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A travel journal to Malaysia by koshkha

A Malaysian beauty Photo - Lake Garden (Taman Tasik Perdana), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia More Photos
Quote: I've been to Malaysia a few times and this trip journals contains a few of my favourite hotels, an account of a dive trip to Tioman Island and details of my favourite KL attraction
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Lake Garden (Taman Tasik Perdana) Best of IgoUgo

Attraction | "The Orchid Gardens of Lake Garden"

A Malaysian beauty Photo - Lake Garden (Taman Tasik Perdana), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Kuala Lumpur is a great city and one where visitors are spoilt for choice with so many and varied options for entertainment. Being a country girl, I find big cities drain the life out of me very quickly and I can easily get overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle. When that happens, I’ll try to find somewhere clean, quiet and peaceful to feed my need to escape. If it’s beautiful and interesting as well, then that’s a big bonus. Such escape might seem like a tall order in a full-on high-octane shopping-frenzy city like KL so the purpose of this review is to share my top tip for regaining your sanity. The answer is the Orchid Garden in KL Lake Gardens. KL Lake Gardens (or Taman Tasi...Read More

Member Rating 5 out of 5 on September 26, 2009

Lake Garden (Taman Tasik Perdana)
Jalan Perdana
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 50480
+60 3 2691 6011

Airside Transit Hotel Best of IgoUgo

Hotel | "How to Make a Long Flight Connection Less Awful"

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Airside Transit Hotel isn't the best name I've ever come across for a hotel but by the time you've been in the air for a while it will take on all the attraction of a 5-star luxury hotel. Why? Because it offers the things you crave the most when travelling without charging a fortune for the privilege.When you are travelling long haul it doesn't take very long sitting on a plane before you start to fantasize about how wonderful it would be to be able to lie down on a proper bed, watch a film on a real television, eat real food that doesn't come in tiny square plastic pots and best of all take a long hot shower or bath. Obviously most of these things are completely impossible to do on a plan...Read More

Member Rating 4 out of 5 on September 26, 2009

Airside Transit Hotel
Mezzanine Level, Satellite A Building, KLIA
Selangor

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In the late 1990s I was in Kuala Lumpur for a trade show just before Easter. I'd learned to dive about 6 months earlier and, having gone all the way to Malaysia, I wanted to get my fins wet again.The Easter break meant I could get about 5 days on the island without using much of my holiday allowance.I did my research on good dive destinations and found Tioman Island. It's perhaps not the BEST dive destination - the Perhentians have a better reputation - but the good thing is you can get there by air. If you are back-packing on a really tight budget you can also go by bus and ferry but if you are going to all that trouble, you might be better with the Perhentians.~Where is it an...Read More

Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur Best of IgoUgo

Hotel | "Absolutely Out of this World"

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Kuala Lumpur is a city of fantastic hotels with exceptional service at great value prices. I've been three times and always come away completely amazed by how good the service ethic is in the hotel sector. However, even my high expectations were exceeded on my most recent visit when I stayed at the Mandarin Oriental. I was in the city for a trade fair and very glad that the colleague who'd organised the trip had decided that we'd not perform well at the fair if we had to stay in a nasty cheap hotel. So she had booked us all into executive club rooms way up on the higher floors. I'm not sure how much of the service we had was due to the status of the rooms and how much was standard so keep ...Read More

Member Rating 5 out of 5 on September 26, 2009

Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur City Centre
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 50088
60 (3) 2179 8818

Hilton Kuala Lumpur Best of IgoUgo

Hotel | "The Hilton for Lumpy Koalas"

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I spent one night at the Hilton in Kuala Lumpur in December 2004 but one night was enough to make me want to sell my house and all my possessions and go and live at this fantastic hotel. One night was enough for Hilton's Asia-region 'flagship' hotel to burn itself into my mind when many other hotels had long been pushed aside in my goldfish-like memory. My visit was at the end of the first week of a three-week business trip. One week into a trip like that with another two weeks still to go, hot and sweaty, very alien environments, not to mention the hard-drinking boss and colleagues with whom I was travelling, I was starting to get a tad 'jaded'. This hotel put a spring back in my step. ...Read More

Member Rating 5 out of 5 on September 26, 2009

Hilton Kuala Lumpur
3 Jalan Stesen Sentral
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 50470
+60 (3) 2264 2264

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