The full length of the peninsula
Alor Setar is the furthest destination on our rate card — roughly 760 kilometres from Singapore, nine to ten hours on the road, running almost the entire length of peninsular Malaysia to the Kedah plain near the Thai border. It is a serious undertaking and we treat it as one. Rest stops are planned rather than improvised, the departure window is chosen deliberately, and the same driver and van carry you the whole way. Doing this drive yourself is possible; doing it with a group, luggage and a checkpoint at the start is a different proposition entirely.
Onward connections and travelling overnight
A good share of the traffic to Alor Setar is heading further — Kuala Kedah for the Langkawi ferry, or on towards the northern border. If that is you, the connection time is the only time that matters and we plan the pickup backwards from it with generous margin, because there is no recovering a missed sailing at the end of a ten-hour drive. Overnight departures work well on this route: the road is quiet, the checkpoint is at its easiest, and you arrive at the start of a day rather than the end of one. We operate 24 hours, so either window is a normal booking.