Malaysian Resort Gap

During my 5-day 4-night trip to Langkawi, i spent 2 nights each in different resorts. First 2 nights were spent in a 3-star resort while the last 2 days were spent in a 5-star resort. There were very obvious differences even though it was just 2 star differences.

The first resort i stayed in was Federal Villa, a sister resort of Holiday Villa. We tried to book Holiday Villa but it was fully occupied for the weekend. Thus we had to put up with it's poorer sister, =P

This is the bedroom. The room was spacious but sparsely furnished, and the furniture were really old. We had to play treasure-hunting to locate the kettles and stuff. The bathroom was also very basic, reminiscent of a home toilet... haha...

Hotel room - OK lah, considering i did not spend much time in the resort in the first two days.

Swimming pool - What pool? I ain't see no pool in this resort

Window view - My room window opened up face a gazebo, hmmm....fancy... but the hotel's real close to the beach, a plus point

Staff - Not too bad, very helpful.

Food - The breakfast's quite standard. Weak coffee though.

Ambience - Bad. The building's all bricks and cements, so there's no holiday feel.

On my third day, we moved over to another resort just a stone's throw away from Federal Villa, Meritus Pelangi Beach Resort. Look, our hotel room's pretty quaint huh?


Hmm, the interior design looked pretty soothing and comfy. The best part was yet to come though. See next photo :


Ahhh...the lanai door in our room opens up straight to the beachfront.

Hotel Room - Nicely designed. I love the dressing room-cum-closet-cum-bathroom separated from the room. Gave me ample time to spend in the bathroom.

Swimming pool - There were 2 nice pools. We swam at the Horizon pool and had a drink at the pool-bar. We also rented their bikes to explore the grounds and realised there was another pool (Cascade Pool), which was more deserted and also 2 water-lily ponds.

Window view - See photo of lanai door...kekekeek

Staff - Friendly. The resort's really big and they were all either on bicycles or buggy. They chirpily greet all guests as they pass by.

Food - OK la. Only tried the breakfast, normal lah.

Ambience - Nice. This is the kind of resort that enables you to stay in the resort the whole day, instead of venturing out for entertainment.