Underwater World and Dolphin Lagoon Sentosa Island

Sentosa:

Sentosa was exactly as the guide book described; contrived, plastic and cheesy - built for Americans. Imagine if Dreamworld or Movieworld took over an entire island, this is what it would be like. Happy carnival music and happy voices telling you how wonderful everything is blaring at you from hidden speakers, mock hawaiian …

My wish from my previous entry came true - the weather allowed us to do everything we wanted. We had a perfect day yesterday on Sentosa with a great trip to Underwater World, Dolphin Lagoon, Siloso Beach, The Luge and Cinemax. The adventure started when we took the Cable Car from the 15th floor of an office building beside Vivo City on the …

Singapore Week 1 Part 1 of 2

It was a smooth flight to Singapore with no glitches. We had a 2pm appointment to make with the Doctor. We chose to go with this doctor as he had also done a PhD on Dermatology. So we raced through customs and as we were waiting for our bags we could see Sugumaran Uncle and Mali Aunty (Friends of Lucky's Dad) …

Today was in some respects a bit of a wasted day and also quite a let down. A lazy morning spent chilling doing nothing was the plan then head off and spend the last part of lunch time in Chinatown and little India followed by the rest of the day at the zoo and onto the night safari. The first part was fine to some degree, I finally found Chinatown …

Arrived in Singapore by bus from Melaka on Thursday 29th March and met up with Patricia and Marc (uni friends) at the hostel - so lovely to catch up with them :) on Thursday night we just went out for dinner in Little India and caught up over a couple of beers.
On Friday morning we caught the MRT down to Marina Bay Sands which was spectacular …

We arrived in Singapore and caught the train into the centre and our hotel, the brand new Fragrance - Riverside. The place had only been open for about a week and even the kettle in our room still had the protective plastic on the plug. It was great to stay somewhere so new and as an added benefit it had a roof top lap pool surrounded by the high- …

Took the MRT to Harbourfront, then took the Sentosa Express (costs $3 for a return).
Sentosa is described as a resort, a getaway, "paradise" in reality it is none of these things. As you ascending towards the island the first thing you notice is this huge construction site- they're building a resort comparable to universal studios, apparently …