My fiancee and I were down at Singapore last month when he got back from Middle East to drop his sister at Tempenis (did I spell it right?) and we didn't want to stay with them so we decided to stay in a cheap hotel where we parked our car. We checked a few hotels around and this was the cheapest we found in the area. I think we paid around SGD 100 for a standard room. We were soo lucky we got a lovely room at the top most floor of the hotel. Next time you go to this branch of hotel 81, ask for room 501. You can virtually climb on the root and watch the night skyline from there. YES! ROOFTOP! One thing though the lift only stops at 3rd floor so you got to lug your luggage all the way to 5th floor. When we stayed there, they had this rack of dirty towels and linen lying around all over the stairs to the 5th floor. We had to thread over it to get to our room. There's this small swing right outside our room and the nice balmy weather made it nice for us to drink and enjoy the skyline at night. The was one problem tho, the air cond was leaking and there was a towel placed underneath it to collect the puddling water. Typically Singaporean, the loo had combs and toothbrush. There was a bathtub too, and the water force was relatively good. The TV was too small tho..well all in all, I'd say this is a good place to stay at night, and 501 is so peaceful and quiet at night..
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