We prefer to stay along ORCHARD ROAD, which is the main shopping area. The most reasonable hotels are:
a)GRAND CONTINENTIAL CENTRAL (small room , add a bed if you want) and breakfast provided.
b)SUPREME Hotel, which has 4 to 5 beds room at reasonable price. However, no breakfast and the room look a bit old.
At this time,I am afraid to tell you that HALF OF SINGAPORE is undergoing renovation. Nothing much to see as compare to KL.
FOOD: BREAKFAST or any meals could be found anytime, especially if you are at shopping complexes.
Their FOOD COURTS, are usually at the bottom or top of the shopping complexes, just ask around.
TRANSPORT: In Singapore, 3 ways to go around, which is cheaper than by guided tours ( it could be 30 to 50% cheaper), there are:-
1)By MRT (max per way per person is SGD2.00);
2)By Taxis, only during off-peak period, ie: 9.30am to 5.00 pm)
or else you are to pay extra RM3.00 &/plus 30% of the meter price
best, if you are travelling in agroup of 3 or 4 persons.
3)Use Hub buses, which collect passengers at all major hotels, (SDG4.00 for adult & SGD2.00 for kid per way to most of the sight-seeing places.
We fly to KL (KUALA LUMPUR) on 13 DEC 2008( and spent 3 nights there). that is another story..............
After finishing at the SINGAPORE FLYER, Praise the Lord, we were given free passage back to the hotel by double-decker bus. What a sight to behold, especially at night on the streets of singapore before Christmas .
Inside the SINGAPORE FLYER.
This is the famous SINGAPORE FLYER. Bad luck for tourist who went after us, as there was a fire which short-curcuited the system. Many tourists were stucked inside for quite a number of hours.
These photos were taken at the BIRD PARK. To get there, use the MRT and at the end of the trip, to take another bus no 194. There are a numbers of feeding shows. Ask at the counter, for the feeding times and you could enjoy more (ie: main show, eagle feeding & penguin feeding shows)
One of the photos taken at the underwater sea world.
Going to SANTOSA ISLAND, use MRT to VIVO city and then take a monorail (inside the Vivo city for SGD3.00 per person) On the Island , the place are service by 3 colours buses, which are free. Remember to collect your map, as you could decide where to go . Most interesting locations, you need to pay if you want to go inside. Here is the feeding dolpines show@ 3.00pm (sorry, the dolpines have not come out yet, ha, ha) and this show are grouped together with underwater sea show under one ticket. Rather expensive shows. We felt that the underwater sea world in KL is better.Another interesting place to see at Santosa Island is "SOUND OF THE SEA", a performance not to be missed. Start at 7.30 pm or 8.30pm (2 shows per day). Special effects with sounds and lightings, etc)
In Singapore, there are few places for sight-seeing, one of them is Night Safari. Special price for Malaysian (ie: 2 adult at special price and 2 kids free). Remember to bring your passports along.BONGO is at the entrance and we have our dinner there.
Landed at Johore Baharu
THE PLANE..........AIRASIA now everyone can fly, ie: that's us.We flied to JB on 9th Dec 2008 and went over the causeway to Singapore on the same day by private van (cost SGD 65). Stayed in Singapore for 4 nights .
