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- the lynx
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You can try Bukit Tinggi. It has French-themed resort up there. Went there when it first opened and it was really relaxing and romantic (keyword for your missus there!).
It has been years since it was opened. I wonder if it is still as good. Closer than Genting and Cameron.
http://www.colmartropicale.com.my/
It has been years since it was opened. I wonder if it is still as good. Closer than Genting and Cameron.
http://www.colmartropicale.com.my/
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It's a lot of fun but I suspect very run down now. Try to find some a recent review on TripAdvisor etcthe lynx wrote:You can try Bukit Tinggi. It has French-themed resort up there. Went there when it first opened and it was really relaxing and romantic (keyword for your missus there!).
It has been years since it was opened. I wonder if it is still as good. Closer than Genting and Cameron.
http://www.colmartropicale.com.my/
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Wah lao, so which name is it eh?offshoreoildude wrote:It's a lot of fun but I suspect very run down now. Try to find some a recent review on TripAdvisor etcthe lynx wrote:You can try Bukit Tinggi. It has French-themed resort up there. Went there when it first opened and it was really relaxing and romantic (keyword for your missus there!).
It has been years since it was opened. I wonder if it is still as good. Closer than Genting and Cameron.
http://www.colmartropicale.com.my/
http://www.tripadvisor.com.sg/Hotel_Rev ... ahang.htmlzzm9980 wrote:Wah lao, so which name is it eh?offshoreoildude wrote:It's a lot of fun but I suspect very run down now. Try to find some a recent review on TripAdvisor etcthe lynx wrote:You can try Bukit Tinggi. It has French-themed resort up there. Went there when it first opened and it was really relaxing and romantic (keyword for your missus there!).
It has been years since it was opened. I wonder if it is still as good. Closer than Genting and Cameron.
http://www.colmartropicale.com.my/
Discount the 'whine' factor of Asian tourists who do reviews.... not a great set of reviews even so.
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OSOD! You remembered your password!
So, like a couple of others here you can have a split personality!
I'm playing with google map and looking at sites. Appreciate all the suggestions.

I'm playing with google map and looking at sites. Appreciate all the suggestions.
SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
No mate - it's worse than that. One of my devices (that I rarely use - a sony tablet) is logged in on OSOD I've discovered - and I'm loathe to logout of OSOD because of the stray PM that still comes through.sundaymorningstaple wrote:OSOD! You remembered your password!So, like a couple of others here you can have a split personality!
I'm playing with google map and looking at sites. Appreciate all the suggestions.
People - OSOD is in ISA lockup! - Cannot PM lah!
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penang was a bit too far for me. after driving there, i was too knacked to do anything! cant be asked to drive to town for a few days! was staying at the rasa sayang.
defo check out cameron highland or even pangkor island. i stayed in strawberry farm in cameron and pangkor island beach resort in pangkor island. pangkor island beach resort is absolutely brilliant. private beach in it's own bay.
defo check out cameron highland or even pangkor island. i stayed in strawberry farm in cameron and pangkor island beach resort in pangkor island. pangkor island beach resort is absolutely brilliant. private beach in it's own bay.
Ahh, thats what I meant by the name.PNGMK wrote:No mate - it's worse than that. One of my devices (that I rarely use - a sony tablet) is logged in on OSOD I've discovered - and I'm loathe to logout of OSOD because of the stray PM that still comes through.sundaymorningstaple wrote:OSOD! You remembered your password!So, like a couple of others here you can have a split personality!
I'm playing with google map and looking at sites. Appreciate all the suggestions.
People - OSOD is in ISA lockup! - Cannot PM lah!
And you would normally be the person to show up and say we shouldn't joke about such things, and ask the mods to lock the topic

Yeah, I never trust review sites without carefully scrutinizing reviews. Food sites are the worst. Yelp, or hungryGoWhere. You get a bunch of teenafger or early 20yr old girls complaining about what THEY think *insert non-local ethnic dish here* should taste like, and giving poor reviews to legit restaurants.PNGMK wrote: http://www.tripadvisor.com.sg/Hotel_Rev ... ahang.html
Discount the 'whine' factor of Asian tourists who do reviews.... not a great set of reviews even so.
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I still trust Trip Advisor nonetheless, it is very handy when I go backpacking and I don't know any other 'more' reliable sites I can rely on. And I regularly posts over there too because I believe in returning the favour for having pre-emptive information before my trips.
Majority of Trip Advisor contributors are IMHO mature travellers but it sucks when you have all reviews for one legit location done by immature + Asian + luxury-traveller-wannabes, instead of the better bunch.
Like that Colmar Tropicale review page, you will notice that only Singaporeans and Malaysians gave reviews of that place, considering that not many other foreigners know of such place. And if you're French residing in Malaysia/Singapore, the last place you wanna go for a holiday is a French-themed resort, which probably can't match the real deal in France anyway.
Majority of Trip Advisor contributors are IMHO mature travellers but it sucks when you have all reviews for one legit location done by immature + Asian + luxury-traveller-wannabes, instead of the better bunch.
Like that Colmar Tropicale review page, you will notice that only Singaporeans and Malaysians gave reviews of that place, considering that not many other foreigners know of such place. And if you're French residing in Malaysia/Singapore, the last place you wanna go for a holiday is a French-themed resort, which probably can't match the real deal in France anyway.
I agree, still use it too, but try to figure out who the reviewer is and parse their review with that detail in mind.the lynx wrote:I still trust Trip Advisor nonetheless, it is very handy when I go backpacking and I don't know any other 'more' reliable sites I can rely on. And I regularly posts over there too because I believe in returning the favour for having pre-emptive information before my trips.
Majority of Trip Advisor contributors are IMHO mature travellers but it sucks when you have all reviews for one legit location done by immature + Asian + luxury-traveller-wannabes, instead of the better bunch.
Like that Colmar Tropicale review page, you will notice that only Singaporeans and Malaysians gave reviews of that place, considering that not many other foreigners know of such place. And if you're French residing in Malaysia/Singapore, the last place you wanna go for a holiday is a French-themed resort, which probably can't match the real deal in France anyway.
Just the photos of that French place though , and the newest (atm at least) review are enough to let me know I don't want to go there.
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Yeah, It sounds like something you might want to "visit" for a couple of hours. I approached the other half last night and her first reaction to the whole thing was "What! Go up there just to get gunned down!" She's afraid of her own shadow at the best of times, so the local press hasn't helped matters at all by playing it up. (But she has no qualms about going to the US where the percentages are probably similar - I'll never understand 'em!) Maybe cause she's local. So will keep researching but do some alternate planning on a staycation instead.
I so wanted to escape the Red Dot for a while!

SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
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What about Batam/Bintan then?sundaymorningstaple wrote:Yeah, It sounds like something you might want to "visit" for a couple of hours. I approached the other half last night and her first reaction to the whole thing was "What! Go up there just to get gunned down!" She's afraid of her own shadow at the best of times, so the local press hasn't helped matters at all by playing it up. (But she has no qualms about going to the US where the percentages are probably similar - I'll never understand 'em!) Maybe cause she's local. So will keep researching but do some alternate planning on a staycation instead.I so wanted to escape the Red Dot for a while!
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