Sherlyn's little blog: Langkawi Trip: Day 1 Part 1

This is a fun and memorable trip with my colleagues and bf, with many drama scenes happening throughout the 3 days. More details below... We have 11 people going together (5 guys and 6 gals).

As the journey starts...

On 25th October 2008 Saturday morning, 11 of us gathered at Penang Port to board the ferry to Langkawi. Ferry ticket now costs us RM115 for a return trip. We bought the earliest departure time at 8.15AM and was told to be at the departure point 30 minutes before that time.

First drama started when Timmy (queen of being late), nearly cannot make it. It was 8.15am with everyone inside the ferry and luckily, finally at the last minute, she make it. That's close.

It took 3 hours during the journey and I felt a bit sea sick. Face turn pale and white. Luckily I've taken the sea sick medicine which I got from the panel clinic. Else... I might vomit. (Paiseh lo if vomit). Well, not to say nobody vomit during the journey. The "uerk... uerk..." sound can be heard very clearly from our seats as there are a few actually vomitted.

At 11.30am, the ferry reach Jetty point, and our first mission is to get a van/car rental. You will notice that there are many agents or so called sales person promoting their services... "Rent a car, Island Hopping package" as they distributing their name cards to the tourists.

2nd drama: a guy with a shirt that reads "E=MC2" approaching us asking us whether wants to rent a car or not. We were looking for van that can accomodates 11 pax and he say he got. At first, he offered us RM400 for these 3 days. (It was actually only renting fo 2 days if you can actually calculated it from 25th October to 27th October). When he showed us the van we were renting, we are not satisfied with the condition as it was a Vanette van. So we turned down his offer and went hunting from other agents. Then this E=MC2 guy started to follow us around wherever we go. So annonying...

Finally, we finalized on 2 car (1 Waja & 1 Wira Auto) for RM350 for 2 days with a deposit payment of RM200. The car rental is opposite of Jetty Point. Another interesting scene is when we try to nego for returning the car at a later time than the one specified, this fatty guy ($^%#!) just simply throw a chair as a sign of his anger. How rude is that. I wonder if he will be able to get more customer based on his attitude. Guess he don't know what is "Customer Service". Anyway, hop we go with the car and performing checks on the car before driving off. Pump each car with RM50 fuel estimating enough for these 3 days trip.

First stop is to find a place with foods to satisfy our hungry little tummy. We stop by a Malay stall for foods. Suddenly, we saw yellow thingy thing walking on the road... It's DIGI boy. But he's not in full suit. But rather, just use a lantern shape cloth and covered himself. Anyway, my friends, who's fond of DIGI boy, rush towards them and snap photos with them (getting free balloons as well).

Next is proceed to hotel to check-in. We booked 2 hotels are one is from the hotel membership club which Neo has reserved (Aseania resort) and another hotel is Langgura Baron Resort. We booked 2 Superior rooms (2 queen beds) from Langgura and it cost us RM130 per nite per room. Room condition is good, clean and enough to accomodate 4 adults.

After that, we drove to Aseania Resort which is just a distance away. It has a 154.4 meters swimming pool complete with wavepool, slides and lazy river, longest swimming pool in Malaysia (but we didn't use it).