Certain Things Before You Plan Your Bus Journey

 Bus journeys are the preferred choice of several travellers with obvious reason of low expense and satisfactory comfort. If you too think alike, and prefer to book a bus ticket for your travel, then surely you wouldn’t have experience a bad time. The reason could be many, like exclusive services of bus operators, or special attention towards the luxury as well as comfort aspect. But, some people still make bad memories with bus travel due to negligence. If you want to skip those bad ones, then here are certain factors, which you should be careful about. Glance through them and avoid having a bad memory.

·         Choosing your bus operator carefully: With this point, we definitely mean the credibility & reliability factor, but you also need to play little smart with getting the good deal with good operator. You can seek for grabbing good discount deals, & offer coupons. By booking coach tickets online, you can definitely get to avail such offers. Moreover, bus operators these days offer several amenities inside the buses for which they charge accordingly. So, while choosing a bus operator do consider these factors as well.

·         Packing your bag: Before you plan your bus journey, it is important that you pay special attention to your baggage. Start with list preparation for two bags, the luggage bag and the shoulder bag. If your journey is long for say, you have to travel from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, then you must include the essential items in the shoulder bag. Rest, you should be able to differentiate between what you’ll need handy and what not. So prepare accordingly.  

·         Getting little precautious if traveling alone: Suppose, you are traveling alone in the bus to Cameron Highlands, then you need to be little precautious towards safety. Although the buses are safe to travel and there isn’t any need of getting worried about, but still it’s better to be precautious then regret later.

So, before you decide to travel via buses or coaches, then you need to be little cautious with these certain factors. Good luck and enjoy your bus travel! 

How to explore Kuala Lumpur in one day?

Several tour operators offer attractive packages for visiting Singapore and Malaysia; you might have also come across the advertisement in the newspaper or somewhere online. Some offer 3 days 4 night trip, where some offer 6 days & 7 nights excursion visit. People get confused with how to explore the best of the place in so limited time, but you need not to get confused. We have the tips for you that’ll make you enjoy the place in the limited time. Questions like what to do, where to do, and how to do, would tell you more about the places. This time lets’ start with Kuala Lumpur-the most loved tourist destination in Malaysia.

Form bustling markets to fabulous shopping malls, romantic attractions to religious places, you have to explore all the places in the limited time. Malaysia is not just about the coral islands or national parks, which most of the tour operators mostly talk about, but there is lot more that you can explore to bring replenish factor to your life. Kuala Lumpur is one such vibrant Asian city that is worth visiting. So, if you have a day that you can spend here, then hire hop-on hop-off bus service. Take a bus from Shah Alam that will take you to the different sites of the city and would make your day end with a big broad smile.

Start with Kuala Lumpur's oldest and richest Hindu temple. De-board your bus at the Sri Mahamariamman Temple, temple in Chinatown, & St Mary's Cathedral and cherish the brief look of the religious place. On the way to this temple, you’ll also get to admire Rumah Penghulu Abu Seman- an intriguing restored wooden house.

Next, you can get the Klang bus to see one of the oldest places in Malaysia that was built in 1928. Istana Negara at the beautiful location of Klang river is a must visit place.

Spending some time at the National Art Gallery to enjoy opera, theatre or music production is also a choice that would be loved by many of you. Otherwise, visiting Lake Titiwangsa is also a good choice, where one can hire a boat or play with the remote controlled cars.

Last, at the end of the day, book your evening for shopping at Kuala Lumpur City Centre. Petronas Twin Towers and Jala Tuanku Abdul Rahman shopping street would give you best buy options.

Crossing the borders b/w Malaysia & Singapore

At Malaysia’s southern tip, there is a mesmeric place-Singapore. Both the Malaysia and Singapore are in the hot tourist spot list of the tourists, so they crave to see both the place at their best. Where Penang, Kaula Lumpur, Cameron Highlands, Melaka, Langkawi, Sunway Lagoon, and many other cities attract tourists in Malaysia to explore the nature and be rejuvenated; Singapore also calls for its hypnotic nightlife fun. So, you definitely have to plan your trip so that visiting both the places becomes convenient & fast. So, here are some easy tips for crossing the border and easily travel between both the magical lands.

Crossing the border from Malaysia to Singapore or vice-a-versa is very accessible with loads of commuting options and two borders. Johor Bahru in Malaysia is close to the Singapore borders, so after reaching here you have many options like taking bus, private car, or hiring taxi that have necessary license of crossing the border. To enter in Singapore via road, you’ll have to take Woodlands Checkpoint near the Kranji MRT station in the north of Singapore. You can take bus from KL, Penang, Cameron Highlands, or Sunway Lagoon to reach here. In fact, the coaches & buses even take you to various destinations in Singapore, as they have valid license.  

Hiring a taxi is also another option that most of the travellers prefer. But, there is one limitation in this option. As it doesn’t hold license to cross the borders, it can only drop you at Queens Street Terminal (Bugis area) in Singapore.

There is another gateway to enter in Singapore on the west side- i.e. Second Link checkpoint. To cross through this border, the only option is public buses, which you can board at the Jurong East Bus Interchange.

 

So, anyhow the best option for crossing the border & easily travel between the two cities, is taking a bus. If you are travelling in group then you can go for booking the private buses, otherwise, public bus is also a good go for traveling comfortably & enjoy the best of Malaysia & Singapore.

Complementary mistakes while booking online tickets

Did you make some mistakes, while booking your bus tickets online? While booking bus from Butterworth, did you fill in wrong departure timings, or for bus to Cameron Highlands, you entered wrong boarding destination? Oops! But relax it happens! Mistakes happen from humans, and you also did one, so don’t panic, and work on their solutions.

Here are common errors that people generally make in ignorance with the solutions. Read them to know what you should do under such circumstances:

In case, you chose wrong destinations or departure details:

This is quite a common case that many people make while booking online tickets, as they have become comfortable with the booking method, and in a rush or ignorance mistake happens. Under such circumstance, you have the option of making changes in the details. But for that, you have to send an e-mail or call to the customer service experts much before the schedule departure time. But if you want to go for cancellation of the orders, then you need to have a valid reason for that. You may also have to convince the management for the cancellation request, as several companies do not accept withdrawal request.

The case of double bookings for tickets:

Sometimes internet connection is weak, or there’s some problem in the server. Due to this, same booking is done twice and payment is deducted twice. In such case, you have to file your complaint or talk to customer attendant. Do not delay in this process and follow the process to get the refund of the second payment.

 

In situations of transferring tickets:

The bus tickets that are booked online are transferable. With the print copy of the e-ticket, anyone can use them for traveling.

Whether you make any mistake in booking tickets or not, but you should always make sure that you recheck the booking history. Go to the member area – history of your account and recheck all the details that you have filled in. Do note that to visit ‘member area’, you have to become the number of the company.