Six days in Singapore: districts, gardens and one island

Six days is enough to stop treating Singapore as a stopover. The extra time does not go on more attractions — it goes on visiting each district at the hour it is actually good, which in a city this hot is the whole game. Mornings and evenings do the walking; the middle of the day goes indoors, or nowhere. The budget shown is a mid-range figure for six days on the ground, excluding international flights, and the room is most of it.

The one genuinely different day is Pulau Ubin, and it earns its place precisely because nothing else on this list looks like it. Go early, because the boats leave when they fill rather than to a timetable and there is no shade once you are out on the tracks. Everything else is weather-tolerant: keep the storm-proof options — a museum, a hawker centre, a mall — in reserve for the afternoon a downpour arrives exactly when the map says you should be walking.