Do-it-Yourself City Tour

The Stories of our Singapore Trip Continues…

There are more positive aspects than negative in not having a paid tour guide when you are in another country. (1) time is in our hands. You can wake up anytime of the morning. You’re not on a rush to have breakfast, take a bath and et al. We can delay and cancel whatever is in the itinerary as we please. The only thing you need to be sure of is that you need to know where you are going, which bus to ride to reach your destination and when to change lanes in the MRT.

Hubby already made our transpo route for our do-it-yourself City Tour- thanks to- GOTHERE.SG This site is very helpful in going around Singapore because it already indicates your total travel time ( since you can indicate what time you will leave so it calculates the assumed rush hour J) , what bus number to ride which lane you should take and alight if you are taking the MRT and total fare to and from your desired destination. I have to admit that this is the most useful website I have ever encounter in cyberspace… do check it out on your next visit to Singapore.

Another useful tool we used during or do-it-yourself City Tour is the Singapore Bus Guide & Bus-Stop Directory. Lucky that we were staying at my Auntie-in-laws condo and they have this guide book. We used it so many times to make sure that we are stopping at the right bus stops and how many more stops before we alight the bus. 

Since we are talking about transportation, I must say and I know my son would agree that we enjoyed riding the SBS Transit buses (especially double-deckers) and MRT/LRT using only 1 type of card for both mode of transportation. Kitchie, my officemate, lend me 2 of her ez-link Card, and Auntie Neneth also lend us hers so we just loaded them with cash and we can tap our way to our destination.

My son felt so independent because he taps the card on the electronic readers on the bus and on MRT’s turnstile all by himself. Its automatic for him to ask me for his ez-link card every time we are about to ride the bus and MRT.

But beware and don’t forget to  tap the card on the e-reader when you alight the bus because failure to do so, you will be charged the full fare for the remaining journey.

more of our 5 day SG tour when i return after some commercial breaks.

On board the double decker bus - AJ loved it!

at midnight the MRT is almost deserted

lighted underpass ..its like mid-day but its actually past midnight already.

You'll never get lost even if the Driver does not know your destination-- Got GPS on Taxis :)

Don't be scared of tunnels 

Hubby too tired from walking from City Hall to Clark Quay just after the F1 Race Day

me tired but keeping a happy disposition + my leg and thigh hurts!

Anti-Social to the highest level 

entering the MRT ...my son being so independent :)

xoxo.