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Subject: Re: Changi Airport Transit Hotels Posted on: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 18:02:31 +0000 (UTC)

ChrisG wrote in message news:...
> Will have an overnight stop in Singapore shortly. I hear that there
> are hotels in the transit areas and they seem quite reasonable. It
> would be cheaper to clear customs and use taxis to check into a
> downtown hotel but for convenience the transit option seems OK
>
> My question is: would the cost of eating, entertaining ourselves for a
> few hours etc. in the transit area make it not such a good idea??
> We have an 18 hour lay-over.

There is a surprising number of things to do in the transit area.
Going downtown and spending about 12 hours (that's all you'll have
figuring wait times, etc.) is kind of a waste. You'll be jet-lagged
and out of it. The transit hotel is *NOT* cheap, but not absurdly
expensive, either.