I felt pretty sad today as we are leaving Singapore, it is a fantastic city/country. After a light breakfast….yes you heard me…light….believe it or not we can do light meals! We checked out of the hostel. The taxi ride to the coach took 10 minutes and cost SGD$5.40.

The departure point is where there are many different coach companies:

5001, Beach Road
#01-16, Golden Mile Complex,
Singapore 199588

Our coach company is

StarMart Express Air Asia Liner Pte Ltd

You are required to check in 30 minutes before the coach departs, therefore we were there at 10am. You could actually get there fifteen minutes before departure. Especially, as there were hardly any other passengers there.

The coach leaves a couple of blocks away from the ticket office, once we got there (be sure you get onto the correct numbered coach. There could be a couple of coaches from the same company waiting there.) we loaded the backpacks onto the coach, which is what you do yourself and made our way to the assigned seats.

Individual massage system on every seat.

About one hour into our journey we arrived at the border

A very simple process, you leave your luggage on the coach and go through customs. Once through the coach is waiting for you in the car park.

The bridge crossing over to Malaysia, I guess this is no mans land

At the Malaysian border you take all your luggage off the coach and walk through customs

The customs check your passport and then you take your luggage through a scanner.

Again, the coach is waiting for you in the car park. Welcome to Malaysia.

Driving this part of Malaysia you immediately notice how lush and green the land is.

Throughout the whole five hour journey there was one break, to stretch your legs and use the restrooms.

Our first glimpse of Petronas Tower

Arriving in KL, very hungry!

Making our way to the hotel

Arriving at the hotel

Looking forward to a good night’s sleep!!

View from the bedroom, situated on the eleventh floor

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Around 5pm to 8pm the heavens open up and it pours. We waited until it calmed down, then made our way to get dinner.

I immediately disliked Kuala Lumpur, every other shop seemed to have scantily dressed women offering a massage. It all looked sleazy. We are located in the Golden Triangle of KL. KL’s equivalent of the Central Business District(CBD) located to the north-east of the old city centre/old town. This is where you will find many of the city’s shopping malls, five-star hotels and the iconic Petronas Twin Towers. It looks like sleaze and wealth are next to each other!

It took us fifteen minutes to get to the restaurant

Woods Bio Marche
Eternal Happiness
Lot G-02,
Ground Floor
Wisma Bukit Bintang
28, Jalan Bukit Binag
55100 Kuala Lumpur
T: +60 3 2143 1636
F: +60 3 2143 4636

The food was excellent. A restaurant we should go back to. As we are getting close to MYR5 to GBP£1 the prices here are very cheap. The dinner cost us GBP£12.

On the way back to the hotel

Starhill Gallery
Starhill Gallery is a luxury retail mall located in the Bukit Bintang shopping district of Kuala Lumpur. The mall opened in 1996 as Starhill Shopping Centre. In 1999, when business was in decline, it was acquired by YTL Corporation. YTL decided to do away with the anchor tenant-based business model and transform Starhill into a luxury brand retail centre. It underwent extensive renovation led by architect David Rockwell and reopened in July 2005 as Starhill Gallery.
The mall is connected to the JW Marriott Kuala Lumpur by a “Time Tunnel”

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