Blogs from Singapore Harbour, Singapore, Asia - page 7

The last day in Sydney started in wonderful sunshine wiith no hint of what was to follow! Samantha and Neil were out about 8am to run up and over the Sydney Harbour bridge and back before breakfast, while Stephanie and Tux ran round to the next bay and back, plus ran up and down the steep climb to the shoreline in Lavender Bay. I'd realised that when I booked the car to pick us up and take us too and from the airport to our accomodation that I'd not known the actual address we were staying at in Arthur Street. I therefore rang the company to let them know but only got an answerphone message. I rang about an hour later and another Russian (they all seem Russian for some reason!) confirmed that they had got ... read more

The hotel staff is really friendly. We are staying at Mintraa in Little India. I really recommend this place. The very unusal thing for us is a combined bathroom with a toilet. Basically once you are having a shower you splash all water on the toilet. That can be quite hard. Our room is a 6 beds dorm. On our first day we went for a walk to Little India and Arab Street. We got lost at the beginning which was fun but finally we found our way. Little India and Arab Street were full of these little family stores, where people are actually working on the street and you can watch them while working. We went to Asian Civilization Museum and had a guided walk which was alright becuase the guide explained only the most ... read more

WE arrived yesterday morning, the 5th February. It was clear and bright about 24 degrees. Whilst we both had some kip on the plane (me mostly) we were knackered!! The management found us a room straightaway (booking in time is usually lunchtime. Still the Merchant Court is a lovely hotel based on Clarke Quay in the central district. Anyway after couple of cups of coffee we had a few hours kip and were ready for the world. Our room has access to a Exec suite where there are beverages on tap free (including alcohol) from 6 - 8 in the evening plus canapes. For this first day there are a selection of photos around Singapore, especially the very impressive Marina Bay Sands hotel which we walked to today. We went up to the top for a ... read more

De Jakarta à Singapour, avec Air Asia, durée d'environ 2 hrs. De l'aéroport nous prenons un bus (no 36) pour nous rendre dans le secteur désiré. Une fois assis dans l'autobus, le chauffeur se lève et vient nous donner un cours sur le trajet à faire. ''Au km 22, sur le compteur, vous débarquez''. Très pratique. Nous sillonnons les rues de la ville en admirant les beautés de celle-ci. Ce qui frappe le plus en arrivant à Singapour, c'est la propreté de cette ville au style un peu British. Tout est bien organisé, bien classé, rien à la traine, une ville idéale pour le futur. En arrivant au centre-ville, nous la découvrons carrément futuriste, avec des grattes-ciel incroyable. Il y a même un complexe de trois tours jumelles sur lesquelles reposent un paquebot, une vraie ... read more

Having had a day at sea to recover from two back to back port stops, we arrived at Singapore early in the morning and waited for most folk to be processed through customs before alighting at the ultra-modern Cruise Terminal at about 10.00 am. We had walk off facilities and no steps (like airports used to be) and were deposited in a building with turn-key facilities including tourist information, cashpoints, money changers, shopping centre, bus station, underground station and aerial cable-way. Nowhere in the UK could compete; and not just at the harbour side. We took advice from the Tourist Information, and first went by metro to Chinatown. The Singapore MRT is state-of-the-art and probably the best and most efficient underground in the world. All announcements are in English, trains run on time and station platforms ... read more