Excellent. For the ideal views you require a room on the 7th,8th or 9th floor ending in *02,*04,*06,*08,*09,*10,*11,*12*14*16 These rooms give a fantastic view over the right hand runway in front of terminal 3. The hotel corridor is open plan allowing you to walk out of the room into the corridor to see movements on the busy central runway (A Flight Tracker is helpful for you to monitor movements on the central runway as you do need to leave your room to see this runway-don’t forget your key!). Be advised SBS signals are intermittent due to the layout of the hotel, flight radar 24 coverage is however excellent. 

At busy times the right hand runway is used for arrivals only, however in moderate to quiet times a mixed mode operation is in force therefore you do require a means of monitoring the central runway to ensure that you do not miss the movements. Be warned, all runway facing rooms are reported to have the one large queen size bed therefore if there are 2 of you be prepared to get cosy (or a roll away bed is available for a costly £30 a night)

The majority of the above rooms also give partial views over to the ST Aerospace maintenance facility which usually has a rare visitor parked up. Partial views of the Air Force ramp can also be seen from here. 

Rooms ending in *14 and *16 are reported to be an excellent room as it faces terminal 1 and enables traffic on both runways to be seen-this saves the walk into the outside corridor in stifling humidity to see movements on the other parallel.

Report 1 credit John Davis

Currently staying in room 922 at the Crowne Plaza. It does not face the runway but you get great views of all landing and departing aircraft. Free wifi for identifying aircraft and two queen sized beds. Photos on the landing runway possible in the corridor outside. Highly recommended room

Report 2 credit Chris Mahaffy

The hotel is excellent, location is excellent, possible pics are excellent, but jeez is it expensive, as is all of Singapore……#912 is an excellent room…

Excellent. Photos can be taken from the room although the windows are tinted. A 10 second walk from the room will take you to an opening on the outside corridor where superb outdoor shots can be taken ( 80-200 for aircraft on the taxiway, 200-400 for runway shots). Morning to early afternoons are best with the sun behind you.

Note, due to the humidity, if you take your camera directly outside from the air conditioned room your lens will steam up for around 5 minutes! It best to leave your room door open slightly and place the camera near the doorway to heat up prior to use. 

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Ask for a room facing north east looking out to the sea. Rooms ending in *256th floor and above have been reported as having a great view. When landing on the 20’s you should be able to read arrivals off on 20R, SBS will tie up arrivals for you once dark. If departing the 02’s traffic will be much higher and SBS would be required to tie movements up on a lot of occasions. Room 740 is reported to have similar views. Ideally you need a room on the 6th floor and above as large trees can obscure certain rooms at lower levels.

Deluxe rooms on high levels facing the sea have balconies, when landers are over the sea, all traffic on the commonly used near runway can be read off easily, traffic on the far runway needs flight tracking to identify. When in this runway configuration, departures can also be seen from the balcony, distant and climbing away however a good number of them turn back through the overhead where they can be easily seen. 

There is also a relatively busy airway which routes over the top of the airport, in clear weather these can be seen easily from the room. 

Note, if you book a club room you gain access to the club lounge which has an outdoor viewing deck with an associated good bar. 

Report 1 Credit Andy Kelly

staying at the changi village at the moment in room 603, on this floor are premier rooms which I was upgraded to at reception on arrival at a cost of £50 for 2 nights. for this you get access to the club room and breakfast, evening snacks and drinks and free internet, the rooms are very nice and clean with a big window to view from, rooms 602 – 623 will give you more or less the same view of arriving aircraft, you will need SBS or FR24 to tie everything up. the beach is only a 10 minute walk away from where you can get some great photos of arrivals but be aware the climate is hot here and the humidity is sometimes unbearable, if you want to go outside spotting go to the rooftop pool where you can cool off in the pool while you spot, theres plenty of sunbeds and hotel towels, 2nd time here for me in this hotel and would definitely stay here again.

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For those planning an extended transit time thru SIN using T3 and without wanting to clear customs to go ‘landside’, this is a good alternative to just sitting around in the terminal itself. There are also similar transit hotels in T1 (opening October 2015) and T2, but I have not tried these ones yet. Report credit Royston Wood

Please note that the Room mentioned here just has one large queen size bed, not sure if other runway view rooms have different configurations.

Also, despite being advised that the free wi-fi throughout the airport terminals cannot be accessed in the Transit Hotel rooms, I have discovered that in Room #357 at least you can in fact still access the free wi-fi by setting up your phone/laptop/tablet right next to the windows that look outside over the terminal itself. This is very handy when it gets dark, as it gets very difficult to identify stuff once the sun goes down.

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