First World Hotel - Genting Resort - Genting Highlands

First World Hotel is the third largest hotel in the world by rooms. It comprises Tower 1 and Tower 2, each with 28 floors, and has a grand total of 6,118 rooms. It is one of the five hotels located in Genting Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia, along with Genting Hotel, Theme Park Hotel, Highlands Hotel and Resort Hotel. It was the largest hotel in the world until The Palazzo, an expansion of The Venetian in Las Vegas was opened in January 2008.

Strikingly colourful First World Hotel in Genting Highlands Resort

First World Hotel

Huge and spacious lobby at First World Hotel - designed as a Spanish courtyard

Beautiful Spanish inspired lobby

Lobby

Need a drink whilst you wait for your room? Starbucks is just around the corner

Back of a clown in the lobby of First World Hotel

Entertainment while you wait for your rooms

A lush, grand tropical rainforest greets guests at the main entrance of the First World Hotel.

Superior room in First World Genting Hotel

All hotel rooms are equipped with fans to complement the cool crisp mountain air and to maintain a comfortable temperature.

First World Hotel adjoins the shopping and entertainment complex, First World Plaza, which boasts 500,000 sq feet of indoor theme park, shopping centre and food establishments.

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Genting Malaysia, KL & Malacca 4th July – 7th July 2010 Day 2

Theme Park Hotel, Genting Highlands Resort

This morning we met our friends at their Genting Highlands Resort accommodation, Theme Park Hotel, at 1100hrs. They were still asleep when we got there, so we went up to their room to wait for them. It was a nice and spacious room with one queen bed and one single bed which they managed to book at the last minute.

Nice art around the room in Theme Park Hotel

Very spacious room

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 The weather was a little warm especially with the sun shining forth making it a warm 25 degrees C. We proceeded to D’Ark Resort in Janda Baik. It was a beautiful place with the main building built in the 1960s. It was only ten years back when the place was opened to public and more accommodation units were built. We loved the gardens and the so-called bungalows that they have.


Here are some pictures of the various D’Ark Resort. Puan Aida who entertained us was very friendly and approachable and we managed to get a tentative quote on the spot.

Rustic looking chalets

Lobby

Well-furnished guest room

Flowing river to enjoy

Click on D'Ark Training & Resort for more pictures and description.

Next we went to the Malay stall opposite D’Ark Resort to have lunch. However, it seemed that we were not fated to have any meals there as they had run out of rice and at 1430 hrs, we were all too hungry to wait half an hour for the rice to cook.

No opportunity to try the food here

Thus, we made our way to Selesa Hill Homes and Resort where we hoped to see some food outlets along the way. However, we seemed to have gone on a roundabout way and by the time we reached Genting Sempah, it was almost 1500 hrs.

We stopped by Zheng Ji coffee shop and had the wonton noodles which cost RM3.50 each.

Noodles at Zheng Ji Restaurant

We then made our way to Selesa Hill Homes and Resort, located in the gentle hills of Bukit Tinggi, Pahang Darul Makmur, which was just 5 minutes away to check out the venue. Here we had Encik Khalid, the Manager on Duty to bring us on a tour of the grounds.

Selesa Hills Homes and Resort

Reception block

Guest room

Set amidst lush greenery

Place to relax, away from the hectic city life

Plantations

After checking out the venue, we made our way to Bukit Tinggi as we thought of bringing our friends to take a look at Colmar Tropicale, the French themed resort. However, as we approached the area, we had to pay a fee of RM12 (USD3.87) per person in order to go up to Colmar Tropicale. We decided to turn around and made our way back up to Genting Highlands where we stopped by Chin Swee Temple along the way.

Chin Swee Cave Temple is a Taoist temple located in Genting Highlands. If you are heading for Genting Highlands Resort, you will pass by Chin Swee Temple on your way up.

Pagoda at Chin Swee Cave Temple

Modern day Emperor & Empress

The weather was turning cool as the sun had set and the clouds were coming in. It was a beautiful evening as we enjoyed the scenery of the Pahang mountain range.

Genting Highlands Resort covered in clouds

Pahang mountain range covered in clouds

Clear view of Genting Highlands Resort

Upon completing our visit to Chin Swee Temple which was built by Datuk Lim Goh Tong, we made up way up to Genting Highlands and headed to First World Plaza where we did some shopping before stopping at the Hot Pot Restaurant where we had the steamboat cum BBQ dinner for RM26++ per person.

You could choose either the chicken soup or the tom yam (spicy) soup. There was a variety of food from which you could choose and you had a choice to either cook it in the soup or barbeque the meats. It was a good and full meal where you can also have some delicious soup to accompany your dinner.

Range of food to choose from

Sample of food available

Steamboat cum bbq

Next was more shopping in First World Plaza before we stopped by in Starbucks for a cup of drink. There was online access and this allowed us to get on the internet to reply to some of our emails.

First World Plaza

Care for a gondola ride?

First World Plaza

By the time we parted company, it was already almost 0100 hrs. We made our way to our room to place our bags there before heading to the casino to spend a few hours on the jackpot machines before retiring to bed.

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Genting Malaysia, KL & Malacca 4th July – 7th July 2010

Making the journey up to Genting Highlands at 1850 hrs from Orchid Country Club where we were attending a seminar by Patric Chan, an internet marketer. We had originally wanted to leave in the morning, but due to the seminar being held on this day, we decided to leave in the afternoon. However as Patric Chan was giving so much important information, we could not bear to leave till it was after 1830 hrs when we had no choice but to leave, as it would be after midnight before we arrived at our destination.

Making our way to the second link at Tuas checkpoint, we managed to clear both the custom and immigration at both Singapore and Malaysia by 1840 hrs. Thus began our drive to Genting Highlands Resort in Malaysia.

R&R at Machap

We stopped by Machap R&R at approximately 2000 hrs to have dinner. This was the first time we stopped by Machap and we were pleasantly surprised to find the public restrooms very clean and dry.

Going up the escalator, we ate at the air-conditioned food court and ordered roti canai telur (Indian flatbread with egg) as well as dried bee hoon (Malay style noodles) and rice with chicken and curry. The roti canai telur was good and at RM1.50 (USD0.48), it was very good value for money. The rice with the dishes was extremely good, especially the lamb curry.

Dried bee hoon

Rice with chicken and lamb curry

Roti canai telur

Entrance to the food court

After dinner, we adjourned to Baskin Robbins for ice cream dessert. That was a good way to end off our meal. We continued our drive to Genting, Malaysia.

In Baskin Robbins

Yummy yummy ice cream treat

Fortunately the weather up in Genting Highlands, 2000 metres above sea level, was nice and clear, without any mist and fog, thus making our way up to Genting Malaysia a nice and easy drive.

Theme Park Hotel, Genting Resort, Lobby

Theme Park Hotel Reception

Our friends stayed in Theme Park Hotel where you can get a deluxe room for USD71. By the time we dropped them off at their hotel, it was already after 0100 hrs. Next we drove to First World Hotel where we checked into our room and made our way to the casino to spend some time before retiring for the night.

First World Hotel, another Genting Highlands Resort Hotel

First World Hotel deluxe room

First World Genting Hotel Reception

It was our good fortune to enjoy a smooth journey all the way up to Genting Highlands Resort where we were greeted with lovely cool weather. A great weekend getaway!



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