SINGAPORE - The lounge at Yotelair is the perfect spot to linger over a cuppa or tap erratically on the laptop, distracted by the inspiring 24-hour view of the Rain Vortex waterfall.

Poised at the edge of the indoor forest, the lounge is like my personal alcove, more so because the airport hotel is discreetly embedded in Jewel and just steps away from the verdant terraces of the Shiseido Forest Valley.