Singapore Flag.
Public and private places are selling their tickets for the Xmas period from November 1st.To be sure of getting a place in a restaurant or on a tour you need to start planning now.
For my relatives travelling to Singapore I am putting together a one week plan.
You will want to see Christmas lights in Orchard Road but you can see them on the way to other sights.
Xmas tree and decorations outside Tanglin Mall. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
My plan for the perfect one week stay is work in progress and looks like this.
Tuesday Dec 24th 7 p arrive See Waterfall at Jewel
Wednesday Dec 25 - Day 1 Gardens By The Bay - or Botanic Gardens
Thursday Dec 26 -2 Sentosa cable car and Trickeye museum
Friday Dec 27 -3 Gardens by the bay - or Botanic Gardens
Saturday Dec 28 - 4 Night safari, and or zoo combined ticket and bird park
Sunday Dec 29 - 5 Singapore flyer lunch at Tanglin
Monday Dec 30 - 6 Duck tour
Tuesday Dec 31 - 7 National Museum and Art Museum and Clarke Quay and Fullerton hotel and statues
Wednesday Jan 1st 2020 - 8 Butterfly Garden at Changi Airport, Coffee bar local dish Kaya toast
Check in 21.45 hours
23.45 hour departure Singapore Airlines evening flight
Evening of arrival:
Jewel waterfall:
Waterfall, Jewel Mall, Changi Airport, above Changi MRT. Singapore
1 GARDENS BY THE BAY
Look for a combined Gardens by the Bay and
Singapore Flyer (big wheel) package.
Singapore Flyer alone cost per adult about $33, - that was November 1 2019, by Xmas the fares may have changed.
MRT Promenade.
Duck tour
Open top bus tour
NATIONAL MUSEUM OPEN HOUSE
RAFFLES HOTEL.
Dinner at a club if you know anybody who belongs to one. The American Club is in the centre of the city and opposite it is the Tanglin Club.
Angela at the Tanglin Club. Napkin with buttonhole. Copyright.
If not, Raffles Hotel.
Singapore Sling or Millionaire's Cocktail.
I had a free Singapore Sling on Singapore Airlines. But the one at Raffles hotel is better.
1 FORD FACTORY MUSEUM (Morning)
A look at WWII. The Battlebox Museum on Fort Canning shows Singapore's surrender. This is more cheering, a happy end for Singapore with the surrender of the Japanese.
Swim?
Little India lunch on banana leaf.
2 NIGHT SAFARI
3 BOTANIC GARDENS
Botanic Gardens Symphony Canopy.
Chopin Statue near symphony Canopy in Botanic Gardens, Singapore.
4 JEWEL
Lights at Jewel on central waterfall - free Coffee Museum at back of coffee cafe
5 SENTOSA
6 MALAYSIA J B nearby not interesting? / Malacca - pink city, means renting a car or going by bus. KL too far? Try Peranakan Museum.
Admire the mosque by Pending LRT station near Cashew MRT.
7 INDONESIA BATAM AND BINTAN day trip by ferry
8 MARINA BAY SANDS - Observation deck.
BUTTERFLY PARK in Changi Airport.
Butterfly Park, Changi Airport.
For those not leaving London, or going there from Europe or the USA, from November 1st 2019 tickets are on sale for Christmas the Dickens Museum in central London.
USEFUL WEBSITES
SINGAPORE
https://www.nationalmuseum.sg/our-programmes/programmes-list/12-days-of-christmas-open-house
UK Flag
In London it's traditional to see the lights in Oxford Street (and the front facade and windows of Selfridges Department store), Regent Street (and Hamleys toy store), and Harrods department store in Knightsbridge.
As for visits, Charles Dickens wrote the short novel The Christmas Carol. You can visit his home in London. Tickets for Xmas have just become available from November and will probably sell out quickly.
What else to do at Christmas in London? Outdoor ice skating. Pantomime.
Charles Dickens Museum
48-49 Doughty Street,
London, WC1N 2LX
T: +44(0)20 7405 212748-49 Doughty Street,
London, WC1N 2LX
Even if you don't have the time or money or luck to get on a tour, you can see the outside of the house and read the plaque and take a selfie.
London has walking tours. If it's cold, wear a ski jacket, hat and mittens.
Plenty to do in London. British Museum, London Museum, Tate Modern Gallery, Madame Tussauds, the British Library, Sherlock Holmes Museum, The London Eye, a Beatles Tour, a Harry Potter studios tour, statues of Paddington Bear, Brunel, Buckingham Palace, and more statues such as Oscar Wilde, and homes of kings and queens and writers and painters, and poets such as Keats, playwrights such as Shakespeare, bankers such as the Rothschilds and the museum of the Bank of England, more than you can remember and count. As somebody once said, He who is tired of London is tired of life.
Grab copies of Time Out magazine, local free newspapers, free maps in hotels and look for vouchers and offers.
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