Things to Do With Kids in Changi, Loyang and Jewel

16 September 2026 · 15 min read

Changi is the only town in Singapore where the best thing to do involves leaving Singapore's main island. The bumboat from Changi Point Ferry Terminal costs $4 each way, takes ten minutes, and departs when twelve passengers are aboard. There is no timetable to check and no ticket to book.

That is the first thing to understand about things to do with kids in Changi. The airport is what the search results are full of, and Jewel deserves its reputation, but the airport is one entry in this guide and the coast is four. Changi has 28 hectares of beach park, a 1.78 hectare boardwalk on stilts over the sea, a 3.6 kilometre coastal cycling route that only opened in 2022, and an island ten minutes offshore with a 100 hectare wetland on it.

Sixteen places follow, verified in September 2026 against NParks, the National Heritage Board, the National Environment Agency, Changi Airport Group, Jewel and each operator's own site. Eight cost nothing. Four have a closure or a restriction that most guides have not caught, including a hawker centre that shuts for a fortnight in October and an airport play area you cannot reach without a boarding pass. We say so rather than sending you there.

For the towns either side, the Bedok guide covers the pools and playgrounds inland, and the Tampines guide covers the estate to the west.

Beaches, boardwalks and the coast

1. Changi Beach Park

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Changi Beach Park is 28 hectares of NParks coastline running along Nicoll Drive and Changi Coast Road. There are 20 barbecue pits by the beach, playgrounds, fitness equipment and seven car parks holding 359 car lots between them. The promontory looks across the water to Pulau Ubin, which is a useful way to show a child where the boat in entry 5 is going.

Two things to know before you pack. NParks states that camping and tents are not allowed, which contradicts a great deal of older advice online. The intertidal area has sharp rocks and spiny wildlife, so covered shoes matter more here than at East Coast.

Why kids will love it: Real sand, real waves, and boats moving across the strait the whole time you are there. Children who have only met the sea at a wave pool find the tide going in and out genuinely interesting for about forty minutes. Come before 10am. There is very little shade on the sand and the car parks fill on a Saturday.

View on Jungle: Changi Beach Park
Website: NParks, Changi Beach Park
Address: Along Nicoll Drive and Changi Coast Road, Singapore 498991. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours.
Price: Free. Car park charges apply.
Getting there: Bus 2 from Tanah Merah (EW4), bus 29 from Tampines or bus 59 to Changi Village Bus Terminal, then walk. Changi Airport MRT (CG2) is 3.6 km away, so do not plan to walk it.

2. Changi Point Coastal Walk

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The Changi Point Coastal Walk is a 1.78 hectare boardwalk that runs on stilts along the shore near Changi Village, divided by NParks into six sections. It carries you over water, past moored boats and along a low cliff, and it joins the Eastern Coastal Loop and the Round Island Route at either end. It is open at all hours and it is free.

One closure matters. The section between Cliff Walk and Creek Walk is shut for repairs and NParks expects it to reopen on 31 December 2026. You can still walk the rest, but plan a there-and-back rather than a loop until that date.

Why kids will love it: The boardwalk is over the sea, not beside it, so a four-year-old can look through the gaps in the planks at water moving underneath. Fishing boats pass close enough to wave at. Most of it takes a pushchair, though a few steps drop down to the sand. Bring insect repellent for the creek end.

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Website: NParks, Changi Boardwalk
Address: Along Changi Village Road near the Civil Service Club, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours. The Cliff Walk to Creek Walk section is closed for repairs until 31 December 2026.
Price: Free.
Getting there: Bus 2, 29 or 59 to Changi Village Bus Terminal, then a 5 minute walk.

3. Changi Bay Point and the Changi Bay Park Connector

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The Changi Bay Park Connector opened in January 2022 and runs 3.6 kilometres from Changi Beach Park to the East Coast park connector network, closing the last gap in the eastern arm of the Round Island Route. Changi Bay Point is the rest node partway along: a boardwalk out onto a breakwater, a pavilion with benches facing open water, shelters, bicycle parking and toilets. Two cycling bridges about 80 metres long carry the path between Changi Coast Road and Tanah Merah Coast.

This is the least visited stretch of coast in eastern Singapore, which is the whole appeal. On a weekday morning you will meet very few other people.

Why kids will love it: A flat, sealed, traffic-free path with the sea on one side for 3.6 kilometres, which is the exact condition a child who has just lost the stabilisers needs. The two bridges are the reward. Older children can ride the whole way to East Coast Park and back. Carry water, because there are no shops between Changi Beach Park and the far end.

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Website: NParks, Changi Bay Park Connector
Address: Changi Coast Road, between Changi Beach Park and Tanah Merah Coast Road, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours.
Price: Free.
Getting there: Ride in from Changi Beach Park at the northern end, or from East Coast Park at the southern end. There is no bus stop at Changi Bay Point itself.

4. Changi Jurassic Mile and the Changi Airport Connector

The Changi Jurassic Mile is a kilometre of outdoor path lined with more than 20 life-sized prehistoric creatures from nine species, the tallest standing almost 5 metres high. Changi Airport Group calls it the largest permanent outdoor display of its kind in Singapore. It sits on the Changi Airport Connector, a 3.5 kilometre cycling and jogging path that links Terminal 4 to East Coast Park, and it is open 24 hours a day at no charge.

You reach it on foot or by bicycle. The nearest entrance is at Terminal 4 Level 1 by the arrival pick-up doors. From Terminal 2 it is about 2 kilometres along the connector, and bicycles are for hire at Hub and Spoke beside Terminal 2 from S$8 an hour through GoCycling.

Why kids will love it: Twenty dinosaurs at full size, outdoors, free, with a Tyrannosaurus at the end and aircraft climbing overhead the whole way. A three-year-old will want to touch every one. There is no shade on the path, so go after 5pm.

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Website: Changi Airport, Jurassic Mile
Address: Changi Airport Connector, Terminal 4 Level 1, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours.
Price: Free. Bicycle hire at Hub and Spoke from S$8 an hour.
Getting there: Changi Airport MRT (CG2), then the shuttle to Terminal 4 and out at Level 1. Buses 24, 34, 36 and 110 also serve Terminal 4.

Out on the water

5. Pulau Ubin, by bumboat from Changi Point

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Pulau Ubin is ten minutes off Changi Point and it is the closest thing Singapore has to the 1960s. The bumboat leaves from Changi Point Ferry Terminal at 51 Lorong Bekukong. NParks states the fare as $4 per person each way with $2 more for a bicycle, that boats run from 6am to 7pm daily, and that a boat departs when twelve passengers are aboard. That last detail is the one to plan around: at 8am on a Sunday you will wait minutes, and at 9am on a Tuesday you may wait considerably longer.

Once across, the village has bicycle hire and van services, and the island's tracks run through old plantations, quarries and kampong houses.

Why kids will love it: You board a small wooden boat with no seat belts and an outboard engine, and ten minutes later there are wild boar, chickens in the road and no traffic lights. For most Singapore children this is the least Singaporean hour of their year. Take cash for the boat and the bicycles, and go early, because the last boat back is at 7pm and it also waits for twelve.

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Website: NParks, Visit Pulau Ubin
Address: Changi Point Ferry Terminal, 51 Lorong Bekukong, Singapore 499172. Google Maps
Opening hours: Boats run 6am to 7pm daily and leave when 12 passengers are aboard.
Price: $4 per person each way. $2 more for a bicycle.
Getting there: Bus 2, 29 or 59 to Changi Village Bus Terminal, then a 5 minute walk through the hawker centre car park.

6. Chek Jawa Wetlands, Pulau Ubin

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Chek Jawa sits at the eastern tip of Pulau Ubin, about 3 kilometres from the jetty, and it is roughly 100 hectares where six ecosystems meet: sandy beach, rocky beach, seagrass lagoon, coral rubble, mangrove and coastal forest. There is a visitor centre, a kilometre of boardwalk split into a 600 metre Coastal Loop and a 500 metre Mangrove Loop, and the 21 metre Jejawi Tower. NParks says both loops take about an hour and a half.

Two current restrictions, both from the NParks notices page dated 12 September 2026. A section of the Coastal Loop boardwalk closed for maintenance on 15 September 2026 and is expected to reopen on 30 April 2027. The guided Chek Jawa Wetlands Tour is suspended until further notice while the floating pontoon is repaired. The Mangrove Loop, the open part of the Coastal Loop, the tower and the visitor centre stay open.

Why kids will love it: Climbing 21 metres up the Jejawi Tower to look out over the mangrove canopy, then walking a boardwalk where mudskippers and crabs are moving about under the planks at low tide. Check the tide before you go, because at high water the mudflat is just water. It is a 40 minute walk from the jetty, so hire a bicycle or a van with small children.

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Website: NParks, Chek Jawa Wetlands
Address: Eastern tip of Pulau Ubin, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: 7am to 7pm daily. Part of the Coastal Loop is closed until 30 April 2027 and the guided tour is suspended.
Price: Free.
Getting there: Bumboat to Pulau Ubin, then about 3 km east by bicycle, van or a 40 minute walk.

7. Ketam Mountain Bike Park, Pulau Ubin

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Ketam Mountain Bike Park is about 10 kilometres of track around the fringes of Ketam Quarry, built by NParks to international competition standard. It is on the western side of Pulau Ubin, past the village, and NParks is plain that it is meant for experienced mountain bikers rather than a family on hired village bicycles.

Take that at face value. The right use of this entry for most families is the quarry itself, which the trail loops around, and the flat approach road to it. The technical sections are not a place to discover that your ten-year-old's brakes are worn.

Why kids will love it: A flooded granite quarry with sheer orange walls, which looks nothing like anywhere else in Singapore and photographs beautifully. Confident riders aged about 12 and up with their own bicycle get a genuine cross-country course. Younger children should stop at the quarry viewpoint and turn back.

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Website: NParks, nature based recreation on Ubin
Address: Western Pulau Ubin, by Ketam Quarry, Singapore. Google Maps
Opening hours: Daylight only in practice, since the last bumboat back is at 7pm.
Price: Free.
Getting there: Bumboat to Pulau Ubin, then about 2 km west from the village jetty.

8. Adventure Paddlers

Adventure Paddlers runs kayaking and stand-up paddleboarding on this stretch of coast, with a base at the Civil Service Club at Changi and a second at Ohana Beach House at the Loyang end of the shoreline. Their published sessions include an introduction to stand-up paddleboarding, a one-star kayaking certification course and guided marine debris cleanups, which children usually find more satisfying than a plain lesson.

Be aware of two things. They do not publish opening hours, so everything runs on advance booking. Jungle's listing gives the address as 159W Jalan Loyang Besar, while the operator's own site gives the Changi base at 2 Netheravon Road. Confirm which venue your session runs from when you book.

Why kids will love it: Standing up on a board in flat water off Changi is the sort of first that a child talks about for a term. The cleanup sessions turn a paddle into a treasure hunt, and children who are bored by drills are rarely bored by fishing rubbish out of the sea. Ages depend on the session, so ask when booking.

Book on Jungle: Adventure Paddlers
Website: Adventure Paddlers
Address: 2 Netheravon Road #S03-01B, Civil Service Club at Changi, Singapore 508503. Google Maps
Opening hours: Not published. Sessions run on advance booking.
Price: Introduction to stand-up paddleboarding $50 to $80. One-star kayaking course $85. Marine debris cleanup $25 to $60.
Ages: Varies by session. Confirm with the operator.
Getting there: Bus 2, 29 or 59 to Changi Village Bus Terminal for the Changi base. Changi Airport MRT (CG2) is 3.8 km away.

Jewel and the airport terminals

9. Jewel Changi Airport

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Jewel is the one place here that needs no introduction, so this is the version that saves you money. The Jewel Rain Vortex falls 40 metres through seven storeys and it is free to stand and watch. The light and music showcase runs at 8pm and 9pm from Monday to Thursday, and at 8pm, 9pm and 10pm from Friday to Sunday and on public holidays and their eves. The Forest Valley around it is also free.

Canopy Park on Level 5 is the ticketed part, and the ticket you buy matters. Base admission is $8 standard or $6 for Singapore residents, and it covers the Discovery Slides, the Foggy Bowls, the Petal Garden and the Topiary Walk. The Hedge Maze, Mirror Maze, Canopy Bridge, Walking Net and Bouncing Net are extra, sold as bundles from $39 for an adult and $29 for a child up to $71 and $50. There is a minimum height of 110 cm, and children aged 3 to 12 need a paying adult with them.

Why kids will love it: The Discovery Slides are inside the cheapest ticket, and for many children the $6 entry plus a free hour at the Rain Vortex is the whole visit. The Bouncing Net at the top of the bundle is a trampoline suspended above the mall floor. Buy the base ticket first and add attractions on the day rather than committing to a bundle you will not finish.

View on Jungle: Canopy Park at Jewel Changi Airport
Website: Jewel Changi Airport, Canopy Park
Address: Level 5, Jewel Changi Airport, 78 Airport Boulevard, Singapore 819666. Google Maps
Opening hours: Canopy Park 10am to 9pm Monday to Thursday, 10am to 10pm Friday to Sunday, eves and public holidays. Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
Price: Rain Vortex and Forest Valley free. Canopy Park $8, or $6 for Singapore residents. Bundles $39 adult and $29 child up to $71 and $50.
Nearest MRT: Changi Airport (CG2), 400 metres.

10. Changi Experience Studio

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Changi Experience Studio is on Level 4 of Jewel and it is a digital museum about the airport itself, built as a set of interactive and game-based exhibits rather than glass cases. It is the wet-weather answer in this part of town, and it is the one paid indoor attraction in Changi that is not a climbing wall.

Pricing rewards residents heavily. Standard tickets are $25 for an adult and $17 for a child or senior. Singapore residents pay $19.80 and $14.80. Children under 5 go free, and every child ticket needs a paying adult alongside it.

Why kids will love it: The exhibits are games with scores, which turns a museum into a competition between siblings and suits children who cannot stand still in a normal gallery. Best for ages 5 to 12. Under-fives get in free, so a mixed-age family only pays for the older ones. Buy resident tickets online before you arrive: the saving is $5.20 an adult.

View on Jungle: Changi Experience Studio
Website: Changi Experience Studio
Address: Level 4, Jewel Changi Airport, 78 Airport Boulevard, Singapore 819666. Google Maps
Opening hours: 11am to 8pm Monday to Friday, last admission 7pm. 10am to 8pm Saturday, Sunday and public holidays.
Price: $25 adult and $17 child or senior standard. $19.80 and $14.80 for Singapore residents. Free under 5.
Nearest MRT: Changi Airport (CG2), 400 metres.

11. Climb at T3

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Climb at T3 is a sports climbing facility on Public Level B3 of Terminal 3, which is the important word: it is in the public area, so you do not need a boarding pass. There are boulder walls 12 metres long and 2.5 metres high with no ropes, and an 8 metre high wall on auto-belay with 20 routes. Changi Airport Group says children can climb from the age of two, with two and three-year-olds restricted to the boulder wall.

One published figure worth knowing: a supervising adult who is not climbing pays $10 and can oversee up to two children. Climb passes themselves are not published on either the operator's site or the airport's page, so ask before you travel.

Why kids will love it: An 8 metre wall on an auto-belay means a six-year-old can go all the way to the top alone and be lowered gently, which is not something most gyms allow. The boulder wall is low enough for a two-year-old to traverse sideways. Weekday afternoons are quiet. Book ahead for weekends and school holidays.

Book on Jungle: Climb at T3
Website: Climb at T3
Address: Changi Airport Terminal 3, B3-01/02, public area, 65 Airport Boulevard, Singapore 819663. Google Maps
Opening hours: 11am to 8pm Sunday to Thursday. 11am to 9.30pm Friday, Saturday and public holidays.
Price: Contact provider for pricing. A supervising adult who is not climbing pays $10 for up to two children.
Ages: From 2. Ages 2 to 3 on the boulder wall only.
Nearest MRT: Changi Airport (CG2), inside Terminal 3.

12. 2 Bears Hideout, Terminal 2

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2 Bears Hideout is a woodland-themed play area for children aged 6 to 12, open 24 hours, and it is the entry in this guide with the biggest catch. Changi Airport Group places it at Terminal 2, Transit Level 2. Transit means airside, past immigration, so you can only use it if you are flying that day and holding a boarding pass.

It is in here because Changi is a town where families fly often, and because directory listings, Jungle's included, present it as an ordinary family activity without mentioning the boarding pass. If you are seeing off a relative, you cannot go in. If you have a three-hour wait before a flight to Bangkok, it is the best free hour at the airport.

Why kids will love it: A forest built indoors, with climbing and hiding places, at the exact point in a journey when a nine-year-old has run out of patience with the departure gate. It is free and it is open at 3am, which is when a good number of Changi's flights leave.

View on Jungle: 2 Bears Hideout
Website: Changi Airport, 2 Bears Hideout
Address: Changi Airport Terminal 2, Transit Level 2, 60 Airport Boulevard, Singapore 819643. Google Maps
Opening hours: Open 24 hours.
Price: Free, but airside. A boarding pass is required.
Ages: 6 to 12.
Nearest MRT: Changi Airport (CG2), but only with a boarding pass for that day.

History and heritage

13. Changi Chapel and Museum

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Changi Chapel and Museum tells the story of the prisoners of war and civilians interned at Changi between 1942 and 1945, through letters, drawings and objects they made, with a replica chapel in the courtyard. The National Heritage Board runs it, and it is the most substantial indoor hour in this part of Singapore.

It is free for Singapore citizens and permanent residents. Standard admission is $9 for an adult and $7 concession for students and seniors, children aged 6 and under go free, and a family package covering five people with up to three adults is $27. Payment has been cashless only since 1 April 2025.

Why kids will love it: Love is the wrong word and the museum knows it. What holds children is the detail: a home-made compass, a set of drawings done in secret, a chapel built from what people had. It suits about 9 and up. Younger siblings will need the courtyard. Allow an hour, and read the room before you go into the section on the Sook Ching.

View on Jungle: Changi Chapel and Museum
Website: Changi Chapel and Museum
Address: 1000 Upper Changi Road North, Singapore 507707. Google Maps
Opening hours: 9.30am to 5.30pm Tuesday to Sunday. Closed Mondays except public holidays. Last admission 5pm.
Price: Free for citizens and permanent residents. $9 adult, $7 concession, free for children 6 and under, family package $27.
Getting there: Bus 2 or 29 to the Changi Chapel Museum stop. Changi Airport MRT (CG2) is 1.6 km away.

14. Loyang Tua Pek Kong Temple

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Loyang Tua Pek Kong is one temple containing shrines from three religions. Taoist deities, a Buddhist Goddess of Mercy and a Malay Datuk Kramat shrine sit under one roof, which is unusual anywhere. The temple's own site gives the hours as 8am to 10pm daily, including weekends and public holidays. Entry is free.

It is at 20 Loyang Way, in the middle of an industrial estate, so it is a stop rather than an afternoon.

Why kids will love it: Three religions in one building is a concrete way to explain something that is otherwise abstract, and children pick up on the differences quickly once you point them out. The incense and the scale of the main hall do the rest. Fifteen minutes is enough. Dress covered shoulders, and it is a short drive rather than a walk from anywhere.

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Website: Loyang Tua Pek Kong
Address: 20 Loyang Way, Singapore 508774. Google Maps
Opening hours: 8am to 10pm daily, including weekends and public holidays.
Price: Free.
Getting there: Pasir Ris MRT (EW1) is 2.3 km away. Most families drive.

Where to eat in Changi Village

15. Changi Village Market and Food Centre

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Changi Village Market and Food Centre at Blocks 2 and 3 Changi Village Road is the reason people who grew up in the east still drive out here. It is a short walk from the ferry terminal, the boardwalk and the beach park, which means it closes every Changi outing neatly.

One warning that matters this month. The National Environment Agency's own announcement lists this centre as closed for Repairs and Redecoration from 1 October 2026 to 15 October 2026. If your plan falls in that fortnight, eat in Changi Village itself or at Hub and Spoke by Terminal 2 instead.

Why kids will love it: Nasi lemak with a fried chicken wing, eaten ten minutes after getting off a boat, at a table where a child can watch the bumboats come in. The queue at the famous nasi lemak stalls runs long on a Sunday, so send one adult to queue while the other finds a table and orders something quicker for the children.

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Website: NEA, hawker centre announcements
Address: Blocks 2 and 3 Changi Village Road, Singapore 500002. Google Maps
Opening hours: Stall hours vary. Closed 1 October 2026 to 15 October 2026 for Repairs and Redecoration.
Price: Varies by stall. NEA does not publish stall prices.
Getting there: Bus 2, 29 or 59 to Changi Village Bus Terminal, which is next door.

16. The Coastal Settlement

The Coastal Settlement is a restaurant and cafe in an old house at 200 Netheravon Road, filled with vintage motorcycles, jukeboxes and salvaged furniture, with an outdoor section under trees. It is the sit-down alternative when the hawker centre is shut or when you want a table with air conditioning after a morning on the sand.

It is a proper restaurant rather than a family cafe. There is no play area and the menu is local and Western a la carte rather than a children's set. The upside is space: the grounds are large enough that a restless child is not a problem, and there is a private car park plus free public parking on Turnhouse Road.

Why kids will love it: The building is full of things children are not usually allowed near, including motorcycles indoors and a wall of old signs and toys. Younger children treat the walk between tables as the attraction. Book ahead for weekend brunch, which is the busiest service of the week.

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Website: The Coastal Settlement
Address: 200 Netheravon Road, Singapore 508529. Google Maps
Opening hours: 10.30am to 11pm Monday to Friday. 8.30am to 11pm Saturday and public holidays. 8.30am to 10pm Sunday.
Price: A la carte. Contact the restaurant for current menu pricing.
Getting there: Pasir Ris MRT (EW1) and Changi Airport MRT (CG2) are both 3.7 km away. Most families drive.

Enrichment classes in Changi you can book on Jungle

Changi is a thin town for weekly classes, and it is worth saying so plainly. The estate is mostly coastline, airport and business park, with very few HDB blocks and therefore very few enrichment centres. Jungle lists two class providers with a Changi address, and both sit in the business park rather than the village.

• Climb at T3, Changi Airport Terminal 3 B3-01/02, public area. Sports climbing from age 2, with an 8 metre auto-belay wall. Book on Jungle.
• BearyFun Gym at Changi, 8 Changi Business Park Avenue 1, #B1-51 ESR BizPark at Changi, Singapore 486018. Recreational gymnastics in a 4,200 square foot gym, classes Tuesday to Sunday, from 18 months to teenagers, with a $50 trial. Book on Jungle.
• Adventure Paddlers, water sports on the Changi and Loyang shoreline, covered at entry 8. Book on Jungle.

If you live in Changi or Loyang and want a weekly class, the practical catchments are Pasir Ris and Tampines, both about fifteen minutes by car.

At a glance

Changi rewards the family that gets up early and takes the bus to the end of the line. Start at the ferry terminal, be on the first full boat, and you will be eating nasi lemak by noon.

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