Thursday, August 6, 2009

Kuala Lumpur trip


It took four hours to Malaysia by plane. We reached Kuala Lumpur at about 3:40pm. Then we took an airbus to KL Central, the journey was about an hour. We then walked to the Monorail station from KL Central, bought two stored value tickets for RM 20 each. Finally we arrived at Jalan Bukit Bintang at about 5:20, Great! Very smooth journey :-)

Nightmare started when we arrived at Bukit Bitang. It was crowded and busy at that time of the day. I had a rather rough map on my hand but no idea about the direction. I asked a lady at an open store which sold souvenires. She did not know where the hotel was. So we tried to walk around the area to look for the hotel. We walked past a five-star hotel. I stopped and asked a man with uniform who was supposed to be working there, assumed that he must have known. He pointed at a light brown building in the front. We were happy and thanked him. When we reached the hotel and found out it was wrong. We looked for Royale Bintang and it was Royale Chulan. Arrrrrrgh!!! Stupidly, we spent one and a half hour walking around the area and finally reached the hotel exhaustedly.