SIN GST

[AustraliaPoochie]

Important to note, in relation to Singapore.
Their GST went up beginning of 2023, but there is another rise to 9% in a few hours time.

 

[AIRwin]

Tired of overpriced food? You can get $2.50 briyani at this hawker stall

In the face of soaring food prices and the GST hike, one hawker near Chinatown still hopes to keep the prices of her hearty Malay food low for the less fortunate. Read more at stomp.straitstimes.com

stomp.straitstimes.com

 

[SYD]

A city of extremes where you can get really excellent food at bargain prices but two G&Ts at the new Pullman East Hill Street cost A$65….

 

[AIRwin]

Pullman East Hill

Pullman Hill Street?

 

[CaptJCool]

Beating the. Cost of living

Looking for the Best Food in Changi Airport? Head to the Employee Canteen.

On a layover in Singapore & looking for the best food in Changi Airport? Take it from me (and Anthony Bourdain), head to the employee canteen. Here's how.

www.thislifeintrips.com

 

[OZDUCK]

Beating the. Cost of living

Looking for the Best Food in Changi Airport? Head to the Employee Canteen.

On a layover in Singapore & looking for the best food in Changi Airport? Take it from me (and Anthony Bourdain), head to the employee canteen. Here's how.

www.thislifeintrips.com

Goof info but already known to the more parsimonious of us. Photos and some commentary from my TR for our trip to Norway in 2019.

"Because we were there so early we had lunch there. For those interested both Terminal 1 & Terminal 2 have a "Staff Canteen", before security, that sells "Hawker Style" food at hawker prices and not airport prices. In Terminal 1 it is in the basement and in Terminal 2, which is we were, it is on the top floor of an attached carpark. These are open to the public but not advertised.

To get to the Terminal 2 canteen you have to walk out the end of the Terminal at the Arrivals level. It is the left hand side end as you face the road. You pass the McDonalds, with averted eyes, cross a small service road and enter the carpark. You do not use the lift lobby on your right as you enter but turn to the left and walk to a single one at the end.

It is more a bit of a fun thing to do and gives you the feeling that you "are in the "know". We obviously didn't have any access to a lounge. In fact when we got our "Business Class" boarding pass at check-in the lounge Invitation on the pass was laboriously crossed out with a biro.

The lift door will look something like this

It is much like a normal food court with about 14 stalls. I didn't take any photos as it is normally not allowed. The customers are lots of Police, Security Staff, Ground Staff etc. But there are also many 'locals' who know about it. I was the only "European' there.

My wife got a bowl of basic, if oily, fried noodles for S$1.70 and I bought a Chicken Murtabak for S$6

Cans of drinks range from $1.20 - $2. Curry puffs are $1.20 and pieces of Kueh are 60c"

 

[SYD]

Pullman Hill Street?

Yeah. Don’t where the “East” came from

 

[dajop]

Now 9% GST makes it easy at hotels, restaurants and bars .... 19.9% addition to list price (close enough to 20%), which includes service charge and gst on list price, and gst on service charge.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

We know NZ is 3/23 to get the 13.04% and calculate their GST.
Ours is 1/0.09090909 or 1/11...
How about the SIN one, for non hotel related expenses?
1/what?

 

[dajop]

GST is 9/109 of the net price (where GST is included). Of 8.3% roughly.