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The signature treatment offered by Remede Spa at St Regis Hotel, Singapore, is their warm jade massage. Using individually selected green jade stones from around the globe, this energizing and balancing massage will revitalize your body and soul - it's the massage you are meant to have!
For those nights when you can't decide to go out and sip cocktails under the stars or sit on the sofa with a good movie, The Screening Room has the answer. Both! Located on downtown club street, the heart of Singapore's trendy nightspot area, The screening Room brings together four floors of something to do.
Bikram Yoga is the hottest weight loss trend to hit the tropical island of Singapore. You can register for a free class on any holiday and discover it's a great therapeutic activity to wind down from Singapore's retail therapy, before you indulge more in Singapore's infamous food therapy!
Located in the middle of shoppers' delight near Singapore's Orchard Road, at Pacific Plaza on Scotts Rd, Bikram Original Hot Yoga is a heated yogic activity where 26 Hatha postures, and two breathing exercises, are twice performed under remedial temperatures of 41 degrees. Hot? Yes. Benefits? Plenty. In a 90-minute class you will burn approx 900 calories by working on strength, balance, flexibility, and definitely on focus. Forget issues of bad flexibility, this is a beginner class. Bendy or not, Bikram yoga is an activity that will help everyone remember they are alive.
Walking in to the Pacific Plaza studio it's hard not to be drawn to a large wall adorned with pictures of the inventor of Bikram style yoga, Bikram Choudry, greeting international celebs (watch out for my fave David Beckham.) The pamphlet handed to you by friendly reception staff also highlights a strong celebrity following: Madonna, Julia Roberts, Jessica Simpson, Sharon Stone, Matthew Mcconaughey, Elle Macpherson, George Clooney...Google this and the list goes on.
There's good reason celebs are into Bikram yoga - the results of regular classes give you an incredibly toned body - just take a look at any instructor if you're in doubt of its effectiveness. Throw a few classes into your holiday schedule and devouring that extra Singaporean chili crab is a guilt-free luxury.
During class, instructors recite consistent dialogue of the poses, peppered with details of the multiple health benefits. Rapid weight loss, body toning, and strengthening of muscles are yours in the making. Spine strengthening is benefitting muscular and skeletal problems. Your body is helped to regulate diabetes, heart disease, asthma, insomnia, chronic indigestion, blood pressure, and the benefits go on. This is the kind of practice that will keep you healthy well into old age. A class worth trying...
The Bikram Original Hot Yoga studio at Pacific Plaza makes it easy to pop in for a class, then shower, change and continue your tourist day. No need to take a towel or mat, these are provided. Just turn up with water bottle (or buy one there) and clothes easy to move and sweat in. Don't eat food at least three hours prior, or your tummy may feel funny when stretching.
If you arrive early, the studio boasts a chill-out lounge to relax in with mags and international articles on all things Bikram. With two studios, Bikram Original Hot Yoga offer up to 70 classes a week. The huge locker rooms are quite deluxe for a fitness centre and the lockers generously-sized. There are large private showers, with complementary shampoos and soaps, to complete the rejuvenation feeling after class. Plenty of mirrors and the use of hair dryers ensure you leave in as good a condition as when you arrived.
On my visits I liked to arrive early to allow time to meditate in the heat and let my body acclimatize - not hard when it‘s hotter outdoors. As I waited for the evening class to begin, watching the amazing sunset filtering through skyscrapers, I considered stressed-out workers nearby who could truly do with a dose of this ‘escapism' yoga - it really does take your mind somewhere else completely - out of the city and into you!
The Concorde Hotel's Spices Cafe in Singapore is the best place in town to go for Lobster. Extending the affordable luxury experience boasted by the hotelier brand, you can induldge in a seafood buffet guilt-free. Two words which pretty quickly grab the attention of most people when used together are affordable and luxury. Lusting for lobster?...Let's go to Singapore's Concorde Hotel! The Hotel is located in the heart of bustling Singapore, between Doby Gaut and Somerset MRT (train stations). Don't let the mall you have to walk through to get there deter you, for walking into the lobby is a breath of fresh air. As you are offered a chilled orange juice and escape the heat from outside, turn left for The Spices Cafe. A classic black and white decor frames the centrepiece of the room; buffet galore. A colourful and varied large display of elegant gastronomical treats will have you returning again and again for ‘just one more serving...' The Cafe (more of a fine dining restaurant than a cafe) offers an extensive menu of local and western tastebud tantalisers.
I tried, and completely recommend a seafood night at this eatery, in particular the one called Lobster is Served (Harvest of The Sea dinner buffet. In fact seafood lovers should be prepared to drool... This is indeed an evening where you are treated to a smorgasbord of fresh, succulent seafood, with each diner enjoying half a lobster (200g) cooked to perfection with cheese sauce and black pepper sprinklings. A menu of crab dishes is presented for your selection; my recommendation is the black pepper crab and chili crab - both large servings and tasting of the heavens. Appetizers of freshly shucked oysters, scallops, prawns and mussels, or fresh sushi and sashimi are on offer. An impressive cooking station serves up pasta with salmon, squids, prawns, live mussels and mushroom sauce, roma tomato and wine. Main course options feature salmon quiche, or non-seafood choices like ox-tail for something different. And for desert? A selection of mouth watering choices such as crème brule, pear tart, coffee Bavarian... are you hungry yet?
Top tip - make your booking early as the restaurant closes at 10pm, and four hours easily passes in the fun of choosing ‘what to have next'.