My friends and I visited JB yesterday morning. We met at Kranji MRT Station and caught bus 170x to the causeway for immigration clearances. I have not been there for a long time and was glad to see some improvement in the development of shopping malls, roads, immigration building etc.
The crowd was huge and the queue for entry into JB at the Malaysian side was very slow. It took 1 hour for us to clear immigration. Unlike the Malaysian side, Singapore immigration clearance was faster (5 minutes). Singapore uses the automated system while Malaysia still uses the old system.
We spent the whole day in JB shopping,eating and drinking beer at the Berjaya Hotel. Things were much cheaper than in Singapore. The rate of exchange was MYR 3.07 to S$1.
I bought a pair of shoes which cost S$20. In Singapore, it would have cost $40. Each one of us spent about S$23 for the whole day which also included the taxi fare.
Returning to Singapore at about 7:30 pm was hassle free.
