The best 24-hour activities in Singapore

While it's not open 24/7, K Star runs through the night until 4am. It brands itself as Singapore's "first themed karaoke bar", housing 25 rooms each vibrantly decorated according to different themes. With an all-yellow room adorned with plush toys that kids are sure to love, a tropical-themed room with flamingo wallpaper, and several rooms with faux-stained glass windows, it certainly lives up to its title. The Insta-friendly karaoke bar offers competitive room rates starting as low as $20 per hour on weekdays. Prices go up to $88 per hour for their panaroma room that has a capacity of 20. 

Hop on your bicycle and whizz through the new 60km Rower’s Bay. It’s part of the first phase of the Round Island Route, a continuous 150km park connector that circles the island. Connecting Yishun to Punggol, the boardwalk allows you to see the city in the dark with the breeze in your hair as you zoom by the edge of the Seletar Reservoir. There’s also a lookout pavilion, swales and a wetland area for you to soak in all of mother nature come dusk. If you’re making your way to Seletar Aerospace Park, there are shelters with charging points as well as vending machines selling bike equipment and a self- help repair station, just in case your wheels decide to act up.

Get brainy at The Mind Café, which is open all the way till 6am on the weekend. An alternative hangout that entails more than the obligatory café food, it offers over 700 variations of board games to keep you and your friends thoroughly entertained. This is a great way to ditch your handphones, challenge your mind, and forge real connections again. 

If you're loathe to sleep and just want to immerse yourself in a good computer game, head to 24 hour LAN shops scattered around the city. Top-rated ones include Khakabo and Clique Gaming Cyber Café at GR.iD, which are well-loved for their comfy seats, widescreen monitors, and good selection of single player and multiplayer games. Khakabo is particularly affordable, costing on $2 per hour of gameplay. 

Deemed as Singapore's "first indoor football stadium", The Cage allows football enthusiasts to bend it like Beckham on six 5-a-side pitches – rain or shine. The space is perfect for small practices, friendly matches, free-flow footies, and simply to show off those fancy footwork you've been working on for some time now. Open on a regular, the venue has energetic music pumping through its speakers to keep the ball rolling.  

A Singapore institution, Mustafa is open till late (sadly it's no longer open for 24 hours), offering 75,000-square-feet of bargains, not to 
mention a hotel, café and supermarket.  It’s a treasure trove of discount shopping, carrying everything from skincare and electronics to sportswear and luggage. Sumptuous sari fabrics can be found in the basement, and beauty products and appliances at ground level.

While in Orchard, make a pitstop at the wildly popular Japanese discount store. The two-storey megastore is stocked to the brim with fresh produce, kitschy items and loads of ramen straight out of the motherland. There’s also dedicated Hokkaido section, a standing bar and a huge snack section with all the munchies you’ll ever need.

As the largest prawning site in Singapore that spans the size of seven football fields, ORTO makes the perfect catch for your late-night supper. There are 10 large ponds of big head prawns and yabbies’ – a type of crayfish – for you to fish. It's said that they're the most active at night, so all you need is a rod, bait, a little luck and a whole lot of patience.

Established in 2010 as a single gym atop a multi-storey carpark in Bedok, Gymmboxx has come a long way since its humble beginnings. There are six well-equipped outlets in the heartlands, all open 24/7 and with midnight staff on hand. You don’t have to be tied down long-term, either – Gymmboxx’s membership plans range from monthly to three months to a year, and you can pay-per-entry at $16 for three hours. 

The stretch of eateries across from Beauty World Centre is no stranger to tummies starving in the middle of the night. Most places like Joo Seng Teochew Porridge and G7 Sinma Claypot stay open past midnight but Al-Azhar has your back 24/7. The calorie-laden prata and butter chicken set ($7.90) is our pick after a night of drinking.

At this 24-hour spa, it’s all about treating yourself. Closest to a public bath in the city, this independent spa complex mirrors that of a Chinese hot springs resort, complete with facilities like a hot pool, sauna, showers and comfy couches with personal TV screens. Start off by sweating it out at the sauna. Then pencil in therapeutic deep-tissue massage session to keep the stress at bay. Also, make sure to take a dip in the hot and cool pools. Did we mention the all-day buffet dining available?