We had a bit of a trip ahead of us to get from Borneo to Singapore. Â Remember that thunderstorm which got us completely soaking wet after we saw the orangutans? Â Well, it made for a very slow taxi ride to the airport and a fairly bumpy flight back to Kuala Lumpur. Â It was 11 pm or so by the time we got in and we had to be on a train to Singapore early the next morning.
Justin did an awesome job planning this segment because he found us a hotel right by the airport, meaning we could get to bed right away and still be near transportation to the train station the next morning. Â What he found was Tune hotels, which are a little different than normal hotels. Â I don’t have any pictures, but I’ll try to describe it the best I can. Â Or, just click on the link and look at their description.
Basically, it’s a hotel modeled after a budget airline. Â So you get a really cheap, really tiny room, and anything else you might want has an extra cost associated with it. Â The beds were some of the best we encountered in our travels, the shower was awesome, very clean, etc., but hardly enough space for us and our backpacks. Â Especially since we had wet, muddy clothes we wanted to hang up from the jungle! Â We didn’t need many of the add-ons. Â In fact, we paid about 32 cents each, each direction, to get the shuttle from the airport to the hotel and about 65 cents to have a towel provided since we wanted to keep ours dry. Â And that was it!
I’m not sure how a place like that would be for a longer stay, but for what we needed it was perfect. Â I have never seen this concept anywhere else, but it looks from their website like they are an international chain. So who knows, maybe this will be the next big thing!