The 10 best ladies' nights in Singapore right now
Free-flow bubbles, $5 prosecco and one rooftop that gives you a flute and calls it generosity. Ranked by what you actually drink.
It is 7.20pm on a Wednesday in the CHIJMES courtyard and the queue for the terrace tables is entirely women in office shoes carrying second pairs in tote bags. Somebody's croquetas arrive. Nobody has paid for a drink yet, and at this particular address, nobody will. Two streets away a rooftop is charging thirty-eight dollars for the same two hours and getting it, because the view is worth something and the rose is very cold. Singapore's midweek economy runs on this. Wednesday is the default, though the smarter operators have moved to Tuesday and Thursday to avoid the scrum, and August is a good month to test them: the crowds thin slightly, the terraces are survivable after nine. What follows is ranked by value first — how much drink you actually get against what you have to spend to get it — and then by how easily you can walk in without a booking. Free-flow with no minimum spend beats a package. A package with a real pour beats a single complimentary glass. Which brings us to the bottom of the list, where the generosity gets thin. Two entries here give you a waived cover charge or one flute of prosecco and leave you facing a full-price drinks list for the rest of the night. They are still worth your Wednesday if the room is the point. Just go in knowing the difference between a night out that is free and a night out that is merely cheaper to enter, and book everything above position six, because the good ones fill by Monday.
CHIJMES, Victoria Street · Spanish tapas and wine · Wednesdays, 7–10pm · free
stockThree hours, no cover, no minimum spend: ladies get free-flow red, white and one selected cocktail every Wednesday from 7pm to 10pm, and reservations are required. That last part is the whole game — walk up at eight and you will be drinking somewhere else. Order the croquetas and patatas bravas to give the wine something to do, take the courtyard tables under the arches rather than the room inside, and get your booking in early in the week.
94 Amoy Street · champagne bar · Wednesdays, 8–11pm · free-flow bubbles
stockThree hours of free-flow bubbles from 8pm on Wednesdays, in a shophouse bar on Amoy Street that is small enough for the room to feel like one table by ten. It is second only because it starts an hour later and the space is tight, so a group of six is optimistic and a group of three is perfect. Come straight from the office rather than after dinner.
Level 63, 1 Raffles Place · rooftop club bar · Wednesdays, 11pm–3am
stockComplimentary entry and two drinks on the house for women from 11pm to 3am, sixty-odd floors above Raffles Place with the skyline doing the heavy lifting. Two drinks is not free-flow, but they are real drinks and the door is genuinely waived, which is more than most rooftops at this altitude manage. This is the one to book when the night needs a second act — eat first, arrive at eleven, and treat the drinks as a head start rather than the plan.
Pullman Singapore Hill Street · cocktail bar · Wednesdays, 7–9pm · from S$32++
stockThree tiers, every Wednesday from 7pm to 9pm: S$32++ for free-flow prosecco, S$48++ adds two cocktails from the Breaking the Norm list, and S$68++ swaps the prosecco for Taittinger. The house rules are strict and stated plainly — drinks are for the buyer only, no sharing, and you order the next one after finishing the last, which keeps the pace civilised and the value honest. Take the S$48 tier; the cocktails are the reason to be here and the rotation changes weekly. Reservations are encouraged, and the room turns adult-only from 6pm.
The Fullerton Bay Hotel · rooftop bar · Tuesdays, 7–9pm · from S$38++
stockA Tuesday, which is the point — the rooftop is full but not fought over, and the soundtrack leans on pop and Eighties and Nineties throwbacks. S$38++ buys two hours of free-flow Whispering Angel rose and Chandon Garden Spritz from 7pm to 9pm; S$58++ puts Veuve Clicquot alongside them. The higher tier is the better arithmetic if your table drinks champagne at all, and the poolside seats go first.
InterContinental Robertson Quay · Italian · Wednesdays from 7pm · S$48
stockSupersocial runs every Wednesday from 7pm: S$48 for two hours of free-flow prosecco, house wines, selected martinis and beer, with a DJ in the garden and the river doing its slow thing behind you. The martinis in a free-flow package are the unusual bit — most venues stop at bubbles. Bring the men if you must, at S$58 each, and order pizza before the second hour or you will regret the walk to the taxi stand.
CQ @ Clarke Quay · Latin bar · Wednesdays, 8–10pm · free-flow
stockTwo hours of free-flowing gin, vodka, rum and selected cocktails from 8pm, with reggaeton loud enough that conversation is a lost cause by nine. Arrive in a group of five and you are in line for a complimentary bottle of prosecco, though only the first six groups get one, so eight o'clock sharp is not a suggestion. Spirits rather than bubbles is what lifts this above the wine-only crowd; the room is what keeps it at seven.
Orchard Central · Japanese fusion · Wednesdays, 5–9pm · S$5
stockFive dollars for free-flow prosecco, house red or house white, provided you order a donburi or udon bowl — which you were going to do anyway, because that is what this place is for. It runs from 5pm and stops at 9pm, so it suits the crowd that wants a proper dinner, four glasses and a reasonable bedtime rather than a night out. The balcony seats are the ones to ask for.
The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands · lounge and games room · Wednesdays from 10pm
stockHere the free drink is a gesture and you should price the night accordingly: one complimentary flute of prosecco per woman, cocktails at S$18 nett all night, and a bottle of prosecco with bites from 10pm to midnight only if five or more of you turn up together. Come as a five or do not bother with the promotion at all. What you are really paying for is the room — a mock-penthouse with a bowling lane and a pool table, R&B loud and the crowd dressed for it.
SkyPark, Marina Bay Sands · rooftop club lounge · Wednesdays · free entry
stockNothing is included here except the door: the usual S$38 cover is waived for women on Wednesdays and every drink after that is menu price, which at this altitude is not a rounding error. Say it plainly — this is a discount on entry, not a free night out. It still earns a place because the terrace view over the bay is the one visitors fly in for, and going on a Wednesday means seeing it without paying to stand there. Dress code applies, so leave the trainers at home.
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