Peranakan Museum
Take it in order: the 'What is Peranakan?' question on the ground floor is what makes the third-floor jewellery worth the climb. Small, very pretty and open late on Fridays.
- Where: Civic District
- Price: Under S$30
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Take it in order: the 'What is Peranakan?' question on the ground floor is what makes the third-floor jewellery worth the climb. Small, very pretty and open late on Fridays.
Start with the Tang shipwreck: 60,000-odd ceramics bound for the Gulf, sunk off Indonesia and now shelved by the Singapore River. Do that room properly and the rest makes sense.
Free for Singaporeans and PRs, S$20 for everyone else, open daily 10am to 7pm. The big Southeast Asia wing is shut until late 2027; the two monuments and the Singapore collection are not.
Jewel's paid attraction about the unglamorous side of flying: trolleys, taxi queues and the people behind them, turned into games. Best with children of six and up who like to compete.
The basic ticket buys slides, fog and topiary. The nets, mazes and glass bridge are extras, and the right move is one thrill, not the bundle.
The world's tallest indoor waterfall is a storm drain with a publicist. Free to watch, better from Basement 2 and the Skytrain than from the first railing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The pod on top of the tallest Supertree used to be a restaurant. Now it's a 50-metre open rooftop with the whole bay laid out; go at dusk on a clear day, and not in a storm.
