Malaysian in Singapore spends over 15 hours to get VTL bus tickets for homecoming

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Come Monday (Nov 29), technician Tanapal Murugayah will finally be reunited with his wife and two sons - aged five and eight - in Johor Baru. On Thursday (Nov 25), when bookings for bus tickets for the land vaccinated travel lane (VTL) between Malaysia and Singapore...

Batu Pahat is much closer to Johor Baru than the airport in Kuala Lumpur.

Assistant operations manager Chok Chen Kiong, who has not seen his wife and two children - who are studying in university - for about two years, plans to travel in January after failing to enter the booking websites. "I don't think it's worth it; with the hotel quarantine, it will actually cost about $3,000 per return trip," said Mr Chok.

A 26-year-old enforcement officer who wanted to be known as Stephanie said she booked tickets for herself and her one-month-old baby to visit her family.

 

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