Madras Hotel Singapore

... $S170. At this stage, MP camps with the bags, and DP goes searching, finally coming up with a $S105 room at the Madras Hotel, possibly a by the hour establishment, looking at their short term conditions, but we manage an immediate start, and no charge ...

... touched the sides of our mouths we were that hungry! Before we left Singapore we wanted to visit the famous Raffle’s hotel and get a Singapore Sling. Everyone I’d spoken to had said I had to go so I was determined, although I’d heard a ...

... be on a special effects set, which simulated a category 4 hurricane hitting New York! The evening was off to Raffles Hotel for a Singapore Sling, where the drink was famously created there in the Long Bar around 1915. The hotel itself was gorgeous, with ...

... - hot and sweaty. We had tropical storms with torrential rain everynight, which meant we could not get a full night's sleep. The Hotel (Madras) was nothing to write home about either (the pictures on the internet look better than in real life!). We stayed ...

... electronic board said that it had landed and about 15 minutes later she appeared with her luggage and we were off to the MRT (Singapore tube) to find our hotel. The hotel was at the top end of Jalan Besar, about 2kms away from the colonial core of the ...

... our night out. It was fun dressing up and knowing that soon we'd be drinking in the posh Raffles Hotel! At about 8:30pm, we were there, sipping on Singapore Slings in the Long Bar and following the strange tradition of throwing our monkey-nut shells on ...

... we didn't have a place to stay, and we couldn't book in to anywhere until midday, we had to occupy ourselves for 9 hours.  Singapore airport is quite good in that respect, as even in the public area, things are open at 3am. Which is really useful to ...

... we headed downtown and saw all the skyscrapers and old government buildings from when they first settled Singapore. Also saw the obligatory Raffles Hotel but decided against the pre-mixed Singapore Sling as they are complimentary on the flight back home ...

... weekend at the end of September and it just so happened to be the same time as a huge Formula 1 Race (hence the title). Singapore is a surreal but amazing country and I certainly will be heading back soon. Enjoy the pictures and check back soon as I will ...

... are plenty of skyscrapers and malls surrounded by what look like giant well-fed palm trees. By Southeast Asian standards, Singapore is very expensive. The hotel I stayed at, for example, was probably the cheapest one around - $12 a night for a tiny room ...

... .com. Soon after the Vagabonder could be found wetting his whistle at the famous Long Bar at the Raffles Hotel. The Long Bar is known for creating the Singapore Sling. The V Man in an effort to save dough opted to watch somebody drink a Singapore Sling ...

... , sown together, weird, but there we go!  This is definitely a must see zoo if you find yourself swinging past Singapore any time. On the way back to the hotel we could hear all this commotion, so being nosy we headed over for a look, all of a sudden ...

... Quay and Clarke Quay constitute the historic part of the water front, there is new building work underway on the Esplanade including the Singapore Flyer (a direct copy of the London Eye) which has just opened to the public. I must have been one of ...

... of my tatty printout, but eventually let me through. Eventually, after an age with another, extra-finicky guard, I reached the Singapore Airlines office upstairs. I was greeted by SUCH friendly staff, who were very understanding, and had me sit down while ...

... a rickshaw driver who kept telling us how good his driving is. We left Vietnam early the previous morning, had spent ten hours in Singapore and late the next evening Kat and I were two white faces on the plane in a sea of Indians, another guy from Spain ...

... left the music came back on and I had a long chat with the bar manager who is a 21 year old Indian man who studied college in Singapore and wants to do a degree next year in the UK. Him and all the other staff are really nice guys and for most of the time ...

... changed out of my chat covered clothes, feeling fairly sure I would make it on the plane with no further chance of soiling my last set of clean cloths.  The plane departed on time and we headed off to Singapore … hurray, I made it through ...

... than be bald. No question about it! We move the clocks a half hour ahead tonight and an hour ahead the following two nights. By Singapore, we will be 13 hours ahead of EST.
THE END (for those of you who have made it this far, props to ...