Belated Christmas present at Marina Bay Sands

For Christmas, Nick always gets me something amazing (this year was another classic in the form of a very sparkly diamond and sapphire ring), whilst I always insist on getting him a ridiculous stocking full of tat, but scattered with a couple of things worth having. Along with this years Lego selection and Terry’s Chocolate Orange, I also included a note card in the stocking, announcing that I had arrange for us to stay at a room in Marina Bay Sands this Friday night.

Marina Bay Sands is one of the most recognisable buildings in the world. The entire three-prong structure is a huge hotel, with the ship at the top containing a couple of bars and restaurants, but mostly playing home to the huge swimming pool that stretches almost the entire length on one side.  The building stands out from the rest of the city, looking into the heart of the CBD, and whist as a member of the public you can pop up to the top for drink from the very expensive bar, you are only able to use their incredible infinity pool if you’re staying at the hotel.

            As soon as I arrived in Singapore I knew that I was going to have to get in the pool at least once before we relocate back to the UK, and so this weekend was the weekend to cross it off my lengthy Singapore list.

A pool with a view

Having both managed to escape from work at around 4pm, we made our way straight to the hotel (a whole two minute walk from work for Nick) and checked into our room, which had an incredible view of the city.

            The rest of the daylight hours were spent soaking up the sun and enjoying the view from the pool, where we some how managed to secure chairs directly on the edge of the water, in the quietest section of the pool. From here we enjoyed the view, we swam and hung over the edge of the pool looking out onto the city and we even enjoyed a cheeky sun downer as the cloudy sky turned pink and most of the other guests began making their way in for their nights out on the town.

Up on the roof!

From here on, we didn’t leave the hotel until we were forced to check out at 11am the next day. We had a very casual, delicious dinner one floor below, we slept long and late until the following morning, we enjoyed room service breakfast in bed (apparently the first time that Nick had ever had room service) and then when 11am came, we dropped in our key cards at the very last possible moment. It was lunchtime on Saturday and we had already had quite a weekend adventure – but there was more still to come! 

The amazing view from our room!