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Singapore - things to see/do?

plum2
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Latest post on 16 June 2014 - 23:16

Hi
I've got a 30 hour stopover in Singapore with my 17 year old DD.
Any suggestions gratefully received :)
Thanks

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Latest post on 05 June 2015 - 08:06
Just want to know the transportation facilities available in Singapore from Changi airport to see places. I have got two days at singapore. Please advice me.
Afina107315
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Latest post on 09 April 2015 - 00:58
I love cycling, can you advice is it easy to rent a bicycle and places to see?
Tartiflette
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Latest post on 16 July 2014 - 06:05
The Escape Hunt (singapore.escapehunt.com/) is great fun, it only takes an hour and is quite challenging! Well located in Orchard Rd so you can mix in with shopping. Have been here over a week and no mosquito bites so far even in the leafy residential area where we are staying... Didn't seem buggy at all around Orchard Rd and other tourist areas.
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Latest post on 18 June 2014 - 19:02
Singapore has had major outbreaks of Dengue on and off all year. Yes it's not nice to have ( my husband had it when young) but take precautions and I'm sure you will be fine. We will be there for two weeks and am not worried. The authorities do the best they can by fogging and checking houses with stagnant water from ponds and plants etc.. Mostly contracted in the suburbs where houses etc are. Go and enjoy!
plum2
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Latest post on 18 June 2014 - 09:48
Thanks very much to everyone for the ideas and to Sue R - I'll be sure to take the mosquito repellent!
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Latest post on 17 June 2014 - 21:19
Without wishing to alarm anyone, our landlady lives in Singapore and she's just told us she contracted Dengue Fever about a week ago and has been very poorly. Apparently it's rife there at the moment and everyone is on high alert. So just be very vigilant about mosquito repellent and the usual precautions.
podonnell
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Latest post on 17 June 2014 - 13:34
I love the Singapore Flyer. And the night zoo.
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Latest post on 17 June 2014 - 12:31
We are going for the GP this year, and I can't wait! It's been 3 years since I last there, so excited :) One of my friends from here moved there 3 years ago and has now just moved back to London She also loved it there.
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Latest post on 17 June 2014 - 12:30
We are going for the GP this year, and I can't wait! It's been 3 years since I last there, so excited :)
sarahlou123
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Latest post on 17 June 2014 - 12:28
Definitely the Night Zoo, what a fab experience! Love Singapore :) We did it in the day and had the fish pedicure until it became too controversial I couldn't stop laughing as it tickled and all the school children were taking pictures of me
pollydxb155762
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Latest post on 17 June 2014 - 12:16
Definitely the Night Zoo, what a fab experience! Love Singapore :)
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Latest post on 17 June 2014 - 12:08
Hi I've got a 30 hour stopover in Singapore with my 17 year old DD. Any suggestions gratefully received :) Thanks You can do a free city tour that starts and stops back at Changi. Did I mention free? :D
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Latest post on 17 June 2014 - 09:51
Definitely a wander through Raffles Hotel, then pop upstairs to the Long Bar for a drink and monkey nuts. Shells are thrown on the floor, it's a tradition! I loved it there
Genkigirl
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Latest post on 17 June 2014 - 09:50
If your daughter likes shopping. Lucky Plaza basement and other floors great for teenagers with latest fashions ( kind if what you'd get if shopping in. Bangkok) and shoes also great here. I go to Bugis junction and by my shoes. Quite reasonable. Asian Civilisation Museum is amazing too.
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Latest post on 17 June 2014 - 08:31
Morning! Some great ideas below and to add to it... We've a whole website about Singapore with tons of info on it http://www.expatwoman.com/singapore/ A great review on Gardens by the Bay http://www.expatwoman.com/singapore/monthly_singapore_out_about_gardens_by_the_bay_12991.aspx and a review of a week's stay in Singapore packed full of info too that you could pick and choose what to do from... http://www.expatwoman.com/dubai/monthly_travel_adventure_A_Week_In_Singapore_8610.aspx Have a great time it's an amazing place! HTH edited by admin on 17/06/2014 <em>edited by admin on 17/06/2014</em>
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Latest post on 17 June 2014 - 08:31
Happy Hour at City Space , bar on the 71st Floor of the Swissotel Stamford. The views over Singapore , Malaysia and Indonesia are just magical. The zoo ( I am really not a zoo person !) is lovely as are the botanical gardens - although the humidity can make it a bit of an ordeal ! The National Museum is also fun and the restaurant there is really good. I also like to go to the Lobby Lounge of the Shangri La and drink prosecco from the really tall champagne glasses. Living in Dubai we can become a bit jaded when it comes to 5 star hotels but for me the Shangri La which is set in a very lush tropical residential area has a real colonial style charm.
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Latest post on 17 June 2014 - 08:03
Definitely a wander through Raffles Hotel, then pop upstairs to the Long Bar for a drink and monkey nuts. Shells are thrown on the floor, it's a tradition!
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Latest post on 16 June 2014 - 23:52
Our best memory from our fortnight Singapore holiday with the kids is of walking from Orchard Street through a fancy residential area in the hills to the Botanical Gardens. Then we walked through the campus of National University to enter the Jacob Ballas Childrens Park. It's a large, varied, magical park. We had an early dinner at the Botanical Gardens' onsite restaurant and the kids preferred the murtabak to the "brown spaghetti". I would go to the cake decorating heaven called Phuan Hat in the Geylang Lorong district. It's all warehouses selling things wholesale, apart from Phuan Hat, and if you turn around a certain way, you are opposite a major bus station and a hawker center (outdoor food court). Cross the hawker center and you stumble upon another great cake decorating shop called Bake King :) There are a lot of malls, shiny and grotty. My fave dept store in that region is Isetan, and there's a great Chinese brand of workout wear called Lee Ning. Daiso in Singapore is sooo much bigger and crazier. I bought a dedicated tofu box. A nice food chain is Toast Box, they sell thick, jumbo slices of white bread covered in peanut butter then cut into cubes with a cleaver and sold with a wooden pick; they also sell lovely pandan chiffon cake. I loved that cake so much that I returned to Bake King to buy the kit to recreate it back in Dubai! Unless you like your bread sweet and milky tasting, don't be lured into fancy bakery shops like Bread Story. Everything looks awesome until the first bite.
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