nnylanna AND piberg: Travel Blog 22: KUALA LUMPUR

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Travel Blog 22: KUALA LUMPUR

january 2014

our trip to KL was sooo "last minute". we just wanted to take our mother for a birthday trip but we were not sure if she will go along with our plan. we told her that our brother already booked our flight to Bangkok as a birthday present just to see if she will agree. when there was no violent reaction from mother dear, we thought "hey, this plan could actually roll". so, we immediately went online to do our flight and hotel booking 2-3 days before our intended departure *Orz. but before we could do that, some "major major" glitch... THIS(video below)WAS HAPPENING IN BANGKOK at that time... *cto of the video

who would want to be in the middle of that chaos, certainly not our mother! so we made up some excuse that "oh, we were mistaken, we're not going to Bangkok but we're going to Malaysia, in Kuala Lumpur!" hehehe...
so, Mandarin Oriental KL sent a really sosy car to pick us up at the airport *the airport is quite far from the city center* and a wheelchair was waiting for us near the entrance of the hotel but our mother doesn't want to have anything to do with a wheelchair *a senior citizen in denial Orz*

i must say that Mandarin Oriental KL did a fabulous job in hosting us for 3 days. we were escorted by a guest relations officer as soon as we got out of the car and i was pleasantly surprised that our check-in was done in the privacy of our hotel room! that's a first for me!

so, when the guest relations officer found out that the only reason why we are in KL is to celebrate mother's birthday, she invited us to come up to their private club for some snacks *which turned out to be a buffet style*. we said we dont' think we can make it 'coz we are expecting guests *our cousin and his girfriend*, she said to bring them along. really sweet of them, i mean, really!