How to Travel to Singapore - Cheap Airfares

In the advent of low cost airline carriers, the percentage of frequent Asian travelers has gained a tremendous hop. Backpacking to Singapore has been popular nowadays. A lot of factors and instances that made such ordinary folks not able to pursue their endeavors. However, airline companies are bringing cheap airfares to Singapore and that means...its travel time! ;) How to Travel to Singapore from the Philippines. First of all Singapore is open to at least 80% of all the countries of the world requiring NO VISA! Unless you belong to the 20% then you may refer to http://www.mfa.gov.sg. The travel time ranges from 15 days up to 90 days. So if you plan to stay longer then you may need to visit the Singaporean Embassy. Areal View of Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Talking about cheap airline tickets to Singapore, there are a lot of low cost carriers that offer promos- some could even get to as much as ZERO ALL-IN flight cost. This are rare, however, if you are lucky, you could get one. As a Filipino backpacker, travelling has been a sort of a drug for me - a way of relaxation and getting into new things and perspective. Tiger Airways, Cebu Pacific, Zest Air, Air Asia, AirPhil are some local airline carries in the country that offers low cost fares to Singapore. I was lucky to get a chunk of the promo from Air Asia which cost me 1800 PhP excluding the travel tax and terminal fee to more than 2070 PhP if i could recall. Please check out http://www.dmia.ph/faq.htm for more info. Air Asia is operating at Clark, Pampanga. Im from Mindanao (southern part of the country) so the travelling cost is a bit steeper. Depending on the carrier, you could choose your pt. A from Cebu, Manila, and Clark bound to SG (If you are from Mindanao, it is best to check promos for domestic airfares to further lower you expenditure). On our experienced, we took a taxi from Manila to Clark where we haggle the payment to as much as 400 PhP. We missed the bus bound for Clark (the usual bus that takes Air Asia passengers). It was already 1 AM, so we took the taxi and evenly divided the cost. We arrived at Diosdado Macapagal International Airport, at Clark, Pampanga past 4am. So we had like less than 2 hrs to check-in for our 6:10 am flight. It was really a relief! wheew! :) Arriving at Changi Airport, Singapore Welcome to the city nicknamed as "The Little Red Dot". Warm climate greeted us at exactly 10am! We are almost screwed up the in the past 9hrs, so we had that sunny smiles after we set foot on the beautiful garden city of Singapore. We don't miss any pictorials at the Changi Airport where i see it with extensive duty-free products as well as dining and leisure facilities.

The people are warm and friendly. They even help us to find the exit going to the Skytrain. There is this so called SkyTrain that eventually brings passengers from Changi to Tanah Merah via MRT lines. From Tanah Merah, we purchased an MRT Pass Card worth 15 SGD before heading out to our backpackers hostel. At the Hostel On our way to the Ideal Backpackers Hostel. From my previous posts, the cheapest to way to find lodging houses would be hostelworld.com. I was able to book a dorm good for 4 pax for a 2 nights stay at 16 SGD per night. At that cost, don't expect some lavish and luxurious amenities. There is no shower or rest room inside. I think most of the lodgers are sharing two stinky bathrooms for men and women at that level. Yeah, not really good, to think that you need to go out from your room to do some personal necessities, however, it's better than nothing, anyways, I'm not getting there for some luxurious vacation..haha..Travelling is more like a sense of adventure for meyou need to be prepared and expect something unique. The Total Cost From Mindanao to Manila (Promo Fare via Air Philippines ) - 800.00 PhP Manila to Clark (via Taxi) - 133.333 PhP Clark to Singapore (via Air Asia) - 1800.000 PhP Terminal Fee and Travel Tax (DMIA) - 450 + 1620 = 2070.000 PhP Check-in luggage (they are not strict) - 00.000 PhP Sub - Total (one way fare) - 4803.33 PhP Hostel - 32 SGD or 1042.75 at 32.6 PhP per 1SGD at the time of writing. Total = 5845.33 PhP The calculations shown above depend on your point of location. It might be much lower for some areas in the country or depending on your airline carrier which operates at most 3 major cities in the Philippines. The sub total fare is shown for one way flight might also be the same or much cheaper for return flights to Cebu, Clark and Manila...would cost you around 2000 PhP including the travel tax from Singapore. Roughly, for a return ticket would cost you almost 6,000 PhP - 50% off. This is a huge savings to think that the raw airfare for return flights range from 350 to 400 SGD or roughly 13.000 PhP. Well so long! See you on my next post - Sites and Attractions to visit in Singapore. XEXE! :) Check out http://khmerstraveldiary.blogspot.com To see full images of this post please visit How to Travel to Singapore - Cheap Airfares