The Singapore river cruise is a good introduction to Singapore. It lasts about 40 minutes and recorded commentary provides the history of the old buildings on either side of the river. The best time to go on the cruise is at dusk, when the lights go on in Marina Bay Sands.

Trying to get a ticket from the ticket box was a nightmare -thank goodness for Get Your Guide. Woman in the ticket office seems to delight in being difficult. Then when I got the ticket she just had to make sarcastic comments-odd customer service. Trip along the river was interesting. Great way to see the buildings from another viewpoint

The river cruise is very good. Great views of Singapore. Excellent recorded commentary. The checkin process is difficult. No direction on where to go if you have a prepaid ticket. Only one queue for tickets and prepaid tickets when we visited. As you have an allocated time for your cruise you think you are going to miss your cruise because the ticket line although short moved very slowly. The reality was it’s a production line. Exchange your Prepaid voucher for a ticket and then get on the queue to wait to board a boat. The woman at the ticket booth was very uninterested in her job and the customers were an inconvenience to her day. If she could have given a little direction when asked instead of just staring at you and waiting for you to work it out yourself which held up the queue the whole experience would have been different. This procedure was repeated for every customer in the line that we saw and she spoke English well so language differences were not the problem.