I have been thru the 34pages here

and yup, there was a forumer brought back more than 2 bottles of hard-liquor, and he still get to pass thru it

as long as you staying there for more than 72 hours (or 3D2N), yup, you are entitled.

correction : 48 hours will do.

dont forget u need some sort of proof staying 72 hours there..flight ticket, ferry ticket,cable car.. any printing one is nice..bye bye tax..

If ferry easier. The immigration not that strict. All you have to do is hide the bottle of liquor right bottom of your bag. As many as you can and wrap with newspaper. Then top of it, put lots of dirty shirts as well as 1 pair of shoes. I can assure they won't even touch the things.

Tested and passed thru safely

Anyway, I am planning my trip to Langkawi in early July

Is July a good month for Langkawi?

Anyway, I did my homework
(Infos gathered thru the entire Langkawi thread)








Anything else that I miss out?

Based on my rough calculation, the 3D2N Langkawi trip would cost around RM 850 - RM1,000

Please help me to "cut cost" a bit

Air Asia (2 ways for 2 adult) - RM 350 +/-
Lodging (would choose chalet along the beach, for 2 nights) - RM 200 +/-
Food & Entertainment (for 2) - RM 200 +/-
Surveniors (beers/chocs, etc) - RM 200 +/-

Pretty much, isn't?

i think the car rental price u quote there is way too expensive. 2 weeks ago i went there i got an Iswara 3d2n (around 50 hours) for rm140. n its during holiday period too.

n personally i would seriously advice u not to go to the Underwater World. utter waste of money.

But my sis keep asking me to go see the penguine

panasonic88, i think AirAsia is doing promotion now and those package comes with air ticket+hotel package. You might wanna hv a look

This post has been edited by bearbear: May 14 2007, 05:28 PM

The car rental price might varies from vendors, and also your bargain technique and numbers of days you rent it, i believe

And yes, i read that someone said the Underwater World is even sucky than our KLCC Aquaria, lol! I think I would want to skip this as well


bearbear, the promotion from AirAsia, is it this one?

I wanna stay in Chalet~~!!!
I get to stay in hotel everytime I travel, but Chalet is new to me

Yes that wan, not cheap enough for you?

I just love beach resorts, i feel like i'm not in holiday when i goes to those city hotel

well both Bella Vista n Awana are not beach resort.

Can choose others mah

i tried Federal Villa, Rm740 excluding tax.

I checked the hotel rate it's Rm190/night

So Rm360 for 2 adults 2 way ticket?

as a person who stay in langkawi for 2 years, be careful when u want to rent a car.. lots of them trying to cheat u..charge u super expensive but ..(air-con sux, car condition very bad,etc) hopefully u can find a nice car vendor..

usually for those who want to have fun:
-rent a bicycle..ha ha..foreigner usually did this.total length of langkawi road is roughly around 55km only..
-go langkawi by train.."katil" seat cost around rm 40..stop at perlis then fetch ferry..


p/s: if u have kids/cousins/wat ever relative in mrsm langkawi, use them properly!!
mrsm offer one full apartment 4 room 2 toilet with air-con at most rm50 per day..the teacher there also have rent car service which u can have sporty honda civic around rm50-rm70 per day..

yahloh, i wan beach resorts~!
read that charlet is pretty cheap
am aiming that one


yawww that's wayyy above my budget!


i like the idea of cycling!

This post has been edited by panasonic88: May 14 2007, 09:38 PM

awana got seaside..I plan to get the room that face the seaside..anyone know wether there is bath tub in the toilet?
Yatch cove means?the room in awana is small?

Yes Awana & Beell Vista got seaside or seaside view but no beach-lah How to swim? Jump to the rocky cove & swim beside those yatch? ..The worst no swimming pool too.....But lucky there is a free/cheap boat service to Island beach from Awana...

Yatch cove means those luxury sail boat from all over the worls park their sailing boat beside the hotel-lah...so it is a jetty for them..no beach!

Please help me with the hotel selection.

My requirements :

Near to the sea side ( just walk out from your room in the morning and the beach is in front of ya! )

Price range : Below RM 150 per night

Decent room.

Which one do you guys recommed?

This post has been edited by panasonic88: May 15 2007, 12:50 PM

Try google MaliBest, not those high class but once you walk out it's beach already

Reccomended to me by Chrisky

This post has been edited by bearbear: May 15 2007, 12:56 PM

Yaya, Malibest is one of my consideration, too.

Someone recommended it in the Langkawi thread

EDIT : ohyah, the forumer name is Chrisky.

This post has been edited by panasonic88: May 15 2007, 01:01 PM

Well, just came back from langkawi last week.WEll, just review a bit of my trip:

We rented a proton iswara for RM 100 for 3 days. Overall, the car is good like air con is working fine and not too bad.

We stayed at Sunset Beach Resort for RM160/night (Sunset III type of room). Well, the resort is some sort like "greenery feeling" type of resort as there are lots of trees planted along the way to the rooms. The only bad thing was their breakfast (please dont expect much) as they would only provide white/wheatgrain bread, jam/butter, coffee/tea, mango juice, scrambled eggs, cereals and fruits. Well, the beach is near the place where you are going to have breakfast and it's quite nice

Honestly, the underwater world is really a big NO NO!! Not many things to see and really wasting of money!!All the fishes soooooooooo small like those that we rear in our home and the most "interesting" thing to see is the penguins only. Even the 3D movie also not interesting at all!Better spend the time to go to the Oriental Village, more worth it.

Well, for those non-muslim, I highly recommended the Rootian Restaurant for your meal. They really serve very nice food with affordable price. They can be easily found at the kuah town near the bridge. For muslim, there are lots of malay restaurants easily accessible along the roadside.

As long as you have stayed in Langkawi for 48hours, then you can bring back unlimited chocolates and 1 litre of liquor back to mainland. The customs at the airport would ask for your air ticket and look at the number of liquors you would bring back to mainland.

i tot MaliBest is the best for you cos you said you wanted a chalet

mandysu, thanks for the review so i think i'll skip Under Water World after all the comments about it here.

What the attraction in Oriental Village?

This post has been edited by bearbear: May 15 2007, 01:04 PM