Flew into Kuala Lumpur (KL) on the funniest flight we have ever had.  We seemed to have found our way into Business Class on the flight from Singapore. The pilot informed us that the flying time to KL was 45 mins.  As soon as we boarded, the steward was offering fruit juice. We settled in and the flight attendants started bringing around the food.  We had to find our trays first, but we did locate them in our arm rests. Once we had them in place a table cloth was issued, and a tray with a bag of nuts, a Lindt chocolate ball and a small bowl of about 6 short satay sticks. Then drinks were offered, I had water.

Within about 8 mins, max, they were collecting trays behind me and as I had almost finished my meal, I was eating the peanuts, I handed over my tray and they were in such a hurry they did not take my napkin, but later retrieved them. In another 15 mins or so I heard the captain say “Cabin crew, prepare the cabin for landing”.  We just laughed.  So hilarious, we had just settled in, had a meal and here we were putting our seats upright and preparing for landing. I hadn’t even put my seat back so I could make it upright.

On the drive in from the airport, we were introduced to the fluidity of the rules in some areas of Malaysian laws.  The driver of our taxi assured us the way he drove was fine. We didn’t think so. No seat belt, continuous right indicator, 140kms per hour at times and straddling lanes, using his phone.  He seemed sober, but just a little casual in his application to his duties. We did get to the hotel though!

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We arrived in the afternoon so went straight to our lovely hotel #Double_Tree by Hilton, in Kuala Lumpur.  It is in a building with 34 floors, and 3 levels below for food and shops.  Useful shops like, a supermarket, food hall, chemist, phone shop, sports store, Massage place, beauty therapies, and gift shops. If you didn’t want to leave the place you could stay very comfortably there.  There are about 5 restaurants and a huge pool, gym, sauna and steam room.  All pretty nicely laid out and clean.

We had access to the Executive Lounge on the 34th Floor for breakfast – included – and when we needed  somewhere to hang out. As we did today while we waited for our room to be made up. Breakfast was well done with variety for Malaysian or western tastes.

We could see the famous Petronas Towers a bit from our hotel – on each landing near the lifts. We went for a walk to it and entered the very classy Suria ILCC Shopping Centre. Full of classic labels with very ‘busy’ staff filling their days with creative persuits like face gazing.