Have Perut Will Travel...: JHB Day 1 │ City One to R&F Mall • Aeroline!

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Saturday, 13 September 2025

JHB Day 1 │ City One to R&F Mall • Aeroline!

Johor Bahru!

We woke up at the crack of dawn and made sure we were out the door half past seven. Why? It's because we had booked a six-seater Grab car the night before, scheduling for it to pick us at eight this morning. This time Brendan was tagging along as well!

Sure enough we were picked up for an inflated fare of RM30.00 (approximately USD7/EUR6) at eight and arrived at Corus Hotel ten minutes later. With more than two hours until our departure we decided to have breakfast at the hotel's Dondang Sayang Coffee House for RM34.80 (approximately USD8/EUR7) per person.

We were excited to visit JB again, this time courtesy of our favourite bus company Aeroline. We wanted to take advantage of the four-day weekend in conjunction with Malaysia Day celebrations, so we booked our Aeroline bus tickets online for RM72.00 each (approximately USD17/EUR15) departing from Corus Hotel today at 10:30am.

The bus made its appearance at 10:00am and after a delay in the delivery of the catered food finally departed at 10:37am. The bus bearing the number VBR8808 was scheduled to arrive at Persada Johor International Convention Centre five hours later.

We drove past the Sungai Besi Toll Plaza half an hour later and from then on traffic grew progressively worse. Two hours into the journey we had only reached Seremban. An hour later traffic cleared near Senawang and from there the bus tried to make up for lost time.

The bus stopped for a much need break at the Pagoh rest area at 3:10pm. Brendan and I I lighted first, being unfamiliar the place we went around the maze of corridors before finally locating the washrooms.

The bus resumed its journey at 3:45pm and eventually drove past the Skudai Toll Plaza at 6:00pm. We arrived at Persada Johor International Convention Centre half an hour later.

Stay tuned for our next video as we hail a Grab car to R&F Princess Cove.