bringing the airport's total capacity to 85 million. Jewel also includes early check-in counters and kiosks, a baggage storage service and the Changi Lounge, a 150-seat lounge with shower facilities that transfers for passengers connecting to and from cruise and ferry services.
 

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Oct 26, 2017
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The indoor garden stuff looks like something from BioShock.
 

Squarehard

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Oct 27, 2017
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Would be great for people who have to wait in Singapore for a layover to their next destination.
 

Matrix XII

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Oct 27, 2017
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Wow that is really impressive! I love the light shows on the water vortex and the walking trails in the indoor rainforest.
 

ActStriker

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Oct 25, 2017
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Planning a trip to Singapore and probably gonna spend the day of the flight just checking this out
 

Sloane

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Oct 25, 2017
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Was there last week when it opened, pretty cool -- although the surrounding "Jewel" is just another shopping / food mall.
 

D23

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Oct 25, 2017
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i wouldnt mind having an 8 hour layover in singapore- beautiful city, extremely clean and now it has the coolest airport in the world
 

Crazymoogle

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Oct 25, 2017
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Singapore has some rules on airport pricing, namely that vendors can't add surplus charges over downtown shops, and since the country has a vested interest in foreigners moving to the country to fill gaps in the labor market, they also are dead set on making Changi a world-class attraction. And, well, Singapore loves building malls.

Jewel is "just another mall", for sure, but it does have three shops of note to locals and visitors:
  1. Shake Shack (has never existed in Singapore before)
  2. A&W (hasn't existed in Singapore in a lonnnggg time)
  3. Pokemon Center (the first one outside Japan)
 

Arex

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Oct 27, 2017
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Too bad I left the country before this opened. Maybe some day. There's a pokemon centre there too, first outside Japan apparently :p