Friday, 20 March 2009

Hospitality Part 2

Tiara Beach Resort
After the KL visits, we headed to Port Dickson to visit some resorts and hotels. We first visited Tiara Beach Resort. Regular family resort, nothing unusual. It has a apartment type of accommodation with two huge swimming pools resembling sunway lagoon's pools. Picture shows the pool as backdrop.

Palm Spring Beach Resort

Next visit we went to Palm Beach Springs Resort. Hard to identify what architectural type they had..there were a variety of 'shalets' but being the Malaysian we are, they were all poorly maintained and they had a very nice 'river' running through the middle of the resort but they built a artifical retaining wall and it spoilt the ambience of the space. If they had instead made a soft slope towards the river bank it would've been nice, you'll get a sort of 'Canadian river' feel. In the picture you can see the shalets in the background. 

Ancasa Apartment Hotel

Next stop we went to Ancasa. It's a hotel apartment facing the sea and so, there was a strong updraft that consistenly blew at us...nice...haha... The landscape was replicated to follow Bali style with ijok lanterns i think and having small wakafs for massages and relaxation. The landscape was quite big and was well maintained. Keeping it in order definitely made it look nice.

Corus Hotel

After that we went to Corus Hotel. GUESS WHO I SAW!!! Read on...XD At Corus Hotel we have to enter going downwards into this huge volume of space that has water elements all over. Very nice. It directs you to a sea view as well as the swimming pool. So we were walking around then i noticed that there were a lot of people wearing the same coloured shirts. Then i noticed some of them wore Revolution shirts. Then i saw some wearing Acts Church shirts. THEN GUESS WHO I SAW!! haha...none other than Ps. Kenneth Chin himself. Seemed that the young adults of his church were having a camp there. Saw Revo videos on youtube. Can feel the excitement though i'm here in KL..waahahahah...Great job pastor, keep it up~



Our final visit was at Aviallon Resort. Very shangri-la-ish. Usage of timber made it seem to fit in  our local context. Very upclass so we couldnt take photos XP ...haha...the place resembles tanjung aru shangri-la resort, has the whole shalet thing, nice lobby with changing levels at the end to direct guests to rooms or restaurant (i presume).

coming up
Part 3: Pearl Island

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