Mystical Malaysia
I stayed at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Kuala Lumpur for 6 nights then we went onto Penang. The Mandarin Oriental is a 5* property adjacent to the famous Suria KLCC shopping centre, with an amazing view of the twin towers.
The city is bustling with excitement, and amazing for the shopaholics....you pay a fraction of the price that you would back in the UK, so you can imagine you end up with another two suitcases on your return. Designer shoes, handbags, and electrical goods are vastly available.
Kuala lumpur is full of historical sights, and adventures. They have a very big aqua park half an hour from the city, very easily accessible, with a 14 storey shopping centre above the theme park, and a manmade beach for the beach lovers.
Food is not a problem - there is a variety of oriental cuisines, as well as the usual fast food outlets such as Subway, Mcdonalds, Burger King and KFC.
Hotels in Malaysia are of a high standard. Taxi's are quite reasonable as well.
Whilst here we visited the famous China town and Little India. I love Malaysia, and cannot wait to visit KL again.
Penang was a lot more quiet, beaches were nice but you do have to be careful of the starfish, and jelly fish. We stayed at the Rasa Sayang on Ferranghi Beach; it was great! I did not see the children all day as the Kids Club here was amazing, and they had an indoor games arcade, with lot's to do. The hotel had 2 large swimming pools, and we were right on the beach. From the beach there was many extensive watersports available for us.
In the evening we would dine out in the neighbouring restaurants, and then we would go to the night market right outside our hotel. The weather was brilliant in Penang which made our stay perfect as we could spend all our time on the beach.
Then we flew home via Dubai, for 3 days just to break up the thirteen hour flight.
The holiday was great and I would definitely go back.........