Hi guys, if you read my previous blog here and here, you know that I went to Genting Highland and stay at The World’s Largest Hotel , Yeayyyyy !!! Yes, I stay at First World Hotel, that located in Resort World Genting. There is a lot of Hotel in Resort World Genting, but if you want the cheapest one you can choose this hotel. First World Hotel is a three-star hotel, it has 7,351 rooms, it has set the Guinness World Records for the largest hotel in the world (by number of rooms).
The Colorful Building is The First World Hotel
PRICE
I booked the room via agoda and I paid 288K IDR. But I did some research, if you book via their official website in advance like 6-8 months before, you can get cheaper offers, like 50 MYR or around 150K IDR. You can check the price in another booking hotel apps, like Traveloka, booking.com or etc. I choose agoda because at that time, it offered the best price. This price is for 1 Deluxe room (twin bed) and no breakfast
Short Stay Price
ROOM
So in Deluxe Room, We got no view. There is window, but when you open, you can see another window, so better closed your window and shut the curtain tightly so other can see your room. There is no AC only fan in the ceiling. Genting is cold guys, so we don’t need AC, fan is enough for circulation. if you think it is too hot then open your window a little, the cold air will enter you room, don’t worry there is no mosquito in high land.
We Got 2 towels, because this room is for 2. We can not ask for extra bed because there is no remain space in this room, this room is enough for 2 adult only, maybe plus 1 kids (below 10 years) is still OK. They provide soap and shampoo, and I am happy they provide hair dryer too. The shower has hot water and it is nice because Genting is cold.
They don’t give us mineral water inside the room, But in the hallway they provide water dispenser that have cold and hot water, so just bring your bottle or glass or cup to the dispenser and got your water. The room is not soundproof, so I can hear voices from the hallway. Not really disturb me, because they using carpet so the footsteps mostly can’t be heard and mostly behave well , they don’t speak or laugh hard at the hallway. And they don’t have WIFI in the room, SAD.
The First World Hotel
Check In and Check Out Process
Check-In Kiosk
Check-Out Kiosk
For me, this hotel is really cool in this area, check in and check out. Because we can do it by ourselves. Fun Fact, First World Hotel is the first hotel in Southeast Asia to launch E-Kiosk or Express Check-in and Check-out kiosks. There is so many Self Check-In Machine in the lobby. They have receptionist too, but this hotel has 7K rooms , if the receptionist need to handle 7K check in and check out everyday then they need a lot of people I think. You can watch this video to find out how to use the E-kiosk. Check out also really easy. Because they also have Self Check Out machine. We just need to input our card to the machine, and it’s done. Oh yeah, FYI since Sept 2017, tourist need to pay 10 MYR per room per night as tourism tax. So when we check in we need to pay this tax, even when we using E-Kiosk we can pay it via this machine , using cash or card.
Receptionist. The decoration is old school for me, kinda feels like i am in North Korea #CLOYeffect
Free Luggage Storage
Location
The Location is great. This hotel connects to shopping mall, SkyAvenue which also houses the Awana Skyway station that links to the Genting Highlands Premium Outlets. So, even with no breakfast book we still can have plenty choices to having breakfast. There are some restaurant in the hotel, or you can go to the mall , they food court open early, so you can easily find anything there to eat.
Conclusion
This Hotel is quite good, but you can not expect more than you pay. It is a good budget hotel in my opinion. But, if you want the comfortable one with view , breakfast, more facility, I think you need find another hotel.
So, I will continue my story about traveling to Genting last year , you can read the part one here. Long Story Short, My mom and I traveling to Malaysia around September 2019. After we arrived at Malaysia, we directly went to Genting, you can read my story how I go to Genting from KLIA2 in this post. So, in that post I already told you we safely arrived at the Genting Highland and went to our hotel, The First World hotel. My mom and I definitely tired after adventure that start too early (we had early flight), so we took a rest at our room before continue our trip.
Before I start, i want to tell you that Genting is Cold. Genting Highlands has a spring-like climate, with yearly temperatures no higher than 25 °C (77 °F) and rarely falling below 14 °C (57 °F) yearly. The lowest temperature of Genting Highlands is 8.4 °C (47.1 °F). Actualy For me, who has so many fat that can protect me from cold, Genting Highland si just so so, I can bear it, wearing short pant and t-shirt. But for my mom, she needs jacket too survive.
So, back to story, After took a rest , we went to Sky Avenue Mall, our hotel is connected to this mall so it’s convenient for us to go there. In this mall ther is Sky Casino, you can double your money here , there is Skytropolis – Indoor theme park, so if you with you kids, you can left them at Skytropolis and you can go to Casino. There are plenty to shop, eat and play at Sky Avenue. In Sky Avenue we also can watch Sky Symphony, Sky Symphony is a free-to-public performance showcasing an extraordinary orchestra of audio, visual and motion graphics programming. You can check here for the schedule.
Sky Avenue MallSky Casino
I went to the casino with my mom, just to show my mom how is casino looks like. The casino is so huge, there is 2 floor and so many people play. There is no empty table, everyone play and mostly is tourist from china i think. FYI, Malaysia is muslim country, so there is only one casino is Malaysia and it is located in Genting Highland. In this casino, Malaysia Citizen is prohibited to enter and play. As I know, it is one of their way to attract tourist. I once went to Casino in MBS Singapore, when we enter the casino, we need to show our passport, and there is drink station inside that even we don’t play we can get free flow drink. So I expect the same thing in Genting Casino, but they don’t check our passport and there is also no free flow drink station. I think, they will check our passport if we buy the chips, you can enter anytime to just see how inside.
So, after strolling around the sky avenue, dinner time is coming and I am hungry. There is so many restaurant inside, after doing some research, I choose this place, Motorino Pizza. They made Freshly baked pizza in wood fire. But I am not really like the pizza, the pizza have smoked flavour which is I like, but for the whole things I prefer my childhood pizza (Pizza Hut from Indonesia). I also order the roasted chicken wing, sizzled it with lemon and dang it delicious. After finish our dinner, My Mom and I went back to our room, and prepare to sleep and rest for the better tomorrow.
The morning come, the first things is to do is of course shower and find something to eat. I book a room without breakfast, so I need to find by my self, but there is a lot of restaurant here, so don’t worry. After that we check out the hotel and ready to start our adventure again. The first place I want to visit is Chin Swee Cave Temple. If You go to Genting Highland, you must go to Chin Swee Temple, The view is extraordinary, you can get the feel standing above the clouds.
So, I will ride the cable car to go to Chin Swee Temple. This Cable car/Gondola route is Sky Avenue Station (Sky Avenue Mall) – Chin Swee Station – Awana Station (Bus Terminal). We will rode a bus from Awana Station to Kuala Lumpur but we will stop at Chin Swee Temple to enjoy the view first. We brought our luggage and went down. Luckily there is locker (paid locker) in Chin Swee station , so I can store our luggage before explore the temple. I went down quite early, at 8 am in the morning, outside it still so foggy and cold. But after we going down, the foggy is slowly disappear.
Foggy morningChin Swee Temple From Chin Swee StationLook at the clouds/fogs at the mountain
From Chinwee Station, we must going down, but they provide escalator, so no need to worry guys. Remember to keep your cable car ticket as you can use the same ticket to continue your journey either to the peak or to the Awana Station if you had stopped at the temple on your way down. I suggest you to go early because there is no one in the morning. So you can take a photo better here, no one will photobomb your photo.
Limm Goh Tong is Resort World Genting and Chin Swee temple Founder. After Build The Resort World Genting, He led a donation drive and contributed a 28-acre land for the construction of the temple. His companies, Resorts World Berhad and Genting Berhad, also made a cash donation of RM8.1 million towards the building fund. The late Tan Sri Lim was elected chairman of the society and his son, Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay, was appointed its deputy chairman. With the same tenacity that he demonstrated to build Genting Highlands Resort, the late Tan Sri Lim took on the roles of the planner, architect, designer, contractor and supervisor in the construction of the temple. The steep and rocky terrain made the construction process arduous and dangerous, and it was impossible to utilise modern machinery for fundamental work, such as piling. Manual labour was deployed and 18 years were spent to complete the construction. The Chin Swee Caves Temple was officially open on 29 March 1994.
My Mom is a good model but bad photographer
After taking photo everywhere, we decided to going down, because we still need ride a bus to KL. So, we going up to Chin Swee station (there is escalator, so no need worry ya guys), took our luggage and going down with the cable car. After arrive at Awana Station, I bought the ticket. There is some ticket machine to buy the ticket, yes it self service, but there is some staff to help you if you need. I bough to ticket to KL Sentral, I rode Resort World Bus, The price is only 4.90 RM for around 2 hours trip. The bus is not as bis as Arwana Bus that we rode from KLIA to Awana station, but it is still so good and comfortable, and the price is so much cheaper, I paid 35 RM from KLIA2 to Awana, but only 5RM for this trip. Happy.
So, The terminal is clean, even the toilet is nice despite so many people here, they can keep the the terminal clean and comfortable to us waiting our bus. The bus also come on time in exactly platform as written on the ticket. So, after the bus come, we directly on board and go to KL. Bye Genting.
I will continue our story in Kuala lumpur. Just wait for next post .
Hi Guys, welcome to Sister’s Stories, in this post I, Lil Sis, will tell you about my story traveling to Genting Highland last September 2019. In 2017 I went to Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, and penang, you can check my stories here. As we know the weather in Malaysia is the same with Indonesia, hot and humid. But Genting Highland like its name, it is located on high place, so the temperature is chill and nice for me, yearly temperature no higher than 25 °C .
So, I bought the ticket to Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. FYI, I fly to Malaysia from Jakarta, Indonesia. Usually I always buy ticket from Traveloka or tiket.com but this time I bought my ticket from airasia website, I dont know what the reason But we can not find air asia on traveloka or tiket.com anymore since march 2019. From what i know airasia is annoyed with traveloka because they felt discrimanated by traveloka. Anyway whatever the reason, I just want to tell you guys Air Asia is is a Malaysian low-cost airline, so if you want to go to Malaysia you need to check their website. Usually its so much cheaper than any flight. Anyway I bought air asia flight for 2 people (me and my mom). The ticket include only 7kg cabin baggage.
So, I will fly with Air Asia Flight at 5:00 am, the boarding time is 4:30 am , because my house is super close to airport (Soekarno Hatta Internatioanl Airport), I went to airport at 3:30. Air Asis is located at Terminal 2 Soekarno Hatta International Airport. They have so many self service check in machine. So if you only have cabin baggage, I recommend you to just use this machine. I forgot to record it, I am so sorry. Oh yeah, FYI, this is my mom first time going abroad, so it makes me nervous a little bit because i need to take care my mom. Hahaha. Anyway, we need to input the booking number on the machine, scan our passport, and tadaaaa the boarding pass will come out from the machine. It is so easy to use and you don’t need to queue.
The boarding is on time and we arrived at 08:15 am Malaysia Time. The flight it self is 2 hours, but Jakarta and Malaysia have different time zone, Malaysia is an hour ahead than Jakarta. We landed at KLIA 2. My plan is to ride 9.30 am bus from KLIA2 to Genting highland. We have more than 1 hour to catch the bus. But something unexpected happened, the queue of immigration check is so long, we spend more than an hour there. I don’t know why, the immigration staff works really slow, checking the passport and everything, and sometimes some of them just sit there without serve any people, meanwhile his friend beside him already serves 3 or 4 people. So We missed the 9.30 am bus. You can check the bus schedule and how go to Genting highland from KLIA from this site.
Aerobus at klia2 Transportation Hub
Bus Schedule to Genting Highland from KLIA2 and KLIA
The bus come every 2 hours, so I need to wait until 11.30 , so I want to swith to second option, go to Kuala Lumpur Central and then ride bus from KL Central to Genting, FYI, it is much cheaper that ride bus from airport and the bus come every 30 minutes. But my mom said her foot is sick, her shoes is not comfortable, so I choose to stick at the first option, so she can take a rest. FYI, my mom is not young anymore and she has bad stamina. Waiting in KLIA2 is not a problem, because this airport is so huge, even my mom said this is mall not an airport. You can find everything here, so our waiting is not too boring.
The Bus terminal in KLIA2 is located at Level 1, just follow the direction well. The bus ticketing counter also located on the same level. I bought the ticket, the price is 35 RM so I spent 70 RM for 2 people. I am not sure whether they accept payment with card or not, I pay with cash. And the staff with so bright smile told me to wait 2 hours because my bus just take off like 5 minutes ago. After you got the ticket from the staff check where is the gate, my ticket told me the bus will be wait us at the A9. I suggest you to stand by at least 10 min before the time, because the bus not stay there for a long time. In the ticket they have chair number, so at first we think we must sit according to that, but surprisingly when we step into the bus, the chair number is different, so of course I and another passenger confused. Then the driver told us to sit everywhere we want, just ignore the ticket.
Bus Counter
The waiting Bay
Arwana Bus have spacious seat. It’s really comfortable, and the seat is reclining seat too so we can sleep. The trip from KLIA2 to Genting highland is 1,5 hours, and the bus will use toll road and there is no splendid view during the trip. So in my humble opinion , we better sleep during the trip. We will arrived at Awana Station in 1,5 hours. From the Awana Station we can ride Awana Sky Way to Genting Highland. We arrived at Awana Station at 1 pm , so time to lunch. We go to Genting Highlands Premium Outlets and having lunch at the food court.
In Awana Station there is some restaurant too, so we have a lot of choice just choose which ever you want to eat. Because I eat at the food court, the taste is so so. My mom choose to eat that have prasmanan style / warteg style, so we will have a rice and choose what side dish we want, there are a lot of veggies and meat on their menu. The taste is good but nothing special. I choose wantan noodle, for me there is nothing special too. But we are hungry, so we eat them well.
Up – My Mom choice, Bottom – Mine Choice
So after we finish eating, we go to Genting Higland Premium Outlet. You can find a lot of branded store here, and the price is so much cheaper, they give discount every day year-round. The conept is good too, it is a outdoor shopping center with good view and nice weather. I want to buy shoes, and I saw the shoe that i really like and discount too, but it’s branded one so even though it’s been discounted , it’s still expensive and with my mom around i can not buy it. Wkwkwkw. I bought Godiva Ice Cream there, Godiva is famous with their chocolate, and their chocolate ice cream is good too. In Jakarta we can find their outlet at Plaza Indonesia, so yes it is expensive. Maybe if my mom know the price , she will scold me. Hehehehe
Genting Highland Premium Outlet
Godiva
After, strolling around, buy some oleh oleh too, I decideed to go up to the real The Resort World Genting Highland. We need to buy cable car ticket first. There a 2 type of cable car, the normal one and the one with glass floor. For normal Gondola, one way ticket is 9RM and return ticket is 16 RM, and the ticket valid for 72 hours, so if you buy return but you will return 2 days later you still can use the ticket. At first I think we must use it at the same day, so i only bought one way ticket, but later when I read the ticket carefully, I know I already do stupid thing, I must buy return ticket, it will be cheaper. From Awana Station to SkyAvenue Station only need 10 minutes, in the middle the is Chin Swee Station , we can freely stop here there is beutiful Chin Swee Temple up there. You can check the detail here
Cable Car Ticket Price
We will stay at First World Hotel. It is the world’s largest hotel with convenient access to key locations such as the First World Plaza, SkyAvenue and Skytropolis Indoor Theme Park and the price is so cheap. I will review this hotel in another post. For budget traveler I really recommend this hotel, so cheap. Anyway you get what you pay so don’t expect too much. We rode the Cable car from Awana station to Sky Avenue Station, and the view is so breathtaking. If you brave you must ride the glass floor gondola, I bet it will be thrilling but with this view It is worth. My mom will not enjoy ride the glass floored so I choose the normal one. Hehehehe.
View from Gondola
The Colorful building is where we stay in Genting, First World Hotel
From 2013, they said 20th Century Fox Theme Park will be build at Genting Highland, but 2019 the theme Park still not operated yet. I hope it will be finished soon so I have a reason to came back to Genting
Anyway, after so much struggle from 3.00 am, so early in the morning, go to airport, missed the bus, finally We arrived at our Hotel. The First World hotel is connected to Sky Avenue, so we just need to walk to our hotel. Check in and take a rest before continue our trip to explore the Sky Avenue (it is a mall, they have casino inside). I will continue my story in next post, just stay tune.
So, continue my story Short Escape to Malaysia, after our breakfast, we comeback to hotel, take a shower, do some a little bit makeup for “agak cetar” looks. And then we ride out motorcycle to next location. We want to go to Kek Lok Si Temple, it’s so popular tourist attraction there, Standing on a hilltop at Air Itam, near Penang Hill, Kek Lok Si is the largest Buddhist temple in Malaysia. The complex is divided into three zones while the temple grounds comprise the hill entrance, souvenir, food and drinks stalls and the turtle liberation pond. The mid section of the temple houses temples, gardens, the pagoda and the four heavenly kings pavilion; meanwhile the hilltop plays host to an enormous statue of the Goddess of Mercy, Kuan Yin as well as more gardens and temples. So, that’s the reason why we want to go there.
The journey from our hotel to Kek Lok Si Temple is quite far 10 km and we rode motorcycle when sun exactly on top of our head, super hot guys. Using GPS we find the right route and luckily we arrived without getting lost. But yeah we know in air itam, there is a very popular curry mee. This curry mee is must visit and must eat item when you visit Penang. This curry mee is run by 2 sisters since 1946 and become famous day by day until now. So yeah we not directly go to Kek Lok Si, we stop at this curry me first to have lunch. So our rote is like this
After Kuala Lumpur and Mellaca, this post will tell you about Lil Sis stories in Penang. Penang is the last port of Short Escape to Malaysia. We spent 2 night here and mostly our time was used for culinary experience. Penang is wonderful town to eat and spend your time to find good food. Because our flight is delayed, we arrived late at Penang, as usual we ordered Uber and it safely bought us from airport to our hostel. After check in, we went to our capsule, explore the capsule and then we decided to go find something to eat. We plan to use motorcycle, so first we must find a rental place. We found one beside our hostel, maybe just 20 steps from the main entrance, we found a book shop that also rent a bicycle and motorcycle. We rent 2 motorcycle and they provide us helmet. We got new motorcycle with more expensive price than the old ones. But we have healthy body, so the new ones look strong enough for us. They asked our driver license and passport. Oh yeah, they don’t need international driver license, we gave them Indonesia Driver License. We also filled an document to rent the motorcycle. After that he copied the document, we paid, and we can use the motorcycle 48 hours (we rent it for 2 days).
Di postingan kali ini aku mau sharing sedikit pengalaman aku waktu nginep di Time Capsule Hotel di Penang Bulan Oktober 2016. Jika kalian baca di postingan aku Short Escape to Malaysia, kalian pasti tau kalo aku pergi ke Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, dan terakhir Penang, selama 3 hari 2 malem, aku and the gank nginep di hotel yang cukup futuristic ini. So check it out my opinion about this hotel.
Jadi awal mulanya, aku sama temen temen bingung kan mau nginep dimana selama di Penang. Dan setelah berhari hari rada madol waktu kerja gara gara kebanyakan browsing cari hotel, kami menemukan hotel ini. Dari gambar gambar yang beredar bebas di dunia maya, kok lucu ya, kok keren ya, kok nampaknya futuristic banget. So, setelah akhirnya 4 personil setuju nginep di sini, Miss Pepz pun langsung booking, 4 capsule for 4 people. Harganya juga nggak terlalu mahal, 1 capsule itu kurang lebih 300K IDR. Tapi waktu check ini ada tambahan deposit sih, cuma waktu check out bakalan dikembalikan.
So, I will continue my Short Escape to Malaysia Edition, still at Mallacca, I and my friend decided to take a rest before spent our night at jonker street night market. If you confused about my opening, just read the rest about my Short Excape to Malaysia here. So, we decided to go to Malacca on Friday, because we know that Jonker Street Night Market only open in Friday, Saturday and Sunday Night. So we arrange our trip like this. As we know, and Miss Pepz experience (She has visited Malacca before), Jonker street night market will full with food stall, craft stall, clothes, bag, and many more. So, we really excited to explore the night market.
Jonker Street
We moved from our bed on 6 pm, walk to Jonker street, and see so many people, but mostly the stall is not ready yet. I guessed it because the rain just stopped so they are just starting to open their stall. We can see so many seller still busy arrange their display. There are some stall that pull us but it’s not ready yet, so we decided to keep walking, and go there again after that. Maybe we must go at 7pm, so the stall is all ready. FYI, the night market open until 12 am. So, even you go at 9 pm i think it still crowded with people. Continue reading →
Day 2, we plan to go to Malacca, but before that, we plan to had breakfast in KL, find any local market nearby to get some Malaysian food. But Mandra got shocking news, I am in the middle taking a shower, and suddenly I hear crying sound, I finished as soon as possible, and when I exit the bathroom, the aura in our bed room is so gloomy with Mandra cried on her bed. I didn’t dare to ask what’s wrong. Yahh, it’s really a shocking news, but what can she do, it’s already overed, and if she go back to Indonesia, she also can not do anything. So, she just calm herself and our trip is going as we plan. But yeah no breakfast as we want, we eat breakfast that revopacker prepared for the guest, just bread and some jam, but better than go with empty stomach.
Our long JOurney from Kuala Lumpur to Malacca
So we go to Malacca by bus, we already bought ticket online, so we just need to go to Bus Terminal. We ordered uber. The receptionist helped us give direction to the driver where is revopacker. We got small car, with small baggage too, so we must sit with some luggage in our lap. Fortunately the trip is not too long, we arrived safely. Our first mission in terminal is too change the online ticket to get boarding pass to get on the bus. And then, the bread we ate early just fill 1/4 our stomach so our second mission is buy food. But the problem is the boarding time will arrived soon, our main mission to board the bus can not be failed. So, after finished out 1st mission, we directly go to waiting room, to board the bus, dismissed our 2nd mission. After when we sit like 5 minutes, the officer said our bus will be late. So, Mr Damz decided run to buy fast food (KFC, McD, or another type of it). We throw the baton to Mr Damz to conquer our 2nd mission. Fortunately, he got it quick, we got sandwhich by Sub way. Bread again, but at least our hunger is solved for a moment. Continue reading →
Jadi, di postingan aku sebelumnya aku udah cerita tentang pengalaman aku and the gank ke Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Dan aku udah sedikit cerita juga kalo besoknya kami akan pergi ke Malacca or Melaka or Malaka, honestly I am not sure how to write it, but I google it and wikipedia tell me Malacca, so I will use Malacca. Back to story review, jadi kali ini aku mau review hostel yang menjadi tempat istirahat aku selama 2 hari 1 malem (1N2D) di Malacca, namanya Nomaps. And I got the best treatment there. Aku bela belain posting review tempat aku nginep dulu dibandingin aku di sana ngapain, jadi yang penasaran sama kelanjutan perjalanan aku di Malaysia, stay tuned aja di postingan aku berikutnya aku bakalan bahas tentang Malacca and Penang.
Well, Nomaps itu salah satu hostel yang ntah bagaimana caranya sukses menarik perhatian kami ketika lagi cari cari tempat nginap di Malacca.Aku sama sekali nggak tau kalo ternyata bakalan dapat tempet yang unyu dan instagramable kayak gini sebelumnya. Kami memilih tempat ini karena lokasi yang strategis (deket Jonker street) dan harganya yang sesuai kantong. But, we got more than we expected so I am really really happy. Ok first location , tuh lihat sendiri betapa strategisnya lokasi nomaps ini.
Still at Malaysia, From Colmar we went up to Japanese House. From Colmar actually you can ride a car, like golf car but longer than it, maybe have 8 -10 row. But we rode a car, so with our car we went there. We arrived at the Parking area, and we must went up on uphill road on foot. Miss Pepz almost gave up to walk up, but after so much fighting, we arrived at Souvenir shop that sell ice cream there. So we went there and bought some ice cream. It sells walls ice cream, and I found unique ice cream there, it’s called Salero, later I found it in Indonesia. It is lime ice cream outside and inside it has vanilla ice cream. It become my favourite ice cream after that, that day is so hot, and we must do some hiking , it’s so tiring and HOT, so this sour and sweet ice cream really refresh our body and mind. SO, when I see that ice cream in Indonesia, I am really happy. So good for tropical country like Indonesia.
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