A Room With a View....

Saturday 18^th November

Back to Sizzling Singapore.

We had a very smooth flight from Cairns last night and arrived back at the Peninsular Excelsior hotel before midnight to be told that because of our 'inconvenience' on the way out ( our room had no hot water), they were giving us a much better room with a view. This turned out to be correct, We are on the seventeenth floor looking right over Marina Bay, a great view of the Flyer and the Marina bay Sands Hotel. This was sunrise this morning.

This morning, we hopped on the Sightseeing open top bus and went as far as Chinatown. We spent a very interesting couple of hours in the Chinatown Heritage Museum, all about Singapore life in the 1950s and how the migrants from China lived and worked from tailors, to construction workers, coolies, carpenters, clog makers – all living in the same property and sharing very confined living spaces.

                             


We had lunch in Chinatown, did a 'bit' of shopping and then had a river cruise from Clarke Quay down to Marina Bay and return.

We had a swim on our return to the hotel and then had our evening meal locally at an “exorbitant” cost of $9.00 for two dishes and $6.50 for a large bottle of beer!!!! It was delicious. Tip: Always eat where the locals go. 
Our evening ended by watching the laser light display from Marina Bay Sands, watched from our 'room with a view'.