Was a little busy in the past week for some quotations and also the upcoming business trip to Dusseldorf.
Well, heres my update at Brisbane.
With the help of my colleague at Australia, she booked us this nice apartment located at Russell Street, Brisbane. From what we can see from the google map, it’s just about 100 meter away from the exhibition hall and I find it pretty convenient for all the workers and me. At least we don’t have to wake up very early to get prepared.
An owner called Rose Kite is very helpful during our stay and Australian are pretty much more polite comparing the locals here in Malaysia.
Parkview Apartments @ Brisbane West End
Thats the exterior of our apartments
From our balcony on the right side, you will see this view.
From the balcony of our left side, you can even see the exhibition hall.
The living room
The kitchen where we cook our meals almost everyday.
The swimming pool
This is what we have in order to bake pizza.
The laundry machines are available for our convenience.
The bathroom
The place where the workers take their cigarette break.
That’s our bed.
And everything costs us just nice for a 7 nights stay with 5 adults.
I’d strongly recommend this place for your Brisbane Trip.
We did our hotel check in and took a short lunch and a nap before we head for our another destination - FANTASEA Phuket.
We got this deal at about RM400+ including 4D3N stay at Coconut Club Resort PLUS Kuala Lumpur to Phuket Return Flight Ticket.
I don’t know what you will think, but many of my friends say that it’s fucking cheap.
For me, you when pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Well it’s just another blogger’s honest review for readers’ pleasure.
The “Lobby”
Club Coconut Resort has not very friendly Thai staffs doing your check-in thing and follow you to your room, he even stepped into your room without helping you to carry your baggage and asking for - Tips.
When you rejected for once, he won’t even feel embarrassing at all and ask for second time.
What kind of resort will do this to the guest? (I hope AirAsia’s management will read this for not including Club Coconut Resort as one of their GoPackage partners)
I don’t mind paying cheap peanuts but at least give me quality monkeys who are good in services.
Swimming Pool
The town which our resort located at ; Convenient Store, Internet Cafe, Massage is all around
Another block of our resort
After taking a short nap of 1 hour, we moved on to FANTASEA Phuket - The fascinating show in Phuket!
Here is our mode of luxury transportation to the show, it costs about RM15-20 per person.
Note: I will be coming back from Phuket today, come back tomorrow to see Phuket post!
G Hotel always give me an impression of clean, innovative, class and most importantly, stylish!
From what I noticed throughout the 2 days at G Hotel setting up client’s event for their newly launched medical products, G Hotel is a simple hotel with quality staffs and facilities, including : -
Gym
Infinity Swimming Pool
Business Center (I sneaked in and used it for free, haha!)
Ballrooms & Function Rooms
Guestrooms
Restaurants
Shopping Arcade (Gurney)
It’s a very well-located hotel at the heart of the city with good facilities all around.
The infinity swimming pool at it’s 3rd floor.
A night shot with an lens exposure of about 4 seconds with ISO400, using CANON IXUS 850IS.
More building shot using the same settings.
This is the lounge in front of the main ballroom.
The tariff rates of this hotel is quite pricey but I am sure it worth your pennies.
Nothing is better than a stunning nightshot from a 19th floor apartment at Penang.
It’s the view from our apartments at Vistana Apartments, Penang.
When people says the night is still young, that’s so fucking true.
We arrived to Penang at 1.00am and here you go, the stunning view of the buildings nearby Bagan Lepas.
I took this shot when I wake up early in the morning at 7.00am for some swimming downstairs.
Gavin Yong joined me for the swimming downstairs that morning.
I seriously can’t imagine why I can wake up in the early morning when I fall asleep the last night at about 5.00am+, and walked downstairs at 8.00am to swim!
Fuck, we must be mad.
See, I really jumped into the pool with Gavin, Ah Ting, Tella and Gigi Chong.
We are some happy fish.
Everyone ’s eye swollen, exactly like we always see every morning in the office.
Not forgetting, a shot of the apartment’s interior.
Price : Approx. RM280 for a 3-Rooms Apartment
Location : Right after crossing the Butterworth Bridge.
In the midst of supervising my carpenters & workers for tear down, I took some photos around Shangri-La Hotel last Sunday.
Shangri-la was being known exist in Kuala Lumpur City Center many years ago. During many exhibitions period, this hotel was being appointed to be one of the Official Hotels seeing it’s ideal location, with reasonable rates for foreign business travelers. Most of my client stays at this hotel during their visit at Kuala Lumpur.
Currently (Approx. 3-6 months from the date of this post), Shangri-La Hotel is doing a renovation on it’s exterior building but the interior was not much affected. It’s just that you will see some metal builders’ structures from the inside of the hotel.
See the hotel details shown on their website.
Nestled amidst lush gardens in the heart of the city, the newly renovated Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur sits just 45 minutes from the international airport and just moments from key business and shopping areas. The Shangri-La also offers an outstanding choice of cosmopolitan cuisines from its award-winning restaurants.
The Reception Area
All guest rooms and suites are equipped with an impressive list of amenities. Each room offers central air-conditioning with in-room controls, a flat-screen colour television, and all the deluxe in-room and bathroom accoutrements that our guests expect from a five-star luxury hotel.
The Business Lounge
The hotel’s Horizon Club serves frequent business travelers who require the highest quality accommodation and personalised service. Comprehensive business services along with all-day beverage service are available in the Horizon Club Lounge.
Shopping Arcade
The Shangri-La Hotel also features impressive selection of international, award winning restaurants, including the award-winnning Restaurant Lafite, which serves the finest Western cuisine. The wide selection of dining options makes the hotel a central location for travellers who enjoy fine cuisine, and also makes the hotel an excellent location for conferences and business meetings.
One World Hotel is located just approximately 2-3 KM from the place where I’m staying and from the place where I’m working at.
One World Hotel is a 438-room 5-star hotel located in the heart of Petaling Jaya, offering a new dimension in service and quality standards providing grandeur, elegance and unequalled amenities and facilities.
At One World Hotel, you won’t need to count sheep to doze off. Warm and inviting touches like soothing shades of beige and brown, crisp white sheets, plush bedding and richly panelled walls lend a spirit of sensuality and dreamlike fantasy to our 438 rooms and suites.
Encompassing 96 superior rooms, 126 deluxe rooms, 90 deluxe plus rooms and 126 peridot club rooms, it offers great style, sophistication, innovation and convenience. Selectively chosen artwork & contemporary décor celebrate this fast growing city in a brand new way.
Bathrooms laden with amenities offer a Spa-like feel. Separate tub & shower and four fixtures redefine the hotel bathroom, an environment in which you can completely relax in and be pampered. Everything that is seen or felt, from towels to countertops, has the same residential quality and appeal.
One World is in-tune to sophisticated travel and understands our guests’ expectations; each detail has been thought of in advance to best help guests focus, rest and relax. Each guest room is designed to complement a busy and demanding global lifestyle.
Guest rooms feature the most updated, state-of-the-art technology that is easy-to-use, and will assist with work or play. The sleek, widescreen TV features amazing colour and resolution. Each guest room’s air-conditioning system is the latest in evenly dispersed ventilation, which is centralised, enabling a consistent temperature throughout the entire room.
A hotel room is also a place to work. Ergonomic design chairs allows guests to be as productive as they would be in their own office, with a desk area engineered to maximize work space. Modern lamps help to light space effectively and a chair which relaxes the back.
ROOM FEATURES:
- 32” LCD television in all rooms plus 42” LCD television in every suite
- Live CNN news broadcast
- 4 feature bathroom with rain shower
- 3 telephones with IP phone on the working desk in all suites
- Wired and wireless Internet access
- Coffee and tea making facilities
- Personal safe
- Bathrobes and slippers
- Complimentary newspaper
- Hair dryer
- In-room iron and ironing board
- Dedicated bedside reading lamps
- Private bar
- 24 hours in-room dining service
Hotel Rooms from Swimming Pool
Lobby Area
Nice chandeliers
Elevators to Rooms
You need to proceed to level 2 in order to access to their little swimming pool.
There’s such lounge area where the hotel guest can choose to have their dinner here, buffet style. There is some grilled food, too.
The serve fresh crabs, prawns, mussels & oysters.
At night, you can see the nightview of LDP Highway.
As what mentioned in my post before I leave to Kota Kinabalu, here you go, some photos of the superb Sutera Harbour!
I was at Sutera Harbour for a 3 days 2 night build-up for the client’s exhibition booth and I had this opportunity to mingle around the place for some shots on the landscaping.
When you tell the taxi driver that you’d like to go to Sutera Harbour, you will also need to indicate which place : Magellan / Pacific. Both of them are different hotels.
By the way, it’s just about 20 minutes far from the airport.
The rates of cabs are at fixed rate as below : -
KK International Airport - Town = RM20.00 nett
Town - KK International Airport = RM20.00 nett
Town to Sutera Harbour = RM10.00 nett
Sutera Harbour = RM10.00 nett
Town (North/East/South/West) - Town (North/East/South/West) = RM5.00 nett
Basically, they don’t use the meters machine and it’s already a fixed rate for all the taxi drivers in KK.
Entrance of Magellan
By the poolside …
By the shore …
By the kid’s pool …
By the harbor … The place where you can get watersports like flying fish, parasailing, etc.
By the manmade beach side, the one and only at Sutera Harbour. It’s a very small beach side for tourist to swim in the sea, locals say that it’s man-made.
Afterall, we were brought to this place called - Tipa Resort.
A very awesome resort !
Krabi has so many Bed & Breakfast Hotels for tourists and we got ourselves this Tipa Resort, cost about RM300.00 per night stay. It’s located all along the street of Ao Nang night market and all the food, groceries, beach accessories, massage centers, night pubs, are all easily accessible with just some steps away from the resort room.
We had our breakfast here every morning.
This hotel is just simply amazing! This is truly a very nice romantic place for couples I’d say.
A poolside bar at night!
This is the entrance to our rooms.
The bridge leads to the Bungalow Resorts.
This is the resort room with all the basic facilities.
My name is Benghan, also known as Ben Ho. I am a Project Executive in a Global Event Marketing Company. Welcome joining my blogsphere and this is a portal for me to share my knowledge, discoveries and experience related to my daily life and work. I can easily be contacted at me@benghan.com.
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