Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur

[GwladysBlue]

I'm staying in the Universiti Malaya International Student Centre, according to Google its a 20 minute drive to the Petronas Towers which Im guessing is their City centre.

 

[Scottoffee]

I'm staying in the Universiti Malaya International Student Centre, according to Google its a 20 minute drive to the Petronas Towers which Im guessing is their City centre.

You're right next to Bangsar and Mid Valley Mega Mall.

My folks lived there when I was in Uni, so spend a couple of Xmas hols in KL - Bangsar def had a more studenty feel to it for nights out on the piss, less businessmen than the city centre and hence fewer hookers...

Def do the caves and Genting - but like any resort/casino, that can get expensive.

Coach down to Singapore's fairly cheap and worth a visit for a weekend whilst you're over that way.

 

[BlueLlama]

I worked for the British Council in KL for a year and hated the place with a passion. Huge racial divides, everyone trying to rip you off non-stop, evil levels of pollution ...

Hopefully staying with a family will protect you from the worst of it.

Tourism wise it is quite good - the Batu caves are just outside of KL are boss and filled with monkeys that will come right up to you and the island beaches are ace.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

I worked for the British Council in KL for a year and hated the place with a passion. Huge racial divides, everyone trying to rip you off non-stop, evil levels of pollution ...

Hopefully staying with a family will protect you from the worst of it.

Tourism wise it is quite good - the Batu caves are just outside of KL are boss and filled with monkeys that will come right up to you and the island beaches are ace.

Consul ?

or are we over there chasing up non payments of council tax and parking fines ? "Hello Sir, I'm here to collect a fine from you, you clearly set someone down in a no stopping zone near your local library, I was against the wall with my camera, totally naked and covered in body paint to make me look like bricks, yes thats me, yeah it does look like a tap doesnt it"

 

[BlueLlama]

Consul ?

or are we over there chasing up non payments of council tax and parking fines ? "Hello Sir, I'm here to collect a fine from you, you clearly set someone down in a no stopping zone near your local library, I was against the wall with my camera, totally naked and covered in body paint to make me look like bricks, yes thats me, yeah it does look like a tap doesnt it"

Errrm no Council was right.

They teach English and spread the word of the wonder of British culture across the globe.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Errrm no Council was right.

They teach English and spread the word of the wonder of British culture across the globe.

you learn something every day, was it a missionary position, for want of a better job description.

 

[GwladysBlue]

You're right next to Bangsar and Mid Valley Mega Mall.

My folks lived there when I was in Uni, so spend a couple of Xmas hols in KL - Bangsar def had a more studenty feel to it for nights out on the piss, less businessmen than the city centre and hence fewer hookers...

Def do the caves and Genting - but like any resort/casino, that can get expensive.

Coach down to Singapore's fairly cheap and worth a visit for a weekend whilst you're over that way.

Good to know there is things around there to do. Are there any nightclubs there? It's a mainly Muslim country so I bought drinking would be frowned upon.

 

[Zatara2]

Can drink anywhere in the centre of KL....dont venture out of the centre without friends.

Not as dangerous as jakarta for a foreigner but close,

Clubs are awful....

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

I said in some grot hole near the station, a common theme it seems around stations and the budget end of the lonely planet S.E. Asia.

We were gonna go the Phillipines, got hold of a Lonely Planet and within the 1st paragraph we had changed our minds. It warned that absolutely every person that you would encounter from the Customs guy on arrival to the one on departure would attempt to rip you off. Just cba with the hassle of being on your guard constantly when you jus wanna kick back.

 

[GwladysBlue]

I'm worried about the drugs aspect of going there. I've a horrible feeling they're going to try something on. Keeping my bag with me at all times.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

I'm worried about the drugs aspect of going there. I've a horrible feeling they're going to try something on. Keeping my bag with me at all times.

the prisons look grim. you'd be in for the rest of your life, albeit only a couple of months 'til they hung you.

 

[GwladysBlue]

My bag is staying locked. No ones slipping anything in it.

 

[peteblue]

Flew in to KL from HK late at night. Drank in the bar till 4am, went to conference at 9am, threw up at 11am. Flew back to UK at 6pm, drank on the plane until 3am, threw up at 4am, landed and got driven home.........