Novotel Century Kuala Lumpur

Day 1-2 (14-15 June 05) Well, it was a non-eventful journey from London to KL via Dubai, full on both flights but luckily no screaming kids nearby. Arrived in KL with a relatively mild temp of only 32 degrees. It was then onto a 2 hr xfer by bus into the city from the airport, so by the time I'd arrived at my hotel, I'd been travelling for most of a day and felt like a limp cabbage. 1st impressions of the Royale Bintang Hotel was that it has a nice modern decor, situated within the popular Go...

HALLO nothing special happened today I spend most of it traveling from Siem Reap to KL with a stop over in Phnom Penh. In the evening I arrived here in KL it is nice and warm 31 degrees and sunny. I manged to give my bike to Malaysia Airways Cargo and it should be on a plane back to London tomorrow and so hopefully it will arrive before me. I am staying a fairly nice and posh hotel and had a nice dinner in an Indian restaurant it is much cheaper here then in Siem Reap in Cambodia. Good night ...

Hallo This was my last day here in KL so I got up at 6.30 and after breakfast I went to the Petronas Towers and joined the queue for the lift to up to the sky-bridge. After 1,5 hours I got a ticket and lucky one for immediately access, people behind me had to wait for more then one hour. We watch a film about the company Petronas and then we took the lift up to the 41st-floor 170m above ground the sky-bridge nice view and after 10 min we had to go down again. After that I went back to Bukit B...

A trip back to KL

I arrived at Kuala Lumphur, stupidly early in the morning, due to the fact that our train driver was being chased by the hounds of hell, and as a result had moved at a speed Superman would have been proud of. We arrived an hour earlier than timetabled, which was not fun at all. After picking up the tickets for the next bit of the trip, Dad and I headed to our Hotel, a place called the Royale Bintang, which turned out to be lovely. However, we weren't allowed to check in until 11AM which gave ...

We flew through the night from Dubai to Kuala Lumpur and were suposed to have a tarmac stopover in Mumbai, India (as we did on the way over). As the inflight map got to above Mumbai we were still at 30,000 ft so we realised there wasn't going to be a stopover. It wasn't until we were in our hotel room in KL and put the news on, that we realised there was a very good reason not to land in Mumbai. It was the night that extremist gunmen took control of several buildings including the Taj Palace ...

We flew Emirates to Kuala Lumpur via Dubai and arrived late evening on the 13th at the Royal Bintang Hotel in the heart of Kuala Lumpur's Golden Triangle. Things didn't start well as we found ourselves unable to get into the room because the latch had been put down from inside by the cleaners who had obviously left via the adjoining room. Eventually the hotel handyman arrived and managed to unscrew the latch and let us in - not a good start, especially when you have been travelling all day an...

We had a very early start to walk from the hotel to Lambeth North tube station in time for the first train at 5:39am. We had realised that Lambeth North was much nearer than Waterloo to the hotel, even though the hotel was called Days Inn Waterloo. We had a good connection to go across to Liverpool Street to get the Stanstead Express. Getting a refund on our Oyster Cards took ages - the attendant had to write out masses of figures before givibg us back the money. As a result we missed the 6:1...

Our day started with arriving in KL and getting to the airport as described in yesterday's post. With the 7-hour time difference, we had lost part of a day. After breakfast in the hotel we went up to our room for a few hour's sleep. The room had a pull-out clothes line above the bath, so we hand-washed a few clothes. Much cheaper then the hotel laundry service!

Walking around the corner, we bought a stored-value card for the KL Monorail which runs from around the corner and went across...

We had thought of catching a bus down to Melaka today but slept in until 10:15 - which meant we had a mad rush to get downstairs before breakfast finished at 10:30! Fortunately they hadn't cleared away much so we were able to have most of what we would have liked. However, by the time we had finished eating then gone back upstairs to shower, we decided it was too late for the outing to be worthwhile.