Advice on singapore Area,Hotels etc
Jan 22nd 2007, 12:18 pm
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Advice on singapore Area,Hotels etc
Hello
Could anyone give us some advise on singapore i.e where to stay,prices of transport from airport + good hotels that welcome children as we have two little horrors (2+4), how far is the zoo and is it worth going to? is there any particular area that we should be looking at .Any other advise would be very gratfull.We are planning to be leaving for new zealand mid april sometime and was looking at spending a couple of days in singapore to give us and the kids a little breake. As most of you know we got our residencie just before christmas and we put our house on the market 2 weeks ago and sold it that day fingers crossed that it goes through ok.
Could anyone give us some advise on singapore i.e where to stay,prices of transport from airport + good hotels that welcome children as we have two little horrors (2+4), how far is the zoo and is it worth going to? is there any particular area that we should be looking at .Any other advise would be very gratfull.We are planning to be leaving for new zealand mid april sometime and was looking at spending a couple of days in singapore to give us and the kids a little breake. As most of you know we got our residencie just before christmas and we put our house on the market 2 weeks ago and sold it that day fingers crossed that it goes through ok.
Jan 22nd 2007, 3:13 pm
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Re: Advice on singapore Area,Hotels etc
Hello
Could anyone give us some advise on singapore i.e where to stay,prices of transport from airport + good hotels that welcome children as we have two little horrors (2+4), how far is the zoo and is it worth going to? is there any particular area that we should be looking at .Any other advise would be very gratfull.We are planning to be leaving for new zealand mid april sometime and was looking at spending a couple of days in singapore to give us and the kids a little breake. As most of you know we got our residencie just before christmas and we put our house on the market 2 weeks ago and sold it that day fingers crossed that it goes through ok.
Could anyone give us some advise on singapore i.e where to stay,prices of transport from airport + good hotels that welcome children as we have two little horrors (2+4), how far is the zoo and is it worth going to? is there any particular area that we should be looking at .Any other advise would be very gratfull.We are planning to be leaving for new zealand mid april sometime and was looking at spending a couple of days in singapore to give us and the kids a little breake. As most of you know we got our residencie just before christmas and we put our house on the market 2 weeks ago and sold it that day fingers crossed that it goes through ok.
Thanks
Amy
Jan 22nd 2007, 6:32 pm
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Re: Advice on singapore Area,Hotels etc
Hello
Could anyone give us some advise on singapore i.e where to stay,prices of transport from airport + good hotels that welcome children as we have two little horrors (2+4), how far is the zoo and is it worth going to? is there any particular area that we should be looking at .Any other advise would be very gratfull.We are planning to be leaving for new zealand mid april sometime and was looking at spending a couple of days in singapore to give us and the kids a little breake. As most of you know we got our residencie just before christmas and we put our house on the market 2 weeks ago and sold it that day fingers crossed that it goes through ok.
Could anyone give us some advise on singapore i.e where to stay,prices of transport from airport + good hotels that welcome children as we have two little horrors (2+4), how far is the zoo and is it worth going to? is there any particular area that we should be looking at .Any other advise would be very gratfull.We are planning to be leaving for new zealand mid april sometime and was looking at spending a couple of days in singapore to give us and the kids a little breake. As most of you know we got our residencie just before christmas and we put our house on the market 2 weeks ago and sold it that day fingers crossed that it goes through ok.
Jan 22nd 2007, 6:37 pm
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http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=388862
about page 2 , onwards should be where you need to look
Jan 22nd 2007, 6:49 pm
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& here on the far east forum
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...27#post4306327
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...27#post4306327
Jan 22nd 2007, 7:48 pm
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Re: Advice on singapore Area,Hotels etc
Hi,
We travelled over in October with 2 & 5yr old horrors!!!
We stopped over 2 nights in Singapore for same reasons BUT by the time you get to the hotel mid afternoon we were shattered, the humidity is really bad (i'd been before but had forgotten that!), the you have to check you hotel in morning for the night flight.
We decided we wasted so much time hanging around etc we would have been better going straight through.
Children didn't sleep at night so tired and grumpy all day.
With so much luggage (6 cases plus 2 car seats and hand luggage!!) very hard. At least if go direct luggage gets checked to NZ so in the 3-4 hours at singapore airport you only have buggy & hand luggage. There are showers available and plently of space so the children can run around.
We stayed at Novatel Clarke Quay, in nice area walk to Raffles and parks. MRT (underground) very good, cheap taxi from airport to hotel etc.
Is good for children but be prepared it may not help on jet lag and getting children into right sleeping patterns.
Judy
We travelled over in October with 2 & 5yr old horrors!!!
We stopped over 2 nights in Singapore for same reasons BUT by the time you get to the hotel mid afternoon we were shattered, the humidity is really bad (i'd been before but had forgotten that!), the you have to check you hotel in morning for the night flight.
We decided we wasted so much time hanging around etc we would have been better going straight through.
Children didn't sleep at night so tired and grumpy all day.
With so much luggage (6 cases plus 2 car seats and hand luggage!!) very hard. At least if go direct luggage gets checked to NZ so in the 3-4 hours at singapore airport you only have buggy & hand luggage. There are showers available and plently of space so the children can run around.
We stayed at Novatel Clarke Quay, in nice area walk to Raffles and parks. MRT (underground) very good, cheap taxi from airport to hotel etc.
Is good for children but be prepared it may not help on jet lag and getting children into right sleeping patterns.
Judy
Jan 22nd 2007, 11:16 pm
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Re: Advice on singapore Area,Hotels etc
Hi,
We travelled over in October with 2 & 5yr old horrors!!!
We stopped over 2 nights in Singapore for same reasons BUT by the time you get to the hotel mid afternoon we were shattered, the humidity is really bad (i'd been before but had forgotten that!), the you have to check you hotel in morning for the night flight.
We decided we wasted so much time hanging around etc we would have been better going straight through.
Children didn't sleep at night so tired and grumpy all day.
With so much luggage (6 cases plus 2 car seats and hand luggage!!) very hard. At least if go direct luggage gets checked to NZ so in the 3-4 hours at singapore airport you only have buggy & hand luggage. There are showers available and plently of space so the children can run around.
We stayed at Novatel Clarke Quay, in nice area walk to Raffles and parks. MRT (underground) very good, cheap taxi from airport to hotel etc.
Is good for children but be prepared it may not help on jet lag and getting children into right sleeping patterns.
Judy
We travelled over in October with 2 & 5yr old horrors!!!
We stopped over 2 nights in Singapore for same reasons BUT by the time you get to the hotel mid afternoon we were shattered, the humidity is really bad (i'd been before but had forgotten that!), the you have to check you hotel in morning for the night flight.
We decided we wasted so much time hanging around etc we would have been better going straight through.
Children didn't sleep at night so tired and grumpy all day.
With so much luggage (6 cases plus 2 car seats and hand luggage!!) very hard. At least if go direct luggage gets checked to NZ so in the 3-4 hours at singapore airport you only have buggy & hand luggage. There are showers available and plently of space so the children can run around.
We stayed at Novatel Clarke Quay, in nice area walk to Raffles and parks. MRT (underground) very good, cheap taxi from airport to hotel etc.
Is good for children but be prepared it may not help on jet lag and getting children into right sleeping patterns.
Judy
(you can book an airport shuttle bus/cab that seats about 6 so will take all the luggage to if you need to)
Jan 23rd 2007, 8:37 am
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Re: Advice on singapore Area,Hotels etc
Hello
Could anyone give us some advise on singapore i.e where to stay,prices of transport from airport + good hotels that welcome children as we have two little horrors (2+4), how far is the zoo and is it worth going to? is there any particular area that we should be looking at .Any other advise would be very gratfull.We are planning to be leaving for new zealand mid april sometime and was looking at spending a couple of days in singapore to give us and the kids a little breake. As most of you know we got our residencie just before christmas and we put our house on the market 2 weeks ago and sold it that day fingers crossed that it goes through ok.
Could anyone give us some advise on singapore i.e where to stay,prices of transport from airport + good hotels that welcome children as we have two little horrors (2+4), how far is the zoo and is it worth going to? is there any particular area that we should be looking at .Any other advise would be very gratfull.We are planning to be leaving for new zealand mid april sometime and was looking at spending a couple of days in singapore to give us and the kids a little breake. As most of you know we got our residencie just before christmas and we put our house on the market 2 weeks ago and sold it that day fingers crossed that it goes through ok.
We booked through the Singapore Air website on the Singapore stopover package, on our way to NZ. Spent 3 nights over there at the Shangri La hotel, which was a really good hotel. I thought it would be far from the city centre from the map we had but it ended up being right around the corner from the main attractions. We had free transfers and arrived at the hotel at 9AM but were able to check in straight away.
Definitely worth going to the zoo, the stopover package had that activity, we were supposed to spend 3hrs there but ended up staying the whole day there
The kids will love it, we even got to feed the animals. Can't remember how far it is from the city but it cost us about $15 for the taxi ride back (that's Singapore Dollars). Also recommend the night safari with the nocturnal animals.Good luck with the move, hope this helps,
Jen
Jan 23rd 2007, 10:20 am
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Re: Advice on singapore Area,Hotels etc
Hiya chay and kerrie,
We booked through the Singapore Air website on the Singapore stopover package, on our way to NZ. Spent 3 nights over there at the Shangri La hotel, which was a really good hotel. I thought it would be far from the city centre from the map we had but it ended up being right around the corner from the main attractions. We had free transfers and arrived at the hotel at 9AM but were able to check in straight away.
Definitely worth going to the zoo, the stopover package had that activity, we were supposed to spend 3hrs there but ended up staying the whole day there The kids will love it, we even got to feed the animals. Can't remember how far it is from the city but it cost us about $15 for the taxi ride back (that's Singapore Dollars). Also recommend the night safari with the nocturnal animals.
Good luck with the move, hope this helps,
Jen
We booked through the Singapore Air website on the Singapore stopover package, on our way to NZ. Spent 3 nights over there at the Shangri La hotel, which was a really good hotel. I thought it would be far from the city centre from the map we had but it ended up being right around the corner from the main attractions. We had free transfers and arrived at the hotel at 9AM but were able to check in straight away.
Definitely worth going to the zoo, the stopover package had that activity, we were supposed to spend 3hrs there but ended up staying the whole day there
The kids will love it, we even got to feed the animals. Can't remember how far it is from the city but it cost us about $15 for the taxi ride back (that's Singapore Dollars). Also recommend the night safari with the nocturnal animals.Good luck with the move, hope this helps,
Jen
Thanks for that, will have a look sounds good!.I have looked at singapore website but did not see the stopover package,but will have another look thanks again,any other information would be helpful.
