Best Venues
Singapore has five big karaoke chains — Teo Heng, K.STAR, HaveFun, Cash Studio and Jewel Music Box — running about 40 outlets between them, and they are not variations on the same room. One is a bar with themed sets, one is a plain room you hire by the hour and bring your own dinner to, and one gives you three hours with drinks and snacks included. Here is what each chain is for, roughly what it costs, and which branch to pick.
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How they charge, which decides everything else
Teo Heng, K.STAR and HaveFun charge for the room by the hour. The bill is the same whether four of you turn up or 10, so the more people you bring, the less it costs each.
Cash Studio and Jewel Music Box charge per person for a fixed block of time with drinks included. That costs the same each however many come, and you know the total before you walk in.
Neither is better. A group of 10 is cheaper by the room; three people are usually better off per head.
🎤 Teo Heng — the cheapest, and you bring your own food
Teo Heng is the cheapest way to sing in Singapore by some distance. You hire the room by the hour, in sizes from a two-person booth up to a 20-seat VIP room, and rates before 7pm are lower than after.
The part that makes it what it is: you bring your own food and drink in with you. No bar, no minimum spend, nothing to negotiate at the door. Alcohol is the one thing not allowed, which is much of why families use it. The rooms are plain and the song catalogue is not always current — the money has gone into the sound rather than the sofas. Booking is by phone.
Best branches: Suntec City is the busiest and the most central, and has board games for when nobody wants the microphone. The Star Vista sits beside Buona Vista station within reach of the university campuses, which is who fills it.
There are branches all over the island, and a separate guide on which one to book.
🎤 K.STAR — the premium chain, with themed rooms
K.STAR is Singapore’s high-end, premium karaoke chain, with beautifully themed rooms and decor. The themes run to space, anime, carnival and retro, and the larger VVIP rooms are built for parties rather than for four people and a songbook. Several branches run as a music bar as well, so drinks come to you, and the rates match the fit-out.
It keeps the latest hours of any chain here, running to 5am at weekends in two of its central branches.
Best branches: Orchard Central is the flagship and the one with the VVIP rooms, a short walk from Somerset. Clarke Quay has the best sound in the chain, oversized screens and a proper bar, and it is one of the latest-closing rooms in Singapore. Its weak spot is the English catalogue, which is thin on recent releases — there is a YouTube app in the room as the workaround.
🎤 HaveFun — a bar, and the widest song list
HaveFun sits between the budget chains and K.STAR on price, and it is the one to pick if you want a bar and food without the themed-room premium. Rooms run from six people up to 25, and the song library is the broadest of the five: Mandarin and English alongside Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Tagalog and Indonesian, so there are songs catering to everyone.
Its outlets are split between the shopping belt and SAFRA clubhouses. The rooms and the sound are what the chain does well; the food packages are not the reason to come.
Best branches: SAFRA Yishun is the best-designed room in the chain, with a screen at each end so nobody sits twisted round, songs queued from your own phone by QR code, and an outdoor area to step out into. Cineleisure Orchard is the flagship and gets the best equipment, with lighting panels in the rooms and dart machines in some. Take a layer — the air conditioning is centrally set and the rooms run cold.
There is a fuller ranking of the HaveFun outlets if that is the chain you are settling on.
🎤 Cash Studio — open late, with the biggest rooms
Cash Studio charges per person for a two-hour package with free-flow soft drinks. Afternoons cost roughly half what a Friday evening does, and a third hour is cheap on the quieter days.
Its advantage is size and hours: the biggest rooms of any chain here, and one branch that runs until 6am.
Best branches: Clarke Quay Central has a room that seats 40, which is a company party rather than a night out, and sits on top of the station. Bedok is the cheapest branch in the chain with a 25-seat room, next to the MRT, and the sensible choice in the east.
🎤 Jewel Music Box — three hours, drinks and snacks included
Jewel Music Box puts everything into one price. You book a three-hour block, charged per person, and free-flow drinks and snacks are part of the rate rather than a bar tab afterwards — there is a soda machine, hot water and tea, and snacks like nachos and keropok. Rooms come with board games and dart boards as well as the microphones.
Most of its branches sit inside clubhouses — SAFRA, HomeTeamNS and a country club — which keeps the price down and means most of them are a bus ride rather than a walk from a station. The food is snacks rather than a spread, and there is a minimum group size, so a pair has to phone.
Best branches: Pasir Ris is the biggest, with 23 rooms and an open lounge rather than only closed boxes, and the sound is well regarded. Bishan is the only branch that is a shop unit rather than a clubhouse concession, so it is the easiest to walk to — which also means its evening slots go first.
Details change — confirm rates, room sizes and opening hours with the outlet before you book. If something on one of our listings is out of date, there’s a form at the bottom of every one.
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