If you wondering to stay in Singapore than Tanjung Katong is one great place that I highly recommend you to live and get local vibe, by the way my name is Bima and thank you for visiting my blog.
Back in January 2019 I was asking my family to visit Singapore, especially to my son Rambo, this gonna be his first flight so I’m pretty sure he gonna feel scary but excited in the same time. We woke up at 4 am because there is one direct flight from Yogyakarta to Singapore by Air Asia, a best budget airlines that already bring me and whole family to sightseeing the world. We went to the airport by Go-Car, the most common online transportation platform here in Indonesia and spend around US$3,5 to go to Adisucipto Airport, the only one airport before now we got a new YIA, Yogyakarta International Airport.
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Several weeks before we go, I ask my wife about where we gonna live because now it’s already our 6 times to exploring Singapore. We ever stay in Bugis, Boon Lay, and around Geyland so now we gonna find our next area to stay with local vibe, hopefully we also found local people housing with tons of tasty food surrounding.
We always browsing on Google and read few travel blogs so we can find a new place to stay called,
Tanjung Katong!
Finally we found this name, not so familiar because before this trip I just like common tourist who stay in most famous area like Orchard, Chinatown or Clarke Quay, those places are amazing but if you want to feel like staying in your home than an area like Tanjung Katong will the reliable.
Our host Andy who live in China told me that the easiest way to go to Tanjung Katong is by ride the MRT from Changi and step out on Paya Lebar or Dakota MRT Station. If we stop at Paya Lebar than we must ride the bus number 135 but if we able to stop in Dakota than we can walk within 15-20 minutes to arrive in Tanjung Katong, a best place to us for stay during next 4 days.
May be I’m not following Andy’s direction properly so when we walk out from Dakota MRT Station than I got wrong exit so we have to walk around 800 meter in the hot sunny day even I could tell you that we were so excited during that day. Our Airbnb host was so cooperative and responsive so he deliver great and detail information where we can find our Airbnb house in so easy, even all the door code was so correct and we easily able to get into the room on that day.
We arrive at our house around 1.30 pm and the best place to stay around this area is, it was so cozy and peaceful comparing to visit other ridiculous touristic place. Since we gonna see the Spectra Water and Laser show in Marina Bay Sand tonight so we decide to sleep and take a rest in the afternoon so my kids are able to stay relax after his first flight. One thing that I’m not realize is after 1,5 hours sleep than there is a hard rain in Singapore even I got my t-shirt wet within a second once I walk out from the house. It’s unpredictable story because I bring all the kids on this journey and want to let them know about Singapore.
It already 5 pm and we already get hungry so I decide to pick up my umbrella and walk under the hard rain to find some foods till I found one great place which selling local and cheap food.
I asked the food cart person to make 3 boxes of this rice, fresh boiled broccoli, and sweet chicken sauce cost S$3,90 each, than I go to the nearest 7 Eleven to buy some bread and chocolate cookies because my kids definitely love it so much and the rest is papaya on a styrofoam, surely I think it’s quite enough to fulfil our hunger and save our money than buying some foods around Marina Bay Sands.
Recommendation to Stay Around Tanjung Katong
For the past 5 years I get used to stay in two accommodation platform, it’s Agoda.com and Airbnb.com, but today I prefer to live in a local house that already provide on Airbnb. So down here I give you some recommendation to stay in Tanjung Katong Singapore:
If you see above that there is around US$62 per night for family so the price are great and it could safe your budget for sure comparing to live in a regular hotels. If you never used an Airbnb before so you could try to stay through this platform and enjoying my Airbnb stay voucher to safe more budget. Some local properties are provide you with an elevator so if you go with family just like me, I bring 3 kids, 8 years, 6 years, and 1,5 years so I must carrying my baby stroller and going up to the 3rd floor without elevator was so taught but this is what we choose to saving our travel budget.
Photos About Tanjung Katong
This place was so amazing even my kids always miss it so much, now I’m gonna share to you some pictures that I personally took in several spots around Tanjung Katong.
I used to walk around before my kids are wake up so I step down to the main street of Tanjung Katong Rd around 5.45 am and walk around 1 km surrounding my house. I think this area was so prime because I saw so many big houses surrounding even they got a luxury car like BMW and Porsche right in their garage.
Air was so fresh and less pollution so definitely I could enjoying this area so much. Now I hope you enjoying for what I get during staying in Tanjung Katong area.
Please Remind, Food Around Tanjung Katong Also Amazing
Actually there so many famous and tasty food around Tanjung Katong because this is what my host Andy told to me so if you choose to stay around this area than I sure that you don’t get hungry because some restaurant also open till 2 am and of course there is a 24 hours 7 Eleven which provide you with cheap and reliable frozen food and you can enjoying it just within few second on the microwaves.
Just see some of Tanjung Katong’s tasty and gourmet food that I had,
Looks yummy right?
The most important things about this stomach part is, all of those food are so cheap. Sea food chinese fried rice is cost for S$4 than tasty chicken Hainan rice is cost for just S$5, drinks….you could get an Ice tea for just S$1.80 so generally it will save your budget more and more.
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So this is the end of my Tanjung Katong Singapore story and I hope it could give you another impression and information about Singapore, to all of you who buy my photos than I personally wanna say thank you for your kind support because all your great efforts will help me to travel more and shoot many more photos that will inspire all the readers.
So thank you again for coming to my blog and I’ll see you soon on other stories.
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