TiMeZoNe: MY: Day 1 KUL

A night before, I spent a night at Izam's place. It is easier this way since he is travelling with me to Kota Kinabalu.

Called the taxi 30 minutes before the requested pick up time. The journey to KL Sentral was smooth. No heavy traffic.

Took Skybus from KL Sentral to LCC-T KLIA at 8.20am and reached the "Puduraya Plane Station" an hour later. Proceed directly to check in and went for a quick breakfast at a Asian restaurant near the entrance.

The flight was delayed first time due to late arrival of the aircraft from Medan. Then, it was further delayed due to technical problem. A common reason used to inform passengers of the delay.

We finally took off at 12.50pm, around 1hr 40 minutes late from the original schedule. Around 30 minutes later, when the food was being served, the aircraft hit an air-pocket. Wow!!!!..... It was a wonderful experience... :-) Drinks spilled all over :-))

We landed at BKI Terminal 2 at 3.05pm. The flight was at 37,000 ft with speed of 850 km/h (average). Went to the hotel immediately after that and it cost us RM40 from BKI T2 to 1Borneo. We have booked Novotel 1Borneo via internet for RM173 per night excluding breakfast. I thought it was a good deal.

Checked into room 0926 and this will be our home for the next four nights. Pretty new hotel and the whoel 1Borneo is yet to be fully constructed. Only the hotels (Novotel, Mercure, Tune and Courtyard) and the shopping mall are competed. So constructions are still in progress.

Izam managed to get a car from his friend. This saves us some cash from renting a car. In fact, if you are planning to stay at any hotels at 1Borneo, it is highly recommended to rent a car. It is further away from the city and to move around, definitely need a transport. A taxi will do, but how much you want to spend on taxi?

After changing, we walked around the shopping mall. Pretty huge and there are mixtures of locals and visitors from neighboring country, Brunei.

In the evening, we drove to the city for a seafood. Original plan is to have a dinner at Port View Seafood, however, this place is too expensive, so we settled for dinner behind Handicraft market (if I am not mistaken). A lot cheaper and "hawker" style. In fact, few foreigners were seen enjoying the seafood there.

With one medium size fish (can't remember the name), a prawn, one big squid, five small squids and a crab, altogether cost us RM60. Not too bad considering two plates of rice, a seaweed ulam and three cans of drinks.

So far so good... tomorrow's plan is plan to drive to Kundasang.....