Archive for July, 2009

Destination Singapore: Enjoying the Great Singapore Sale (Days 3 & 4 of 4)

July 20, 2009 at 2:38 AM · Filed under Activities, Activities: Travels, Activities: Weekend Get-Aways, Destination: Singapore, Destinations, F&B, F&B: French, Places, Places: Malls, Places: Museums, Places: Restaurants

Our third day was as full as our second day. We still had some entrance coupons which weren’t used and we thought that we should just choose a few since it was The Great Singapore Sale and we wouldn’t want to miss the sale for the world! 🙂

This is a summary of the last full day that we had 🙂

1) DUCKTOURS. This is both a bus and a boat combined, offering tourists a tour of the city and the harbour without having to switch transport. It takes almost the same route as the river cruise but this one is a bit different since the tour starts on land. Just the same, we had a good, closer look on Singapore’s landmarks on the river banks.

So This Is How It Looks Like :)

So This Is How It Looks Like 🙂

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Destination Singapore: Getting To Know More About Its Heritage (Day 2 of 4)

July 18, 2009 at 10:08 PM · Filed under Activities, Activities: Travels, Activities: Weekend Get-Aways, Destination: Singapore, Destinations

Our Guide To Fun :)

Our Guide To Fun 🙂

I woke up refreshed, looking forward to see how else can Singapore make my day fun and memorable. I met with my SO after his event and we both headed to the country’s largest shopping mall which also has the world’s largest fountain – the Suntec City. We wanted to check out the country’s hop-on, hop-off tour bus services since we thought that it was the best way to explore the  place.  I think I saw about 3 different companies offering this kind of tour services, and after checking out the brochures the night before, we chose to book with Hippo and Duck Tours for our sightseeing trip that day. They have a wide range of tour options (the options were seriously confusing!). We decided to purchase the Singapore Pass since we thought that we can utilize the pass for the 2 free days that we had. The pass had it all and I’d say that we made an excellent choice! 🙂

Our Singapore Pass and Our Attraction Coupons

Our Singapore Pass and Attraction Coupons

Our 2-day Singapore Pass included hop-on, hop-off bus transfers to 17 city sightseeing stops, 16 heritage attraction stops, passes to Sentosa, River Hippo Cruise, Moonlight Adventure, Chinatown and Malay Heritage Center, 3 Museums, and the Botanic Garden. To top it all, it included passes to the Singapore Flyer and the Singapore DuckTours! I didn’t have the chance to experience the duck tour when I was in England which made me look forward to that DuckTour in Singapore 🙂

City Sightseeing Bus

Open-Top Singapore City Sightseeing Bus

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Destination Singapore: Indulging at Clarke Quay (Day 1 of 4)

July 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM · Filed under Activities, Activities: Travels, Activities: Weekend Get-Aways, Destination: Singapore, Destinations, F&B, Places, Places: Bars, Places: Restaurants

Clarke Quay at Night

Singapore's Clarke Quay at Night

Trips that aren’t planned are sometimes the most fun.

It wasn’t planned because it was Singapore. A few of my closest friends would often hear me say that Singapore is just… Singapore! And nothing else. Well, there’s Sentosa, the flyer, the famous Durian Building and other modern buildings, and electronics. Just those. Period.

And because it wasn’t planned, I didn’t expect anything. I was even wondering what I could do in a very small country which I had already visited a few years back. Was there anything else aside from those which I had seen before? But then, things change, naturally, so there must be.

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