{Team Somerville Travel} KL Day 2

We woke to miserable weather this morning and it continued all day!

The best thing to do with kids in KL when it's raining ... shopping! (oh yes, and a visit to the aquarium - but more on that later).

Sadly our planned visit to the KL Bird Park was abandoned due to the bad weather, so after a leisurely breakfast we hit the shops ... again!

Before we left the hotel we checked out the infamous Sky Bar on level 33 - an indoor/outdoor pool area that turns into one of KL's funkiest bars in the evening i.e. kids, casual dress and flip flops are discouraged after 7pm!
 

SkyBar pool and cabanas

 

SkyBar view



Mackenzie and Georgia - Traders Hotel SkyBar

In wet weather Traders Hotel is the perfect base to reach the Twin Towers shopping mall. There is an underground walkway linking the KL Convention Centre (next to the hotel) to the Suria Shopping Cenre at the base of the Towers.

The shopping highlight for Georgia and Mackenzie was the visit to Toys R Us in the basement and the Video Ezy store selling dvds (i.e. "real" ones!) for $8 each. They stocked up on Dibo the Gift Dragon, Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears!


Suria Shopping Centre - at the base of the Petronas Twin Towers

Back into the KLCC tunnel, Rob and the girls stopped at the Aquarium while I went back to the hotel for some "quiet time!"

Unfortunately I don't have photos of the Aquarium to post as Rob says it was too dark inside (hmmm, I think it was the photographer's fault!), but the girls had fun in the underwater aquarium tunnel.

At 35 MYR for kids over 3 years and 45 MYR for adults (i.e. around $40 for an adult and 2 kids), it was a relatively inexpensive way to entertain Georgia and Mackenzie for a couple of hours!

This evening we weren't organised enough to arrange a hotel babysitter in time (for future reference Traders Hotel charges 50MYR per hour for a minimum of 3 hours) so we bravely dragged the girls to the fine dining restaurant on level 6 of the hotel.

Gobo Upstairs - Lounge & Grill serves up imported steaks and sides, at pretty reasonable prices. It is also the choice of venue for many loved up couples, so we took a risk taking our room-service fed, tired toddlers there to watch us eat dinner!

Thankfully we had a window spot, so we settled the girls on the floor (hidden from view under the table!) with dessert and the laptop so they could watch Strawberry Shortcake while we ate in peace!

Rob - Gobo Upstairs



Me at Gobo Upstairs




















As I post, it is almost 10pm, the weather is still crap and Rob is out at the shops buying Georgia and Mackenzie's birthday presents at Toys R Us.

Tomorrow we're flying to Langkawi for a 7 night stay at a resort on the beach. We're keeping our fingers crossed for sunny weather!