Siloso Beach
Sentosa's party beach: imported sand, beach clubs and a calm lagoon, busiest by Beach Station and emptier the further west you walk. It nearly became Singapore's nude beach in the 1990s.
- Where: Sentosa
- Price: Free
Sentosa
Pick one Sentosa: beach, heritage, sea life, waterpark or rides. Trying to do three in a day is how a family ends up silent on the way home.
Check each attraction's current tickets and restrictions before you commit, and resist booking enough for three separate visits. Someone in the group needs energy left for the journey home.
Read the full guide: Sentosa, your way.
Fort Siloso
Guns built to face the sea, turned inland in 1942. Sentosa's quietest attraction holds the island's heaviest story, and you enter it through the treetops.
- Where: Sentosa
- Price: Free
Singapore Oceanarium
The old S.E.A. Aquarium came back three times the size and with a plot: first fishes, Singapore's coast, the deep, then a warming sea. The sea jellies beat the big tank.
- Where: Sentosa
- Price: S$30–60
Adventure Cove Waterpark
A 620-metre lazy river that drifts past rays, a reef you snorkel through and a coaster that goes uphill. The waterslide half is the ordinary half.
- Where: Sentosa
- Price: S$30–60
Universal Studios Singapore
The lemurs are gone, the Minions moved in and Mario is being built next door. The smallest Universal park anywhere is finally changing shape, and your old route won't work.
- Where: Sentosa
- Price: S$60 and above
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