From/To Malaysia, Singapore

The NICE/Plusliner company is a reliable,clean and comfortable coach company. We have heard that other cheaper bus companies do not fit these three points. We boarded the 24 seater coach in Kuala Lumpur in the heart of town at the KTMB Railway Station Building, Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin 03-22721586. The arrival point in Singapore is at the Copthorne Orchid Hotel, 214 Dunearn Road, Singapore 02-62565755. There are many departure times during the day and night. Tickets are purchased at the terminus. In December 04, the ticket from Kuala Lumpur-Singapore was RM$60/adult. In Singapore, the ticket from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur was S$37. We checked in an hour before the departure time and we were offered free refreshment at the terminus. The seats are spacious and can be reclined. We were given bottled water and a light snack of noodles for our journey. There was a video shown during the journey. There was also a stop along the way at one of the freeway rest stops for us to go to the toilets/buy refreshments/walk around. The journey went via the second causeway at Tuas in Singapore and took 6 hours. There was no queue at this causeway.
It is more economical and time saving to travel from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore by coach as you save on your transfer cost from hotel to airport (about RM$80/taxi), airport departure taxes, air ticket, transfer cost from airport to hotel (about S$17). Also consider the following:
the time it takes to get to the airport 1 hr
check-in time 1.5 hrs
fight time 1 hr
clearing customs/collect bags 1 hr
transport from airport to hotel 1 hr

Phone:
03-22721586

Website:
http://www.plusliner.com/index2.html

There are many bus services running between Singapore and KL. This is one of the better ones - Aeroline Bus Shuttle. Check out their website. Their pickup points are very well-located.

In Singapore, they are at the Grand Copthorne Water Front Hotel which is at Kim Seng Road, 7 minutes by car from Orchard Road. (Aeroline used to depart from Asia Hotel at Scotts Road, but have moved to the new location recently).

In KL, they are located along Jln Ampang / Corus Hotel, a short walk from KLCC and Petronas Towers.

Prices are reasonable, and first class service.

I bought 3 tickets for my wife & 2 kids via easibook.com about a month ago. The bus (operated by Sri Maju) was scheduled to depart from the Terminal Bersepadu Selatan (TBS) in Bandar Tasik Selatan (Cheras), KL at 3pm on 6/2/11. It is a new integrated transportation hub, linked with LRT and KLIA express. The terminal is well equipped but the operation has further room for improvements. They obtained their boarding tickets from the counter at Level 3 and headed down to level 2 for boarding. Unfortunately, they waited for 2 hours at the platform and no official announcement was made on the cause of delay. For KL-Singapore trip (by road), I still prefer First Coach. The buses are clean, depart on time and the drivers are relatively professional.

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Want to go and visit Malaysia? Kuala Lumpur? Malacca? The Lavender St. Bus Station can arrange it for you. Do not spend a lot of time trying to book on-line as the office is not on the net and most bus companies do not book on-line. The Lavender St. Bus Station is not a station! It is a large car park with busses on it and a small ticket window. Please look carefully at the first photo or you may walk past it. Just arrive in Singapore and figure out the Metro System. Go to the Lavender St. MRT station and ask anyone you see where the Malaysia Busses are. It’s around the corner and about 500 meters away. You come out of the Lavender St. MRT Station on the major road of Victoria St. Go left (NE direction) until you come to the major road of Lavender St. Now walk left and it is past the shell garage on the right hand side of the road. Hope you have wheels on your luggage!

Just buy your Bus ticket from the office a day or 2 before you want to go. If you like to have everything organised before you leave home, this will be concerning. Do not worry. Loads of busses go every hour with plenty of empty seats.

If you have the patience you can take a bus from here to the first large town in Malaysia, Johor Bahru. The bus terminal there goes everywhere and is cheaper.

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When I landed at Changi Airport at about 3am I still needed to find my way across the border to Senai Airport near Johor Bahru for our connecting flight to KL.

When I started planning my trip to KL I found that it was far cheaper to fly there from Senai, near Johor Bahru, rather than directly from Singapore.

Normal Singaporean taxis are not allowed to cross into Malaysia or vice versa. But there is a taxi service between the Queen Street bus depot in Singapore that will take you directly to Senai Airport for $S60.

The service is owned by Mr Heng Fook Jin who can be contacted on his mobile +6012-738 9122.imstress was kind enough to call him in advance on my behalf to meet me in Singapore.

I caught a taxi from Changi Airport on arrival to take me to the Queen Street depot where Mr Heng Fook Jin was already waiting for me at 4:00am. From there he took us over the Causeway, through customs and straight to Senai Airport.

For our return trip, I called him just before departing from KL to meet us at Senai Airport and taking us to Singapore again.

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Bus station in lavender street (+ Kallang Bahru terminal) is one of the possibility to leave Singapore by bus.
Personaly, I've used Malaca Singapore Express bus line. Bus was old, noisy but acceptable compared to the price (16s$).

In my view, I appreciate to use different transportations styles, as the contact with peoples and experiences are differents.

Twice now we've used the special Singapore taxis that are licensed to travel across the Singapore bridge into Johor Bahru Malaysia. It is more convenient as we were a family of 4 ( two children) & had luggage that we did not want to carry on & off buses. These taxis leave a stand in Rochor Rd . They also carry the correct papers for you to fill out for customs. In 2 return trips they only searched our luggage in the boot once and it was the only time we had 2 cans of beer in our back pack.
I've just found this website below that has a load of info on about transport between Singapore & JB
http://www.mymalaysiabooks.com/singapore/Singapore%20to%20Malaysia.htm

A bus can be taken from Kuala Lumpur (puduraya bus station) directly going to Singapore but I suggest that a stop-over be made in Melaka Malaysia (spend a day or two there then take the bus from Melaka Sentral Station to Singapore).

From Melaka, a bus ticket to singapore would cost RM 17 and travel time would be around 4 hours. (We bought our ticket from "Melaka 707 Express" Bus company)