the mrbrown show 24 April 2006: taking a super nice bus on the NS highway
No Miyagi this week, just mr brown and Mr Tan (yes he is back!) podcasting from a noisy Super Nice coach to Kuala Lumpur.
We were supposed to take a premium coach (like those from the Aeroline and the Nice bus companies), which I booked online, but for some reason, I ended up booking tickets for Thursday for all six of our party, when we were supposed to depart Friday. Of course, I only discover this on the taxi to the pickup point, on Friday morning itself.
So we ended up on a Super Nice bus (that's what this competitor called its buses).
We decided to podcast our experience travelling up the North-South Highway, including cultural experiences like stopping over at Yong Peng rest stop, and being participants of, er, police entrepreneurialism.
This audio podcast does not contain "explicit political content" because that is prohibited during the election period under the Singapore's Election Advertising Regulations.
(MP3, Filesize: 9mb, Time: 00:18:56)
posted by Unknown | 5:00 PM
2 Comments:
I Qoute:
"We were supposed to take a premium coach (like those from the Aeroline and the Nice bus companies)"
Aeroline... premium? I think not.
I work in KL, and return to singapore every weekend. I have no choice to take Aeroline because the other buses are either too far, or dont have a trip leaving after 6pm.
Anyway, here is my experience from Aeroline.
1) They tell you on their website: "Every seat is fitted with a power socket for your mobile convinience." I say bullshit! Out of the 20 odd seats in the bus, there are only like 4 power sockets.
2) What is see is NOT what you get. What you see on the website, differs GREATLY from the bus you get (more than half the time i took the bus). I ended up travelling on old and lousy buses. If you get seat number 10B or any seat near that on one of the older bus. Unless you sleep to the sound of squeeeaaks, good luck to you! How not-good are the buses? Well, out of the 20 odd light tubes in the buses, only about half are working. in some of them, you see dirty or greenish algae forming.
3) I once got stranded at singapore customer because their bus broke down. What happened? When we all boarded the bus after clearing the customs, the driver kept revving the engine, but the bus simply refused to move. Only 15mins later were we informed that the bus has broken down. So much for communicating with your customers. Fine... They told us another bus will be coming in 20 mins. Yea right... 30mins passes, no sign. They told us that we have to wait a little longer. Guess what? Everyone gave up. We walked off to the ULU tuas main road to call for cabs. Time: 2:15am (Sat.)
4) Unreasonable price -
Aeroline charges RM80 for KL -> SIN
Transtar charges ard S$30+ for KL -> SIN
Aeroline calls itself 'First-class' Again, I say bullshit!
Transtar calls itself firstclass too. I absolutly agree.
For the same price for KL -> SIN, Transtar offers a HUGE electronic seat with messager, Video(and MTV)-on-demand on your OWN TV right in front of you. (Think Singapore Airlines). And the whole bus is only a 16-seater, so that means no one seating beside you. Its like what you get in first class cabins in the airlines.
The above is based on my experience with Aeroline, and Transtar (www.transtar.com.sg) I have travelled more than 10 times on each.
HEY MR BROWN. love your shows esp the zhng my car ones. But i was just wondering where do you get your intro theme from? its really cool
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