City Outings Journal

Notes on taking a work group out to Singapore's landmark places

Contents
  1. Front page
  2. Jewel with a group
  3. A day in Mandai
  4. Thinking time at the Gardens
  5. Island days
  6. About

Taking a work group out to the city's landmark places

Singapore has a handful of places that almost everyone in a workplace has heard of and most people enjoy visiting. Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore Zoo in Mandai, Gardens by the Bay and Sentosa each give a team day something that a hotel function room cannot: a setting people actually want to be in.

Those same places are also busy public attractions with their own rules, crowds and travel times. A group of forty colleagues behaves very differently from a family of four, and the planning has to reflect that.

What these notes cover

  1. Jewel with a group: moving a team through a busy shared space.
  2. A day in Mandai: travel, heat and etiquette around animals.
  3. Thinking time at the Gardens: using a garden for a retreat rather than a tour.
  4. Island days: getting a group to Sentosa and keeping the day on track.

Three questions to answer first

Before choosing between them, it helps to answer three questions. What is the day for: connection, recognition, a working session, or simply a break? How far is the place from where most people start their morning? And what will you do if it rains heavily at the moment the group arrives?

A landmark venue does a lot of the work, but only if the group arrives on time, comfortable and clear about the plan.

For official visitor information, start with the Singapore Tourism Board, and check transport options with the Land Transport Authority.

City Outings Journal is written by the editorial team at Get Out! Events, a Singapore company that runs group outings and team days. Venue hours, access and rules change; check each attraction's official site before you plan around them.