{"id":86002,"date":"2026-09-18T20:15:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=86002"},"modified":"2026-09-18T20:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:15:58","slug":"all-aboard-some-singapore-athletes-housed-on-cruise-ship-during-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=86002","title":{"rendered":"All aboard: Some Singapore athletes housed on cruise ship during Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>&#8220;CERTAIN PLUS SIDES&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><span>Accommodation at the Games has been in the spotlight over the past week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Temporary wooden container huts have received some flak, with <\/span>South Korean officials branding the container huts the &#8220;worst ever&#8221; and saying the beds are too short.<\/p>\n<p><span>Hundreds of athletes were briefly evacuated from their accommodation last week as record rainfall lashed Nagoya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking ahead of the opening ceremony, organising committee president Hideaki Omura said<\/span> plans for the containers, which were built this year, had been given a favourable assessment by a committee of former athletes, including Olympians.<\/p>\n<p>For Mr Goh, who has been staying in one of the temporary container huts, the accommodation has been comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have found the accommodation to be comfortable and well equipped, with air conditioning, comfortable beds, washing machines and dryers, as well as showers and bidet toilets. The organisers have also provided laundry pods, hangers and welcome kits with toiletries for all residents,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Back on the Costa Serena, Kayla Yeo&#8217;s pillow is not the only thing she brought from home that hasn&#8217;t been used.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She also packed motion sickness pills just in case, but with the ship docked at the port, there has been no need for them.<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s captain Abielle Yeo said she had been hoping for more Japanese food instead of Western fare, adding that there are &#8220;certain plus sides&#8221; to staying on a cruise ship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What has been particularly useful for the team is the constant availability of food at the ship&#8217;s dining halls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/sport\/asian-games-singapore-athletes-cruise-ship-6393621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;CERTAIN PLUS SIDES&#8221; Accommodation at the Games has been in the spotlight over the past week. Temporary wooden container huts have received some flak, with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--tCLylwIt--\/c_crop,h_1123,w_1997,x_3,y_222\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/09\/18\/asian_games_accommodation_2.jpg?itok=5pT1Iz_q","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15709,2027,8914,4943,321,19298,1433,22],"class_list":["post-86002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-aboard","tag-asian","tag-athletes","tag-cruise","tag-games","tag-housed","tag-ship","tag-singapore","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}