Best way to get to Singapore
 

I'm planning a trip to SE asia. I will visit vietnam then 6 or 7 days in the philippines (cebu city/Bohol), 3-4 days in BKK and 2 days one night in SIN. I am flying home from Singapore. I am doing Vietnam first. My question is as follows:

After SGN would it make sense to go MNL-BKK-SIN? Or from SGN would it be better to go SGN-BKK-MNL-SIN. I selected MNL because I have heard its cheaper to fly to MNL and then take a local flight to Cebu vs taking an international flight into/out of Cebu. My preliminary reviews of the flights seems to indicate that its easier and more cost effective to go sgn-BKK-MNL-SIN. Is there a more cost effective/quicker way I should consider?

Air Asia via KL is often the cheapest, but Scoot (LCC run by SQ) is SIN based and very cheap on some routes and dates (e.g. 20% of the other carrier prices). Indonesia also has very cheap LCCs.

Careful with Scoot. I would suggest to use alternatives unless you have no other reasonable option.

Either way geographically you are backtracking.

It's quite cheap to fly from BKK to SIN, most likely cheaper than flying CEB (or MNL)-SIN, so may make more sense to do BKK last before flying to SIN.

Also instead of flying via MNL, you can also consider flying via Davao.

Just do a search on Skyscanner, it will give you all the options including with connections.

Thanks I will look at Davao to see what the flight options are.