Absolute cheapest transport from Malaysia to Singapore with e-ticket that can be bought online from overseas?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 7 Aug, 2023
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I bought a Tigerair ticket KLIA to SG for I think RM29 on a promotion and just threw it away later. Lucky I had it though, because it was asked for. There are many absurd promotional deals on Air Asia and Tigerair, so if you just watch out you’ll catch one. Since you have no intention of actually using the ticket you can get a better deal I think, being indifferent to the destination or amenities.
Based on my experience of living in Singapore for ~7 years and traveling to Malaysia by every means possible (plane, train, bus, boat, taxi & car), the absolute cheapest pre-bookable option is indeed the KTMB train from Johor Bahru to Woodlands, which will cost you the princely sum of RM 7 (~US$2) in "AEC Economy Class".
Now there’s a potential fly in the ointment: the last time I tried this, and it was a long time ago, it wasn’t possible to book a Singapore<->JB fare online, you had to book a few stops up the road further. But this shouldn’t cost you more than a few ringgit extra.
2022 update: Shuttle Tebrau (SG<->JB) is now bookable online. It’s very popular though, so book early! 5 MYR from Malaysia, but 5 SGD from Singapore, because KTMB thinks it’s still 1965 and the two are equivalent (back in 2022, it’s 3.2 MYR to 1 SGD).
The JB-Singapore buses are indeed marginally cheaper, but this is pure public transport with no reserved seating etc, so neither of the operators (Singapore’s SBS Transit and Malaysia’s Causeway Link) sells tickets online. And not that you could get a "ticket" for this, but while it used to be free, you can’t even walk across the Causeway now that Malaysia shifted to its new ridiculously huge and rather distant Customs building.
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