#Travelpost: Day 1 at Beautiful Sunset at Cenang Beach at DUTY FREE LANGKAWI

During the recent Matta Fair which happen over the weekend we stumble upon this holiday package to Langkawi which seems to be affordable - 16th to 18th March 2018, we bought a Family Package to Langkawi from Anytime Holiday SDN BHD. It's a package for 10pax which includes

• accomodation for 3 days 2 nights ( 3 bedroom apartment)
• Car rental (10 pax Van)
• Island hopping for 10 pax

at ONLY RM1699!

p/s: This is not a paid blog :)

We decided to take advantage of the school holiday in March to visit Langkawi. As the package that we bought did not cover our transfer to the jetty, we decided to drive up to Kuala Perlis Jetty which took us almost 5 hours and 30 minutes from Kuala Lumpur. It's a rather smooth drive up north fortunately as we were expecting some traffic due to the holidays.

Parked our car around the parking lots around the Jetty area. There will be local agents who rides around with their motorcycles to usher you to their designated space. The standard parking rate there is RM10/ day which I think it's pretty reasonable.

So we bought the ticket for the ferry from Kuala Perlis Jetty to Langkawi which departs at 1pm. The journey took us 1 hour and 15 minutes. The journey is pretty comfortable as there were allocated seat number upon purchasing the ticket. So you do not have to worry if you'll be getting yourself a seat for the journey!

Here's some of "How to get to Langkawi' information for you:

https://www.langkawi-insight.com/langkawi_000004.htm

Of course! One of the thing that Langkawi boast about it's the DUTY FREE ALCOHOL, CIGARETTES & CHOCOLATES. So, if you're intent of carting some of those, this is the place you'd want to be! Please be note that there will be lots of duty free shops all around Langkawi and the price may fluctuate a little from shop to shop. I personally stayed near this duty free shop - Toew Soon Huat Duty Free (TSH DUTY FREE) which I find the prices there are very reasonable and a great place to do your shopping there.

After shopping around at TSH Duty Free, to stock our chocolates and alcohol for the next 2 nights, we went home to rest before going out at night to Pantai Cenang for dinner. Oh by the way, we got pretty cozy and comfortable apartment for the next 2 night that's enough for 10 pax @ Century Suria Apartment.

(Sorry I didnt managed to get a picture of our apartment!!)

Upon reaching Pantai Cenang, we decided to stroll around at the beach to enjoy the sunset before heading for dinner.

Look at that wonderful Sunset scenery here at Pantai Cenang. Grab a drink or dine along the restaurants here at this beach while enjoy this panoramic view of the beach. Later on, as we were walking around the beach looking for a place for dinner, we stumbled upon this chinese restaurant who seems like there's quite a few occupied tables and we thought we should give it a try.

Claypot Assorted Seafood

Deep Fried Squid

"Kam Heong" Lala

Stir-fried Deer Meat

All in all, we were pretty disappointed with the food there as it was just mediocre. The dishes there was rather bland and not very tasty despite the various different types of dishes. I personally wouldn't recommend this place if you're looking for some good Chinese style cooking meal :( 

We went home after dinner and get some rest before the next day where we will be doing "Island Hopping" 

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#Travelpost: First day in Krabi - Getting there - La Playa Resort

It's the time for our annual family trip! This year my family decided to visit Krabi, Thailand. After listening to many positive comments about this place, we finally decided to pay a visit as coincidentally, its the school holiday season too! We took the night train from KL Central at 11.30PM on Monday - 28th August 2017. It took us approximately to arrive at Padang Besar (the border between Malaysia and Thailand).

The Thai border that we were walking pass this morning

We decided to walk from Padang Besar to this Thailand custom border as its only 400 meter distance between both the borders. We managed to arrange a transport by mini van to take us form the border to Hatyai which is about 1 hour drive away from the border. A mini van was chartered that cost 1,000 baht for the whole van. However, we managed to share this cost with another family which is also going to Hatyai with us :)

Here's the bus station at Hatyai where we board a 4 hours bus ride to Krabi.

We arrive at Krabi Bus Terminal approximately at 12.30 noon which we decided to look for a place for lunch. We came across this little eatery located at the bus terminal that serve hot food.

I personally do recommend this rice plate which consist of belacan fried rice, shredded eggs, carrots and mangoes, raw long beans and stir fry chicken. Do not be deceived by the look of this plate, trust me! It taste better than it look! All you need to do is to mix all the ingredients together and enjoy!

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Pineapple fried rice is quite good too! And, it's very affordable for it's price

Later on, after lunch, we hop onto this tut tut which takes us from Krabi Bus Terminal to our resort located at Ao Nang beach. It's about 40 minutes journey with 2 other stops in between. We were charged 60 baht per person for this ride which I think it's pretty affordable. However, I think you can try bargaining for 50baht per person to those coming in the future especially those of you travelling in big groups. 

Stopped by at the nearby 7 Eleven to stock our snacks for our stay here! :)

Here we are finally arriving at our Hotel resort after many hours of travelling through train, bus and tut tut.

My first impression of La Playa Resort is great with it's calm and relax ambience from the lobby - welcomed with a glass of refreshing pineapple juice. The room is spacious, cozy and clean! I would definitely recommend this place for those looking for places to stay around this area.

One of the many selling point of this resort would be their swimming pools! They have 2 main swimming pools here - main pool & emerald pool (in the picture above). Unfortunately, their main pool is under maintenance during our stay here. However, we did also enjoyed ourselves at their emerald pool!

After our swim, it's time for dinner! We stumble upon Tara Thai Kitchen just about 300m walk away from our resort. 

 Seafoods here are rather fresh and is worth the price for its freshness. However, I personally likes my Thai food being a little spicier than what they serve here. In general, the foods here are decent and its sufficient if you're looking for something to fill your tummy for the night!

It's time to rest after dinner and gear up tomorrow for island visiting day! Stay tune! 

Check out my day 2 at Krabi island here:

https://fatsbyjason.blogspot.my/2017/09/travelpost-my-2nd-day-in-krabi-hong.html

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