The Long Road to Bali

Are you joking me? The next morning we were up even earlier than the crack of dawn to get down to our basement-located MRT station for the trip out to the airport. What I will give Singapore is, you can dodge taxi’s the vast majority of time (see my original rant on this topic, some posts back) which is great considering how little it appears they actually want to take passengers to their intended destination.   Singapore “Changi” Airport... Read More

The Tale of the Forgettable MasterCard & Universal Singapore

Bright and early the next morning, we got up at the crack of dawn after another less-than-restful night’s sleep at the V-Hotel, owing once again to the dictatorial air conditioning unit in our room which decided for everyone when the room was cool enough and would promptly switch off, leaving the room to heat up to unbearable levels before turning back on again. Destined for Universal Singapore, we fell prey unfortunately to one of commercial Singapore’s... Read More

Rules of Singapore

The next morning in Singapore, we set about first trialling our luck with Singapore’s modern public transport system. To give them some credit, once you get past the nonsense of being dispensed a ticket that you subsequently have to return to a vending machine for a refund post-journey (as opposed to the machine just collecting the ticket on the way out), the system really is second to none. It makes the DART look half a step away from being a museum... Read More

Singapore by SuperNice!

In the last installment, we waited to hear back from the venerable ‘Mark’ of Golden Green, a company with whom I had never realised existed until my arrival to the Berjaya Times Square hotel. Anyway, he eventually got back to us, a day before we were actually due to depart, in an e-mail (ask, and I’ll be happy to post it) in which he berated us for not liking the place and not trying to get in contact sooner (which of course we had). The whole... Read More

Singapore – The Fine City, Part II

The fine beaches of Sentosa... Our trip to Sentosa contained all the usual qualities I was coming to expect of Singapore taxi drivers – a comfortable car, metered fare and a guy who actually seemed to be genuinely taking the quickest way down there. Sentosa Island itself meanwhile was much bigger than I’d expected it would be and as we drove up (and paid a $5 admission fee to just drive onto the island, which I considered to be a load of rubbish)... Read More

Singapore – The Fine City

The clean streets of Sing... Somewhere I’ve been meaning to go for quite a few years, but never managed to get round to, was Singapore. I had planned to go there during my excursion in 2009, but unfortunately the way things worked out, that never happened. Likewise, despite all my time in Malaysia, Singapore’s northerly neighbour, I hadn’t yet managed to make so much as a single day visit, in spite of the close proximity of the two countries... Read More