Tag Archives: Travel

Our reader felt cheated by Expedia as he was charged USD instead of SGD although he was certain the price in his booking was stated in SGD. He tried contacting the staff but they did not help him at all. He wants to tell other people to be careful of being "cheated" this way.

Our reader who takes the train everyday has complained about the massive train delay that crippled the NSL and DTL this morning. She claims SMRT reported shorter waiting time when passengers actually took more than 1 hr to reach their destinations. How will SMRT and SBS be accountable?

A netizen has written about their horrendous travel booking experience with a travel website, Travel2be, which not only failed to process their booking properly, but even demanded that they pay the company 300 Euros for a full refund from the company!

4 Caucasian tourists were seen busking illegally at Tampines bus interchange in an attempt to get Singaporeans to fund part of their round-the-world trip.

An angry customer with FlyScoot has just sent us a complaint letter. She claims that a payment to the airline company went through without her authorization on 16 March but no one from Scoot has bothered to reply to her.

At 9.05AM today, an internet forummer posted a photo of CTC Travel website, which had allegedly been hacked by a group known as Anonymous Arabe. CTC is a popular local travel agency.

Several customers who booked rooms at Marina Bay Sands (MBS) for bargain low prices at $70 a night were left outraged after the hotel emailed them and told them they would instead have to pay over $450 for them, with a $100 credit off their final bill.

Hi, i'm one of the guys who didn't want to invite u. The last time we went on a trip together, u treated me like a maid.

Took a luxury coach from Singapore to KL on new year eve to celebrate coutndown. Purposely booked a luxury coach - Nice Imperial to celebrate new year. But actually it is not!

A reader has sent us an email about his unhappy experience with a Cathay Pacific flight. According to him, his flight was supposed to have departed at 12.55AM today, but the flight ended up getting delayed until 4AM for unknown reasons. He says Cathay Pacific did not offer any other compensation other than a complimentary meal worth HKD75 (SGD10) in the airport food outlets, which was closed at that time. He says this standard of service is unacceptable for a major non-budget airline.