I need to hire a taxi or car from Singapore to Mersing

[DBGP]

Does anyone have any tips or numbers?

I am booked to stay on one of the islands off Mersing in a couple of weeks and the resort has asked for a fortune to arrange the transfer from here to the port in Malaysia.

Has anyone done the same or similar trip, and have contact details of a reliable car service who can take me?

Thanks

[jpatokal]

Taxis can't legally cross the border when traveling between two arbitrary points. However, if you call the taxi stand at Queen St, they can sort out a swap so that a Sg cabbie takes you across and you switch into a Malaysian cab once across the border.

Mersing's pretty far from Singapore though, so that's not going to be cheap. Why not take a bus? See http://wikitravel.org/en/Mersing for options and price estimates.