· There are many worse airports to find yourself in for 11 hours than Changi. You can take a free sightseeing tour - there are eight tours a day - but be warned, these tours are only available airside (before you go through passport control). It's a stres-free way to see a bit of the city while jet-lagged.

If you remember to pack a cossie in your hand luggage you can always take a swim in the rooftop swimming pool in Terminal 1.

If you're really wiped out and want to feel refreshed when you finally arrive at your destination, I can recommend the Transit Hotel for a few hours sleep and a wake-up shower. The basic rooms are little more than cabins, with no windows, so perhaps not for the claustrophobic.

Check out the excellent website for more ideas - www.changi.airport.com.sg

Robin Houghton

· Go to Little India, buy some great food and sit and look at the rain, go to a hotel pool and sit in it or try walking round the orchid gardens, you'll be so jetlagged it'll take all day and feel like you're in a dream.

Andy Gracie

· Your options are endless! If you want to pack as much in as possible then take a cab into the city (20 minutes, £5 approx) and head for Clarke Quay, where you can acclimatise to the city amongst fellow tourists. Then take a river taxi from Clarke Quay on the Singapore River to Boat Quay (£3 every ten minutes). When you get of the boat head south (right) and keep walking in a straight line through some of the Financial District (approx 10-minute walk) until you get to Lau Pa Sat Festival Market in Chinatown. Here you can really soak up the bustling atmosphere of a typical Singaporean food court in the ornate cast-iron octagonal building. The food choices here are vast, cheap and good quality, it's open 24 hours and the streets are lined with hawker stalls in the evening.

When your appetite is satiated you could then take in a walk through the Colonial District. Just head back to where you got off the river taxi and walk over Cavenagh Bridge. Heading North (straight on) you will see Parliament House, the Supreme Court, City Hall and the Singapore Cricket Club. Keep going and you will conveniently hit Raffles Hotel where you can take a break in the cool courtyard, with a Singapore Sling of course, if that takes your fancy.

You are also then in the perfect position for a spot of consumerism - opposite are Raffles City, a huge western-style mall, and the CHIJMES Complex, a more laid-back attraction with small and interesting (although a little more pricey) shops, lawns, courtyards and restaurants based around a former Convent. To finish off the day I recommend a visit to Little India. From CHIJMES/Raffles City head east (left) along Bras Basah Road until you get to Bencolen Street where you head north (right) and keep walking until you are surrounded by the smells, sounds, sights and ambience of quite literally a "little India" (alternatively grab a taxi which will only take maximum ten minutes).

You could finish your day with a fantastic and cheap Indian delicacy. There is a huge food court in the centre of Little India which I can't remember the name of - but you can't miss it - just look for lots of people and a large concrete building. In there you will find a wealth of North and South Indian dishes at ridiculously cheap prices, albeit in a basic surrounding.

By this time you will probably be wanting to head back to the airport, exhausted, but confident in the knowledge that you got the most out of an 11-hour stopover in Singapore!

Kathryn Roberts

· Holiday Tours and Travel Pte (Singapore 6738 2622) offer several tours of which the half day City Tour is recommended for either morning or afternoon. Its route covers many different part of Singapore City, and involves five stops at very varied points of interest.

The Chinatown Heritage Centre, 48 Pagoda St, is open 10am-7pm, and offers a distinctive and very moving account of the growth of the Chinese population in Singapore. Allow a good 90 minutes.

For lunch you should go to Lau Pa Sat Festival Market, an amazing collection of stalls providing fare of all kinds, within a superb 19th-century iron-frame building (the parts of which were made in Scotland).

If you have any time left, and it is dry, a stroll around the central civic area will be much more rewarding than that phrase may suggest!

And do ride the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) system at some point: superb!

Adrian Peasgood

· As 8am will probably be your normal sleeping time you should check in to the Changi Airport Transit Hotel for some sleep, though it's best to book in advance.

Depending on the local current travel advice relating to Sars there is a very good escorted two-hour free coach tour to the city especially for transit passengers which covers most of the sights and includes a 20-minute boat trip on the river. The last trip departs about 4pm and is booked in the airport concourse.

Also in the airport view the magnificent displays of orchids and this time last year there was TV-type question-and-answer game in a studio-style setting with prizes.

Alternatively you could visit Raffles Hotel for breakfast, Sentosa Island for midday entertainment and Orchard Road for afternoon shopping!

Geoffrey J Wallwork