opsss.. din try this..

end up driving ourselve to kuah for teo restaurant.. nice and cheap..
give up mangrove tour for dinner cruise! nice one although it's a lil bit pricey, but it's worth for sure..

I just got back from a 3D/2N trip in Langkawi last Monday with my friends, so time to write my report =)

We reached Langkawi at 8.30am, as we're leaving the airport, we decided to a new Grand Livina for RM250 (you must bargain with those people or else they’ll slaughter you with cut-throat prices) & drove straight to Malibest Resort, 6 of us in 3 different rooms.

In regards to the resort, I’ve walked along Cenang beach & somehow only Malibest Resort’s part of the beach has clean, smooth & soft white sands! Once you walked out of Malibest area, the beach are comparable to Port Dickson in my opinion. So if you want to have nice beach to enjoy, Malibest the place to be. But sadly, the condition of the resort isn’t that good. There are significant wear & tear but it’s bearable to us (no major complaints). We booked 1 Super Deluxe Beach Front & 2 new beach front rooms (it’s not in their website yet, newly built we were told). There are several water sport for those who are interested, we tried Jet Ski only which was RM100/30 minutes (also gotta bargain). There's a RM120/30 minutes for the bigger engine one, but in my opinion, the smaller engine one should be sufficient unless you intend to go for 120km/p.

Our trip was rather relaxing, we went for the Island Hopping tour (RM30/pax for 4 hours) on our first day & Mangrove tour (RM90/pax for 7 hours) on our second day. Both tours are by Malibest’s sister company – De Baron Holiday.

For the Island Hopping tour, we were sent to;
1) Pulau Dayang Bunting. There’s a fresh water lake with some water activities on top of swimming.
2) Pulau Singa Besar. Just a stop at the ocean to watch the eagle feeding from the boat. The boatman will generally toss chicken skin onto the ocean & let the eagles to feed on it.
3) Pulau Beras Basah. It’s just another beach for you to chill & relax.

In my opinion, the best part of the Island Hopping is the eagle feeding. It’s a fantastic sight to see the eagles (there’s like 30 to 40 eagles flying around) hovering around, diving down & grab the chicken skins. Tragically they only allocated like 10 to 15 minutes for eagle watching, too short for me. I could spend an hour watching those eagles.

For the Mangrove tour, we were sent to;
1) Bat Cave
2) Crocodile Cave (boring)
3) Fish Farm
4) Mangrove Sightseeing
5) Eagle Feeding (at the mangroves)
6) Monkey Feeding (they actually let the monkeys jump into the boat)
7) A beach to relax & swim
8) Another uncommon island

As for the Mangrove tour, the best part for me would be the Restaurant + Fish Farm. It’s a floating restaurant on the ocean (like Baratie lol), funny thing is they served us chicken instead of seafood. In the fish farm, there is a giant blotched fantail ray, giant grouper, huge barracudas & a leopard shark. It’s like half of Aquaria KLCC’s highlights are there.

As for food, below are the ones we tried;

1) Orchid Ria (Chinese food) – Excellent! will definitely come back to this restaurant.
2) Vivia Italia (Italian) – Not bad, exactly in front of Malibest, so it’s very convenient.
3) Red Tomato (Italian) – Not bad.

Photos:

1) Malibest Beach


2) Malibest Jet Ski


3) Pulau Dayang Bunting Lake


4) Red Eagle Hunting


5) White Eagle Hunting


6) Monkey Feeding


7) Restaurant + Fish Farm


8) Sunset @ Malibest


9) Island


This post has been edited by NightHeart: Oct 27 2012, 01:50 AM

Guys,I planned to have a trip with my gf on this upcoming holiday around 11th nov till 16th nov.
Due to the laziness ,i would like to ops for a tour package which included:

Basically,

1.3D2N of a decent hotel
2.a car/vehicle
3.breakfast included

preferrable if included,

1.tour provided to certain attraction (ie:langkawi cabal car,pulau payar and etc)
2.dinner/lunch
3.return ticket for the ferry from kuala kedah
4.any other interesting activities (perhaps diving,jungle trekking ? )

Most importantly,all of them budget around RM 300-600 for 2 person.(cheaper is better)
Any suggestion or idea would be helpful~
thx~

This post has been edited by wong6516: Oct 27 2012, 01:51 AM

Coming to this forum, ppl normally no longer interested in tour package but DIY. and in Langkawi, it is so simple to DIT. Just rent a car and if you do not have any GPS, just use paper map.. so easy to navigate when not so complicated road system in Langkawi

what's the difference of the super deluxe beach front and the new beach front room?

new room got newer furniture?

Difference in price (RM20 or RM30 extra), plus super deluxe is brick while the new one is wooden. It's like the tree house built on land lol.

Personally, i'd think the super deluxe beach front is better. I'll go for that one on my next trip.

The disappointing part about the new beach front room is even though it's built on the beach (like the super deluxe), the door is build on the side, so it's not facing the beach. However the room has glass wall that's facing the beach (i can't appreciate this though, rather just go out & lie on the beach).

Let me dig for photos of that new wooden rooms later, i didn't take much photo since it's a bit disappointing.

ahhh even the new room is disappointing huh?

i really loved where malibest super deluxe beachfront room is located. 2 steps out of room is the beach, glass wall that face the beach, 100m from room door to the sea, mang, those are awesome

but the room....it seriously need a total refurbish

PS: pls...some pics of new room

Yea, I like Malibest beach front rooms too & I strongly agree that they need to at least touch-up or maintain their rooms. The wear & tear is obvious, but fortunately not bad to the point that it's spoiling our holidays.

These are the new rooms, only got 2 photos sorry. As you can see, there is a full height glass window facing the sea.




This post has been edited by NightHeart: Oct 28 2012, 06:34 PM

thanks for the picture...hehe

great. still nice coz is still on the beach itself!

Guys any recommandation for 2k budget for 4 people stay? Preferable super near the beach...

Hi

Can we book a king size bed room and accommodate 4 adults in it?
The extra two may sleep on an extra bed and a sofa. Is that fine?

Sorry if the question sound stupid.

If the hotel people are not strict then yes.

RM2k per nite or what?

I don't think if got 2k per nite need to ask here

coz dia no say how many nites ma

usually ppl go 3 nites, at rm2k alot alot choices liao

Hi all!
Going to langkawi next month with my wife n 2 children by Air Asia flight. Is it allow to wear slippers or sandals during boarding?

Any other Chinese restaurant or Chinese food beside Orchid Ria, Teo Seafood n Yong Long Chinese seafood?

lol. of coz it's allows slippers and sandals for flight

I thought Langkawi seafood no longer cheap ??

1. Yes . I wore sandals + shorts
2. Try Wonderland , cheap + good but it's in Kuah town

Is Awana Porto Malai a good hotel for family with 5 adults and 1 kid?

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Added on October 30, 2012, 4:43 pmGot MPV like Estima or Alphard?

This post has been edited by echoesian: Oct 30 2012, 04:43 PM