Fastest Way to Go to KLIA from Singapore

Our Air Asia flight to Macau is on 10.30 pm at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) newly opened LCC Terminal on Thursday 30th March 2006. I work half day on the day, and worse still, I need to go to Changi Airport at the south eastern tip of Singapore for SITA’s Juniper Peribit installation between 1pm to 2pm. So I have to rush to KLIA from even further place.

I have tried to figure out what’s the fastest way, most convenient and cheapest way to go from Singapore Changi Airport to Kuala Lumpur. There are several ways and methods of transport that comes across my mind: take a bus and/or MRT to Johor Bahru, transfer to express coach to Kuala Lumpur, or I can go to Golden Mile (Beach Road) or Lavendar Street terminal to catch a express bus directly from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur. I even consider to take the KTM train to KL or Nilai to connect to bus service to KLIA, but the train schedule doesn’t fit.
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Booked EastSpider Hotel with HostelWorld

After searching around the web and forums such as Virtual Tourist, I finally made the reservation of the hotel, or rather hostel that we’re going to stay in Hong Kong. It’s EastSpider Hostel, which I booked from HostelWorld.

It’s a hard decision to select the hotel to stay, as I am travelling with my parents. so it’s not advisable if the conditions and safety of the hotel is too bad. And Chungking Mansions and Mirador Mansions are notoriously cheap yet cramp, dirty and safety standard in doubt.
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Lonely Planet Hong Kong & Macau Travel Guide

Bought Lonely Planet Hong Kong & Macao Travel Guide at MPH for SGD $35.70, due to hand itchy. Expensive, but cheaper if compare with Lonely Planet guide books on other more exotic destination.

I personally prefer Lonely Planet as I feel that it’s more straight to the point and simple. For in-depth reading and detail background information about a destination, I would look to The Rough Guide or Footprints Travel Guide, which usually bulkier than Lonely Planet. For Hong Kong and Macao, I found a lot of guide books written in Mandarin and Cantonese too in National Library of Singapore, which provides lots of useful information from different perspective from English guide books.
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Hotels in Hong Kong

Been busy with works lately, I just had some time to browse and search for hotel to stay in Hong Kong. Singapore-based forum Hardwarezone has a few long and detailed threads about tips and information of visiting Hong Kong. In those thread, forumers recommend lots of hotels to choose from.

Free and Easy package to Hong Kong seems like a more common choice, where travel agency or tour operator will arrange for you the air tickets and accommodation so that you no need to worry about how to get there and where to stay. Some Free and Easy package even include airport transfer to hotel, so you’ll be sure you will reach the hotel.
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Hong Kong Visit

It seems like a bit long to spend 4 days in Macau, especially when my family and I are not gamblers, at least for my parents and me. So the casino is a time waster and money waster for us.

And I heard Wai Ling said that a lot of Malaysians going to Hong Kong by ferry from Macau, for just around RM 90 (about USD 25) one way. It’s a very attractive option, and my family agreed to visit Hong Kong too. So we will spend just 1 day in Macau, and another 3 days in Hong Kong.
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Destination Macau

It seemed like AirAsia is releasing free seats in stages instead of at once. Few days back I checked free seat availability for flight between Kuala Lumpur and Macau, and most has not available (only few scattering date available).

However, when I checked again just now, a lot more of date has shown free seats available. This is a great opportunity, as I am not so keen to travel to Bali, and I believe my parents will be more enjoyable in Macau than in Bali.
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Destination Bali?

It’s since a long time I have travelled with my family together. So when Wai Ling told me that she was trying to book the air tickets to Macau for her parents, I was very keen to bring my parents too to travel together too.

But too bad, the AirAsia zero fare promotion is extremely hot popular, with most date on the Kuala Lumpur – Macau sector no longer has any free air tickets available.
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