
There is a huge covered market on Petaling Street. This is where the big night market is. You want a cheap watch? They have good prices, my friend!
Fortunately, another hotel that was mentioned in the guidebook as being for "business travelers" was right next door, the Katari Hotel. Ian went to check it out – it was American motel style, and exactly what we were looking for. For twice the price, we were able to get a private bathroom with oodles of hot water, great sound insulation from the road, and clean clean clean. We would recommend this hotel very highly. Great location, too. The 80 ringgit ($20) price was a promotion, but we would have been happy to spend twice that amount for the difference in comfort level.
Unfortunately, we spent most of our day in the room, still recovering from our little visit to the Perhentian Islands. The private bathroom turned out to be our most visited (and memorable) sight in KL. We did make it out to check out a few temples, and some shopping. We would highly recommend the Peter Hoe boutique just a few minutes away from the central market – very good prices, high quality crafts, and nice environment. It might not be as cheap as elsewhere, but it’s much more relaxed and no haggling. They also have a larger location just a few minutes away.

We went shopping in the Central Market, a huge multi-level bazaar. We bought a wild looking traditional kite.
The next sight we saw, unfortunately, was the private hospital next to our hotel, where they seemed just a little too keen to admit Wendy for the night. After determining that it wasn’t anything more exotic then just pretty bad food poisoning, we just waited it out at the hotel.
Before our flight out of Kuala Lumpur, we checked out the Must See sight – the Petronas Towers. We got there early (8:30am), as the free tickets up to the skybridge are given out quickly for the whole day. Our allocated time slot was at 10am. We got to spend about 20 minutes up on the bridge between the two towers. The view isn’t that spectacular, and is only about half way up. I guess it’s a must-do just because everyone now associates the Petronas towers with KL, but it really isn’t that special. Apparently, the telecom tower offers a more impressive view.
ya, the skybridge isn’t much really. the view fr KL tower is better.
if you can find yr way to Lookout Point Restaurant, the view at night is even nice too! http://www.flsam.blogspot.com/2007/08/look-out-point-rest.html
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Wendy replied on September 19th, 2009 3:03 pm:
Thanks for the tip! Hopefully next time we’re in KL we’ll have better luck!
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