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OMG, it's been a while truly as we've already reached 2023 now. I know I am 1 month late as this is my first entry for this new year, yet yeah I'm convincing myself it's never too late to still be writing and sharing here with all of you right hehe - it's all thanks to those whom are still stopping by and read variety of my previous entry, indeed I still get the update each day and thanks a lot to you all that been coming and reading here okayy, truly motivates me to keep on sharing here hehe. Oh before it's too late, Happy 2023 to all and wishing we'll have a better year than before insyaAllah.
Alright for my first 2023 entry, I wanna share with you guys regarding my trip to Langkawi few weeks back with my little family. Alhamdulillah that trip was to crossed the wishlist of taking the kids somewhere via flight, as they never been in one before, as well as gotta use my AA credit before it expires soon, so yeah two birds with one stone kinda situation I guess? So, I booked the SNAP (flight with hotel stay) on Air Asia for 3 days 2 night staycation to Langkawi - me and my hubs thought that'll be easier right. We combed through many hotels and reviews before finally chose our hotel to stay and everything in app, and yup, hoping for the best huhu.
Well, Alhamdulillah the flight went well for both ways, including our baggage and all. It all went smoothly and good as in for our overall Air Asia flight experience. No delays or anything.
But, our only downside is the hotel. Yup, too bad that we felt like we might not opt for the SNAP again after this. When we got to the hotel, it gave us some awkward moment as it's not as it seems in their pics. Indeed it's an old hotel but they did took some care of their ambience, but still gave us some kind of ill at ease, as we didn't thought it'll be and looked that um, old, maybe. Idk. Idk how to describe it. It's mostly empty there, almost gloomy I must say. Not many people staying when we got there, and seems like need maintenance here and there including around the pool side. There's one pool that's alright tho, but okayy, we gave them a chance by just proceeded to check in and went up to our assigned room.
Here goes our first problem, the door jammed and can't be opened even with the hotel room card. Called the receptionist and she said she'll send someone to help, yet no one came. Luckily their room cleaners were around and we asked for help, they managed to open our door for us after several try using their master room card. Alright next, of course first thing first I'll tour and check the room as per usual - looks decent, understandable for such old hotel - but here comes another problem - the toilet flusher's already broke and the window's lock were also already broken, hence can't even lock the window (it's a big and long window panel, overview the old, out of service pool side) and from the look of it, we're worried for our safety upon our stay as well as for our luggage and stuff when we're not in the room, since people can definitely get in from the outside via that window.
Again, we called and informed the receptionist regarding the problems and she said she'll send someone to check first and see how it goes later. Again, no one came. After twice called later and almost 2 hours of waiting yet still nobody came to check and no resolution, we decided to just check out of that hotel. Yup we don't think we can stay there like that and we've already gave them the chance, yet still everything were just not right. Hmm so here comes the quest for searching for another hotel on the dot - thank god for Traveloka, I found another hotel that is hopefully good indeed huhu.
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So, this is where we finally have our stay - at
Lavigo Resort - totally recommended to stay here!! Shout out to the receptionist at
Lavigo Resort, as she truly was such a kind and big help - she herself recommended me the way to get the cheaper price for stay there on the dot (since I didn't managed to booked via Traveloka at that time as it's just freezes and loading then crashes whenever I wanna make my payment in the app). Well as a result, I managed to get around the same price and savings as Traveloka's offer (since walk in price were bit higher than those online booking price actually, yeah you know right) - thanks a lot to her hehe. We stay for 2 nights, cost us RM441 in total for family suites room with bath tub. We're happy with our room as it's really cozy, spacious enough with air conditioning, mini fridge and more, beautiful with balcony overlooking the idyllic resort view, nice in room bath tub and fun pool (cute floaties etc included too!) with variety of swings as well nearby! Feel free to watch my TikTok video as included for more insights okayy, truly worth every pennies!
As for this resort, they do provided an ironing station across our room - 2 iron with ironing boards on each station, gave me hostel / dorm feeling whenever I went for ironing hahah. Not a hassle anyway since it's just across my room, but yup I still need my hubs to accompany me during ironing session late at night tho as I tend to overthink and playing scenes in my mind, yk, hahahaha. Oh and another thing is, we don't have breakfast in the resort, but there is this one cafe nearby, like just next to the reception area, which I truly recommended you guys to go too if you're staying there. The cafe name is Sauk Cafe - we ordered variety of breakfast foodie and coffee + smoothies there, everything taste really good and price wise are okay too. Feel free to watch my TikTok video as above for more insight okayy hehee.
Alright, as for places to visits, of course 3 days are not enough to cover every places to visits / have experiences everything there, so we just chose to go to :
1) SkyCab Langkawi (including SkyBridge, SkyRex, SkyDome, & 3D Art Langkawi)
I've bought the tickets online HERE to avoid any hassle hehee 👍
It's kinda like all in one place kinda attraction, as we can ride the sky cab to enjoy the exquisite view of Langkawi Island from up above the sky, as well as walking along the Sky Bridge to have some fresh cool air and admiring the view as well. Then after that, having fun experiencing variety of mini attractions such as the SkyRex (cool 3D Dino ride expedition experience), SkyDome (experiencing galaxy), and of course the world's largest 3D exhibition, the 3D Art Langkawi (great 3D art shows including opportunities to take lots of fun mind blogging pics). The kids truly love went to all of these attractions, yet my son was kinda scared to ride the Sky Cab ride tho, but he managed well hehe.
Oh there are variety of instaworthy spots there as well in between stops during the ride, as well as the staff will offer you to buy your family pics in souvenir form - do take note that they did offered on each stops, and it's better on the upper stops yea. Our bad as we thought it'll be only one (at the lower stop - they offered only pics with paper frame kinda album) but little did we know, on the upper stops, they did offered those pics too yet with the paper album frame + magnetic frame - which I think more worth it than the previous one). Each souvenir combo cost around RM50, there are RM90 combo and other but we didn't opt for those. See my pic below for the pics album souvenir combo yea :
2) Underwater World Langkawi
I've bought the ticket online HERE to avoid any hassle hehee 👍
Another must visit especially when you're travelling with kids, that loves animals hehee. This is their first time being up close with penguins, and they love how cute penguins can be hehe. There are also many types of aquatic animals as well as the fossils form, that we can see and learn about here, including in-exhibitions as well. Such a fun and beautiful place, and we did learn a lot too. I also found a mini hidden gems in there - such a calm and lovely spot of mini waterfall overlooking beautiful floras, felt like I could sit there for hours indeed! Watch my video to see it okayy 😁
3)
Cenang Duty Free After we done with our visit at UnderWater World, here goes our duty free shopping mission of course, for other people they came for variety from foodie to cooking utensils and all right, but as for us, our target for the day was only chocolates, haha. So basically, we went to the one besides the UnderWater World, yet also we just walked along the road, entered each chocolate shops to find some that aren't available at the first two shop next to the UnderWater World, and shops for our fav - we stock up for variety of Whittaker's, Daim, Twix, Biscoff, Gery's, Maltesers, Reese's, Hershey's, Rafaello, Toblerone, indeed so many more for our family and friends as well. Prices are definitely cheaper than any other places back in our home town or online okay huhu.
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Telaga Walk at Chenang Alright, this is where we have our dinner as there are variety of yummy foodie to choose from such was fried rice, tom yum, western food, Thai food, satay, juices, and many more. It's also nearby the Lavigo Resort actually, just up alongside the road. Cozy and spacious eating place, love their ambience there, and there are live show / singing as well in the background. You can also find a big park kind space, next to these food shops, where there are cute instaworthy props to take pics while touring around, aside from riding the bike or play bubbles together there. Truly lovely and pretty with colourful lights and all. Perfect for strolling after dinner, chilling while the kids have some fun too before get back to the resort. We've tried foodie from 2 shops - Comot Comot Seafood and The H Western Food, they really served such tasty foodie, really! Feel free to watch my TikTok video as below for more insight / close up. You gotta try them when you're there, okayy! 👍
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Dataran Lang Well I think everyone already know this one too right, since it is indeed such a must to go take some pics at the famous enormous eagle statue there whenever we visit Langkawi, hehe. The view around is idyllic too especially during sunset, as we overlooking the sunset by the sea, with the lights around this Kuah jetty and lovely light breeze accompany us. I can see how much this place had grown in terms of entertainment (kinda) as there are variety of sellers that offers us foodie to toy cars that can be played around, and more. Not to forget the Lagenda Park as well as the Jetty Point Mall around the area for more nice walkway aside from duty free shopping by the bay.
We didn't managed to go to Crocodile Farm / Wildlife Park, as well as Island Hopping (and more!) upon this trip due to limited timing, yet it's okay since the kids kinda already experiences those during our other previous trips to another places, so yup we decided to ditch those from our itinerary. In case you wanna include them, or wanna browse for more must visit / interesting places to go at Langkawi, feel free to buy them online via these links below as it'll be more easier (and cheaper option too apparently) yeaa heheh :
💕 Buy Crocodile Farm / Underwater World / Skycab / Island Hopping Ticket HERE
💕 Buy Langkawi Paradise Ticket HERE
💕 Buy Langkawi Island Hopping trip HERE
💕 Buy Langkawi Parasailing on Boat HERE
💕 Buy Langkawi Sunset Cruise HERE
💕 Buy Langkawi Wildlife Park / Panorama / More Must Visit Destination Combo HERE
💕 Buy Langkawi Kilim Mangrove Tour (include Bat Cave / Fish Farm / Eagle Feeding / Crocodile Cave / Andaman Sea / Dangli Island Fish Feeding and more) HERE
.....Or you can just browse through my 'Racun Travel' link HERE under Travel / Holiday folder okayy, I've included variety of places to visit / services with cheaper online entry purchase link there 👍😁
Also, for our whole 3 Day staycation at Langkawi, we just rent a car so it's easier for us to go anywhere. Truly recommended renting from IG : @keretasewa_murahlangkawi - good service, variety of car to choose from with good prices, car was also clean and worked great 👍 We rent a Bezza, it only cost RM80 per day for rent. Below are their IG yeaa guys :
Well, I think my colourful Langkawi trip have been all concluded here. Indeed since this is my personal sharing from what we've experience during our trip. I didn't include the not-so-pleasant-hotel name upon the start since I think some people might have really experience the opposite, might just be our bad luck with the hotel managements during that day or something, right? There are several people that seems to enjoy their stay there I guess from the look at the functional pool side. So yeah, I think might not be fair to include the name here as the receptionist already apologised during our check out and not that they treats us badly anyhow. Indeed of course, if you ask me honestly if I will be try to stay there again, I think I will not as I already found better option. Yet if you used to have a good stay there, go on and stay there again, okay, no worries 👌😊
Goodbye Langkawi!
Other than that, I hope what I share here are somewhat beneficial to all of you, especially if you're looking for a Langkawi Trip next on your schedule. We did enjoy our trip, and so does the kids too. Looking forward for our next trip of we don't know yet but of course would love to haha. In between, I'll regularly updates on my socmed (mostly on my IG & TikTok) and will try to write and share as often more as I can for this year here on my blog hehe. Thanks a lot to those whom keep on supporting as well as those whom came here to read, be it new, or as well as regularly from the old days. You guys rock! Take care all and have a lovely day and ahead! 💝
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