Hi, I have an opportunity to take a job in SG for a bank, I would be a local employee so no fancy ex-pat deals but an interesting prospect for the wife and and I.
I have been to SG once about 15 years ago, my wife has never been. We are planning on visiting for maybe 10-14 days in July to spend some time there and take a good look around as well as getting some rest and I have a couple of questions I'm hoping you can help with.
We need to travel around SG to get a feel for the different areas that we could potentially live in, our local travel agent can only suggest package deals that will get us a nice hotel in the main tourist areas etc and I'm not sure this is the best option for us. Would it make more sense to book a flight and then try to find an apartment for the stay? any suggestions?
Most of the hotels seem to have pools and we definitely will want to laze about for a few days, can we do this on a beach or would we be better off finding a pool that we can use?
Any suggestions on good areas to stay in appreciated, I cant afford to splash out on a 5 star hotel but also don't want to stay in something so cheap it will put us off SG totally.
Any other suggestions on what we should do whilst looking around to see if we could live there would be good. I've been told we should get decent accommodation for between $2-5k, we have no children but wont be out drinking and partying every night so suitable districts that we should visit would be good.
Many thanks
Mags