Staying in 3 of the Worlds Largest Hotels

October 31, 2008

   I have stayed in 3 of the Worlds Top 15 Largest Hotels namely: FIrst World Hotel(1st) in Genting,Malaysia and two Vegas hotels: Excalibur ( 7th) and  Monte Carlo(14th) and I can assure you that being big doesnt necessarily mean the best service.

 First World Hotel: We have stayed in this hotel thrice of the 5 times we have visited Genting.The rooms are small and dont have airconditioning since it is quite cold in Genting. The bathrooms are small and it always takes us 2-3 hours to check in specially on school holidays and week ends. The check out however is facilitated by key drop boxes. The lobby is big and quite impressive. The lifts are fast and plenty for each floor.

The breakfast however is very basic but the place is an all in one theme park,shopping, entertainment and hotel complex.

Excalibur Hotel:Hubby and I stayed in this hotel in 2005 and since we booked via internet our check in was very fast. I think most Vegas hotels have fast check in and check out services.

The breakfast and dinner buffets in this hotel is very extensive and we were wondering what they usually do with so much food left overs every night.

The lobby of this hotel is a little bit dark since its supposed to be a castle., I am not particularly fond of the interior though but its good waking up to a good view of a Disneyland like castle. 

MontecarloVegas. I stayed in this hotel in APril 2008 together with my 2 best friends and our check in and check out is quite fast. However during our visit there was a lot of construction going on around this hotel and there is a very noisy club at the corner of the hotel.

 

These are the top 15 largest hotels in the world (2007 list)

1. First World Hotel, Malaysia - 6,118 rooms
2. MGM Grand, Las Vegas - 5,690 rooms
3. Ambassador City Jomtlen - 4,631 room
4. Luxor, Las Vegas - 4,408 rooms
5. Mandalay Bay (Inc. The Hotel), Las Vegas - 4,341 rooms
6. The Venetian, Las Vegas - 4,027 rooms
7. Excalibur, Las Vegas - 4,008 rooms
8. Bellagio, Las Vegas - 3,993 rooms
9. Circus Circus, Las Vegas - 3,774 rooms
10. Flamingo, Las Vegas - 3,565 rooms
11. Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu - 3,386 rooms
12. Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas - 3,349 rooms
13. Mirage, Las Vegas - 3,044 rooms
14. Monte Carlo, Las Vegas - 3,002 rooms
15. Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas – 2,956 rooms

AIR ASIA CANCELS OUR JB-MACAU FLIGHT

October 11, 2008

When I opened my email last Friday, I had to think for awhile since the message was about “Macau Flight Cancelled”. At first I  thought that Air Asia decided not to fly to Macau anymore but when I opened the email, it said…..

We regret to inform you that your flight(s) has been cancelled.

Here are the details of your cancelled flight(s):

Booking Number

UNN5AA

Flight No	Departs	Time	Date
AK 610	Johor Bahru (JHB)	07:00	12 Mar 2009, Thursday
AK 611	Macau (MFM)	11:05	17 Mar 2009, Tuesday

We apologize for the inconvenience caused and would like to offer the following options as compensation:

1.	Fare reimbursement in credit shell for future bookings (valid for 3 months)

OR

2.	Reroute via Kuala Lumpur* (LCC Terminal) to Macau on the nearest available flight

* Please note that no extra cost will be charged for rerouting of flights to/from Macau via Kuala Lumpur from/to Johor Bahru, Kota Kinabalu or Kuching

My only complaint about this message is that they gave me a Malaysian number which was very hard to reach. Since I am very familiar with online reservation I searched for their Singapore number.

After being placed on hold for about 15 minutes I was lucky enough to get hold of their representative who immediately gave me an option of flying to KL and taking our connecting flight to Macau from there.

The same will be true on our return trip.We fly to KL and connect to JB. The only problem is that there is only one flight going to Johor Bahru(JB) from KL and it leaves KL at 7:50 in the morning . This meant that we had to stay overnight in KL.

Now my only problem is getting our hotel for the overnight stay in KL. We are landing at and departing from  the KLIA-LCC and not the KLIA(KL International AIrport) 

Any suggestions?

 

A Spunky VP Candidate Palin

October 3, 2008

The VP Presidential campaign in the US has shifted from Obama/Mc Cain to its Vice Presidents.

Just because a VP former beauty queen Palin is in the limelight everyone has their eyes on her.

She reminds me of Punky Brewster (the 70s small kid actress in her own TV show) 

See that wink?

and this!

The hell where did Mc Cain get this woman…choosing a VP is hard enough…why choose her?