Singapore: City & Islands
The easiest first trip abroad there is — four nights, no language barrier, and a metro that goes everywhere.
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About this trip
Singapore does the work for you: everything is close, everything runs on time, and you can cross the whole country on a train in under an hour. Four nights covers Marina Bay and the Gardens, the hawker centres that are the real reason to come, a day on Sentosa, and the neighbourhoods — Little India, Chinatown, Kampong Glam — that are what people remember once the skyline photographs are taken. A good first passport stamp for anyone nervous about travelling abroad, and the one trip on this page where nobody needs telling how to get back to the hotel.
- Gardens by the Bay and the Supertree light show after dark
- The Marina Bay Sands skypark, and the waterfront walk under it
- A hawker centre dinner — Maxwell or Lau Pa Sat, on the group vote
- A day on Sentosa, cable car both ways
- Little India, Chinatown and Kampong Glam on foot
- The night safari, for the one evening nobody wants to walk
Day by day
5 days, written by the host who runs it.
Day 1Arrive Singapore
Airport pick-up and check-in. Evening at Marina Bay for the waterfront and the light show, and a first hawker-centre dinner.
Day 2Gardens and the bay
Gardens by the Bay in the morning — both conservatories — and the Marina Bay Sands skypark. Afternoon free, and the night safari after dinner.
Day 3Sentosa
Cable car across to Sentosa for the day. Beaches, the boardwalk and whichever attractions the group picks, back in the city for the evening.
Day 4The neighbourhoods
Little India, Kampong Glam and Chinatown on foot and by MRT, which is how this city is best seen. Last dinner together.
Day 5Out
Breakfast, then airport drop. Anyone extending to Malaysia gets help arranging it.
What the price covers
Included
- 4 nights in a central hotel, twin sharing
- All breakfasts and 2 dinners
- Airport transfers and an unlimited-travel MRT pass for the trip
- Gardens by the Bay and Marina Bay Sands skypark tickets
- The Sentosa cable car both ways, and the night safari
- Your host for the full trip
Not included
- International flights to and from Singapore
- Singapore visa — we send the checklist and check the application before you file it
- Lunches, and 2 dinners
- Sentosa attractions beyond the cable car — Universal Studios, the aquarium
- Travel insurance, which we ask everyone on an international trip to carry
- Anything personal
Where you sleep, how you move
Stay
A four-star hotel in Bugis or Clarke Quay, on the MRT and walkable to a hawker centre. Air-conditioned with attached bathrooms. Twin sharing; a private room is ₹24,000 for the trip. Rooms in Singapore are small — that is the city, not the hotel.
Transport
Airport transfers by private coach, and the MRT for everything else on a pass we hand you on day one. It is genuinely the fastest way around and it is how you will want to do it.
What to carry
- Passport valid for at least six months beyond travel, plus two photocopies
- Printed visa or e-visa approval, and your travel insurance certificate
- A universal travel adaptor
- Some local currency for day one; cards work for most things after that
- Layers appropriate to the season — see the trip overview
- A reusable water bottle and personal medication
Who this trip is for
Open to 18 and over. There is a lot of walking and it is humid all year, but nothing on this itinerary is difficult.
Cancellation & refunds
Specific to this trip, because a permit-bound Himalayan departure cannot carry the same terms as a weekend by a river.
- More than 60 days before departure — full refund, less a ₹5,000 processing fee.
- 45 to 60 days before departure — 60% refund.
- 30 to 44 days before departure — 30% refund.
- Under 30 days before departure — no refund. Air tickets and hotels are non-refundable by this point.
- Visa rejection with proof — full refund less the visa fee and ₹5,000 processing.
Full terms are in our refund & cancellation policy.
Meet your host
Kavya Reddy
Based in Goa · 3 trips led
Scuba instructor turned host, with 600+ logged dives across the Andamans and Southeast Asia. Runs our island and coastal trips and will get a nervous first-timer underwater without them noticing.
Not quite the one?
There are other departures, and we would rather put you on the right trip than the nearest one.
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