Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Genting Highland Short Trip 2-4 December 2011

After been few months staying in Singapore, I planned to go to Malaysia with friends. Anyway, the distance between Singapore n Malaysia can be reached by land in few hours. So we went there on weekend.

On Friday night, after my office hour, i rushed back home, did packing. About 8pm, we went to Boon Lay shopping centre (our check in point) by MRT and bus. We proceeded to Five Star Tour office branch there to get our coach seat number and hotel voucher. We previously bought coach and hotel package to genting for SGD 138 per person from Five Star Tour and Travel. The time when we went Genting is considered as peak season, that's why the price that they charged us was quite expensive. If you go there on low season you can get much cheaper of price.

The bus that they use is a 26-30 seater double decker coach. They provide us 1 bottle of mineral water, the facilities inside coach are quite okay, each seat has its own video player where we can listen to the musics, watch movies or even play video games to spend times. The seat is also comfortable, you can just simply take rest and sleep during the journey.

At 9.30 pm the bus started to move, we have to pass two immigration check point, Singapore and Malaysia and the journey to Genting Highland takes about 6 hours. Within the journey, the bus will stop twice for giving us chance to go toilet because no toilet provided inside the bus. Around 4 am, we finally reached Genting Highlands, the weather there is very cold especially for me. Nothing could be done as all the theme park, restaurant, shopping center were still closed except for Casino. We then took a look around, took queue number for hotel check in and had breakfast at 24 hrs KFC. We all felt so sleepy coz we didn't have enough rest in the bus.

While waiting our turn to check in, we tried to ride cable car. It's only 10 RM for two ways of riding. You must try this cable car, it's worth a price. After that, we bought our theme park ticket, it is 66 RM for all park ticket, but too bad we couldn't try all the games, it was too pack. About 9 am, we did check in, we put our things inside room first then we continued to play. Oh ya, we stayed at First World Hotel, one of the cheap hotel in Genting.

My friends only played few games at theme park, i was even worse, i played only 1 games there. The long queue made us lazy to play, the queue itself could take half an hour or more meanwhile the game was only few minutes. We paid the ticket for nothing, haiz... At noon, we ate in pizza hut and for information, the price of restaurants there is more expensive compare to the ones outside Genting. Maybe it's because Genting is a recreation place so they charge higher than usual.

After lunch, we couldn't stand anymore, all of us felt so sleepy, we decided back to the room and had a rest. At 5 pm we woke up, took bath and went down looking for dinner. We had hainanese chicken rice as dinner, then we walked around looking for gifts until 10 pm then we went back to room to sleep.

Tomorrow morning, we packed and got ready to check out because our coach would return to Singapore at 10.30 am. I thought that i could watch movie this time during the journey but who know, the bus toward Singapore was different bus, it didn't have any video player and also no free mineral water.

I think, after this time i went to Genting, i won't go there again for twice. First, I am wondering, why the travel agent didn't give us full service when returned to Singapore like they did when we headed to Genting. The bus was totally different, even the seat was also not as comfortable as the first.

Second, i have to admit that the weather in Genting is cool and scenery is also good, but too bad it has lack of maintenance. The hotel buildings there looks very old and dirty from outside, not only the buildings but the outdoor theme parks also look so old and unattractive. When it comes in high season, you can't really enjoy, it's too crowded. I believe stay one or two days in Genting is enough and also better go on low season.