My Konsortium exp from KL-Sin - terrible!
Was at Bandar Tasik on sunday at abt 1530, tried to get the earliest dep time but all were sold out except for 1700 Konsortium (dbl deck). Lan lan, juz grabbed 2 tickets coz my wife had to work on mon morning.
The seats were ok, a bit creaky when u tried to adjust the back. Started driving at 1710, initially was quite smooth till some on and off jams for abt half an hr. Overall was quite alright until I noticed that every coach bus was overtaking us
Took out my GPS and saw the driver was driving max 93km/h. At the pt, the ETA for Beach Road was ard 9ish.
At 1950, we pulled into a pitstop. We were quite grateful for the stop coz bladders were bursting. Were told we had 30 mins, but ended up moving off after 40 mins. Not too long ltr, the coach stopped by the roadside and exchanged drivers. This driver is another slow coach...juz when we thought the next stop shd be JB customs, the driver pulled into a petrol station to pump petrol, we were beginning to feel WTF!! When r we ever going to reach Beach Road before 10pm.
Agn, by the time we moved off, it was oredi 2105, every coach bus was overtaking us, esp the 707 co, fierce man...they were driving like 120 or more.
Reached Skudai for some dropoff, den Larkin for another dropoff, jammed for abt 15 mins to reach the Customs, cleared JB side and seated in the coach at 2230. Everyone in the coach was either cursing to their partners or cursing silently by now.
Cleared SIN customs at 2300 and the bloody coach took another 10-15 mins to reach the pickup bay. Every other coach that came after us at JB side or ard the same time, left way way earlier than us at SIN. At this pt, we were contemplating taking a cab straight away coz it was really freaking frustrating.
Finally reached Beach Rd at 0010, a freaking 7 hrs ltr. Everyone had no choice except to take cabs and as usual all the cabs were either on call, hired or plain choosy. Took me another 35 mins to reach home which is only 1 MRT stop away!!!
SO bottom line, never ever take Konsortium agn and it's not like we can't afford to take the direct route but there were none. Really really pissed.
Fare 39 RM each
Time taken 7 hrs