Not only you have Boat's Quays and Charles Quays, which I like to call Ex-pats Land due to the fact that main frequenters are indeed expats, followed by tourists and some rich local. This time I discovered that there are indeed many other crazy spots open all night and where you wouldn't see many expats or tourists at all.
For my third visit in Singapore I decided to drop altogether the tourist stuff and live it a bit more like a local. The original plan was also to rent an apartment for a month in order to really have a feel of what it's like to live here, but the plan turned out to be quite naive as many friends who arrived here months ago are still looking for an apartment and still can't find anything decent for under 2-3000S$ a month.
I didn't see any of the attractions that i had left from my previous visits, (Sentosa island, boat tours, museums, Suntec city, etc) and instead spent my time meeting my friends there and just chilling out in bars.
And contrary to my previous two visits, Singapore revealed its crazy nightlife to me.
Often the starting point of those nights was the Countryside cafe in Little India, a tiny spot frequented by locals and visitors alike (due to some hotels and hostel in the nearby Perak street). On the first night there I met two girls from Austria and some locals, and we ended up in some Chinese song competition where if you like a certain singer you have to buy flowers to her, followed by a Thai rock venue somewhere, with the concert starting at around 2am.
The following night with the same crowd we ended up in a Bollywood nightclub, and again it was until early morning. After a few nights break it was Countryside Cafe again, where this time I met Kathryn, living in KL at the mom, and it was Bollywood club again until after 3. My old friend Suan showed me and Joao The Loof, a very fancy terrace bar on top of a building right across the Raffle's Hotel; great mojitos and a view of the city skyline to die for. With Helen-Alice, Tomas &co. we explored the more “conventional” clubs in Charles Quays, but I also convinced them to check out the Bollywood nightclub once.
Such a pity alcohol erased names and locations of a couple of very good spots, and my faulty SD card erased all pics, so I can only show the one above as I had previously saved it.
So if you thought Singapore doesn't offer much nightlife think again. Locals are not as reserved and difficult to approach as they say (at least not after a drink or two), and they can really show you a different, off the beaten track, and pretty wild Singapore Nightlife.
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