Merchant Court Singapore

... half way through a film called The Hurt Locker which is about a US bomb disposal unit in Iraq. Taxi ride to the Swissotel Merchant Court cost $25SD including tip. I arrived just before midnight. They put me in a room with 2 single beds even though I ...

... efficiency! At the arrivals hall we queued for a taxi and within 10mins we were on our way to our new abode, Swissotel at Merchant Court.  A very warm welcome awaited us, given the usual rundown of the hotel and things to do and see and then shown ...

... a promising way, with our favourite buffet breakfast. It has become something of a family tradition when visiting Singapore to stay at the Swissotel Merchant Court and gorge ourselves on the buffet. This time was no exception. We noted that the hotel was ...

... have been better. All the packing went smooth, the container left our place at Jervois Lodge yesterday afternoon. We moved into Swissotel Merchant Court on Monday night and to our great pleasure we were upgraded to the Chairman Suite, inclusive of a real ...

... . We consumed a final night of free cocktails and enjoyed a leisurely meal at the hotel restaurant: the Blue Potato, located poolside. Singapore is a safe, clean, friendly, lively shoppers paradise, but if you are not in the air-conditioned areas, it is ...

... a river boat docked to the boardwalk called Lotus Grill.  After dinner we do a mini-crawl that includes places called Singapore Sling, IndoChine, Forbidden City, Ministry of Sound (which we find out is really more like 5 clubs in one fitting over ...

... am Vortag wohl zu frueh gefreut, dass wir kaum Anspruch auf unsere  Krankenversicherung nehmen mussten. 27.07.09 Singapore Unser letzter Tag beginnt also mit einem Artztbesuch. Da wir aus Gebieten kommen, wo Malaria und Dengue-FIeber ...

... we walked through Little India, and took off our shoes to step into the Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple, one of the oldest Hindu temples in Singapore. There was so much happening inside, it had to be seen to be believed.  We used the hop on bus again in ...

... got up and watched the sunrise from the balcony. After breakfast and sad farewells to Doreen at the airport, we had a 7 hour flight to Singapore. Last time we’d been at Changi airport, on the way out, we had been transit passengers, not leaving the ...

Over night we flew over Krasnadar, Kabul, New Delhi and were bumped around quite a bit.  As we came into land over Singapore we got quite a good view of the whole island.  The runway is lined with grass and flowering bushes. It feels a whole ...

... to see! Landed and then through immigration, customs and I got a taxi to the hotel I was staying at. This hotel, Swissotel Merchant Court, I have stayed at 3 times before and I like the location right on the river, in the middle of Clarke Quay where all ...

... another line when I should have which added about 15 minutes to my 30 minute ride to the hotel.  I have stayed at the Swissotel Merchant Court two other times, so I knew my way and got to the hotel around 5:30 pm.  Checked in, then readied for ...

... the backs of trucks being taken off to their workplace for the day. Fatigued after our flight we hoped against hope that the Swissotel Merchant Court would have a room for us at 6 in the morning. The receptionist took pity on us - she could see that ...

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... the excellent MRT during the week. So we finally got to the Night Safari night and had a thoroughly good time. There was a Singapore Airlines Air Hostess training camp on the way to the safari and, despite having a girl who'd obviously got half ...

... total of $24. So we were one and done and soon in bed awaiting our 11:00 am flight on Japan Airlines to Singapore. Thursday November 10 We took the hotel shuttle bus back to Narita airport and soon we boarding our flight to Singapore. We were ...

... decided to go to the airport early and hang out in what has been constantly named the finest airport in the world, Singapore Changi Airport.  We broke away from watching the Michigan-Illinois college football game on ESPN live in the room and headed ...