Trip to Genting Highlands!

Hubby’s company organized a trip toGenting recently and we brought the whole family along. Actually, it was more of me helping hubby to plan the trip and everyone just followed the plan! Haha.

The drive up to Genting was surprisingly short, and it took us only about 45 minutes or so to reach Gohtong Jaya.We stopped to visit the Genting Strawberry Farm, where we had a great time showing the kids how strawberries were grown. Armed with a pair of scissors and a basket, we also had fun ‘plucking’ strawberries, which we later purchased (about RM 6.50 per 100 grams I think). The strawberry farm is a great place to visit with the family, I would say. 

We also had lunch in Gohtong Jaya beforemaking our way up to Genting itself. Lunch was ok, although we did find a tiny worm in the vegetable soup! Yikes. Ah well, can consider it as protein.:p

Crystal fruit

Mushrooms

Giant pumpkins

We managed to get an early check-in,and we were pleasantly surprised to find that the Family Room was quite new and nice. It had 2 double beds, a couch, and plenty of space to walk around, so the kids could run around a little bit. Our room was right next to the Outdoor Theme Park though, so while it provided an interesting view, it was quite noisy with all the screaming from the thrill rides.

We had a fairly nice break in Genting although we did not get to do much. It was raining a lot, with strong winds and a LOT of mist; at times it really felt like we were in some English countryside! Visibility was so low that we could not even see the theme park from our window most of the time. At night, the wind howled and moaned, and it was a tad scary, to be honest. The Outdoor Theme Park was also closed since the weather was so bad, which meant that everyone just congregated in the Indoor Theme Park making it terribly crowded! :( 

We paid for an All-Day Pass for the IndoorTheme Park, but only got to go on 3 rides! Gosh, what a waste of money! I thought we could do more rides, but with kids, it's hard to do much,really. They get tired and cranky easily, and everything just takes more time when you travel with young children. Ah well. 

One big gripe I have with the 'resort' (if you can call it that), is that it is AWFULLY unfriendly to young kids (who need strollers) and people with disabilities. There are stairs and escalators EVERYWHERE, which makes getting around a real nightmare. After the first evening, where we had to haul our 2 strollers around (thank God we had help from from hubby's colleagues), we learnt our lesson and from then on, we only took the lighter one out instead. It was a whole lot easier even though one of us had to carry one kid at any one time. 

Guess the kids need to be older to enjoy Genting a bit more....

Glow-in-the-dark bowling