Nosmo King

If it gets too hot, SIN has a nice aquarium on Sentosa Island. The shark tube is the coldest spot in Singapore.

The Food Court in the high rise next door has some really good food at a reasonable price. Also some good Indian restaurants in the local area or you could wander over to Chinatown or Little India for food and shopping. If you don't mind a taxi ride, you can wander over to East Coast Seafood Park and have some Pepper Crab or some Chili Crab.

If you aren't that adventurous there are numerous restaurants on your side of the river and on the opposite side of the river.

Singapore also has an excellent zoo, if you are looking for something pedestrian. The night safari at the zoo is really good, but you are really cutting into your sleep time if you do that.

The largest bookstore in SE Asia is in SIN. Kinokuniya. There is also a large Borders bookstore down on Orchard.

SIN is a very nice, clean and perhaps a little sterile town but its a great layover. I wish they would change it back to the old arrival and departure time, the westbound flight is a b**ch.

There are also numerous WW2 tours available as well as Harbor Cruises

If you want to know about the less mundane things to do, you'll have to ask somewhere else. I don't post that kind of stuff in here...

vprMatrix

Just to be clear, you can be on reserves for more than 6 days in a row and there is no need for a 24 hour break as long as you are not assigned to be at the controls of a 121 operated flight. If you are going to fly, then you must have a 24 hr break somewhere in a 7 day period.

This is new to the company and they will be experimenting with it. At the present expect to most likely be assigned a 24 hr break before the 7th day but this is not required.

hockeypilot44

Exactly. So if you sit 6 days straight reserve without being used, do not call them. Maybe you'll go into your 7th and 8th days without being used. Then let them try to assign you a trip. This is where you get to let them know that you need 24 hours rest before you can fly per FAR's at which point you might get out of a trip. No sense in making their job easier at your expense.

FlyingViking

So true and so sad at the same time. When will management realize that a beneficial synergy can occur the second we start working as a team? I'm bidding out of the ER to whatever I can hold a line on for this very reason. And where is ALPA when scheduling consistantly give us 5am show for a 24 hour SC? The scheduling department sure has gone south and sour in the last year. I had enough..... DC-9 here I come but at least I can hold a line and won't be abused by big J ever again.

buzzpat

...but, you'll probably never even get to Singapore because you'll never push from your originating station because you're waiting for your dumbass southie AWABS.

finis72

Buzz, give it a rest. Let's talk contract stuff or better yet, I want to hear Nosmos less mundane tour of SIN.

finis72

Thanks Nosmos. I am not a mundane layover kind of a guy. I hear there is a party at the end of the world.

buzzpat

Just kidding Finis. Its always fun with Carl and Nosmo.

firstmob

Is there a cover charge?

Nosmo King

Chewing gum is outlawed (you can bring it in country, but you cannot purchase any), not flushing a toilet in a public bathroom carries a fine, peeing in an elevator carries a fine, littering carries a fine, but amazingly prostitution is legal (note that pornography is not and carries a hefty fine as well).

The government probably realized that outlawing it would be futile, so instead decided to legalize and control it...

You can google Orchard Towers.

Don't be surprised to occasionally see scantily clad wimmen in the hotel elevators when you check-in and head for your room at oh dark thirty.