The Royal Bintang

... Magaluf holidays. However, being tourist central, it was the perfect place to catch the coverage of the Royal Wedding. With the promise of an endless order or Bintang beers we convinced an Indonesian barman to tune his tv to BBC world and there we sat ...

... bus terminal until just before 6:30pm. From here, in the middle of an afternoon thunderstorm, we hired a taxi to take us to The Royal Bintang Hotel, which will be our home for the next 7 nights. We arrived just before 7:00pm. A little tired, we dumped our ...

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 ...

... meet Rasilah. After asking loads of people where we could find the U99 Metrobus we finally found it! We arranged to meet at the Royal Bintang Hotel at the Curve. We arrived slightly early and found the hotel with no trouble. This is where I had a 'Pretty ...

... in Kuala Lumpur - a vibrant and modern city which was almost refreshing after trekking through Thailand recently. Our stay in the Royale Bintang hotel was great, kicked off by a wonderful buffet dinner for 8 euro each. KL's shopping was fantastic too e.g. ...

... a very pleasant stroll. I was hoping to buy a cheap digital picture frame so checked out Low Yat Plaza behind Bukit Bintang - a whole arcade specialising in IT -  but still couldn’t find one that seemed to be reasonably priced. Had ...

... 1 in the sense that we got a good glimpse of the city with enough Photo shoot of the majestic twin towers, KL tower, Bukit Bintang, Royal palace and the like. Day2 After breakfast we boarded the hop-on bus and this time got down at Bukit Bintang (Stop ...

... of KL at night make me want to get more of the city. Check into one of the several foot reflexology centres around the Bukit Bintang centre for a well deserved half hour. I needed just one more stop before I retired for the day. ‘Bistro’ - a ...

... abad ke 7 di masa kerajaan Silla berkuasa. Pada saat masih digunakan, bangunan ini dipakai untuk melihat pergerakan bintang untuk memprediksi musim di Korea. Di luar Cheomseongde Observatory ada ruangan tempat pengunjung bisa memperoleh informasi mengenai ...

... about a possible error. And I hate the moment before a landing. But I love the moment it occurs successfully! I headed for Bhukit Bintang on the monorail, and when I got there a man in a tidy suit with the sales pitch of a high-salary executive tried to ...

... we took to almost ignoring them instead of the usual cheery 'No thanks' reply repeated many times over.  Further down Jalan Bukit Bintang we were lured into the maze of shopping malls by the need to get some food and the fluorescent signs outside.  We ...

... the Monorail from the Petronas Towers we spent the rest of the afternoon shopping at the several shopping centres along the Bukit Bintang district. After visiting the Berjaya Times Square Shopping Centre which is the 13th largest in the world and has 10 ...

... Station.............a cab to the Swiss Garden........15 minutes...........check-in and off to do the Bukit Bintang walk..............money changer.....getting better.....2.92 Ringit!!!...........god bless the little Aussie Dollar on this ...

... such as chocolate making tools and antique chocolate packaging. We stopped for lunch at Hainan Chicken Rice besides Bukit Bintang Mall. Other than it is value for money, its consistency in taste, service and cleanliness make me love ...

... brought about two surprises - it coming to light that after I went to bed the night before, N had necked 4 large bottles of Bintang (about 5 pints!); and Ratno not checking that I had added the bill up correctly - either very trusting, foolish or lazy of ...

... and Roti Telur with fresh coconut water. Yummy.....In the evening, we checked out Times Square, a bustling shopping area on Bukit Bintang. Second hand bookstores are hard to come by so I ventured into Borders where I bought Karim Raslan's "Journeys ...

... restaurant close to our hotel. Dian Restaurant serves excellent fried prawn bites on a bed of turmeric rice, washed down with Bintang beer and followed by fresh fruit salad. Again, the food is westernised-Indonesian, but the restaurant does offer two ...

... felt like home. As you can imagine it must be pretty special if we are raving this much about it after 14 months on the road. Our next stop is the beach in a place called Sanur. I will have a large Bintang please! Love as always, Paul & Karen ...

... a few markets, Australian bogans and the beach before realising that Kuta was not our cup of chai. The endless array of Bintang singlets and copy sunglasses weren't quite what we were looking for. The only things we ended up buying was Calvin Klein ...