GENTING HIGHLAND indoor arcade

My 1st Kuala Lumpur Trip 21st to 29th November 2006
Bahasa Malaysia write up by Wong Chun Xing English reference guide by the father

Today we will start out exciting journey to Genting Highland. AirAsia has a Van service for passengers going to Genting Highland directly from LCCT or from KL Sentral.

For those who goes directly from LCC terminal to Genting, just check out at the AirAsia counter.

The road to the top is actually a 4-lane highway winding to the misty mountain of Genting Highlands Resort. Clean air and lush greenery of The City of Entertainment greeted us at the top. In this city were casino , golf courses, outdoor and indoor theme parks, restaurants, and malls.

Genting Highlands is 55 kilometers from Kuala Lumpur. We took the express bus (not the above sky van) from KL Sentral up to SkyWay of Genting at the middle of mountain and from there by SkyWay to the Genting Resort on top of the mountain.

On the way we pass through PEACE HEAVEN

This PEACE HEAVEN remind me of BCCM Resort in Keningau where the Baha'i has a couple of camps there.

It will be nice if a Baha'i Youth Camp could be held in the PEACE HEAVEN

Bus from KL Sentral up to SkyWay Station only

Get the ticken from 2nd floor of KL Sentral. Bus boarding is at ground floor. (same platform with SkyBus to LCCT)

Adult Rm: 7.30

Child Rm: 5.70

Started	(times rounded up to nearest 10 minutes)	Arrived
3:00 PM KL Sentral	3 PM the bus leave Kuala Lumpur Sentral station and arrived Skyway station at 4PM	4:00 PM
4:00 PM	Arrived at Skyway ststion. About 15 minutes for walking and queuing from bus stop to the cable car entrance. Long queue due to holiday season
4:15 PM	4:15 PM Cable car leave station up the hill to Genting Highland and arrived around 4:30 PM	4:30 PM
4:30 PM	4:30 PM After reaching Genting mountain top, several times we have to ask for direction to First World Hotel. It such a huge place with many people. By the time we found the check-in counter of First World Hotel, it was about 5:00 PM	5:00 PM Check-in counter

Skyway - South East Asia's Longest Cable Car System : Hassle-free ride on the Genting Skyway up to Genting Highland. Moving at a maximum speed of 21.6km per hour above tree tops of tropical jungle with fantastic view of breathtaking mountain scenery.

Along the way are animatronics (animation of sculptured animals and 'orang asli'). It's a relaxing and fun experience that sharpens your senses.

It was an amazing ride high in the air. Your whole surroundings is covered entirely by mist and pure air and mystical fog hangs over the hills.

55km (about an hour) of scenic drive from the bustling metropolis of Kuala Lumpur is Genting Highlands Resort - City of Entertainment. Situated at 6,000 feet above sea level, Genting has everything to offer including natural cool mountain air and 24 hours of non-stop entertainment catering for the many diverse cultures and visitors from all over the world. Genting also has the distinction of having Genting Skyway - “the longest cable car in Southeast Asia”.

From Cable Car station it took us 45 minutes walk from the station to First World Hotel where we had a reservation of 2 nights.

A modern integrated family entertainment resort, Genting features six hotels with 9,000 hotel rooms, over 90 foods outlets, a shopping paradise of over 80 stores, indoor and outdoor theme parks with more than 60 fun rides, and over 10 leisure and entertainment venues.

A fantasyland full of fun and adventure with super-exciting video arcade games amidst a futuristic atmosphere. A multi million ringgit playground with 40 rides, making it Malaysia's biggest theme park.
Outdoor Theme Park
The cool mountain air makes it an exhilarating experience to enjoy the many rides at the Outdoor Theme Park. Whether taking leisure drives in the Antique car or experiencing the adrenaline pumping Space Shot, it's a magical adventure of fun and excitement for the whole family!

First World Theme Park
Exciting suspended rides, gondola ride with sweet strains of a serenade in the air, & for European carnival-like atmosphere make your way to carousel and Ferris Wheel.

One month before I booked hotel accomodation in Genting online through Genting's web site. I took the Executive room which is bigger then the standard room which most people complained being too small.
The Room rate is Rm 158.88 per night with two single beds. We were in the highest floor.

We spend half an hour to walk from the dropping point of SkyWay to First World Hotel. We asked the friendly and helpful staff around for direction. I first came to Genting Highland in 1981. At that time this place was not a City of Entertainment yet. It was a gambling resort then. Today we were totally lost inside the building mazes.

We asked for direction from the security guides and shop employees, and they were all helpful, fortunately. Genting Highland employs 10,000 over people.

Magic Show is at 9:00 pm we has plenty of time to look around the indoor arcade and indoor theme park. There are plenty of food outlet and snack kiosks but prices are three times the normal price.

The indoor arcade is called Fantasy World and has rides, simulations and games.

We walked around the indoor. There is a restaurant with long tubes of spice on the walls. We saw the Eiffel Tower. And there is the statue of liberty riding a motobike. In the middle of the arcade is a larger-than-life Oscars statue.

9:00 PM Magic Show - MYSTERIA - Thousands of years ago in Ancient Egypt,

a brave slave girl speaks out against the cruelty of her captors and she is chased across the desert. She is saved by a Magician and his traveling band of companions, acrobats, a crossbow act, dancers and two beautiful tigers ................ She soon falls in love with the Magician, only to be rejected. Heartbroken, she runs away................

We enjoy this Mysteria show. The show was about dance, acrobatics and magic stunts when the magician locked a beautiful girl into the cage and came out as an equally beautiful real tiger.

No photography is allowed inside the Pavilion.

Our ticket for this show is included in our Genting 3D/2N online package. Presented in the show are big group of Indian tourist (about 200) who travel on group. Many travel the Cruises package. This is the first time I saw that many Indian tourists in Malaysia.

No private photography is allowed during the show, however audient has the opportunity of having a group photo with the performers and dancers after the show by official photographer for Rm20.00

Another exciting part was an acrobatic stunt by the kids.

The ancient Egypt King and Queen watch on their high throne over the performance of the slaves. The first kid comes in with a chair and stands upside down on top of the chair, second kid comes, and places her chair on the previous kid’s chair, and stands upside-down on top of the second chair, and so on.............. until there was a chain of 8 chairs one on each other upward.

Genting Theme Parks Guide

This Guide is available at major entrance at Genting Resort for FREE.

Get a copy upon arrival. If you do not see one around, ask one from your hotel counter staff.

My digital camera memory full - Where to find a photo shop to transfer digital photos to a CD

In the Indoor Theme Park of First World Plaza, go to level 2. there is a small kiosk name QUICK FOTO the attendants burn CD for Rm15.00 each. Here you can buy films, print photos. QUICK FOTO is the official photographer for the Magic Show. The kiosk is outsite the show Pavilion.