The next Morning it was time to continue our trip once again. We woke up around 8 ish to leave for the "harbour" to get some boat tickets. There were two cats having a massive fight literally on our bags. The boat eventually came, we got in and no one asked any tickets.. We stopped at Tekek for 45 minutes?! So annoying! After that we finally had to buy our tickets.
Finally at the harbour after a sweaty and really fast walk to the bus terminal (15 minutes) we started comparing prices for Singapore! Transnational charged 48 to Singapore when this other company was only 12,80 to Johor Bahru.. Guess which we chose?
When we got off two hours later at JB we found this local bus to Singapore and bought tickets for 3,40 each. The bus ride took less than 10 minutes and then we had to take all our stuff and walk to passport check / control. Then back into a different bus and another ten minutes later and back out to security check thing with our bags. What a mess!
Then after that we needed to find this final bus to Queen Street that we had paid our tickets to. We waited in this line for the bus for ages and had a massive argument wheather we were at the right place or not.. Finally the bus came and dropped us of at Queen st from where we eventually walked to Bugis MRT, bought 3 day public transportation passes (30 Singaporen dollars of which 10 was a deposit). We took the MRT to Lavender to find this hostel we had spotted online called Gusti. Decent, spacious hostel with dorm rooms. We were asked to pay 26,5 dollars each / night!! Online it had "only" been 20 dollars so we asked to pay that.
Basically we had paid 50 ringgits for double room and now we paid 54 ringgits EACH! For a dorm! The place was really clean with a big livingroom area. We arrived to Singapore and the hostel around 6pm ish.
As we were starving we took the MRT to Chinatown and did it offer us different food options...! I struggled as usual to order anything.. I could only see green soups or fisheads in the foods.. No thanks. But most importantly we bought two big beers for 600 ml for 5 Singapore dollars!
Next it was time to explore the Little India where we didn't stay or enjoy much at all. Only staring indian men there and most places where shut already.
Then we decided to to go find the boat floating in the air :D Without a struggle we soon found it. Arrived at the harbour at 9.30 pm just on time for the night light show which lasted like 15 minutes. I felt so relaxed just sitting there in the silence feeling tiny in the middle of all the skyscrapers. We wanted to walk around the promenade (3,5km) and of course took lots of pictures of every angle we could get. The marina bay itself was really impressive as everything was built around the bay and the water.
After a long day and a sweaty walk it was time for bed in our 8 bed dorm. And what a night it was! Some guy snoring like hell and someone else doing this weird weird noise. Both of us and this other couple stayed awake till 3.30 am or so..
Finally at the harbour after a sweaty and really fast walk to the bus terminal (15 minutes) we started comparing prices for Singapore! Transnational charged 48 to Singapore when this other company was only 12,80 to Johor Bahru.. Guess which we chose?
When we got off two hours later at JB we found this local bus to Singapore and bought tickets for 3,40 each. The bus ride took less than 10 minutes and then we had to take all our stuff and walk to passport check / control. Then back into a different bus and another ten minutes later and back out to security check thing with our bags. What a mess!
Then after that we needed to find this final bus to Queen Street that we had paid our tickets to. We waited in this line for the bus for ages and had a massive argument wheather we were at the right place or not.. Finally the bus came and dropped us of at Queen st from where we eventually walked to Bugis MRT, bought 3 day public transportation passes (30 Singaporen dollars of which 10 was a deposit). We took the MRT to Lavender to find this hostel we had spotted online called Gusti. Decent, spacious hostel with dorm rooms. We were asked to pay 26,5 dollars each / night!! Online it had "only" been 20 dollars so we asked to pay that.
Basically we had paid 50 ringgits for double room and now we paid 54 ringgits EACH! For a dorm! The place was really clean with a big livingroom area. We arrived to Singapore and the hostel around 6pm ish.
As we were starving we took the MRT to Chinatown and did it offer us different food options...! I struggled as usual to order anything.. I could only see green soups or fisheads in the foods.. No thanks. But most importantly we bought two big beers for 600 ml for 5 Singapore dollars!
Next it was time to explore the Little India where we didn't stay or enjoy much at all. Only staring indian men there and most places where shut already.
Then we decided to to go find the boat floating in the air :D Without a struggle we soon found it. Arrived at the harbour at 9.30 pm just on time for the night light show which lasted like 15 minutes. I felt so relaxed just sitting there in the silence feeling tiny in the middle of all the skyscrapers. We wanted to walk around the promenade (3,5km) and of course took lots of pictures of every angle we could get. The marina bay itself was really impressive as everything was built around the bay and the water.
After a long day and a sweaty walk it was time for bed in our 8 bed dorm. And what a night it was! Some guy snoring like hell and someone else doing this weird weird noise. Both of us and this other couple stayed awake till 3.30 am or so..
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