Destination guide
Singapore
Your guide to where to stay, eat and the must-see highlights. A heady blend of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Western culture, clean as a whistle and easy to navigate, Singapore is a dream city for foodies. Got a travel tip for Singapore? Share it via the comments box below.
All the things we love about Singapore (plus five we don’t)
Singapore turns 60 years young next week so it’s time to sing the praises of one of Australia’s favourite holiday destinations.
20 things that will surprise first-time visitors
Scratch the surface of the Lion City and you have plate-scrapingly-good meals for next to nothing, rich and varied history and pockets of lush jungle.
The best places to stay
Singapore is full of high-rise business hotels but there are also tropical resorts, budget busters and boutique options.
The must-do highlights in three days
A foodie destination with huge events and incredible beauty, Singapore packs a lot into a small space, which means you can too.
Six underrated highlights most visitors miss
From a building that wouldn’t be out of place in Batman’s fictional Gotham City to a retro museum depicting gruesome hellscapes, you’re in for a surprise.
Where to eat and drink
While the city’s modern-day appeal owes plenty to its rich immigrant past, no where is this more evident than in its cuisine.
Singapore is a ‘crazy rich’ city, but here’s how to do it affordably
From laneway street art to lush nature reserves: despite the stereotype, Singapore has plenty of options for the budget-conscious traveller.
What to do on a Singapore stopover with kids
Until our family experienced our first stopover in Singapore, I didn’t realise I’d been doing long-haul flights all wrong.
The best times to visit
Singaporeans have been known to describe the seasons as: hot, hotter and hottest, but you could also go with wet, wetter and wettest.
Where to eat during a stopover
The Lion City is like a sprawling outdoor buffet. Here’s how to turn your stopover into an eat-over.
Tips for eating at hawker centres
The cooking is budget but the quality decent; some hawker stalls are even Michelin-star rated.
Chef Matt Moran names his top places to eat
Few places on Earth deliver a better dining experience than Singapore. Acclaimed chef Matt Moran dishes up on where to go and what to order.
How to do breakfast, Singaporean style
It's coffee and toast, but not as you know it. Breakfast in Singapore is full of quirks that you just need to go with.
The seven highlights of Gardens by the Bay
This expansive nature park in central Singapore might be famous for its eye-catching Supertrees, but you’ll find much more to see and do.
Singapore's greenscraper hotels: The best green stays in Asia's greenest city
Singapore is fast becoming the home of the vertical garden stay.
Singapore is home to three of the world’s most impressive hotel atriums
These dizzying architectural masterpieces have their origins with a style that sprung into being in America during the 1960s and ’70s.
How Singapore found the secrets to a longer life
With an average life expectancy of nearly 84, the residents of this city-state can teach us a thing or two about longevity.