JR8 wrote:paulzheng wrote:
Dear JR8,
Thanks again for your advice the website big apple greeter. It is really a big encourage for me. You will no longer feel lonely since you know in the world, there are still some others also pursue the same dreams with you.
Good luck Paul, it is nice to hear that your ideas are moving along.
On the issue of paid entrance I don't think you can be expected to repeatedly visit the same attractions, so 'waiting outside' is fine. Paid attractions tend to come with paper guides or route-maps, so there really is no need for a guide.
I have seen tour guides taking groups into paid attractions (in Europe), and they seem to queue to buy the tickets for the group, and at the same time use their official certification of status to gain free entry.
I've done free tours where the guide has quite intentionally by-passed the main attractions and instead focused on the more hidden aspects of the city. Sometimes it is the feeling that you are getting insightful details about what is in front of you that you would not get easily get from a guide book that make it so enjoyable. Say like the significance of the colours used at Chinese temples, or why they 'pull' teh-tarik, or when passing Ion mentioning how despite it's modernity many people find the internal lay-out confusing, and why
Itineraries would be decided on by guests, (what they're interested in, how jetlagged they are, how much they are used to the tropical heat etc etc), but I would imagine that you could have a range of options (2 or 4 hours in Chinatown, 2 hours in Little India, 2 hours on the Quays, etc) and piece them together in the desired way.
Looks like your new year resolution this year will be easy to decide upon!

Dear JR8,
You are so nice to give me so many good suggestions and considerations.
You are right, i also think that i can not go too many time on those attractions places, for example, i already been to Night Safari 10 times. I don't think i will go to those places again and again.
I would like to meet the tourist like what you said, they are more interested to discovery those feature that the other poople don't pay attentions to. I met a old man from Finland, on his only one year stay in Singapore, he already been to Sungei Buloh for 50 times! Amazing, almost once per week.
This is also one of my motivation to be free guide, i think through my free guide, it is also a re-discovery singapore process for me.