10. Street Luge

As cool as this sounds, I’m afraid it was quite a bit tamer that you might imagine. If you’ve ever seen street luge you’ll know that it’s a case of lying on your back on essentially a long skate board and flying down hill as fast as possible. Well this was nothing like that.

When you get off the cable car at the top of Sentosa Island you can either walk down the hill to the beach or you take the luge down. In this case it’s more of a go-cart affair but it’s still really good fun. That said, it would be more fun if the minimum height was more than 90cm as lots of folk letting their kids go down and as is the want of children, they took ages. Actually, some of them were faster than their parents who were behind them shouting “slow down, slow down!”.

We belted down the track as fast as we could trying to look cool in our pointless helmets but all to soon we ran out of road. It’s certainly a novel way to get down to the beaches on Sentosa but you can’t help wishing that the track was longer and steeper and without lots of kids.

A good bonus though was that coupled to the luge ticket was a ride back up on a chair lift. After checking out the beaches, the dolphin lagoon and the aquarium we hitched a ride up to the cable car station on this and it saved us having to walk all the way back up. Being lazy rules.