Blogs from Sentosa Island, Singapore, Asia
April 26th 2012
Our cable car ride from Vivo city to Sentosa can only be described as magical. It was a typical gorgeous sunny day, 30ish degrees. After a nice lunch at Vivo, we decided to head over to Sentosa. Sentosa means “peace and tranquility” in Malay. Located across the harbour this island is a theme park for kids, teenagers and adults alike. I would equate it to smaller version of Disney World without the Disney stuff of course. It was the 40 year anniversary when we visited. As you ride over Sentosa by cable car you can see the new resort that opened up there in 2010. Beautiful villas, some with private pools offer families a resort experience with easy walking to the huge hotel and casino on the other side of the island. As you arrive to ... read more
Singapore, Celebrations & Some Serious Luxury
Published: April 14th 2012Asia » Singapore » Sentosa Island » Siloso Beach
April 14th 2012
I catch the 5 hour bus from KL to Singapore and I'm in luxury already! Big wide comfy reclining seats, air con that actually works, no music blaring, no karoke... No motorbikes/cucumbers/breastfeeding women in the aisles... I'm on my way back to Singapore and don't I know it! The journey is smooth, crossing borders out of Malaysia and into Singapore is a simple transition of getting off the bus, walking through a huge immigration hall with 127 desks all open waiting to stamp you're passport (Heathrow & Stansted take note!) I breeze through in 5 minutes, am back on the bus and within an hour arrive at Beach Road. I flag a cab to take me to Sentosa Island where my parents are staying, as they're visiting me for a holiday. "Shangri-La Sentosa" I say to ... read more
March 27th 2012
Today I got up, had breakfast and got ready to go to underwater world. When I arrived at underwater world, it looked like a massive house, and there was a big blue shark out the front and a couple big yellow umbrellas. Within in the 5 or so minutes I was lined up outside, the line just kept getting bigger and bigger. When I entered underwater would all I could see was blue. I was kind of like AQWA back in Perth, but it was way bigger! When I got the moving belt thing, I just sat down on the belt and looked up, it was magnificent! There were millions of fish everywhere, and there was a diver feeding the sharks and the rest of the fish. I wanted to go feed the sharks but I ... read more
March 27th 2012
Today I wanted to go back to orchard but I decided to leave that to tomorrow, so today I decided to go to sightseeing around Singapore. One of the main tourist’s attractions in Singapore is the white lion statue. The white lion statue spits water out of its mouth. I also got to see the dragon fountain, a I went to the Jurong Bird Park, which was beautiful, there were millions of birds and I even got to hold one. After that I went to Kent Ride Park, which is a 47 hectare, park that has the most magnificent views of the off-shore islands such as the Pulau Duran Darat. It was really peaceful at the park it was lovely because Singapore is a really busy place and the park is the only place in Singapore ... read more
March 25th 2012
My next day in Singapore, was also really hot, I decided I would go the universal studios. After I had breakfast and got ready it was 10:30am. I got in taxi, but to get to universal studios, I had to go to Sentosa, Island, which was a far drive from my hotel. About a 2 hour drive. When I arrived the queue was quiet long. The theme park was split into 7 parts; far far away, the lost world, ancient Egypt, sci-fi city, New York, Hollywood and Madagascar. I decided to go to Hollywood first because it was the closest. The Hollywood zone replicates the beautiful buildings of the 1940. When I was in “Hollywood” I watched the live Broadway performance called “Monstrocity” at the Pantages theatre. The streets of “Hollywood” are also lined with unique ... read more
Singapore - The Jewel Box Cableway and Sentosa Island
Published: March 6th 2012Asia » Singapore » Sentosa Island » Siloso Beach
March 3rd 2012
Saturday 3 March 2012. For our last day in Singapore (and our first day on the ship) we had already decided that we would visit Sentosa Island. The island can be accessed by road, but another way of getting there is to take the Jewel Box Cableway which is very touristy and expensive but was another of Dick and Patsy's recommendations. We had left it until today as the cableway station is actually adjacent to the Cruise Terminal so we thought we could easily get there without having to take the tube or a bus. The Cruise Terminal also has a massive shopping centre attached to it, so we had hoped to do some last minute shopping before leaving Singapore. The best laid plans.... Unbeknown to us the ship had sailed away from the Singapore Cruise ... read more
January 12th 2012
Part of the reason for coming on this trip was to lose some of the excess flab and chunkiness that I seem to have mysteriously acquired over the last year or so, but, I've been so busy gorging myself stupid on many of the culinary delights that exist here that it looks like my attempts at err ..... dieting, are going rather rapidly, down the swanny! I was hoping for some good old fashioned tropical heat too, to help rid me of my extra kilos. But at this time of year, Singapore has entered its monsoon season and the weather is mostly overcast and wonderfully cool although still relatively humid. While the mainstream restaurants are prohibitively expensive, the hawker stands that abound on almost every street serve up lashings of good value, scrummy fare. Main dishes ... read more
October 29th 2011
First full day in Singapore - I think I'm going to like it here. I've got the washing on the go again so I've got even more clean clothes to pick from - I've not been so spoilt for choice since October 13th.... On Anver's 'must see' list in the flat, are two places I'm going to tackle today - Mount Faber and Sentosa. Conveniently both are linked by cable car - another iconic Singapore attraction. I think I might be able to cross off a hattrick of things all in one go! I worked out that I can get a bus straight from the condo to the Harbour Front, where the cable car station is. Successful navigation to said destination, and I pick up the cable car, on what appears to be the 15th floor ... read more
September 12th 2011
Flight was pretty good - Nic was over it with 3 hours to go and vowed never to fly this far again. Hopefully the next couple of weeks will convince her its worth a day or two of plane boredom. Got from Changi Airport to our hotel with the help of about 3 locals who didnt even wait to be asked, just offered advice or help. One guy even - showed us how to get our S$1 refund fo train ticket - walked us to the bus stop - found the right bus for us - got ON the bus with us - got off the bus at our stop, then jumped on his own bus and disappeared For a while there I thought we were going to need an extra bed i our room! Ate ... read more
