onwards to KL

~Sun 3-4-11 Got up at 5.30am, said goodbye to a very tearful Dawn. who in turn made me cry. Drive to airport was effortless with little or no traffic. Took car back to hertz and made way into airport Ken had already checked in on line so just a bag drop and leave Melbourne at 10am. Arrived in KL at 8.30pm and took shuttle bus to Concorde Hotel for an overnight stay.l Got up early again and it was raining stair rods, went to breakfast at 6am and took taxi at 7am to budget airport for a 45 min flight to Penang, an hours taxi drive and we arrived at lone Pine Resort. Room is lovely but we are overlooking the kitchen and car park Ken not too happy but then the lad drops the bombshell that the pool will be out of bounds for at least three days, and it was quite noisy work they were doing. As we are only here for three days I thought Ken was going to explode. You have to be careful with these people they do not like angry people so I had to leave Ken to deal with it. He asked to see the Manager which he duly did, he was full of apologies and said he would move us but could do nothing about the pool except let us use the neighbouring hotels pool, not good enough says Ken, this is a special break for our 40th Wedding anniversary and it has cost a lot of money to stay here, it is expensive for Malaysian hotels. Well we checked out two rooms and they were crap, not revamped like the rest of the place and they smelt fusty, even with a sea view I could not be tempted. So we went back to room and waited and waited until we were taken to suite, three floors up and it was fantastic, tried not to look too enthusiatic but I wanted those rooms, hehe. We have sea view, swimming pool view, garden view, the lot, and we have a kitchen, complete with microwave (not that we will be using that), fancy coffee machine, dining area, and lounge area, large bedroom, two teles, lovely bathroom and shower, two balconies, one with outside spa bath, this will do for me Jimmy,. Anyway a little while later we have a chocolate cake delivered to our room with Happy 40th anniversary iced on it, tastes yummy too. Later on the manager caught up with us in the garden and told us some fruit was being delivered to our room, the staff keep wishing us Happy Anniversary and the Manager tonight asked me if I was happy with everything and guess what from 7am in the morning the pool will be reopened, they have worked their little socks off this afternoon, working long after the 5pm deadline, bless em. So tomorrow should be a lot quieter. Had our food at the food court outside the hotel, lovely grub, then did a stroll along the night market, someone got knocked over and they waited half an hour for an ambulance he did not look good.