Itinerary Overview:
Day 2: Noboribetsu - Date - Hakodate
Day 3: Hakodate
Day 4: Lake Toya
Day 5: Furano
Day 6: Biei - Asahikawa
Day 7: Asahikawa
Day 8: Sapporo
Day 9: Otaru - Sapporo
Day 10: Sapporo
Day 11: Chitose
Singapore Changi Airport
A series of unfortunate events for the start, we forgot to take BabyTan's chow chow, in which we had to hire a grab just to specially bring the chow chow to the airport. All these unfortunate events were dismissed by the nice flight of Singapore Air, with good food and in-flight entertainment. We were also blessed that babyTan continued another 1-2hours of sleeping time on board the plane. This gave us some freetime to enjoy the in-flight entertainment.
We reserved the child meal for babyTan and both mama and papaTan took the japanese lunch. We had no regrets, both the child meal and japanese lunch were great!
Haneda Airport
When we were retrieving our luggages, we discovered that a similar luggage was floating around. PapaTan could identify that the luggage despite looking similar, was not ours as it did not have babyTan's usual stickers on it. After couple of minutes of waiting, the airport staff approached us and asked about our situation. They were helpful, helped to call the owner of the luggage, and found the guy. He u-turned back to exchange the luggage, which we were happy this happened, as the initial option given to us was to deliver to our hotel in Chitose/ Hakodate.
Really grateful to the friendly staff of Haneda Airport (the guy and two ladies) for all the help. The two ladies even accompanied us all the way, till we check-in and boarded the shuttle bus. Thank you very much!