singaporecity360° Sentosa Island
Sentosa is the resort island just south of mainland Singapore, connected by cable car, monorail, a pedestrian boardwalk and a road bridge from VivoCity, and packed with beaches, theme parks, golf courses and hotels across roughly 500 hectares.
Should you go?
Walking in over the Sentosa Boardwalk from VivoCity is free, and so is cycling in. Once you are on the island the beaches, the Sensoryscape garden trail and its after-dark ImagiNite show, and the internal monorail between stations all cost nothing. You pay only to ride in on the monorail, to drive in, or for individual attractions.
Sentosa Express monorail 7am–midnight
cheapest single exhibition, non-peak
3 exhibitions on · SC360 estimate
Nothing to book to reach the island — tap a card at the monorail gantry, or walk the Boardwalk for free. Do book the cable car ahead, where the operator gives 6% off online, and Skyline Luge at peak weekends and school holidays.
Walking in is free; the monorail is not. The Sentosa Express costs S$4 for island entry, while the Boardwalk from VivoCity, cycling in, and bus service 123 are all free of island admission — Sentosa says so in its own FAQ. That S$4 buys entry only: travel between stations once you are inside, and the ride back out, are included.
Sentosa runs no resident discount of its own, but the cable car does — a 1-for-1 SkyPass works out at S$17.50 a head against S$32.90, to 31 Aug 2026, and residents pay S$2 for a weekday Sentosa Line round trip. It is the cheapest way onto and around the island if you live here.
Sentosa runs no Singapore-resident discount. An adult Singaporean pays the same S$4 as a tourist, and neither the cable car nor Skyline Luge publishes a resident rate. The cheaper island fares are tied to holding a TransitLink concession card, not to residency.
Motorcycles are not allowed onto the island at all.
Resorts World Sentosa — with Universal Studios and the Oceanarium — sits at one end, while the southern beaches (Siloso, Palawan and Tanjong) run along the coast facing the open sea. There's a fee for some access modes, like the cable car, but walking or taking the free shuttle bus from the island's transport hub onto the island itself isn't separately charged beyond individual attraction tickets.
It's realistically a full day if trying to cover both the beaches and a theme park.
The cable car and the Sentosa Express monorail both charge separately from island entry — walking across the boardwalk from VivoCity is free and takes about 15 minutes, a straightforward way to skip the transport fee if not in a hurry.
On right now, and what each ticket costs
A small one-time island admission that depends purely on how you arrive, then every attraction sells its own ticket. Flip the stubs to your rate; every price includes the resident lines most sites leave out.
Sentosa's published standard fee. Applies to any visitor without a Singapore TransitLink concession card.
A single S$4 charge covering entry only. Tap EZ-Link, Mastercard, Visa, Amex or a concession card at the gantry, or buy at the VivoCity counter. In force since April 2023.
Online-exclusive rate with 6% off; walk-up is S$33 adult and S$22 child. Adult is 13 and above, child 4 to 12.
One flat price — Sentosa publishes no adult and child split for this ticket. A four-and-four ticket is S$36, and a child riding tandem with an adult is S$12. At Imbiah Station.
The best value if you want both lines — S$32.90 against S$48 buying the two round trips separately. Run by Mount Faber Leisure Group, not by Sentosa. Prices shown are the online rate; walk-up is S$35 adult.
| TICKET | TOURIST | CONCESSION |
|---|---|---|
| Adult | S$4 | S$4 |
| Concession | — | S$2 |
| Child | — | Free |
| Adult | Free | Free |
| Concession | Free | Free |
| Child | Free | Free |
| Adult | S$32.90 | — |
| Child | S$23.50 | — |
| Adult | S$31 | — |
| Child | S$20.70 | — |
| Adult | S$33 | — |
| Adult | Free | Free |
| Concession | Free | Free |
| Child | Free | Free |
What will your group pay?
Switch with the chips above the ticket stubs — everything updates together.
Tick more than one and we compare buying them separately against the bundle — automatically.
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What you should be paying
Ticket resellers earn a commission on what they sell you. We sell nothing, so here is the operator's own price — compare before you buy.
S$4
for Sentosa Express monorail — island entry, straight from the operator's own price table.
Anything above S$4 is a markup. A reseller can be genuinely cheaper — some run below the gate price to win the booking — but you now know which side of the line you are on. Check the total at checkout, not the headline.
See it on the operator's own page →S$34.29/hr
S$4 for Sentosa Express monorail — island entry over about 0.1 hours, or S$34.29/hr at the resident rate. VivoCity to Beach Station including the gantry and a platform wait. The duration is our estimate, not the operator's.
Rain, heat, and what to do about it
Live readings and forecasts from NEA. Four days is the limit — past that, nobody is forecasting, they are showing you an average.
Southwest Monsoon
June to September
Short, sharp early-morning showers and occasional squall lines. Drier overall than the northeast wet phase.
The other good window. Rain tends to arrive early and clear, leaving usable afternoons. This is also when haze can occur, which is worth checking rather than assuming.
Plan your Sentosa Island stop
Straight-line distance from the three places a visitor has already heard of.
5.4km
south-west
6.2km
south
21km
south-west
Sentosa Island, in every light
Nearby, on foot
In Sentosa Island — close enough to collect on the same trip out.
Contains information from Tourist Attractions accessed on 2026-08-01 from data.gov.sg, made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0.