FunVee: Chinatown Light Up Bus Tour (Chinese New Year Special)

Chinatown light up tour (Chinese New Year edition)

Chinese New Year in Singapore feels supercharged, and this tour plugs you right into the heart of it without any of the legwork. From your seat on the open-top FunVee, you roll straight toward Chinatown’s festival glow, where streets are dressed in horse-themed arches, cascading lanterns, and rich reds and golds that signal the Year of the Horse and all its lively, lucky energy. The guide folds in stories about the Zodiac Horse, reunion dinners, and age-old New Year customs, so you’re not just admiring the decorations, you’re actually understanding the meaning behind them.

As the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, shophouses, and markets glide by under a wash of festive light, you get that rare mix of big-city buzz and cosy, celebratory warmth. Families point out their favourite lanterns, friends trade photo angles, and the whole ride feels like an easy, one-hour shortcut to the best of Lunar New Year in Chinatown. You finish back at Marina Square with the night breeze still clinging to your hair, your camera roll full of colour, and the feeling that you’ve stepped right through the city’s New Year doorway instead of just skimming past it.

Schedule

• Departure: 7pm & 8:30pm from (#01-207, City Tourist Hub @ Marina Square Shopping Mall, next to 7-Eleven)

• Frequency: two tours per evening (closed on Feb 17, Eve of Chinese New Year)

• Duration: 60 minutes