Best Western Kuala Lumpur

... a million to Pauline & David and Mary and Fergus for the brilliant going away parties and to all our family and friends for the great send off. Gonna miss you all loads. We will do our best to keep in touch with you all and you lot do the same. XX

... , Malaysia, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, South America and then finally a week in Madrid to familiarise myself back with Europe! 'The best laid plans of mice and men...'...And in true laidback travel style, one year after I left the UK I made it to ...

... and candid in his opinions.  In regards to site seeing, Sarah started our first morning at Lake Gardens.  It is essentially Kuala Lumpur’s version of Central Park.  Within the grounds of the park, we went to a bird zoo.  There ...

... us the 10 to 15 minutes to the north end of town. Sounds like a lot. Good value for 140 ringgit (about $40). Best Western Seri Pacific is a 5 star hotel next to the trade centre. In Toronto it would be like the Prince Hotel. Luxurious. ...

... great KL! What can I say, I've been most impressed by the country of Malaysia and the city of Kuala Lumpur in particular. The country is the most western and modern one that I've encountered in Asia, far more so than Thailand. The highways are straight ...

... basically impossible to find seats or available rooms in these places as locals go there to celebrate New Year. So the best option was to see Kuala Lumpur now as people would leave the vcity for holidays. the bus trip wasn't too long but exhausting coz I ...

View pictures from our trip Another stamp in the passport. Jane organized a group from the AWCP for a tour to Kuala Lumpur and Malaaca in Malaysia.  There were only six of us but that kept decision making and keeping track of people much ...

... . We got the shuttle bus from the airport bus to the centre of KL and then got the MRT (underground) to Chinatown. Kuala Lumpur has a bit of a reputation for having pretty bad budget rooms and ours was not pretty, we stayed in Chinatown which is where ...

... 't get much sleep. Matt loved the atmosphere, but I think secretly missed the hockey games at home with the boys. The best part of Kuala Lumpur was Little India. We are so used to all the Chinese markets that once we got to little India everything was ...

... seemed benign, but thoughts of suicide bombers and anti American sentiment were still on my mind as I landed in the Kuala Lumpur airport.  I immediately felt more comfortable in the beautiful modern terminal although I was surprised to see the sign ...

... took us to the obligatory gift shop, where he admitted his tour company had an agreement with the owners for kick-backs.  The Kuala Lumpur area's main industry in the late 1800's and early 1900's was tin mining.  They had a tin-rush similar to ...

... hand for tea and relaxing on the sofa with the news on. Living in hotel rooms gets tough after the first 3 months!   Kuala Lumpur was a lovely place but not quite what I was expecting. As in China and Thailand, everyone was so friendly and happy ...

... of the United States, Canada, parts of Europe, and of course parts of Asia.  This dynamic and burgeoning district in Kuala Lumpur sports all that life has to offer – cheap watches, Polo Ralph Lauren look-alike attire, and countless other ...

... boarded our bus that would take us the rest of the way to Jerantut where we would get our ‘big bus’ to Kuala Lumpur.  The air conditioning wasn’t working but everyone was told to stick their heads out of the window instead and we ...

... Golden Triangle area of the city after talking to a chap from the guesthouse decided to go straight up the Menara KL (or Kuala Lumpur Communications Tower). What I didn't realise when I was coming to KL was that the Menara KL is only slightly shorter ...

... always the best! It was a refreshing change to be in such a modern city after India and Bangladesh. We spent 3 days exploring Kuala Lumpur. It was a mini version of Singapore, with, lush greenery and sky scrapers,  its own China Town and Little ...

Day 148 - 19/07/08 A relatively long bus journey today to Kuala Lumpur, 6 hours in total but the bus was comfortable and immigration was a breeze so it wasn't bad at all. The last three weeks after returning from Europe, it's just been one big Asian ...

... not having much fun in either of the places I've been to so far, that I wasn't going to like it here at all. But Kuala Lumpur is a great city, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the last few days. Have stayed in a great guesthouse in the city centre, and ...

Friday 6 July 2001 Kuala Lumpur This morning I had a fascinating meeting with Steve Smith, General Manager of the Malaysian Philharmonic. He introduced himself as the 'last white man' in the organisation. He very generously gave me two hours of his ...

The bus ride to Kuala Lumpur (KL) took around 2 hours and gave us the opportunity to watch an oldie but goldie Bollywood movie. The onward Journey onto the hostel was also straight forward on the local tram and monorail - aside from the bloody deadly ...

... the airport.  Check-in a breeze in the special first and business class section, as was passport control (though some other western guy was really in the shit, they weren’t letting him leave!).  The Emirates lounge was pretty cool although ...