We set off at 8.05am, our usual departure time. Took bus CW3 at Jurong Town Hall Bus Interchange near Jurong East MRT. It was a nice ride to Tuas - relatively empty bus, smooth ride, no jam. Took a random CW bus to cross the Second Link.
Now, I had read online that using Apple Pay, we only need to tap in for each part of the journey, no need to tap out. But the driver on our second bus waved us in - no need to tap in at all.
At the JB side, we were supposed to take CW3 or CW6 to Bukit Indah. But CW7 came to the berth. I asked and the driver confirmed he was going to AEON Bukit Indah. Ok!
And so we reached our destination, and it was not even 10am! Woohoo!
Breakfast at Tea Garden
The food took a long time to arrive... Sito's char kway came when I was almost done with my kampung bee hoon. But it was all yummy :)
We had wanted to go to our usual Tian Lai to eat crab but that outlet closes every Wednesday! We can only go to JB on Wednesdays for now as the younger ones have CCA.
But this trip, our main purpose was to use up credits in our massage account. We stopped going there after our last overnight Legoland trip. It didn't look like we were going to do such overnight trips any time soon and we still had some RM300 in our account.
In the end, we still didn't manage to use up all the money. Still have some RM30 left. Ah well, we shall see. Coz last night, news about the revised cross border taxi service broke. This morning, I read the news in detail - can use SG taxi to go and Malaysian taxi to come back for point-to-point service. But quite ex as we need a bigger car. In any case, this trip told us that the CW bus via the Second Link is a possible alternative, even with a large suitcase.
Back to our excursion...
Massage was soooo good. We chose foot massage plus head plus shoulder. Sito changed his shoulder massage to additional foot massage. I wanted to change my head massage to additional foot massage but the masseur didn't get it so I got extra shoulder and back massage instead. I can still feel the parts between my shoulders now :)
After the massage, we had some snacks at the lobby. "Free" but actually the massages here are more expensive than near CIQ. Just convenient for our Legoland trips. But the snacks were really quite good haha!
We went back to AEON. Had a fried chicken snack at the food hall - mostly batter though the teriyaki sauce was good - and finally a papa roti coz the outlet at CIQ was always so crowded!
Bought random Daiso stuff, a box of puffs from Ming Ang, doughnuts for the boys, and Mixue ice cream. Sito was still eating the ice cream when we saw the CW3 bus boarding passengers! He stuffed the rest down and got on!!
The bus left at 2.30 pm. Same thing - no need to tap in for the middle bus. We reached Jurong Town Hall Bus Interchange maybe 4 pm?! And so, we went to Uniqlo and Donki, leaving with Sito's Mt Ebi - 10 fried prawns on rice! - and many boxes of Japanese curry roux. Bought the kids' dinner downstairs and went home to find that Kai was already home. The brothers came back shortly after.
Today, I just got the Apple Wallet notification for RM21.55 - that should be the total cost of our rides:
- $5 outward bound
- RM6 inward
Actually we felt a bit iffy using Apple Pay. What if there was double deduction etc?? Maybe next time we'll use cash.. Kids don't have Apple Pay anyway... And now that we know that the CW buses via the Second Link are not crowded at all, we may consider this instead of the cross border taxi if we want to go for longer Legoland trips next year. KIV...