This was the very first trip (require taking Airplane) alone with him. Although we had to came out of the busy schedule from work - which alternatively mean that few days before today, we are working our asses off burning midnight candles for work - we were both very excited and believe that this is going to be a good break for both of us.
We took the bus from Yishun going direct to the Singapore Changi Airport, had our lunch at the airport and went straight to the check-in counters for Tiger Airways. The flight was retimed to depart 30 mins later than what was initially scheduled. But we didn't even complain a bit because, this would mean that we could sit at the McDonald's for a cup of cappuccino and a walk in the airport duty free shops.
The flight departs at about 2:30 in the afternoon and we arrived safely at the Langkawi Intl Airport at about 3:50pm. Since it's a small town, quite obvious the airport is small too. But when I arrive, I was pleasantly surprised by the interior deco of the airport.
See what I mean? We bought a bottle of Smirnoff Vodka at the duty free shop, thinking this would be cheaper than the rate in the town. Boy, were we so wrong! More on this later.
Taking taxi from the airport to the hotel was very easy too. We just had to approach the Transport counter near the exit door of the airport and tada! we were given a taxi ride to the hotel with just RM22. Pay at the counter, take the receipt, show the receipt to the taxi uncle and you're all set to the destination. Easy huh? You don't have to worry about haggling for the taxi fair (this exactly was my initial thoughts).
This is our hotel front view, only 4 stories tall. The hotel is called Awana Porto Malai Hotel which I booked via online. I thought that the price for the hotel was reasonable. The thing that we realised when we reach here is that, tall buildings are hardly seen around the town, except for some high end hotels, most of the buildings and resorts around town are only a few story high.
We are happy with what was provided at the hotel, except that the staffs at the hotel cafe's attentiveness level was downright close to zero. More on that later. We stepped into the requested Sea view Superior bedroom, and both of us went, 'Woah'. For me it was because the room was clean, the enormous king size bed was arranged with the super clean and white sheets and the clean shower and toilet. For him, it was the spectacular view we get from the room. He always has a thing for sea and nature. So, he was like the happiest guy on earth for a moment.
This was the views from the room. The room has the sliding doors with immediate metal frame like a small balcony (reminds us of those small tiny apartments in Spain we see in the movies) with the thin translucent curtains draped across it. Quite a romantic view I must say.
Right outside the hotel parameter is the small jetty with the boats and yachts parked at the jetty. We took the speedboat from this same jetty on the next day for Island Hopping trip. More on that later.
This is the other side of the view from the hotel room.
This is the bed I was talking about.
After a cool refreshing shower, we were both too hungry to explore the town and it was almost 6pm in the evening. So, we set off to the hotel's restaurant for dinner only to realise that they only serve dinner from 7:00pm cuz the food is not ready. We order a couple of beers for both of us and requested for some snacks to go along with the beer, and they replied, 'We don't have! We only have pastry'. And both of us were like, 'What?'. In the end, he managed to ask for some peanuts, cuz something to chew is better than drinking on an empty stomach, right? The wait girl came back with a bowl of mixed nuts, that were not crunchy anymore. I wonder if she retrieve those from some old jar of nuts that has not been used/served for a long time. But we made do with that picking only crunchy-looking bits from the bowl cuz we were really desperate for some food. This was why I mentioned earlier about the attentiveness of the staffs. There are many small incidents that happened only to prove that the staffs there are not service oriented. But I'm not going to elaborate in here cuz writing that would make this post a few pages long. The view from the place we had dinner was stunning, the pictures are in his cam, I have yet to take those from him. So, I'll post them at a later time. We had the most expensive dinner at this place throughout the trip. It was supposed to be a fine dining place, but we were too hungry to settle for one. So, we have ordered a few hundred grams of Tiger prawns, crabs, the overpriced mushroom salad and the delicious pineapple fried rice accompanied with the odd tasting thai spicy soup. The bill came out to be about RM170. That's why I said it was the most expensive meal we had for this trip.
We came back up to the room and guess what? He was still hungry! We ordered a plate of Fish & Chips from the room service and satisfied with that because the staff was polite and the meal was served hot. We had this meal together on the small table dragged nearer to the side of the balcony, accompanied with a bucket of ice, soda water to make the vodka mix (one we bought from Airport) and everything just felt perfect right here in a cool breezy night.
Good night on the first day at Langkawi.
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