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Published: January 31st 2017
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£2 on the bus. The train is twice as quick but 5 times the price
,Here's hoping I can cut and paste from outlook mail into travelblog, as I seem to have deleted Word off my iPad and am in mid-air with no wifi!Bargainous flight with KLM to Kuala Lumpur was uneventful. Nice, efficient cabin crew, our seat choice was OK (row22, no one behind us, right next to the loos and no noisy babies, BUT the guy next to me by the window had THE most annoying non-noise cancelling earphones EVER. I could more or less singalong. I asked him to turn the volume down when sleep time arrived. Forgot earplugs (rookie error) but improvised magnificently by peeling the foam covers from the airline headset. Decided to wait until arriving before making the bus/train choice into the centre. 1 hour/£2ish or 30 mins/£5ish. Best guesses.The Expres train was actually £10, no waaaaay! The bus it was, had to wait a good 20 mins for it to fill up and it wasn't exactly direct. Random stop at an office block to pick up some workers, in KL by 6 and then less then 10 mins' walk, down an alleyway, to the hotel we stayed at last time. Ms Rattlesnake was on reception. Asked her to help
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Chinese New Year decs. Unlike Christmas, there are 2 weeks of celebrations AFTER the event, and we thought we'd miss it! me book Petronas Tower tickets online as there is a website but I couldn't do it from the UK, but she said I had to go in person, first thing. Not going up them until Gill arrives on Feb 28th, so I'll ask someone else when Ms Rattlesnake isn't on shift, just for comparison purposes.
The area is Brickfields, predominantly Indian so lots of men walking around. It feels very safe, even when taking a short cut down an alleyway as they all seem to have little restaurants with people eating outside. There are many hotels looking like ours, i.e. business type, sparkling clean foyers. Ours, the Hotel Sentral, is £27 a night for 2 with breakfast. The wifi works OK so far. We do vaguely remember the buffet breakfast being a disappointment, with some funky items. Maybe it will have improved over time......
Feeling much perkier showers (both of us) and throwing up (me) we ventured out to find the Nu Sentral shopping mall, handily situated between our hotel and the station. Sam needed a case for her new phone and we thought we should eat something maybe. The mall is on 10 floors, high end bigtime,
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Year of the rooster! not a phone cover in sight, so we wandered through through to Sentral Station and found again no cover, but a mini food court with lots of noodle offerings. We both had chicken noodle soup and I had a jasmine tea, £4.40 for all, very reviving. Then after a mooch in the mall, where there is no doubt it is the Year of the Rooster (see pics!), we found a little convenience store at the foot of the escalator on the way back with phone case, now back in the room and stinking out our entire space with mothballs!!! Sam is now isolating it in a handy bag stolen from Heathrow, wrapped in a face wipe sprayed in deodorant! That'll learn it!
Trying to stay away so we are not up at Stupid o'clock, need to get the bus back to the KLIA2 for our flight with Airasia to Bali.
Love love being in Malaysia, such friendly, chatty people with no agenda, helpful in shops without being overly pushy, fab food and we do not have to analogise/e plan Brexit or (so far) be over exposed to Donald Teump!
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