Just back from my scuba diving trip at Lang tengah island (island between perhentian and redang) and had a horrid time. Traces of how stingy the resort is can be seen in the way operations are run.
1) Food served was substandard. First time I felt I need to fight for food at resort, else there would be nothing left. Though they say they can cook for u, but then its limited. Dishes served are mainly carbo based stuff.. with some miserable vegetables. weird looking fried sausages that look shrivelled up, fish was served at one of the meals but it was just the tails and heads.. even the bbq dinner was not really bbq dinner. Only sting ray was bbqed. and the rest are all fried stuff..
I think NS men have it better than me, at least their food is catered and of definite better quality!@#)@!
2) Noisy people. The resort was packed full. Some canton beng and hokkien beng were around. The most noisy of the lot was a guy we nicknamed Mr Pink because of his love for pink/red/purple t shirts. He was noisy in the boat (on our way to the island, he was the lone noise maker, and the rest of us were trying to sleep!) , noisy in the water (we saw him shouting when he was snorkelling near the resort), basically NOISY. (majority of the people were from insurance group was from penangwho won the incentive trip there. If i were the agents, I wouldnt meet my target on purpose)
3) We wanted late check out and that was the criteria we had when we first booked the resort. They said ok ok, but when we were on the island, they said have to see the wind condition, etc. They actually were thinking of putting us on the small speedboat back to mainland (and not a bigger boat). They asked if we wanted late check out, do we want lunch? and lunch cost 15RM! no thanks.. not for the crap lunch. In the end, the weather was rainy, and we had no choice but to check out early. It was fine.. There was not enough space on the boat and we stood the whole ferry journey holding on for dear life as the boat went thru the sea in the rainy weather) . ANother huge mistake on the resort's part : Over promise! Under deliver.
The irony of the whole trip was we had a very good time in trengganu. Checked into a backpacker inn while waiting for our 7pm coach ride back to singapore. The inn was v clean. 20RM for a bed and locker for half a day, with free internet access, plus there was cable TV. what more could i asked for ? Plus it was clean and there was air conditioning.
Lesson learnt? I will choose to go with my dive school, Mako, next time. The places they go to , or recommend are usually quite good. This trip just make me feel like diving even more!
Monday, August 13, 2007
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