Singapore, Singapore Travel Blogs

... I even had to write it down on one occasion! Thankfully, the driver who took me to the gig understood the words "Singapore Indoor Stadium," so I arrived at 7.30pm despite the horrendous traffic. I treated myself to a t-shirt from the merchandise stall ...

A travel blog entry by rich
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We left Austraila from Brisbane airport on Singapore Airlines late at night. After being in singapore airport for five hours, then waiting a furher few hours at Bangkok airport for a connecting flight, touchdown in Samui was a delight! I couldn't belive ...

A travel blog entry by sophiemonaghan
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... in one of the countries we visit... then we shall!! :-) We did get to the airport about 6 hours before our flight......I'm telling you this Singapore airport is just so damn cool..... those of you that have been here will know what I mean! haha ;-)

A travel blog entry by mikeandmarisha
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(Back to Singapore airport.. i forgot to add) Singapore airport was amazing. There is so much to do. In the middle of the airport i especially liked the mini rainforest, and those goldfish are the largest ive seen in my life! we were there for a five ...

A travel blog entry by sophiemonaghan
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... , but lets just say, I could of stayed a night in my bungalow on stilts in Koh Chang for the cost of that one Singapore Sling ( it was $20 including the 10% service charge) which wasn't the nicest service when our waiter realized that her cheap friend ( me ...

A travel blog entry by elizacass
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... have taken her line for spiritual salvation and turned it into a double entendre, which would have made everyone quite uncomfortable. Check out the plastic wrap on the spinning wheels for merit making. That's a nice example of sterilized Singapore.

A travel blog entry by dane
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... two days were spent doing what basically summed up a large part of Asia for me and that is shopping. I hate shopping and Singapore is a shoppers heaven. There are shopping centres everywhere - and I mean everywhere. It is on a par with Hong Kong for ...

A travel blog entry by marshallmatters
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... resign yourself to the fact that you're going to overspend, that's what we did. And so we headed to Sentosa Island, Singapore's answer to Disneyland. There's lots of cool things to see and do, most cost between S$10 and S$20, packages are available. We ...

A travel blog entry by stephen.j.booth
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Singapore - Whirlwind visit... After the tin pot airports of India we arrived on a Singapore Airlines flight into Singapore on route to Vietnam and boy what an airport it is.... As airports go this has to be one of the biggest and most expensive we have ...

A travel blog entry by mikeandmarisha
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We took an early ferry back to Singapore so we could do some shopping before flying home. We had scheduled our flight so that we left at about the same time as Derek - 11 pm. So we had the day to kill and needed to get some souvenirs. I don't ...

A travel blog entry by dane
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... organized for our jump to Hong Kong tomorrow. She Said: After so many months on the road, I loved the organization of Singapore and the general feeling of being completely anonymous. We stayed in an area of town called Little India, which seemed a ...

A travel blog entry by globedecker
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... the water out of the tap. There are strict emissions controls and littering laws. You cannot buy chewing gum in Singapore. After contending with the less-than-wonderful toilets in the rest of Asia, Singaporian public washrooms are heaven (and always ...

A travel blog entry by kimandmartin
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We took a trip on the 16th to Sentosa Island. It's effectively a "theme park" island and mainly caters for tose looking for beaches. We took the cable car across the sea to get there, and went to see the aquarium. Saw some sharks, manta rays, Dugong, ...

A travel blog entry by tonyandsarah
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Like I said in the first blog, the zoo was incredible.

A travel blog entry by dane
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... of the leeches ready to pounce and the blood covered ankles pretty much speak for themselves). In the meantime, we're in Singapore. Singapore is great. I want to live here, but I'm not allowed. It's about 70 percent Chinese, 15 percent Indian, 10 ...

A travel blog entry by foolsgold
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Singapore is really clean just like everyone says it is. We treated ourselves to a lovely aircon room not too far from anything, grabbed a map and headed out to see what there was to see. David's Mum had bought him a t-shirt years ago with all the things ...

A travel blog entry by lucinate
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Everyone who was concerned about our adventure into the rustic and wild East should spend a few hours in the Singapore airport. Phil found his first souvenir: a brochure with a map of the airport and directions to the pool/swim-up bar, the nap lounge, the ...

A travel blog entry by sarah
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... we walk to the Southern Most Point of Continental Asia (an island attached by a bridge and Sentosa is attached by a bridge to Singapore) to take a few pics before getting a bus back up to coffee bean and grabbing a sandwich from Subway for a very late ...

A travel blog entry by roseyben
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... city skyline, spewing out a massive stream of water (PICS), we also found an "Andylion" doing something similar! (PIC). The Singapore River was, of course, originally used as a major form of transportation for goods in and out of the city. As road, ...

A travel blog entry by gonetilwhenever
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... , rooftop pool, health spa, and a great viewing/resting area that served us very well. A tourist destination in itself! Singapore is a great introduction to SE Asia as it is a conglomeration of several different cultures - composed primarily of Malays, ...

A travel blog entry by laurenandjack
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... however, been watching the news about the Qantas plane that nose-dived out the sky this week. That was on it's way from Singapore to Perth. We would like to avoid any such incidents please! The plan of our flight is as follows : Depart Singapore at 19 ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
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Well, we're alive. Singapore is so hot that we immediately stripped down to our t-shirts, shorts and sandals once we walked outside. We took a cab to our hostel and Jeff tried to speak Mandarin to the cabbie, but he simply replied with a perfect accent, ...

A travel blog entry by cleff
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... fees. Modern skyscrapers rubbed well-designed shoulders with colonial buildings and everything seemed walkable even in humid conditions. Singapore is a shoppers paradise, a culture-vulture's paradise and a food-lovers paradise all in one. In short, an ...

A travel blog entry by escapetherace
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... super congested yet cosmopolitan all the way. Everything you'd ever want from a city is never far away. Lowlights: 1. Going for a Singapore Sling where they were invented in the Long Bar at Raffles and paying $60 for 2 drinks and 2 Shirley Temples. ...

A travel blog entry by duke_schewe
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... for a new camera. A friendly piece of advice - don't believe anything anyone says when they are selling you electronics in Singapore. They are a bunch of chancers. Of course when you ask for the camera they give some off the wall price. You bargain ...

A travel blog entry by meercatvinny
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... than one immigration counter open for the first time in months. Checking into the Inncrowd hostel, clean, friendly, expensive (Singapore in a nutshell really) I headed out for a walk around encountering enough shops and malls to keep any happy shopper ...

A travel blog entry by alasdairm
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... had a look around Fort Canning Park then back to Raffle's Long Bar (which was now open) and a respectable time for some Singapore Slings. For dinner that night we went to Smith Street and had satay mutton and pork skewers and tried "Bakkwa" (a sweet ...

A travel blog entry by eatdessertfirst
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... airport and head off to Sydney, should be wicked!! So on the first day, we took a trip to Santosa, an island off Singapore which is geared up for tourists really! We did a tour which included a cable car ride, Carlsberg sky tower, underwater world, ...

A travel blog entry by jackandandrew
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Been a number of times to Singapore. Very clean and efficient.

A travel blog entry by paul
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... almost like I had something else on my mind but I couldn't put my finger on it. I went to the famous shopping street in Singapore - Orchard Road. It has many shopping malls and I headed for a bookshop. If I'm going to be at sea for 6 days then I would ...

A travel blog entry by poolman99
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