reubencahn
Contributor
Though I would post a quick report for anyone in the same position--flying into Singapore and then flying Scoot to MDC on a separate ticket. We arrived around 1:15 a.m. and made our way to immigration expecting to pick up our bags and head to Terminal 1 to use Scoot's kiosk check-in and bag drop. The helpful immigration officer advised us to turn around and head to our hotel, picking up the bags and checking in the next morning. She advised that if anything went wrong at check-in we'd be stuck because we wouldn't be able to leave the bags with left luggage, go airside, and then collect the next day because Singapore would view that as re-entering twice in a day. We followed her advice. As it turned out, the Skytrain doesn't run from 1:30 to 4:30, so that was another good reason to wait until the following morning to collect bags. So we had a bit of a walk from Terminal 3 to our Terminal 1 transit hotel.
In any case, we came back to Terminal 3 on the Skytrain around 6:30, cleared immigration, picked up our bags waiting at the lost and found, and headed over to Terminal 1 on the Skytrain. Scoot funnels everyone to the automated kiosks. They do not function flawlessly and we would have been out of luck had we tried to check in when there was no assistance. The kiosk could not match our passport pictures to that taken by the kiosk camera.
Bottom line: if you're connecting to Scoot as we were, book the Transit Hotel in Terminal 3 (or whatever terminal your landing at) and head straight there after landing. Clear immigration and pick up your bags 3 hours before your Scoot flight and head to Terminal 1 for check in.
In any case, we came back to Terminal 3 on the Skytrain around 6:30, cleared immigration, picked up our bags waiting at the lost and found, and headed over to Terminal 1 on the Skytrain. Scoot funnels everyone to the automated kiosks. They do not function flawlessly and we would have been out of luck had we tried to check in when there was no assistance. The kiosk could not match our passport pictures to that taken by the kiosk camera.
Bottom line: if you're connecting to Scoot as we were, book the Transit Hotel in Terminal 3 (or whatever terminal your landing at) and head straight there after landing. Clear immigration and pick up your bags 3 hours before your Scoot flight and head to Terminal 1 for check in.