Merchant Singapore

... Drive, where there are a cluster of beautiful old colonial buildings including the City Hall, the Supreme Court building, the Singapore Cricket Club (the Jewel of Padang), the Victoria Theatre and the Arts House (the original Parliament House). The ...

... promenade of Boat Quay.  In the 1860's this was a hotbed of trading activity, handling three quarters of Singapore’s total shipping business – totally different now with a strip of pubs and restaurants with alfresco riverside seating and ...

... 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 ...

The end of our time here in Singapore and the beginning of our vacation could not 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... everywhere. Effortlessly passed through customs etc - got some cash from an ATM and caught a shared mini-cab into town. Singapore is a clean city, clean streets and highways. Apartment blocks reared all around, tidy grass parks in-between. It was ...

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 ...

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... early and I was on my way to Singapore for one of the last legs of the trip. It clouded up as we approached Singapore and I always enjoy taking off or landing in Singapore in the daylight as Singapore is one of the busiest boat harbors in the world and ...

... Kong at about 10:30 pm and I was off to see what I could do until 11:00 am the next morning for my flight to Singapore.  I wandered around and found an arrivals lounge with showers and a room for 6 hours for around $60.  Cheaper than a city ...

You might think that arriving at Singapore at 5 o'clock in the morning would allow you to miss out on the oppressive heat and humidity. You might think that, but you'd be wrong. Twenty-six degrees and about 99% humidity greeted us as we walked clear of ...

... was our visit to the Orchid Gardens. Back to the hotel for a siesta and then out in the evening to a restaurant alonside the Singapore river.  Had the local speciality Chilli Crab - fantastic but it nearly blew my head off.  Joy was much more ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...