Singapore travel shop - brick or click
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Monkey Hanger
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Singapore travel shop - brick or click
So, have found a really cheap flight deal from Lux to Sing in Dec. The plan would be to stay a few nights and then head off somewhere else in SE Asia. Could anyone recommend a decent online site to look for deals (package or low cost flight only) or perhaps the name of a travel agent in Singapore I could check out once there? Ta.
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Re: Singapore travel shop - brick or click
A couple of online agents include Chan Brothers and MISA Travel, however, I tend to do it all myself.
Useful resources are Changi Airport which will tell you which airlines fly where, the airlines own website (the majority can do online booking) and a hotel website like Agoda or asiarooms.com to look at hotels (and again, go direct to the hotel website).
Useful resources are Changi Airport which will tell you which airlines fly where, the airlines own website (the majority can do online booking) and a hotel website like Agoda or asiarooms.com to look at hotels (and again, go direct to the hotel website).
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Re: Singapore travel shop - brick or click
Check out wego and zuji too.
edit: Not sure where webjet.com.au covers but worth a look.
edit: Not sure where webjet.com.au covers but worth a look.
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Re: Singapore travel shop - brick or click
I used Misa last time, they were pretty helpful. That after an awful experience with clueless shysters in a small shop in Suntec.
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Re: Singapore travel shop - brick or click
Brilliant. Thanks folks.
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Re: Singapore travel shop - brick or click
I trawled though quite a few online travel shops/agents and they were all pretty lousy. Having said that, the AirAsia site is pretty user friendly these days and the fares are great. They're not quite (yet?) in the same league as Ryanair in trying to gouge every last penny out of their clients.
On the hotel front I found booking.com generally the most competitive for Sing hotels. Laterooms seemed better for Indonesian hotels (don't understand why) and did have more specials, if you're prepared to wade through the details - their "banner" best rate was, more often than not, not the actual best price available. Booked a Yogya hotel which was roughly 30% cheaper on laterooms than the identical rate on booking.com by actually adding b+b rather than room only. Bizarre!
On the hotel front I found booking.com generally the most competitive for Sing hotels. Laterooms seemed better for Indonesian hotels (don't understand why) and did have more specials, if you're prepared to wade through the details - their "banner" best rate was, more often than not, not the actual best price available. Booked a Yogya hotel which was roughly 30% cheaper on laterooms than the identical rate on booking.com by actually adding b+b rather than room only. Bizarre!