Your Singapore Booking Pack
The Dragon Trip is the all-encompassing, flexible trip for adventurers seeking to discover Singapore in a flash, showing you the very best parts – including cultural and historical attractions, jaw dropping scenery, and amazing food and drinks! Over the next few days, it’s our goal to show you a side of Singapore that you’ll remember forever.
Joining your tour in Singapore
Meeting Point:
Get ready to start your Singapore adventure tour by meeting your guide and group at the hostel lobby at 15:00! Listen to a pre-departure brief as you find out everything you need to know about your trip.
Hostel Address:
Jyu Capsule Hostel China Town
46 Smith Street, Level 2 & 3
China Town, Singapore 058956
Phone number: +65 8033 1561
If you have any queries or issues with your trip, email our Operations team on mytrip@thedragontrip.com.
How to get to your hostel
From Changi Airport MRT station (CG2), take the East West Line (Green Line) towards Tanah Merah and alight at Expo MRT station (CG1/DT35). After, take the Downtown Line (Blue Line) towards Bukit Panjang and alight at Chinatown MRT station (NE4/DT19). From Chinatown MRT station, it’s a short walk to Jyu Capsule Hotel.
Want to stay longer?
If you’re planning on spending additional nights in Singapore at the beginning or end of your tour, we can book your accommodation for you. Please email info@thedragontrip.com for more information.
Insurance
Please don’t forget your insurance! It’s compulsory to have travel insurance on our trip. Please bring details of your travel insurance along with you to the pre-departure briefing. In the event of an accident, we may need to contact your insurance company on your behalf, so we will need the insurance company’s name and phone number, as well as your policy number. Please make sure your insurance offers ‘Bad Weather or Natural Disaster Coverage’. Please fill out our online emergency contact and insurance form: https://forms.office.com/r/QpbCPxHBD6
Don’t forget your passport
Have you sent us your passport details? The Dragon Trip needs your passport copy to book accommodation in advance of your trip.
Do I need a visa?
Short answer: No, you don’t! Most nationalities do not need a visa to enter Singapore, as long as your passport is valid for a minimum of 6 months after entering the country. You can find out more about your individual requirements on your embassy or government website. Upon arrival, everybody will be asked to fill out an entry form – you may do so the day before heading to Singapore, to save some time upon arrival. The form can be found on this webpage (choose individual submission): https://eservices.ica.gov.sg/sgarrivalcard/
Keep in touch!
We want to hear all about your amazing travels in Singapore.
Whether you’re on the tour or reliving your amazing experiences, be sure to use the hashtag #thedragontrip to join in with our amazing community of fellow Dragons.
In addition, if you tag our profile in your photo with the handle @thedragontrip, we might just feature it! We love to see all the fun you get up to on your adventures.
Lastly: if you don’t want to have your photos appear on our social platforms, please do email us to let us know.
Meet Your Fellow Dragons
As many of our Dragons travel solo, we want to take to make the process of meeting your fellow travellers as easy as possible. We create WhatsApp groups for every departure date in advance, meaning that you can get to know everyone on your tour before you hit the ground.
You can also like us on Facebook and join ‘The Dragon Trip: Adventure Advice‘ Facebook group – here, you’ll be in a community of past, present, and future Dragons who can all share tips and advice.
Our Ultimate Packing Check List
Customers should be considerate of their amount of luggage when travelling. Please keep luggage to one check-in bag and to a size convenient for easily moving between locations, and for storage in hostel dormitory/shared rooms.
Documents:
- Passport (with a copy of the photo page)
- Insurance Details and photocopies
Money:
- Your credit/debit card
- Cash – Singapore Dollar
The Essentials:
- First Aid Kit (with medicine for diarrhea, paracetamol, disinfectant etc)
- Flip-flops
- Sensible walking shoes
- Towel & washbag
- Flashlight/torch
- Mosquito repellent
- Sunscreen
- Hat & sunglasses
- Lightweight waterproof jacket
- Earplugs (for a better sleep in the dorms)
- Locks for bags
FAQ’s
DO I NEED TO BRING POWER ADAPTORS?
If you’re from the UK – not for Singapore! They use the same Type G plugs as the UK. However, if you’re not from the UK you may need to – these are available to buy in airports or various stores before you arrive. If you’re travelling onwards from Singapore, make sure you’ve also got an adaptor for your next destination too!
DO I NEED TO BRING A SLEEPING BAG OR IS LINEN PROVIDED IN THE HOSTELS?
All bedding is provided.
WHO LOOKS AFTER OUR BAGS WHEN WE ARE ON EXCURSIONS?
Your bags will be stored at the hostels where they are tagged and recorded. On a couple of occasions, they will be stored at storage facilities in railway stations.
WILL MY PHONE WORK?
Your phone is unlikely to work but it’s possible to buy a SIM out there or a handy eSim before you travel. Wi-Fi is available in all of our hostels.
Your Welfare on Tour
Our adventure tours are a safe space where everyone is welcome. We kindly request that you show respect to your fellow adventurers, our Adventure Leader, as well as the local people and places we encounter throughout our journey. Any form of discrimination, bullying and violence is strictly prohibited, and we expect all travellers to adhere to the laws, customs, and regulations of each destination we visit. Behaviours that contradict these expectations or impede our staff’s ability to fulfil their duty of care or follow the planned itinerary, may result in the removal of the individuals involved from the trip. If you encounter any concerns during your travels, please promptly communicate with your Adventure Leader or local guide. Alternatively, you can discreetly contact the Adventure Leader via WhatsApp. They will be able to address the issue directly and help find the best solution.
Top Tips from The Dragon Trip
Try saying that tongue twister really fast.
On the weather:
- Singapore has a tropical rainforest climate characterized by high humidity, abundant rainfall, and consistent temperatures throughout the year.
- The average temperature is 31°C at daytime and 24°C at night.
On how to travel sustainably:
- Packing as light as possible keeps your carbon footprint low. We recommend 10-15kg, especially as you are expected to carry your own luggage.
- Use local laundry services. This money goes straight into the local community, and is available in most of our hostels.
- Pack a reusable water bottle.
Stay connected:
- The Dragon Trip will invite you to a WhatsApp group chat before the tour starts, to keep in touch with you and the rest of your group.
- Maps.me: This is a great app to stop yourself from getting lost! You can download it to your phone for free.
- Bring electronic products at your own risk. Some customers choose to travel with iPhones, tablets and laptops, but although theft is rare on The Dragon Trip there is petty crime in some areas we visit.
- Download the taxi app GRAB, an Uber-like app that you can use to book taxis online and pay in cash. It’s useful and safe.
Food & Drink:
- There will be a great night out on The Dragon Trip, and please remember to always drink within your limits. Never journey home by yourself at night, and never leave another person in the group alone. Always follow the legal drinking age limit, which in Singapore is 18.
- Drugs are illegal. If our guides see you committing any crime while traveling with us, they are obliged to report to Head Office and to the police, so please don’t put them in that position!
- The food is delicious throughout Singapore, and you won’t be able to get enough of it. Try anything and everything possible. Your guide will be able to recommend all of the best spots.
Pack patience:
- You may meet many people from lots of different backgrounds and cultures on this trip. You may have different opinions or ways of doing things. Treat everyone how you wish to be treated and remember to work together as a group.
- Please bear in mind that Singapore has it’s own unique culture that at times can be very different to your home country. Some systems or ways of doing things which you may take for granted back home aren’t necessarily the same, so please be patient. Sometimes things don’t run like they may back home, despite our best efforts.
Navigating a new culture:
- Be respectful of local culture and dress appropriately at any temples or religious sites. You may need to cover your shoulders, wear longer trousers and go barefoot.
- Be polite and kind.
In case of Emergencies
No matter where you are or what you do, safety always comes first. We conduct our own health and safety checks but sometimes things happen that our out of our control.
Emergency services numbers are listed below:
Police Emergency: 999
Emergency Ambulance & Fire SCDF: 995
Non-Emergency Ambulance: 1777
To contact our staff:
Email: mytrip@thedragontrip.com
24/7 emergency contact number: +65 3158 0233
Contact Us
Any questions or feedback?
Contact our London Team: info@thedragontrip.com
(Please note that this email is monitored from Monday to Friday between 9:00 and 17:30 (Friday 17:00) UK time, if you have any urgent issues, such as flight delays or cancelling the trip at the last minute, please contact our Operations Team.)
Contact our Operations team: mytrip@thedragontrip.com
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