parkrun Singapore (East Coast Park)
A free, timed 5km every Saturday morning on the flat seafront path at East Coast Park. Register once, print your barcode and turn up before the heat does.
- Where: East Coast
- Price: Free
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Capybara Bathing
A 90-minute hot–cold circuit in a Tras Street shophouse, named after the rodent that sits in warm water doing nothing. Phones stay in the locker, which is the hard part.
- Where: Tanjong Pagar
- Price: S$30–60
Herbal Footcare
A no-frills foot rub in Orchard Plaza that runs into the small hours, with a free herbal foot bath and prices that ignore the Orchard Road postcode. Come for the hands, not the room.
- Where: Orchard
- Price: S$30–60
Raffles Spa
The quietest way to spend serious money at Raffles: a spa in the arcade with steam room, sauna, onsen-style pool and Omorovicza's gold rituals. Save it for a milestone.
- Where: Civic District
- Price: S$60 and above
St. Gregory at Pan Pacific Singapore
Tui na done properly in hotel comfort: an hour of kneading along the meridians on Level 4 of the Pan Pacific, then tea, steam and a pool. For desk-bound shoulders.
- Where: Marina Bay
- Price: S$60 and above
Hampstead Wetlands Park
A corner of the old Seletar golf course that flooded, grew its own forest and was kept: boardwalks, a pond and kingfishers in an aerospace park. Small, so pair it with lunch at The Oval.
- Where: Punggol & Seletar
- Price: Free
Cundhi Gong Temple
A two-storey 1928 temple on Keong Saik Road with porcelain dragons on the roof ridge, Belgian floral tiles on the five-foot way and painted trusses overhead. Five minutes, if you look up.
- Where: Keong Saik & Duxton
- Price: Free
Sri Layan Sithi Vinayagar Temple
A Hindu temple to Ganesha at the top of Keong Saik Road since 1925, with a five-tier gateway tower carved by craftsmen from India. See it from across the junction, then quietly inside.
- Where: Keong Saik & Duxton
- Price: Free
The Pinnacle@Duxton Skybridge
A public sky garden on the 50th floor of an HDB estate, reached by registering an EZ-Link card at Block 1G. Go late afternoon and walk to the Block 1A end, which faces the sunset.
- Where: Keong Saik & Duxton
- Price: Under S$30
Old Kallang Airport
Singapore's first civil airport, a conserved 1937 art deco terminal by the National Stadium. A five-minute look from the pavement on a Kallang walk; you can't go inside.
- Where: Kallang & Tanjong Rhu
The Kallang
The renamed Sports Hub is best on a day with no big event: a kayak on the basin before the heat, lunch in a mall, the stadium lit up after dark. The water centre shuts on Tuesdays.
- Where: Kallang & Tanjong Rhu
Tanjong Rhu Pier
A free four-level lookout tower across the Kallang Basin from the CBD and the stadium. Come half an hour before sunset on a clear evening, then walk home over the lit footbridge.
- Where: Kallang & Tanjong Rhu
- Price: Free
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Gardens by the Bay
Don't buy everything. Our guide to the conservatory, the viewpoint and the ticket that suit one evening at the Gardens, and what to leave for next time.
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Make something, try something
A catch-up goes easier with a shared task. Choose pottery or climbing by the kind of concentration you want, and book a proper introduction rather than winging it.
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