A complete review and guide to Costa Atlantica, the newly arrived Singapore based Italian Cruise Ship. Includes videos, photographs, port addresses and detailed information on amenities and activities on board the ship. About Costa Atlantica Costa Cruises is one of the biggest cruise lines in Europe, existing since the 1850s. They recently sent one of their ships, the Costa Atlantica to service the Asian Pacific Region. The two types of cruises that sail out of Singapore are the 3 night...

This guide has helpful tips and photographs from our day trip in Langkawi, which was the final island stop on our Costa Atlantica itinerary. Our port docking address is known to the locals as "Porto Malai" and its also where Resorts World Langkawi is located. Yes, its that same Resorts World Malaysian company behind the Genting group and Sentosa hotels! If you only intend to do shopping you can choose to go with the Costa Cruises arranged shuttle bus ($8...

This guide has some helpful tips learned from our 8 hour day trip in Phuket which was part of our Costa Cruise adventure! We went to Phuket City and Patong Beach - the later in my opinion one of the most commercialized places in the world. Our cruise docking port address was "Pier of Phuket Marine Department Entrance of Phuket Deep Sea Port Ao Makham, Thanon SakdidejPhuket." If you think that's long wait till you hear the name of Thai Kings!...

  Delhi Street Food Delhi Street Food is a mix of North Indian and Middle East influences and cooking styles, including Mughlai, Punjabi and Persian. Delhi is also home to some of the oldest and most well-known restaurants in India, due to its long-standing reputation as the capital city. Restaurants that have an acceptable standard of health and hygiene typically use filtered water or bottled water in their preparation of food, instead of tap water. Fast food and snacking is very...

Tactical, thought provoking and elegantly crafted strategy games are hard to come by these days, especially in today's industry of recrementitious influx of games that plays exactly the same and the dull overstaying annual upgrade of FPS titles. I always liked Chess for it's simplicity in design and the limitless amount of approaches to tactics but most importantly, I like the freedom to experiment with unique strategies and adapt to a variety of challenges.  I've sometimes marvelled at how indie developers have the unlimited potential...

I recently came across a project on Kickstarter which happens to be a Singaporean project,  to fund their product Dusty Revenge: The Art of Revenge. I helped fund many projects on Kickstarter (mostly game-related) and I rarely come across to see a local project started on the platform.  Kickstarter is a website dedicated to help companies and entrepreneurs fund creative projects by allowing people like us to vote with our wallets. You can view the site here. So I figured I should get...

I've always held a deep respect for the gaming modding community, these are people who create content for existing games in their own spare time and release to the public freely. Some mods are total conversations where every assets of the game are completely made from the ground up, Pirates, Vikings and Knights 2 happened to be one of those mods. I've been playing PVKII ever since it was released several years ago and continue to do so up to this...

In this list we feature some of the top Singapore photographers and their pictures, as rated based on our member's reviews. Wedding photographers are especially popular, because its important to find that one special photographer to capture and make everlasting your once in your lifetime event. It is extremely important to get an experienced and skilled photographer so we came up with this list to help people with their choices. Top Singapore Photographers Invertigo Studios Website |  Facebook Page | TSL Reviews |  9478 9545 Invertigo studios specialises in both ROMs &...

Win a trip to Hong Kong while doing your part for charity! This article takes a look behind the scenes of the upcoming Bare Your Sole fundraiser Walk happening on 1st June 2013. If you missed part 1 of our Habitat for Humanity feature do check it out here. It raises awareness for a very important issue, the fact that there are 35,000 elderly living in Singapore alone today who may be disabled, abandoned or need some form of help to...

A team from TheSmartLocal will be heading over for one of Costa Atlantica's very first cruises from Singapore this weekend. We will be back with photographs, videos and a feature detailing our first hand experience on the massive cruise ship! "On 3 May, 2013, Costa Atlantica (85,700 ton; 2,680 total guest capacity) has arrived Asia and operate alongside Costa Victoria (75,200 ton; 2,394 total guests). Costa Cruises has more than doubled its capacity in Asia with the first call in Singapore. ...