Flew Qantas, were amazing with the allergies
Singapore seems very traditional, people stared at us (mostly tourists), I know that people with blue hair and tattoos may not be regular here, but it made me feel unwelcome.
Our allergies weren’t catered for, I know that we can be hard to feed, but after a trip to Thailand a month ago where I experienced beautiful food (on every menu), this was the opposite. Everywhere had policies asking you not to bring your own food, yet they didn’t have food we could eat. One pre arrival conversation with Adventure Cove said we could request an allergy meal (after showing a letter from the dr stating we had allergies) with 5 business days notice, it’s a waterpark, I’m watching the weather to go on a sunny day, there is no 5 business days (7 total) for that.
Cabs are super affordable, surprising considering the price of cars! Meals in restaurants and alcohol less so. If you eat meat, food courts would be amazing, but it feels difficult to get a vegetarian meal in a meat eating place.
It is clean, not that it’s shiny and clean, but there is no litter, no garbage, no graffiti, you can’t smell urine, or garbage. It’s really pleasant in that way.
I was so pleased to be going to an Asian country where everyone speaks English to some degree, but it really does vary, and maybe we noticed this more because of our food allergies. But even in cabs, there was often trouble understanding where we were saying we wanted to go, despite saying it and showing it on a map. But overall, it was really nice to be understood, and the locals do seem lovely.
This was a trip not on my 5 year travel plan, it was based on wanting to get away from home over Christmas, and sale flights made it cheaper to go here than stay domestic. It was a great break, but I probably wouldn’t come back. In hot humid weather I prefer beach resorts, trying to see all of the great offerings of the city was really sweaty.
