Scarlet Hotel

... 3 river trips of my life. Boatman called Fiorentino. Saw hoatzins (prehistoric-looking), big kingfishers, a small kingfisher, scarlet ibises, blue & yellow macaws, dolphins, turquoise butterflies, purple butterfly. Passed a school, the only non-wooden ...

... dusk. Joe recognized this bridge as one he had visited many years ago on a birding trip to Costa Rica. Every morning and evening scarlet macaws can be seen flying over the slow moving water. We were hoping to see some. The bridge is called the crocodile ...

... ; we had thought we saw quite a lot in the wild until we saw what we had missed. The place also breeds the endangered scarlet macaws and has educational programs so we left feeling we had given our money to something worthwhile. And we were able to head ...

... is, well, pinkish … though you could be forgiven if your opinion was “orange” or in some lights “scarlet” … and we weren’t even there at sunset. The observatory was well worth a visit and we thoroughly enjoyed ...

... the street from The Original Crocodile Man Tour. We have clean spacious air conditioned rooms, cable TV, and a beautiful Spa Pool, Scarlet Macaws can be seen from the pool or your terrace. Nestled at the foot of La Montana and 100 feet from the ...

... upload some photos later. A cheeky cocktail at the Fullerton topped off a tough first traveling day before heading back here to the Scarlet hotel. Hmm, the hint is in the title. More on that later maybe. James thinks the designer was on acid, I think ...

Cool! I've landed in Singapore and must take a taxi (or teksi in Malay) to the Scarlet hotel. After checking into the hotel and meeting up with Alex and April, I head down to the bar for a drink at about 1:30am in the morning. Check out the ...

Arriving in Singapore to tropical rain...an incredible Italian meal at Oso and staying at the Scarlet ...

... at Shari-La, mapou doufu (Singapore Chinatown), romantic dinner at Quake in Senggigi, steam-boat. Favourite hotel: Scarlet Hotel (Singapore), Shari-La (Pulau Perhentian) Favourite tourist activity: Boh tea plantation in the Cameron Highlands, snorkelling ...

... day my sister was putting me to work. The next morning saw me rising well before the sun for the hour long journey to the Scarlet Hotel my place of employ for the next week or so. The hotel is quite something else. It is one of these eco-friendly hotels ...

... while you are here. Fun Bars: Wine Bar on Club Street (anywhere on Club Street) Mohammed Sultan KM8 Sentosa Island (Sundays) Ministry Of Sound (private room) Post Bar in the Fullerton Rooftop at the Scarlet Hotel Attica - weekend club ...

... time. And then the Post Bar at the sumptuous Fullerton - originally an English post office and still scattered with the original scarlet postboxes in the great British tradition - broke through the tapes chest out and arms a flailing to seize gold in the ...

... both pretty excited about exploring this new place but I was particularly excited as Will had booked us a night at The Scarlet, a 5* boutique hotel just next to the bustling China Town area (my belated birthday pressie). We got a taxi from the bus ...

... at 10.10pm.  In the taxi at 10.15pm.  Arrived at the hotel at 10.45pm.  Singapore, a model of efficiency! Night at The Scarlet. Very nice Boutique hotel in Chinatown. Great service and very nice room. ...

... - although people may be getting tea towels as presents when we get home. On the walk back to our cheap, less impressive hotel room with no windows and certainly no balcony we wandered through the Fort Canning park, where Liz encountered a new species of ...

... each other to hold all the tourists bags just to make some $...and once we got to the island some local dude "helped" us find out hotel and then hung around, waiting for a tip and hoping to scam money out of us for a fictitious "tour." We settled on a ...

... for the culture vulture, cosmopolitan enough for the shopper, clean enough for people who object to 3rd world squalor outside the 5 star hotel. Very friendly, very polite - and since I was expecting a clean Hong Kong, it's proving to be a very pleasant ...

... ... The flight left at 10pm on Tuesday and, 13 hours later, we arrived at 5pm the next day. Got to the hotel just before a spectacular thunder storm started. Our hotel is modelled on a 1920's brothel (see for yourself - ...

... become more infrequent once we get to Dili tomorrow, and lose the in-room comforts such as internet access that we have in our hotel room here. Today we headed up to Singapore Zoo, which is in the north of the island and involves an underground train and ...