Recommended Stay Time

Including Flight : 4 days
In Singapore 3 Days : 2 Nights

Currency

Singaporean Dollar

EUR	SGD	USD	SGD
1	1,53	1	1,36

Transport

It’s still unfortunate that there’s no cheaper way to go to Singapore other than with planes, but fear not! The cheapest flight from Paris to Singapore are 551€ with Finnair and 563€ with British Airways, and those are round-trips prices, not too shabby eh? But then again it may depends on the season and flying time.

Arriving at Changi International Airport, we go straight to terminal 2 where there is Mass Rapid Transportation (MRT) which directly goes to downtown Singapore. We chose to use MRT because this transportation is the fastest and cheapest way to reach hotels in central Singapore. I’ve never tried anything other than MRT when I go here with my family, it literally go around the city (or country…), but you could also use some of the applications such as Uber and GrabCar or GrabBike (it’s a Malaysian company similar to Uber but also provides transportation with motorcycle). MRT cost more or less SGD 2,20.

Hotel

Because when I travel to Singapore I usually come here with organization or my parents, so we always stayed at the nicer hotel. But based on some of my friends experience, there are several hostel that are literally 12€ for 2 nights it was wild. But upon doing some heavy research, I found the perfect place for all of you to stay! Fragrance Ruby Hotel, located at 10 Lorong 20 Geylang, Singapore. The hotel location is quite strategic, close to Aljunied MRT Station which is a 10-minute walk away (and remember the MRT are connected to the whole freaking country! So the key to travel in Singapore are finding hotels that are close to MRT station so you could literally go ANYWHERE!) The price of this hotel is quite good, it’s 47€ per night and you get 2 single bed for you and your travel buddy and the journey from the airport to Aljunied Station using the MRT only takes about 30 minutes.

Activities

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For the first day of your trip after you land and check in to your hotel, you can have lunch at Bugis Street / Orchard road which are the main touristy area in Singapore, packed with shopping centre and delicious asian cuisine and street food. After you’re done eating you can take a walk on the Singapore river, and go see the Merlion statue at the Merlion Park, It’s like the symbol of the country so you have to take a picture.

And after that you can go to the garden by the bay, to see the Garden Rhapsody lamp show at 19.45. The show is quite famous and just an amazing sight to see, and it’s free lol so why not. Then the event continues to Marina Bay Sands mall. Enjoy the night atmosphere with its amazing laser show, the Spectra fountain which are also free. And if you still have the energy to sight see some of the awesome stuff there you can continue to the Helix bridge near the MBS Mall.

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For the second day, we’ll start the day with taking a walk in Kampong Glam and Arab Street (Shopping and culinary) and obviously taking photos in the cool mural that they have there. And after that we can take a walk to enjoy the beauty of the magnificent Sultan Mosque and also try some of the world famous “Teh Tarik” in Arab Street. From there we can go to take an Afternoon Walk on Sentosa Island, and we can go there by MRT then by bus, while you were on Santosa don’t forget to enjoy Siloso Beach, Palawan Beach and take pictures on the Universal Studios Singapore globe, and unfortunately in this post I didn’t recommend you to go inside the Universal Studio Singapore because it’s overpriced lol (I’ll post a special edition post if you guys wanted me to explore USS in detail).

And for the last day, because we usually have the flight at night after we check out of our hotel we can leave the items in the hotel and go for a walk to Orchard Road to buy some Singaporean souvenirs and 1 SGD ice cream sandwich that the street stall offer, and just enjoy the rest of the trip and wait for the time you have to go to the airport.

Food

For this part of the post I just want to say that my other friends from Latin America, Europe, and Canada ain’t got nothin on our food bro! If you watch Crazy Rich Asian there’s a scene where the protagonist Rachel (played by Constance Wu) and her boyfriend Nick (Henry Golding) meet up with some friends for dinner after they land in Singapore. The couple ambles through the Newton Food Centre, a famed outdoor market, collecting satays and bowls of laksa curry from the various hawker stalls, and it’s clear that Nick is very comfortable ordering from the vendors. This is a moment when the audience starts to understand how Nick’s life in Singapore is very different from the one he lives back in America.

These south east asian cuisine will make you all hungry and tempted to buy these foods. Most of these foods you can find in the Newton Food Centre (where the Crazy Rich Asian being filmed) and all over Singapore.

Without further ado, I will show you the type of cuisine that you can enjoy here in Singapore, and I promise you, your stomach will grumble looking at these sexy food pictures!

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Those pictures above are some of the most famous food in Singapore, we have Fried Carrot Cake is made with eggs, preserved radish (chai poh) and white radish flour cake, which resembles a ‘white carrot’, thus giving rise to the dish name.

The 2nd one is the two most famous styles of cooking crabs in Singapore are with a sweet, spicy tomato-ish chilli sauce, or with black pepper sauce. Chilli crabs are usually eaten along with fried mantous (buns), which are dipped in the luscious chilli sauce.

The 3rd one we have Laksa Traditional Singapore Curry Laksa uses vermicelli, coconut milk, tau pok (beancurd puffs), fish slices, shrimp and hum (cockles). Due to cost-cutting or taste preference, some stalls might opt out of shrimp and cockles.

After that we have Oyster Omelette Popular in Singapore hawker centres (Crazy Rich Asian book reference) as well as in Taiwan night markets, this is a dish that many foreigners and locals love. Stalls that sell Carrot Cake typically also sell Oyster Omelettes as it’s a similar cooking process that also utilises a common ingredient: Eggs. Potato starch is usually mixed in when frying the egg and gives a thicker, fuller taste. Variants include a version without the starch, which is priced slightly higher due to more eggs needed instead. A special vinegar chilli is also paired exclusively with Oyster Omelettes in Singapore.

And the last but certainly NOT least is the infamous Nasi Lemak.

Nasi Lemak is a very versatile dish and what was once a breakfast item, is now eaten during lunch and dinner too. Traditionally wrapped in banana leaves, Nasi Lemak is a deeply-rooted Malay coconut rice dish.

The rice is steamed with coconut cream to give it a sweet fragrance. A typical Nasi Lemak set comes with Ikan Bilis (fried anchovies), peanuts, egg and sambal (chilli paste). A good sambal is arguably the mark of a good Nasi Lemak.

Nasi Lemak is so popular in Singapore, the other races have adopted this dish in their own variations and offer a wide selection of additional ingredients like fried chicken drumsticks, luncheon meat and sotong (cuttlefish) balls.

You’ve hear about those 5 famous Singaporean dish, but I also would like to add a couple more of my favourite dishes in this post. Since I was little, when I go to Singapore I always wonder around by myself to just explore, and since I love food, that is the realm that I explore the most. And because I don’t want to add anymore writings to this long post (lmao) I’m just going to show you the pictures of the foods and what its called.

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Packing Tips

Now for the packing tips, I advise you to dress comfortably. Most of the times Singapore weather is warm to hot so it would be better to wear casual tees and jeans (maybe shorts) and pack some casual attire such as short polo tee, khaki shorts, plaid shirt, etc. And for shoes, just wear whatever feels comfortable for your feet, I mostly just pack my sneakers (Nike or Converse) and call it a day. Oh, and don’t forget to bring umbrella! because at night it might rain.

Some outfit ideas

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Written by Bimo Reisnanda Pradipta.