Went over to Sentosa Island for the afternoon. It’s sort of like a beachside theme park come resort world. There are about a half dozen resorts with more planned.
The cable car is definitely the way to get there. That was pretty cool.
We only went to one section called Imbiah, though we did take a bus out to one of the resorts and walked back along the beach.
I wish we had allowed more time. We didn’t get on the island until just after 4 o’clock. It would have been a lot better had we got there before lunch. We were a bit rushed and missed out on quite a few of the attractions.
It seemed to me that the whole place wasn’t planned very well, almost like most of it was an afterthought. “Hey, we want to put another thing in here but there’s not enough room. Quick, hand me that really big hammer!” A bit of a Jackson Pollack really. But, then again, it may have just seemed that way because we left it too late.
Don’t get me wrong. The place is fantastic and we did get to see quite a few things. The Butterfly Park & Insect Kingdom (which sounds like a bit of a pull but was actually quite well done), the 4D movie (which starred Leslie Nielsen & Eric Idle) scared the crap out of my little girl & the Merlion (simply stunning at night when it is all lit up).
Would have liked to do the skyride, a ski lift type arrangement which takes you and a luge up the hill and then you ride the luge back down, the cineblast, an imax like, high definition movie with hydraulic seats, and Underwater world. Ah well, maybe next time.
But the highlight was definitely the “Songs of the Sea”. This was a laser, fireworks, water spray, singing, dancing extravaganza. They spray water up into a fan shape and project lasers onto the water to produce 3d animations. Very cool. If I can work out how to post videos to the blog I’ll put some up. [update: Click HERE to see some videos.]
Have a look at this Wikipedia article for more info.
