Planning Trip Overseas - Phuket / Singapore

[Darren]

Morning Guys,
The family and I are currently in the process of planning an overseas trip late Feb / early Mar 2011.

At this stage the first stop off will be Phuket for 5 nights or so and then a further 5 nights in Singapore on our way back, the number of days are yet to be decided.

Any suggestions on what to do / see, where to stay (this seems to be the hardest given we will have 5 adults, 1 child and 1 infant), how to get around etc?

At the moment it's a crap load of reading.

Short list of possible things to do in Phuket

• Aquarium
• Zoo (heard mixed feelings about this in regards to animal cruelty but the monkey, croc and elephant shows etc are worth it)
• Speed Boat tour out to Phi Phi Island
• Cashew Farm
• Shooting range
• Elephant trekking
• Fishing Charter
• Shopping for the females...

In terms of Singapore this was only decided recently and haven't had a great of a

• Singapore Zoo
• National Museum
• Changi Prison

Well I guess it's open from here, interested in hearing opinions.

Cheers
Darren

[MasterOfReality]

For Singapore, also go to the bird park and Sentosa Island, which is just off the coast by cable car.

Head down to the East Coast Park, where you can hire bikes and ride along the bikeways.

[Matty.b]

im going overseas in 3 weeks decided to go to Bangkok on the way back from Europe instead of singapore

one contributing factor to this was, my grandparents just got back from singapore, they stayed where we were gonna stay (a casino with a boat on the roof cant think of the name atm) but everything was way overpriced (we want cheap after holidaying in Europe lol) for example a beer was $15 AUD

my Grandfather went to the site of Changi Prison and its all been torn down, he said it was very disapointing

[blacknight]

You might want to pop down at the new casino as well

[Low_VX_Taxi]

im going overseas in 3 weeks decided to go to Bangkok on the way back from Europe instead of singapore

one contributing factor to this was, my grandparents just got back from singapore, they stayed where we were gonna stay (a casino with a boat on the roof cant think of the name atm) but everything was way overpriced (we want cheap after holidaying in Europe lol) for example a beer was $15 AUD

my Grandfather went to the site of Changi Prison and its all been torn down, he said it was very disapointing

Well you did pick the most expensive (building cost) resort in the world at £4bn

"The Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi , estimated to have cost £2billion when it opened in 2004, was previously the world's most expensive hotel."

SkyPark Singapore:

[Matty.b]

expensive but i think well worth it for a seperate trip in the future for me and the family

[ashbox]

night safari at singapore zoo was good when i went over

[jules]

Short list of possible things to do in Phuket

• Shopping for the females...

i've heard this is more popular in pataya.
no seriously i'm heading off to Thailand in Nov, but i'm also going with the gf so there'll be none of that.