Winter used to be the season Australians and Singapore-based travellers treated Vietnam as a side trip: a long weekend in Ho Chi Minh City, maybe a beach add-on if the fare cooperated. That math is changing. Carriers are loading the Singapore–Vietnam triangle with more frequencies this northern winter, and that extra metal is the difference between a rushed city break and a trip that actually fits three distinct Vietnams into one leave pass.
Why this winter is different
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Thailand just changed the stamp that greets millions of visitors each year. From 15 September 2026, the special 60-day visa exemption many nationalities used since 2024 is finished. In its place: 30 days visa-free for tourism for 60 countries and territories, 15 days for Mauritius and Seychelles, and Visa on Arrival for a short remaining list.
If you are flying from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, India, the United Kingdom or the United States, this is the rule on...
Tokyo will always sell the postcard. What it no longer sells, especially from September through the Golden Week crush that follows, is ease. Queues at shrines, sold-out ramen counters, and hotel rates that punish last-minute planners have pushed a quieter Japanese city back into the conversation: Fukuoka.
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I had a few hours to kill at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), and instead of sitting around the terminal, I decided to try Kepler Club. I used my Priority Pass to get in, which made it an easy choice.
There are actually two Kepler Club locations at KLIA Terminal 1. One is airside in the Satellite Building, while the other is landside on Level 2. I used the landside location, the one near the car park and on the...
Bali still sells out on public holidays. What has changed is the map. From Singapore you can now fly nonstop to Indonesian islands that most travellers cannot pronounce on the first try. Belitung is the one worth learning.
Scoot’s new link turned a name on a chart into a Friday-night departure. Local hotels that saw a handful of Singapore guests in a month suddenly counted them in the hundreds. That is not a marketing slogan. It is what happens when...
