Bandar Seri Begawan Transportation

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100,000 guest workers in Brunei rely on these purple buses to get around Brunei and Muara district... ask them!

$1 per trip for purple buses

Bus terminal also serves buses going to Tutong and Belait/Seria.

and is a multi-storey carpark....

and houses shops and local foodstalls on first floor, and 7th floor of Municipal dept building opposite of terminal.

Taxis are also based here, from 6am to 6pm only.

'private' cars operators supplement the service and go to places not served by the buses or taxis.

for road trippers, it is possible now to travel from Kalimantan to Brunei thru Sarawak

coaches leave both ends daily

journey takes more than 14 hrs and over 1,200kms

the coach station at bsb is next to pggmb building

There is a new Serasa Passenger Ferry Terminal that began operations on October 17th, 2009.
The terminal has plenty of ticket counters, an information counter, shops and money changers.

There are 8 ferries that service between Serasa to Labuan, and speedboats that leave when full to Kuala Lawas and Sundar in Sarawak.
The ferry we went on was full, and luggage was just chucked in the front of the boat. I couldn't complain about the trip across, it was very cheap compared to flying.

One thing to remember, is the terminal is about 25ksm from Bandar Seri Begawan

The fare in 2009 is $21

The website gives you a timetable of the crossings.....

http://www.information.gov.bn/bruneidiary_content/boat/Boat_Schedule.html

We took Royal Brunei Airlines from Singapore. They have two daily flights (10.25am and 9.45pm) arriving just 1h 55min later in Bandar Seri Begawan. Return flights are at 7.45am and 7pm. Prices are between SGD 300 and SGD 500, depending on how early you book.

Singapore Airlines has only 5 flights per week and seems to have fixed prices at SGD 460.

Other destinations with direct flights to Brunei are Auckland (BI), Bangkok (BI, TG), Brisbane (BI), Dubai (BI), Ho Chi Minh (BI), Hong Kong (BI), Jakarta (BI), Jeddah (BI), Kota Kinabalu (MH, BI), Kuala Lumpur (MH, BI), Kuching (BI), London (BI, via Dubai), Manila (BI), Perth (BI) and Surabaya (BI).

MH = Malaysia Airlines
BI = Royal Brunei Airlines
TG = Thai Airways

This is all as of May 2009.

We hired a car for the day through the Traders Inn where we were staying. I can't remember the name of the company, but the car was a Proton, not a new one, but went quite ok. and we were happy with it. Brunei was easy to drive around, and this meant we could see a lot in one day.
Cost was $70 Brunei in 2007.

Brunei is served by most major airlines...so there's no problem getting there. I took Royal Brunei Airlines...it's actually a code share flight with the Malaysian Airlines. Flight fare...to n fro was MYR1715...that's about USD460++. The 2hrs 15min flight in the economy seat was comfortable.

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Yanks and the Poms dont need visa I think, most of the ASEAN countries dont visas either, but with the exception of some favoured european states, others need visa. Australians can get visa on arrival . I strongly recommend you obtain a multiple entry visa, which costs 30 bnd rather than the usual 20 bnd. remember you may wish to go to labuan or miri and thus dont have to worry about forking out more money or being allowed to come back in to catch your air asia flight to kuala lumpur

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If you are doing a side trip to Seria and KB or going on to Miri, which is usually the case, you can take the bus from BSB bus station . Leaves approximately once every hour. The charge is a meagre 6 bnd. it takes two hours of journey. the minute you leave the city, the jungle is on your right and the river is on your left and then the sea appears on your right. you will see immigrant workers who had come to brunei to shop going back to their work place. In my bus, I was the only tourist, there were workers from vietnam, china, philippines and India and an old Malay woman and chain smoking Chinese?