I'm thinking of having a quick trip to Singapore soon, and have been checking out the cost of budget hotels. I've learnt to avoid Hotel 81, as it seems that many Singaporeans treat it effectively as their "love hotel" chain, where rooms can be hired for a couple of hours. (While that may make little difference to me in my room, at least if the walls are soundproof enough, it would indicate a lot of housecleaning goes on all day, which can make the corridors untidy.)
There are many Ibis budget hotels, though, and one is a bit out of the way but close to the big Vivo shopping centre which I visited last time. (It's just across from Sentosa Island, too - which I have yet to actually visit.)
Anyway, two reviews of this particular hotel make complaint about the wild chickens of Singapore waking them up!:
Rooms are tiny, overpriced, and the chickens wake you up every morning at 3 am. Staff is friendly, but that is the only thing good.
And:
Dont stay here if you want to sleep. There are dozens of wild chickens and at least 6 roosters that start around 4am every day, they will drive you crazy.
The hotel replies to the last comment with this:
Many of our guests have found the fowls to be interesting as our natural surroundings provide a very different vibe away from city. This is the first time we have received a feedback from our guests that they found them to be noisy.
I have posted before about my surprise at seeing attractive wild chickens even around the very built up Tanjong Pagar area. They are pretty, but yeah, I would prefer not to be woken up by them...
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