I first visited the Singapore Zoo in 1998 with my friends, and I promised myself next time I visit the zoo, it's going to be with our children. Almost 14 year later, my dreams came true:) I love how clean the Singapore zoo is and how the animals seems to be so healthy and happy.
When I was making the itinerary for our family trip to singapore, I found out there is a direct bus called Singapore Attraction Express Bus from and to the zoo. One adult cost SGD 4.50, while one child cost SGD 2. We wanted to take this bus as it passes our hotel. But in the morning when we supposed to catch the bus, our kiddos request to go to the pool first before going to the zoo! Oh no..so we took MRT and bus 138 as our plan B:p We could book the ticket bus at the website of SAEX bus. But we didn't buy it as we were not sure we could catch the bus at 9 pm in the morning.
We took MRT from Bugis, changed line at City Hall MRT to the red line MRT heading to Ang Mo Kio MRT station. Alighting at Ang Mo Kio, we followed the sign to "Bus Interchange" until we found the bus stand for bus 138. The bus stand of bus 138 heading to the zoo is unfortunately at the last stand. So we need to walk all the way to the bus stand from the MRT station! It was Sunday about 11 pm, the queue for the bus was very long. We had to wait about 20 minutes for the bus. Fortunately we could get on to the first bus and didn't have to wait for the other one to arrive. In took about another 30 minutes to arrive at the zoo, giving some time for the kiddos to sleep. In total, it took 1,5 hours from our hotel at Landmark Village Bugis to the zoo
Arriving at the zoo almost 12 at noon, the queue to get the ticket was very long. Alhamdulillah our friend Claudius Seta has warned us about the queue and recommended us to buy the ticket online. Thanks Seta! We just walked to the gate, showed the printed tickets, and voila we were inside. We didn't buy the ticket for Arkan who is turning to 3 yo next month, but the person in charge only said "ok" when I told him that Arkan is not 3 yo yet. By the way we bought "zoo per saver" ticket with unlimited ride of tram and boat. It cost SGD 27 for adult and SGD 17 for children (up tp 12 yo). I would recommend to buy this ticket if you go with children, as we can just look around the zoo with the tram when our children are tired.
Kiddos were so excited entering the zoo (so were the parents:p), we directly took the boat to the Kids Fun World Area. Najmi and Arkan wanted to have magnum which cost SGD 5.50 each, wow so expensive..they enjoyed eating magnum on the boat. Actually we wanted to have lunch first at KFC before playing at the water park. But it's impossible when the kiddos saw the water park! So I changed their clothes to the swimsuit (oh yes, it's a must to bring swimsuit when you go to the Singapore Zoo), and enjoy themselves at 12.30 pm directly under the sun:p The water park was amazing! I mean, we have also waterpark around jakarta, the one I visited "Ocean Park" at BSD was also really nice. But it is a waterpark in the zoo! Not a special place for playing the waterpark only. So I must say that the ticket price of Singapore Zoo worth it:)
Kiddos spent about an hour playing there, and finally we were succeeded to get them out of the waterpark. Yippi.. Than we went to the toilet area, the Singapore Zoo provide shower for the kids outside toilet in the form of octopus, so funny!
After shower and changed their clothes, our kiddos still asked to enjoy the playground located just next to the waterpark. and thereafter we went to the KFC to have our late lunch:p KFC also located at the Kids Fun World Area. KFC was really crowded, we had to queue not only for the food, but also for the seat.
If I am not mistaken maybe we have spent more that 2 hours at the Kids Fun World area..wohooo.. After our lunch, we went to the tram station, and took the tram to see the elephant show.
The place were full already, we didn't get any seat. It was the only show we saw in the Singapore Zoo, we didn't manage to see other show as the kiddos were already too tired.
From the last tram station, I had to take a 17 kg Arkan who fall asleep, and Rene had to take a 22 kg Najmi who was also really sleepy:p When we proceed to the bus stop, we were so happy to see the SAEX bus heading to the Beach Road! Wohoo perfect! So we didn't have to take bus 138 and MRT with the sleeping kiddos. We paid the bus SGD 11, and asked the driver to inform us when he reach Landmark Village Hotel. The bus was very fast compared taking MRT and bus 138, another 40 minutes, we arrived at the hotel already!
When I was making the itinerary for our family trip to singapore, I found out there is a direct bus called Singapore Attraction Express Bus from and to the zoo. One adult cost SGD 4.50, while one child cost SGD 2. We wanted to take this bus as it passes our hotel. But in the morning when we supposed to catch the bus, our kiddos request to go to the pool first before going to the zoo! Oh no..so we took MRT and bus 138 as our plan B:p We could book the ticket bus at the website of SAEX bus. But we didn't buy it as we were not sure we could catch the bus at 9 pm in the morning.
We took MRT from Bugis, changed line at City Hall MRT to the red line MRT heading to Ang Mo Kio MRT station. Alighting at Ang Mo Kio, we followed the sign to "Bus Interchange" until we found the bus stand for bus 138. The bus stand of bus 138 heading to the zoo is unfortunately at the last stand. So we need to walk all the way to the bus stand from the MRT station! It was Sunday about 11 pm, the queue for the bus was very long. We had to wait about 20 minutes for the bus. Fortunately we could get on to the first bus and didn't have to wait for the other one to arrive. In took about another 30 minutes to arrive at the zoo, giving some time for the kiddos to sleep. In total, it took 1,5 hours from our hotel at Landmark Village Bugis to the zoo
Arriving at the zoo almost 12 at noon, the queue to get the ticket was very long. Alhamdulillah our friend Claudius Seta has warned us about the queue and recommended us to buy the ticket online. Thanks Seta! We just walked to the gate, showed the printed tickets, and voila we were inside. We didn't buy the ticket for Arkan who is turning to 3 yo next month, but the person in charge only said "ok" when I told him that Arkan is not 3 yo yet. By the way we bought "zoo per saver" ticket with unlimited ride of tram and boat. It cost SGD 27 for adult and SGD 17 for children (up tp 12 yo). I would recommend to buy this ticket if you go with children, as we can just look around the zoo with the tram when our children are tired.
So, I strongly recommend you to take this bus if you plan to go the zoo. The kids were tired but really happy. Until now, Arkan still remember what the elephant did in the show, and share the stories to grandmas, grandpas and also his cousins:) Next time if we go to Singapore with kids, the Singapore Zoo will always be in our itinerary.
written on May 13, 2012
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