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Just got back from there last week.
Not worth two weeks - it's a big city on an island the size of the isle of wight, crammed full of people. If you like shopping, then you could spend two weeks there, but otherwise it doesn't have the attractions of somewhere like London, Paris, New York.
Chinatown was brilliant. Little India was ok. The zoo is good, the night safari better. There's a pretty chilled little island for beaches, watersports. Raffles was expensive, but a necessary evil. I visited a couple of temples, one hindu, one buddhist and learned a lot. Night life is extortionately expensive. Think £6 a beer.... there are some very good places to eat out cheaply, but alcohol is always expensive. One of the definitively local places we found right at the north end of the island had a fish spa, where you dip your bare feet into a pool and a swarm / shoal, no swarm! of small fish eat all of the dead skin from your feet. Very tickly, very unusual and left me with fantastic feet.
13 hour flight from Heathrow term 4.
Seriously, if you love shopping the place is unbelievable. There are thousands of malls, all with their own character and specialities. I got a cashmere suit, made to measure, for £250, along with some other decent made to measure shirts at about £60 each and I'm a pants bargainer.
If you're not a shopper, I'd seriously look somewhere else.
ETA if you weren't going with your girlfriend, then the four floors of w
es on Orchard Road would be worth a visit - they get more exotic the higher up you go.... one of the lads was up on the fourth floor and was bragging that he'd shagged a mongolian dwarf. Personally, if it had been me, I would have painted her blue and pretended she was a smurf.
Of course, if you girlfriend is open minded, then it might make for an interesting day...
Not worth two weeks - it's a big city on an island the size of the isle of wight, crammed full of people. If you like shopping, then you could spend two weeks there, but otherwise it doesn't have the attractions of somewhere like London, Paris, New York.
Chinatown was brilliant. Little India was ok. The zoo is good, the night safari better. There's a pretty chilled little island for beaches, watersports. Raffles was expensive, but a necessary evil. I visited a couple of temples, one hindu, one buddhist and learned a lot. Night life is extortionately expensive. Think £6 a beer.... there are some very good places to eat out cheaply, but alcohol is always expensive. One of the definitively local places we found right at the north end of the island had a fish spa, where you dip your bare feet into a pool and a swarm / shoal, no swarm! of small fish eat all of the dead skin from your feet. Very tickly, very unusual and left me with fantastic feet.
13 hour flight from Heathrow term 4.
Seriously, if you love shopping the place is unbelievable. There are thousands of malls, all with their own character and specialities. I got a cashmere suit, made to measure, for £250, along with some other decent made to measure shirts at about £60 each and I'm a pants bargainer.
If you're not a shopper, I'd seriously look somewhere else.
ETA if you weren't going with your girlfriend, then the four floors of w
es on Orchard Road would be worth a visit - they get more exotic the higher up you go.... one of the lads was up on the fourth floor and was bragging that he'd shagged a mongolian dwarf. Personally, if it had been me, I would have painted her blue and pretended she was a smurf.Of course, if you girlfriend is open minded, then it might make for an interesting day...
Edited by wadgebeast on Thursday 4th December 22:33
wadgebeast said:
I'm a pants bargainer.
So how much did you get your pants for? 
I was in Singapore for a few hours en route to Brunei - long enough for the 'must-do' Singapore Sling at the Raffles and a stroll round Chinatown, Mer-lion etc. That was enough for me really. Too hot, a bit foreign
Simpo Two said:
wadgebeast said:
I'm a pants bargainer.
So how much did you get your pants for? I was in Singapore for a few hours en route to Brunei - long enough for the 'must-do' Singapore Sling at the Raffles and a stroll round Chinatown, Mer-lion etc. That was enough for me really. Too hot, a bit foreign
Message to the OP: it's virtually on the equator there. It's hot, nearly 100% humidity, it's monsoon season there at the mo, so expect a daily downpour at some point and there's not a lot of sun due to constant cloud cover. Very clean, pretty friendly city though.
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