Blogs from Geylang, Singapore, Asia - page 5

(Tina)Arrived here ok and headed for the Joo Chiat area as one of the hotels we checked out looked like they had availability, and we were right so booked into the Gateway at 95$ a night, we are here for 6 nights and are trying to keep our spending down cos its alot dearer here than all the other places we've visited. Anyhow to cut a long story short there is an airshow here to coincide with our visit and so they said for the other 5 nights they were going to put our rent up by 30$, which seemed a bit steep to us. We did our usual trick and checked around the neighbourhood and Lynda came up with one opposite that would only charge us 75$ per night, which seemed like a bargain to ... read more

Dag allemaal, Vanuit Phuket(Thailand)zijn we per vliegtuig vertrokken naar Singapore. Het duurde maar 1.5uur en dat deden we met Airasia...low budget airline. Dat was wel te merken qua service..en omdat het low budget is mag je maar 15 kilo p.p. meenemen.En dat ging niet echt.Liza had 17 kilo en Pierre 27 kilo.Dus met andere woorden,we moesten betalen.Irritant en niet verwacht en dan kan je de mastercard wel goed gebruiken,het was al met al 66 dollar(auw). Aangekomen in Singapore hebben we de bus genomen naar ons hostel 'Betel Box'.Voor maar 1,50 singapore dollar p.p.(0,75 eurocent) en dat duurde zeker 45 min. We waren 3 haltes te ver gestopt en dus moesten we met het volle gewicht naar ons hostel lopen in het benauwde weer maar dat is goed voor ons...dan vallen we wat af(hihi). Ons hostel ligt ... read more

The best way to introduce Singapore, if you've never been is: 1. Chewing gum is illegal. 2. Littering is punishable by fines (S$1,000 for first time offenders). 3. Drug usage or trafficking is frequently punished by death. 4. The food is awesome, and tremendously cheap. We knew all this from our last trip. Singapore is, in many ways, the good son of Asia. Well behaved, well-to-do and straight-laced. A fuddy duddy country if you will. Our last trip took us to the most affluent parts of town, through the CBD and the meticulously clean streets. Along the Singapore river on a bump-boat, past merchant bankers eating expensive seafood on Clarke Quay. To the Ministry of Sound, where despite a psychedelic decor and throbbing techno, there's a complete lack of drug taking or drunks. For someone from ... read more

I am writing this entry from aboard the Theodor Storm, the freighter that will be taking us on to Brisbane and the final leg of our adventure. We have just learnt that the freighter will be leaving on the morning of the 19th so that will be in about 36 hours. As such, this seemed like a good time to give you an update on our time in Singapore, although we won't be able to load it onto the blog website until we're in Australia. So when you're actually reading this, we're in Australia... WOW! We arrived on the bus from Melaka and pre-booked a room in the Emerald Hotel, in the Geylang district (also the red-light district). We only had a vague idea of where the hotel was so I naturally volunteered to head off ... read more

Well singapore, singapore!!!! we had the impression that Singapore would be clean and clinical hmmmmm we saw very different on our 24hr visit. We Knew that the hotels were going to be alot more expensive than we have been used too so did a bit of research on the net and found that Geylang was the cheapest area! We arrived by bus and made our way through the border where there are no atms for those people reading this that may do the same thing. It only took us 4hrs by bus from Kl to Singapore a short journey from what we have been used too ha ha ha! We jumped in a taxi and told him where we wanted to go.......'Geylang area please, we are finding a hotel when we get there' he replied with ... read more