What We Have Been Up To...

Just over 15kg check-in each and about 12kg hand baggage in hand we were dropped off at the airport and successfully boarded our plane (because we slipped through the hand luggage check point while they were checking someone else's hand luggage!). What a relief. Our journey from this point on was going to be an arduous one. Because our original plan was to spend time in Malaysia (before we chose to spend more time in Laos) our flight was still taking us to Kuala Lumpur. From here we had to make our way from their low cost terminal to their main terminal and catch a lift to our hotel. Very early the next morning the whole process would have to be reversed to get us back to the Low cost terminal and get ourselves and all our baggage successfully back onto another Air Asia flight which would take us to Johor Baru, still in Malaysia but on the border with Singapore. This was much cheaper than flying directly into Singapore.

One airport shuttle bus would take us to our connecting bus. We waited and waited for that connecting bus which eventually came and took us the few kilometres to the border. Again all our luggage had to come with us through the border because we were going to catch yet another bus on the other side. At our final bus stop we managed to secure a taxi quickly and pack our load in the boot. A luxurious, but bit run down room at the Peninsula Excelsior awaited us. We were finally in Singapore, shopping paradise...