Passplanet.com
16 countries & 240 localities in Asia & Central America.
+1900 pages & 700 photos. A free, independent, objective,
reliable, practical & original travel guide, from backpackers
to backpackers!
Backpack
Singapore
This website was born with the intention of providing practical
information about Singapore to backpackers. Backpack Singapore
started by HuiTeng in March 2003.
Independenttraveller.com
The Independent Traveler is an interactive traveler's
exchange and comprehensive online travel guide.
Thebackpacker.net
Welcome to thebackpacker.net, the web’s fastest growing
travel resource for independent travellers.
Backpackers.com
Backpackers.com is your first stop for backpacking and independent
travel. Plan your trip, book hostels, or connect with other
backpackers.
Hostelz.com
Backpackers who saw a need for a better hostels guide website.
offers includes quick searching, original hostel photographs,
genuine unbiased reviews, comments from other backpackers
TrekShare.com
Members have created their own travel website in order to share
images, travelogues, movies, and tips with friends and like-minded
travelers while they are on the road.
Travel-Directory.Org
Providing you with the best web resources for travel, tourism
and vacations including regional information for destinations
worldwide.
Travel
World Directory
web resources for travel, tourism
Backpacker's
Survey
Basic details of what to bring, where to go and
what to do.
Expat
Singapore
An informative resource targeted at the existing
expatriate community as well as those planning on moving to
the city state.
caingram.info
High Adventure around the World with Alan Ingram. Worldwide
mountaineering and adventure travel writing and photography
ITIS
Travelers
Detailed travel guide for Singapore for independent
travelers including budget accommodation and transport information.
Lonely
Planet
Tourist information on Singaporean history, events,
and attractions; includes recommended readings on Singapore.
Lorkin's
Guide
A traveler's guide to Singapore with maps, photos,
and a description of everything you're likely to see and meet.
Singapore
Guide
A virtual tour of interesting places in Singapore.
Detailed information on restaurants, bars, discos and other
entertainment.
Travel
Guide
for Canadians
The Singapore Tourism Board's Canada office gives
travel information on attractions, events, hotels, special offers,
contacts, insights and travel tips.
STB
Slide Library
Tourism, hospitality and travel information;
slides depicting Singapore scenes, tourist attractions, cultural
events,pay for usage and links to useful tourism sites.
This
Week Singapore
E-zine for travellers to Singapore with calendar
of events, basic information, tips and business listings.
Unorthodox
Singapore
Travel guide with a touch of humor for budget
travellers. Links to food, life, images, shopping and places
to stay.
Visit
Singapore
The official STB site for tourist information
including tours, attractions, promotions and events.
VisitorSingapore.com
Contains information on hotel accommodation,
shopping, food, entertainment and local tours.
Attractions
Clarke
Quay
Riverside festival village dedicated to good
times, combining dining, shopping and a heritage inspired Disney-style
adventure ride.
Sentosa
Information
Pictures and basic description with links to
better resources.
Sentosa
Island
Includes information on transport, attractions,
location, events and accommodation.
Singapore
Cable Car
Cable car services to Sentosa Island.
Snow
City
Singapore's first permanent indoor snow centre.
Suntec
City
Links to the activities and events organized.
Underwater
World Singapore
Tropical oceanarium on Sentosa Island including
virtual tours of exhibits and information on programmes, conservation
and education.
Singapore
Ducktours
Tours of the city and harbor on a converted Vietnam
War amphibious craft. Details on the craft, destinations, prices
and local attractions.
Singapore
River Cruises
Includes profile, promotions and price information.
Maps
and Views
Can.com.sg
Locate landmarks such as roads, companies, buildings,
schools, clinics,banks, residential estates.
Street
Directory
Singapore map search engine.
Budget
Airlines
Changi
Int'l Airport
Singapore
Airlines
SilkAir
AirAsia
ValuAir
Australian
Airlines
Lion Air
Airfares
Portals
Zuji.com
ZUJI, Asia-Pacific's most comprehensive
online travel portal, puts the world of travel at your fingertips.
To visit the world, visit ZUJI first.
airfares.com
Airfares, hotels, car rentals, last minute airfares
deal. Booking Portal
Priceline.com
Priceline is the online price leader for last-minute
trips. The biggest names in travel use priceline to sell last-minute
seats on airplanes
Chan
Brothers
Yet another option for online shopping or booking
of airfares.
Buses
to Malaysia
Transnasional
Bus
Backed by more than 30 years of experience servicing
millions passengers all over the nation, Transnasional is the
largest leading transportation operator in Malaysia.
Gunungraya
Provides express coach to main cities of West
Malaysia and Southern part of Thailand.
Plusliner
Operator of the Plusliner and NiCE Executive Coach services
plying the North-South Expressway, covering major towns and
cities sprawled across Malaysia
Alisan
Yet another option on buses to Malaysia
Hasry
Provides coach services for individual travellers, backpackers
and commuters of Singapore to various destination in West Malaysia.
Konsortium
Providing various tour packages as well as express and charter
coach services.
Aeroline
Aeroline is a First Class Shuttle serving the Kuala Lumpur to
Singapore Route.
Trains
to Malaysia
www.seat61.com
A really excellent site for rail travel. Highly
recommended
Ktmb
The more popular routes among passengers
include Kuala Lumpur – Hatyai, Kuala Lumpur – Singapore,
Kuala Lumpur – Tumpat and Singapore – Tumpat.
More
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Google
My search Engine, still. They use to be uncommercialised,
but now give tainted results based on sponsored links.
Yahoo!
My
other search engine, more truthful. Almost showing it for what
it is.
Microsoft Corporation
For our software updates and support for Windows
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Link
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Welcome
to The InnCrowd Hostel Singapore!
This
is a site about travelling to Singapore on the cheap
We'll
help point you in the right direction
This
is a site with a whole lot of pictures of Singapore
A picture speaks a thousand
words
This is a site about having fun in Singapore
What
locals do, and where they do it
This
is a site about a backpackers hostel
Right smack in Historic Little India
This
is a site about a dream. Our dream
We
at The InnCrowd Hostel Singapore, hope we're doing something
that benefits backpackers or travellers coming to or
passing through or backpacking Singapore. Chances are,
we're not going to be on the list of recipients for
the nobel peace prize anytime soon, but we're working
towards it.
Hop
on into our Singapore Hostel's site, take a look, contribute,
criticize, whatever's your cuppa tea. Anyhoo, if you need
some information about Singapore, Singapore Hostels, stuff
you want to know about travelling to this country or feedback,
feel free to contact us. We'll
try our best to see how we can help. Cheers! - Hai, The
InnCrowd Hostel Singapore.
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OUR AIM, MISSION & WHY?
Truth be told, we don't really stay much at hostels anymore.
When taking a break from people taking a break or travelling,
it's pretty much hardcore fun, and then hardcore s...leep.
It's just not as fun for me as it was before. It's still
loads of fun meeting the crowd mind you, but it's just
that now, I tend to look at hostels from a different perspective.
How it's run, the staff, cleanliness and stuff, and then
I'll go, "hey! That's not the way I would be doing it!"
or " This is the way it should be done..." Reassuring
no doubt, but I'm spose on vacation remember?
Ah, did I mention that I also snore? It's no fun sleeping in
the same room with a snorer or loud noisy people. I snore
so loud that I sometimes wake myself up, it's that bad.
Like on our last trip to Oz, we were extended the professional
courtesy of having an 8 bunk dorm to ourselves simply
because they didn't have a double, either that or they
picked up on my snoring. Eitherways, for a myriad of reasons,
we seldom bunk nowadays.
Where is all this ranting leading to exactly? Here: We are
fortunate to have been able to crash at some of the nicest
pads around the world, suites in 5 stars hotels and the
likes. So, question is, why does a hostel have to be typically
hostel'ish? The thought brewing on our mind was to cross
a backpackers' hostelling culture with a relatively decent
hotel's standard of furnishing, yet offering the option
of privacy should we wish it in a dormitory environment.
We're
essentially a ma and pa operation, running our pad as
a labor of lurrve.
The equation of marrying both our premise of "The InnCrowd
Hostel Singapore has to be a place that we'd want to stay
at and not leave had we been travelling ourselves."
and "For travellers, by travellers" sums up to
"A higher class of crass".
So, next question. How does one make good-value for money hostel,
better value for money? Think cognitive dissonance and
paradigm shift and there you'll have it: The InnCrowd
Backpackers' Hostel Singapore.
Having
said all that, fact of the matter is simple: Most backpackers
harbor a wish of running a hostel, like them, running
a great hostel is just something I want to do before I
die, like right now.
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OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
 "The Most Promising Tourism Star award for pioneering
efforts in building up a vibrant hostel scene in Singapore,
serving the needs of backpackers." - Singapore Tourism Board
"Best
Hostel Ever!" - This ain't no blurb, it's straight
up gospel. The InnCrowd Hostel Singapore clinched the
Singapore Tourism Award
with the support given to us by all our friends and bunkies.
It's a fantastic feeling to receive well wishes from all
over the world, even fellow hosteliers within Singapore
and the region. THANK YOU!
 Conveyed
in my speechlet during the awards, as much as it's about
balancing a business, we're here more to build the backpacking
culture and the friendships that follow.
We’re
incredibly proud to have won The Singapore Tourism Awards
(incidentally, this is a first for the hostelling scene
in Singapore. YAY!).
The
satisfaction comes not from polishing the plaque or the
dusting of the citation. It stems from having achieved
our aim of having set the standards and precedents for
the backpacking culture in Singapore.
 Sure,
we’re proud of our awards, BUT, the reason this
award means so much to us is because it results directly
from our bunkies' feedback. It’s one thing for the
industry to say we excel at our job, but it’s the
piece of pie to know our bunkies and friends think we
do, and that's where it counts.
We
feel even more pride in the fact that the InnCrowd has
propagated worldwide mostly by the word of mouth. Taking
pride of place is still Our
Guestbook. It lays testament to the direction our
bunkies and us have charted for the hostel, together.
So
what does this all really mean? Nada. Why? Simply because
this award is not about me. This award belongs to "Us".
"Us" being people who have sacrificed for the
hostel. "Us" being the people who keep the hostel
running like the atomic clock. "Us" being the
flesh and blood behind the hostel. "Us" being
friends of The InnCrowd. "Us" being the friends
who believe in The InnCrowd. And last but not least, all
of us who seek the experiences that travel provides.
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LOCATION
 One
BRAND SPANKING NEW and the other NEWLY RENOVATED.
With cozy, friendly, intimate and fun in mind, we
gutted one 2.5 storey and another 3 storey turn of
the century conservation shophouse, re-built, space
planned and out-fitted the interior to be THE ULTIMATE
BACKPACKERS' HOSTEL in sunny Singapore while retaining
all the Glorious Architectural influence of old, albeit
with a twist!
 Both
The InnCrowd Backpackers Hostel Singapore are within
1 min walk of each other and are located at the start
of bustling Historic
Little India Conservation District, the only genuine
ethnic quarter in Singapore.
Straddling the shopping and party belt of
Orchard
Road, Suntec City, boat Quay and the Civic District,
it's the perfect location to start exploring Singapore
from.
 TIP:
Grab the free "Official
Map Of Singapore" from the Airport or Tourist
Information. It focuses on the City Centre. On the
Map, Bugis MRT Station is located on grid 4G, and
The InnCrowd Hostel is on grid 6E, Dunlop Street.
It's an orange colored building.
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ACCESSIBILITY
MRT
(Tube) Mass
Rapid Transit - 6 mins walk from either of the
2 lines , Bugis, Green Line from the Airport, or
Little India, Purple Line.
Public
Buses - SBS
Transit Bus -
3 whole mins walk to any of the 6 bus-stops gives
you access to more than 70+
bus routes plying all over the island.
Taxis
- You ARE in town, you'd probably be just walking
anyways.
Most
of the amenities and attractions in Singapore we have
listed on our website are within sight from our hostel.
There are free shuttle buses to the beaches on the
East Coast Parkway even! Anyhoo, I'd have very much
like to impressively list the 20,000 buses that ply
the roads adjacent to us that heads downtown, but
there's a slight problem, we ARE downtown.
TIP:
You can check with streetdirectory.com
to verify locations.
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ENTERTAINMENT
& FACILITIES
We
have a large but very comfortable and cosy communal
area occupying a full 50% or 172 sqm, you get
more than elbow room here.
 Toilets
& Showers - Country club styled
toilets & showers or open air roof top showers.
Sundecks
- Catch a tan or chill on our roof top sundecks.
Travel
Library - Stocked with a MEGA
COLLECTION of best sellers and UP-TO-DATE
maps, road and travel guides from Lonely
Planet, Rough
Guides, Frommers,
Let's Go
etc.
 Internet
- Edit and burn your trip pics or keep in touch
using wireless Broadband on cutting edge PCs with
LCD flat panel displays.
Pool
& Games - Competition standard
pool table, foosball, Janga, Risks, Pictionery,
Twisters and many other board and card games!
 Pub,
Cheap Beer, Music - Alfresco or
air conditioned comfort, a state of the art sound
system fit for a dance club and DTS audio for our
mega projection and LCD TVs.
 Average
beer prices in atypical pub starts from abt $8'ish,
we've pegged Singapore's
Award Winning Tiger Beer to start from less
than half that. No nonsense discounts. Just nett
prices.
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KITCHEN
& BREAKFAST
 Included
in our price is a HEARTY breakfast. There's eggs,
toast, spreads, fruit jams, coffee, tea and of course,
MARMITE.
i We
have a FULLY equipped stainless steel and maple
kitchen. Yes, there's the kitchen that has to be
cleared after, no matter, but only because that's
what we would want ourselves. Like a Ferrari, a
full kitchen may not be totally necessary to some,
but to us, it's just nice to have.
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SECURITY
& FIRE SAFETY
Our
buildings are permanently locked, armed and monitored.
Entry
into our premises is only through access codes.
On
top of having a constantly manned/wo-manned reception
there
is also an electronic fire zone monitoring system.
There
are other security measures as well, but it would
defeat the purpose if we made it known, be rest
assured it's state-of-the-art and linked to the
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PRIVACY
&
CLEANLINESS
Unheard
of in a dormitory? Not anymore.
You'd have to see it to know. It's a stroke
of genius - so says those who have bunked here.
 Skylights
and full height windows allows natural light to
permeate the dorms. Whether you walk or crawl, we
guarantee you a WIDE and CLEAR path to your bed.
Dedicated
space and rooms for securing your backpacks in the
dorms. You won't trip, stumble and fall or be bugged
by the rustle of plastic bags or the un-zipping
of bags when you're crashing, or if you're the one
packing for that matter.
 You
catch your zzz's in style and fully climate controlled
air-conditioned comfort. You get proper fitted cotton
bedding, regularly sanitized orthopedic
pocketed spring mattresses (meeting BCA's
Standards), fluffy support pillows, authentic
woven indian blankets and most importantly, peace
and quiet.
Cleanliness
is next to Godliness. The peeps who run this pad
stays here. The owner stays here. The people who
cleans and keeps this pad in order stays here. This
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| QUICK QUIDE TO OUR WEBSITE |
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FastFacts
-
The "I should have found out about that earlier... "
category. Stuff about Singapore, shopping, budget
accommodations, hostels & stuff that would
be nice to know before you even get here...
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THE INNCROWD
HOSTEL SINGAPORE -
Details on Ver 1.1@Campbell & 2.0@Dunlop. Aside from
giving tips on how to travel around Singapore
cheaply, this site also contains details of
our backpackers' hostel ... More>> |
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OURSELVES -
To start off with, we hope to think we're doing something
that benefits backpackers /travelers coming
to or passing through Singapore. Chances are,
we're not going to be on the list of recipients
for the nobel peace prize anytime soon ...
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WHAT TO EXPECT DURING YOUR STAY
- At The InnCrowd Hostel Singapore, every other day is
an event with us. We're a relatively active
bunch of people. Active not in the sense that
we'd go bungee jumping off the top of buildings
or paragliding over traffic jams ...
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SELF GUIDED WALKING TOURS - We've worked out 10 different full-day self-guided Singapore
tours. These FREE & Printable self guided
tours have been planned and tested by us and
have proven to be a hit for those who have
adopted them ... More>> |
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THE FOOD MECCA
- Visitors who decide to check out a hawker
centre are usually at a loss as to what to
order. We will show you the Singapore way,
with description and where they can be found.
The various types of cheap and mouth-watering
food sold ... More>> |
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FESTIVITIES & EVENTS - We've also picked out several festivals and events in
Singapore which are definitely worth the stay
to experience e.g. Thaipusam ... More>> |
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SCENES OF SINGAPORE
- A pictorial on Singapore.
The sights and smells comes to life in this
categorized gallery of what Singapore is all
about ... More>> |
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THE INNCROWD'S
TRAVEL FORUMS - The
InnCrowd Hostel's very own discussion board
on the ins and outs of Singapore, her neighbors
and whatever that comes to mind. Welcome to
the InnCrowd Hostel's Travel Community ...
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THE
ESSENTIAL TRAVEL LINKS -
or rather, what we think is essential. Good
page to bookmark. Embassies, Hostel Singapore,
credit cards, emergencies, stuff... More>> |
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A GUIDE ON
SHOPPING FOR ELECTRONICS IN SINGAPORE
- Hopefully, this page will
give you an idea about the highs and lows
of shopping for electronics, digital cameras
and stuff in Singapore ... More>> |
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The
Tribe has spoken.
 We
started running of what we thought to be THE Backpackers
Hostel from ground zero. Totally without experience,
zilch, nada. Just from our own experiences, ideals and
expectations. More than that, we also relied on the
feedback and suggestions of our bunkies and thus, we
constantly evolve.
 The
consolation that the buildings belongs to us makes it
less of a pain for
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FESTIVITIES 
Celebrations
at Kampong Gelam. The first-ever light-up at Kampong
Gelam with post Hari Raya celebrations and festivities..JPG)
