We had visited Singapore twice and hotel stay was always our concern. As a budget traveller, we won't expect for a luxury facility but the hotel should be minimum in clean condition. In order to save some taxi fares, we always looked for hotel near to SMRT station. As a result, hotel in Geylang was pop up to match the criteria.
Understand from website that Geylang is a red-light district, but the cheaper hotel stay was attracting us to explore it. After survey the hotel reviews include Agoda and TripAdvisor, Fragrance Hotel Emerald and Hotel 81 Orchid were preferred. These two hotels are quite near, just in different lane.
We took SMRT East West Line to Kallang station. You could take a cab, an easier way to the hotel but we preferred to walk. It took us 10-15 mins to reach the hotel. By following the direction from Google Maps, we could easily find the location. Due to the road from Kallang SMRT station to hotel is in one way design, there is no bus fetching you directly to the destination. However, we could take bus near to hotel to Kallang station. Why? It is one way road design.. The bus stop near to hotel is with ID:80069 (Opp Mohd Salleh Mque). The nearest bus stop to Kallang station is with ID:80101 (Opp Blk 2C). Bus with no. 21 or 26 is running this route. Bus fare is around SGD 0.73.
Both hotels that we stayed were clean and tidy. The room is relatively small but it served the purpose for us to take a rest after whole day trip. Each room is consisted of individual bathroom. Of course, no breakfast served nor room service provided but bottle drinks and coffee sachet was giving away complimentary. Both hotels do provide luggage storage for guests with early arrival and late departure.
There are many food stores around the hotels, covering from Chinese noodle soup to Indian roti canai. We used to take our breakfast in the coffee shop, a plate of mee or chicken rice around SGD 3.00 while a cup of coffee only around SGD 1.00. At night, the food variety even wider, we could easily get seafood or even frog clay pot rice within walking distance.
In overall, we quite satisfy staying in Fragrance Hotel Emerald and Hotel 81 Orchid at Geylang. If you are budget traveller, do consider these hotels. In case your group consists of all lady, perhaps not to go back hotel at late night, safety is always top priority.
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There are indeed a few of the budget hotels in Singapore found in the red light district of Geylang. There are, however, many other budget hotels that are located outside there as well. When you are searching for the hotels, avoid the area in the radius of 1 km from Geylang and you're quite safe.
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