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May 4, 2008

How budget is the budget terminal?

Just having a trip to Phuket via Tiger Air. Overall the airline is punctual and comfortable. For the Singapore budget terminal, it is pretty small, but I would say it is almost the same as or better than the Perth International Airport.

The budget terminal cannot be directly access via the local train service (MRT), but if you would like to go there via MRT, you could just take a free shuttle bus service from the terminals to the budget terminal. The frequency of the bus is about 10 minutes. For my case, I actually took a public bus 858 which can easily access from my place in Woodlands to terminal 2 and then transfered to the budget terminal.

My first impression of the budget terminal is very bad, it has nothing but a dining place, a children play ground, an ATM machine, a AXN machine, a terminal service counter, a small convenient retail shop and about 26 airline service counters. I had taken some photos from them as the following:



I also notice that you could get a piece of "My Paper", a free local published newspaper in the terminal. However, I think you can only get it in the early morning flights.

Actually, all of the good facilities available for the budget terminal are only available after you have gotten passed the custom checkpoint.

There are quite many facilities inside the budget terminal, here is the list:
  • A free Internet access point with quite a few computers available for travelers to access and a good cafe O'Briens to you to take a cup of coffee.


  • Two rest places that you could watch ChannelNewsAsia, a famous news channel in Asia.


  • A money changer which allows the travelers to change money in the very last minute.


  • A free laptop Internet access zone allows the travelers who has a laptop to access the free wireless network.


  • There are many tax free shops available for travelers to do last minute shopping.

Overall, the budget terminal is not that budget after all, it includes all the facilities that a traveler need to get on the budget air planes.

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