Life of a simpleton: Travelogue 2: Genting Highlands!

The famous pit stop for KL people!

Everyone will know this place in Malaysia. This is a hill top complex which is build from scratch by Uncle Lim himself. It is not far away from the city. A lot of the locals would go up and enjoy the breeze and have some coffee and chit chat with friends. And for tourists, please do come visit it is simply magnificent.

Here a picture of it. And I am not gonna do a standard travelogue because everyone has been here at least once in their lifetime. So I am gonna tell you something different, at least I think it is different :P

Tips about Genting Highlands:

If youre above 21, you dont have to waste money and buy water from all the outlets. They are priced ridiculously. Just have a walk into the casino and they will have vending machines with water for everyone. If youre lucky, sometimes you might get coffee and tea.
Get the Genting Rewards card, they have this system that randomly chooses people. And TADAAA you get a free room for one night.
There is a Nike Factory Outlet which rotates their shoe model once in a while. The merchandise there are all cheaper than usual as that is one of their factory outlet.
The Bakery is a shop right infront of the main building. Shown in picture above. It offers buy 1 free 1 when its late. Maybe after 12? Go have some salmon bagel or something like that its nice!
There are 2 starbucks there. If you want a greater view, go to the one near Maxim Hotel.
There is a place named Bubbles and Bites. Usual restaurant for me. It is super nice! The Carbonara Pizza and Carbonara Pasta is superb. And the Mac and Cheese. Their Pizza is like Naan. I always say that "These went abroad for some education huh?"
Platinum Card holder has free valet service too!!! Dont miss out and park the car yourself if you have it!
It has very very nice architecture design. Example: First World. It is designed to be like the US. If you get to go into the casino. Look at the design it is so nice! With all the details, I feel the efforts are all wasted as people never really looked at it and appreciate that work.
Buy all your snack from Gohtong Jaya which is half way up the hill!!! Obviously this happens if youre already on the way up. If not, buy from KL. Its pricey up there.
Try their herbal egg. Almost all the herbal eggs are nice. With the cold weather, hot eggs just-----ahhhhhhhhh!!!
If youre in Gohtong Jaya for a meal, try the eggplant fried with dried shrimp. My personal favourite! Taste like fries but smells alot better.

Funny things I heard about Genting:

Uncle Lim really hired professional Feng Shui Master to design the place. You see the roof up in the picture. Does it look like a eagles claw? It is said to claw on to the customer like a sign of "I got a hold of you" "You cant escape"
After you reach the lobby, you could see the walls are decorated with 2 sharp letter opener like shape. It is said to be shaped sharp so it would make people bleed! In this case, bleeding chips!
Then, it is the constant renovating that Genting have. Have you once been in Genting and not part of it is being renovated? Hahaha cause renovation in chinese is 装修 . In cantonese it sounds like 庄收. Which has the meaning of banker keep in direct translation. Which makes the Genting group "keep" more winnings.
Then, there is this floor that is "missing" from Genting. It was said to have paranormal activity in there. And it was for staff only. There was a documentary in chinese. A team went and look for it and found it through a tour guide. The tour guide gave them the key, 1 guy from the team spent a night there with cameras on in it. The rooms was weird to start with no windows just 4 walls. Then the guy who spent the night there got really uncomfortable as he felt something was there and left the room ASAP. He was ok but the camera caught the chair moving.

Genting is building a new outdoor theme park. Which I am expecting alot from it. It is based from the 21st Century Fox studio. And they have build a cable car which directly reach there. How cool is it?!

They say it can probably Universal Studios Singapore, I am holding back abit because higher expectation higher the fall right :P

Here are some pictures: Simply Magnificent!