Thought of taking the kids for another beach holiday. Didn't want to go to PD again. Asik asik PD kan? And so...we decided to go to Langkawi!
This trip was a 5D/4N by accident, supposed to be a 4D/3N only. Well, you'll see how it went to that later on. Anyways, we decided to drive to Kuala Kedah then take a ferry to Langkawi. It was a very very long drive from KL, about 5 hours. Spent almost half a day on the road! Roughly sampai Kuala Kedah at about 3pm, i think. Sampai kat sana, memang susah nak parking kalau memang nak yang depan-depan jeti. So what happened was the parking guy asked us to follow him on his bike to another area. According to my husband, 'the other area' was near a police station (or inside?). So, after we got that sorted, off to buy ferry tickets!
Once inside, there will be many many 'agents' either trying to get you to rent cars or sell you island hopping packages. We rented a car from one of these 'agents'. I wished i hadn't. Yea we'll get to that later. My advise, just relax. You can always rent a car when you reach Langkawi. Don't be pressured by these guys. But if you got a good deal why the heck not. So anyways, we booked a Wira from them, and they even helped us buy ferry tickets. By the way you will need to prepare RM50 deposit (refundable) for the car. Yea i didn't know that.
Ferry ride was about 1 hour to Langkawi. We got there at about 5pm. The 'agent' gave us a number to call for the car. And so i called. Lady said yea sure they got my booking. Will call back in 5. Called me back and told me, hey, they don't have the Wira at the moment so sending us another car. A Proton Saga. Really??
Anyways after some wheeling and dealing on the phone, the 'agent' says he's got another guy who will get us the car. OK. Whatever.
A dude came and asked my husband to go with him to pick up the car. We ate KFC while waiting for this 'transfer'. About 20mins he came back. It was the ugliest mofo car I have ever seen. And that was the start of our first family Langkawi trip. Hurrahh!!
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