Two nights in Singapore
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Well. What an incredible city.
MRT from airport to city hall, right next to hotel.
Currently enjoying happy hour with a view of MRS boat hotel.
My grandad was stationed in Santosa in WW2 so going over the cable cars to the museum.
My site visit tomorrow are sending a driver to pick me up and deliver me at the port in Johor.
Then I may go see the Botanical gardens.
I could quite easily stay here for the rest of my life.
MRT from airport to city hall, right next to hotel.
Currently enjoying happy hour with a view of MRS boat hotel.
My grandad was stationed in Santosa in WW2 so going over the cable cars to the museum.
My site visit tomorrow are sending a driver to pick me up and deliver me at the port in Johor.
Then I may go see the Botanical gardens.
I could quite easily stay here for the rest of my life.
Fats25 said:
Crazy Horse at Orchard Towers is a must for some local culture if you have not been before.
Enjoy your day there, I regularly pop over as I live in Jakarta.
By all means, go and explore this evening at the 'Four Floors', Crazy Horse is upstairs and has some interesting clientele. Not least the 6' tall ladies with absurdly large lumps in their throats. In here is also where you will find the 6' tall blondes of Eastern European descent. Quite weird to see both sets together.
Four Floors is actually Orchard Towers and next to the Thai Embassy on Orchard Road. Behind it is a reasonable English pub, and downstairs in the building next door is an Irish bar (the building with a Subway sandwich shop).
If you do manage to get to Marina Bay Sands, Ku De Ta is the nightclub on the roof, you've missed it but their Sunday brunch is quite fantastic. I couldn't empty either of my glasses, one hand was champagne, the other was a cocktail. Left there rather sozzled to go bacon and sausage shopping before catching the evening flight home.
I visit quite regularly, and agree with most of the suggestions.
However, for food courts, Maxwell is great, but I ALWAYS take a cab up to Tekka food centre, in little India. You'll get the most divine mutton biryanis, dosa, samosa and tandoori for a quid a plate. It's utterly fantastic.
I take someone with me, and without beers, we'll fork out about a fiver each. Big bottles of tiger are only a couple of quid a go, too.
However, for food courts, Maxwell is great, but I ALWAYS take a cab up to Tekka food centre, in little India. You'll get the most divine mutton biryanis, dosa, samosa and tandoori for a quid a plate. It's utterly fantastic.
I take someone with me, and without beers, we'll fork out about a fiver each. Big bottles of tiger are only a couple of quid a go, too.
REALIST123 said:
And further to the earlier taxi comments, we paid $7 from MBS to our hotel north of Clarke Quay. That's cheap to me. How far would a black cab take you across London for £3.50?
They aren't expensive but at certain times of day they can become pricey because of surcharges. And if you are a tourist and using them multiple times it mounts up. MBS to Clarke Quay is probably about 1.5km so hardly across town.And the Mercedes or Chrysler cabs can be $11 before you've even gone anyway because of the flagfall.
The MRT and buses are incredibly efficient and cheap, I find them better than taxis.
thehawk said:
They aren't expensive but at certain times of day they can become pricey because of surcharges. And if you are a tourist and using them multiple times it mounts up. MBS to Clarke Quay is probably about 1.5km so hardly across town.
And the Mercedes or Chrysler cabs can be $11 before you've even gone anyway because of the flagfall.
The MRT and buses are incredibly efficient and cheap, I find them better than taxis.
It's the availability of them around 10pm that does my head in. I think there is a shift change so just as you are going out for the evening they all disappear. Then at 2 or 3 in the morning they are stacked up looking for fares & on the journey home the drivers moan about lack of business. They should try being around earlier in the evening when everybody wants a cab.And the Mercedes or Chrysler cabs can be $11 before you've even gone anyway because of the flagfall.
The MRT and buses are incredibly efficient and cheap, I find them better than taxis.
I agree about the MRT, it is excellent.
Mr Pointy said:
It's the availability of them around 10pm that does my head in. I think there is a shift change so just as you are going out for the evening they all disappear.
Yeah, think there is a double whammy at that time, all the shopping centres like Orchard Rd close at 10pm - so all the shoppers and staff are after taxis, then as you say there is a shift change. Great if you want to go to Tampines as that's where they all seem to live.Think there is a similar shift change between 4-5pm where it is also frustrating to get a taxi. Although I've heard this is because the drivers don't want to take a fare because at 5pm a surcharge kicks in and they get more money.
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