Category: General Travel

General Travel

Gamechanger: My experience with Starlink Mini

Aaron Wong - Feb 10, 2026

General Travel

AAS RoadPlus+ overseas rental car insurance: Not what I was hoping for

Aaron Wong - Feb 5, 2026

General Travel

Review: Electric Train Service (ETS) from Johor to Kuala Lumpur

Matthew Chong - Dec 24, 2025

Singaporeans can apply for Global Entry, but be prepared to wait

General Travel Aaron Wong - Aug 2, 2016 13

On the 27th of June it was announced that Singapore was now part of the Global Entry program, which allows Singapore passport holders to use the special automated clearance kiosks when entering the...

Insure your rental car for less (update: now with global plans for Singapore residents!)

General Travel Aaron Wong - Jun 24, 2016 0

(Note: This is a mirror post. If you want to ask questions/leave comments, please do so on the original post here) Update: In addition to the plans below, Worldwideinsure has started offering their...

UberX cuts Singapore fares by 15%

General Travel Aaron Wong - Apr 16, 2016 11

If you haven't used Uber before, the case for it just got 15% stronger. On 14 April, Uber announced that the fares for its cheapest UberX service would be reduced by 15% in...

Hack your laptop, save on wifi costs

General Travel Aaron Wong - Feb 5, 2016 8

Today I'm going to teach you how to get around number of user restrictions for Wifi. This is one of the most arbitrary and annoying restrictions that hotels/airlines have on their networks. For...

Claim your Singapore birthright- the APEC travel card

General Travel Aaron Wong - Feb 2, 2016 35

This article may be out of date. An updated version of this article can be found here. As Singapore citizens we are blessed with clean air, efficient government and the existential angst of Amos...

So you want to rent a convertible

General Travel Aaron Wong - Jan 18, 2016 13

There are some places on earth that were just meant to be seen from a convertible. Big Sur on the northern California coast is one of them. This is a place of...

Free one-way car rentals. Really.

General Travel Aaron Wong - Nov 2, 2015 0

I've spoken before about how much I enjoy driving holidays, and the best kind of driving holiday is when you see most of the country by road. Land at one airport, get...

If you must roam, get some miles out of it

General Travel Aaron Wong - Sep 30, 2015 0

So first and foremost, unless your company is paying for it, there's no reason why you should ever use roaming. Until we have an EU type agreement which abolishes the ridiculous fees...