Smart Traveling To Singapore

May 6, 2009

Do You have plans your vacation to Singapore? And you also want get smart traveling to Singapore? Here are some tips you need to note.

1. Offer ticket away day
If you intention to book ticket recommended away day, can be 6-8 weeks before your holiday. You can get ticket price that cheaper. Usually, the flight service offers price ticket promotion.

2. Do not forget to money changer
Before leaving, do not forget to exchange your currency rupiah to Singapore dollars. You can change in money changer at Changi Airport who have official license, so you can get good exchange rate. Prepare also to pay bus or mass rapid transit (MRT) in order to facilitate in your trip.

3. Search the map
Once you arrive in Singapore, Changi Airport or Harbor Front, take all the info about tourism in Singapore. There you will also find Singapore map. Learn and Save this map carefully.
If you can, you should take at least two maps as a backup in case you hold the map while it lost or damaged. You do not need to worry because the lost of Singapore map is very easy to learn.

4. Use the MRT and bus
While in Singapore, you should use MRT (subway) and bus. To use MRT, you can purchase tickets through the MRT ticketing machine. The use of this machine is very easy. You specify your destination station and you enter the amount of money and if the correct amount, will be issued a ticket machine. If the money that you enter is excess, engine will give money return.

MRT ticket that used is apply passive RFID Module. In Singapore there are 3 MRT lines, the NE (North East) with a purple line, NS (Nort South) with a red line coloring, and EW (East West) with a green line.
While in Singapore, for you who are a lot of tourists will use the path NE and NS to visit places of tourist interest. If you want to ride the bus, buy ez-link card and board the bus directly. Ez-link card can also be used for MRT.

SBS bus 36 runs between Orchard Road and Singapore Changi Airport. Public bus station is located in the basement of Terminal 1 and 2 in Terminal 2 at basement level.
Description bus routes and fares is available at bus stations. Rates bus without AC S $ 0.70 up to S $ 1.40, while AC bus fare S $ 0.80 up to S $ 1.70. Remember, the money required to pay pas. If not, your money will not be returned.
For that, check with the bus driver about the fare to your destination. Bus began operating at 06.00 until midnight. Check in the change or halt bus schedule for arrival / departure. Do not worry, you will not be lost because the path info of MRT and bus are very detailed and easy to be understand.

5. SIA Hop-On
What’s the best way to be with short visit around the city and places of interest in addition to the bus SIA Hop-on?
This Bus with Ac will take passengers to more than 20 places that famous with most popular attractions in Singapore. Buses will stop at the mall, shopping malls and large hotels, such as Raffles City, Singapore Botanic Garden, and the Esplanade-Theaters on the Bay, and areas such as ethnic Chinatown, Little India and Arab Steet.

Passengers can ascend and descend at any time they want. For passengers who want to Sentosa Island, bus SIA Hop-on offers service to and fro which is available in five-stop, which is in Orchard Emerald (Orchard Road), Raffles Hotel (Bras Basah Road), Suntec City Shopping Mall, Marina Square, and Lau Pa Sat.
City services operate every day between 09.00 am and at 19:30, every 30 minutes. Sentosa Shuttle Service operates every 90 minutes between 10:00 and 17:30.

Passengers who have SIA Singapore Stopover Holiday can ride free, while passengers Singapore Airlines or SilkAir just pay S $ 3 for a daily ticket is limited. Ticket price S $ 12 for adults and S $ 6 for children. Tickets can be purchased on the bus.

6. Bring drinking water, umbrella, and backpack
You are strongly advised to bring drinking water supply because the price of drinking water in Singapore is relatively more expensive. Around S $ 1-S $ 2. You should also bring an umbrella. Do not dribble up the sun will bother your intention to explore interesting places in Singapore.
If you can stay comfortable for traveling in Singapore, use a bagpack that can hold back water, umbrella, and also some interesting items that you may buy during a visit to certain places.

7. Go Singapore Promo Packages
This package allows visitors to spend the night in Singapore hotel with a price starting below $100
This is good news for those who want visit to Singapore, but are the price of hotel rooms is high. Go with the package Promo Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board to provide an affordable alternative to hotels and located in a strategic location.

If you want more smart again, you can rent a room in one of the apartment. How easy, you go to Chinatown. There are several large apartment. You are advised to spend the night at People’s Park.
In There are direct to the 23-25 floor and start to ask the owner of each apartment, whether you can rent one of their rooms. In People’s Park there are lot room to rent for tourists.

Written by fitri· Filed Under destination , Tags:, holiday, singapore, smart, traveling, vacation