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 Traveller's Tales: Getting around in Pahang, Malaysia
Know the most popular landmarks in Pahang, Malaysia. You may read about best transportation, recommended travel itinerary, suggested routes and directions. Also, you might want to read our
Kuala Lumpur city guide,
Langkawi city guide,
Melaka city guide,
and Penang city guide.
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| R Rahim |
20 September 2005 |
Stayed at Swiss Garden Resort & Spa, Kuantan - Pahang, Malaysia.
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Kuantan is a nice place to visit for a short holiday in east malaysia. They have nice beaches like Teluk chempedak for instance, where Hyatt Kuantan hotel is located. If you are staying at Swiss Garden, the beach infront of the hotel is not too bad either but the waves are rather strong for swimming. The Cherating Beach is another option. Salted fish, crispy cuttlefish (or sotong in malay), fish crackers and many other dried seafood are sold in abundance in the town of kuantan. Have a cup of coffee at Starbucks after shopping at the Megamall, one of the better shopping centres. Best to travel on foot around town and you get to see plenty of small shops selling batik design clothes at reasonable prices. Don't forget to bargain. If you are looking for cheap toiletries,clothing, shoes or slippers, try the Maideen store. Cheap but not necessarily good. Located near the stadium and within walking distance to Kuantan Parade, another shopping centre.Not too far from the stadium, at the Terminal Makmur, you could also catch coaches to various part of malaysia like Kota Baharu, Jerantut, Kuala Lumpur or even to Singapore. It only cost RM22.50 to Singapore On Transnasional. Daily at 2230hrs or 2300hrs and you arrive at Lavender Street (Singapore) at 0500hrs. For me Kuantan is best remembered for its beautiful beaches, hospitable people and great seafood.
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| F Corbett |
20 March 2005 |
Stayed at Swiss Garden Resort & Spa, Kuantan - Pahang, Malaysia.
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We used the hotel as a staging post on our journey from Singapore to Redang Island. We travelled by car and left Singapore in the morning and arrived mid afternoon,stayed overnight and continued our journey to Merang ferry point (NB This is approx 4 hours from the hotel, NOT to be confused with Marang which is only 2 hours 45 minutes from the hotel. Not a mistake you wish to make when you are travelling to catch a ferry.
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| R Kisseleff |
30 April 2004 |
Stayed at Swiss Garden Resort & Spa, Kuantan - Pahang, Malaysia.
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For visits in Kuantan (10km) you can take the public bus less than 200m from main gate. Transport from hotel desk is overpriced.
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| P Blessing |
24 February 2004 |
Stayed at Berjaya Tioman Beach, Golf & Spa Resort - Pahang, Malaysia.
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When staying in Singapore, Tioman island is a great place to visit for a few days. Normally this resort offers a special 3 days/2 nights package which is enough time to recover from the hectic life in Singapore. Berjaya Air (40min) can be recommended as travel option, though ferries are going as well. It takes 4 hours though, and price is almost the same.
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| S Vohra |
26 October 2003 |
Stayed at Berjaya Tioman Beach, Golf & Spa Resort - Pahang, Malaysia.
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Tioman is a Very nice beach, waters are very clean and the resort excellent for families. Worth visiting once at least. Getting there can be a bit of a drag,the drive from Singapore took 5 hours because of heavy Friday public holiday traffic and the ferries never leave on time, so budget at least 6 hours.
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| T Durairajoo |
03 February 2003 |
Stayed at Swiss Garden Resort & Spa, Kuantan - Pahang, Malaysia.
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We only travel on the first day of our stay in Kuantan. We visited a cave where there is a lying Budda, then we visited a waterfall.
There are quite a number of restaurants around the hotel. We went to 2 seafood restaurants, the food were simply good and cheap too. We hired a cab to travel to & fr the hotel. It's quite expensive if you book taxi fr the hotel, it's better book a cab on your own.
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| C Ashley |
13 July 2002 |
Stayed at Swiss Garden Resort & Spa, Kuantan - Pahang, Malaysia.
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The hotel is located about 8 km from Kuantan. We caught a taxi from the main bus terminal for 15 RM, although we were offered 10 RM and thought it too high (and were too embarrased to return to the same driver). From the hotel we used the hotel's van service to get to Cherating and stayed at the Tanjung Inn. The van driver was anxious to steer us towards the Residence Inn and when we refused he was rude. We paid 30RM for the ride but this probably could be cheaper with an outside taxi.
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| D Lek |
09 June 2002 |
Stayed at Swiss Garden Resort & Spa, Kuantan - Pahang, Malaysia.
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My friends call my trips to Cherating/Kuantan an "annual pilgrimage". Yes, I love the East Coast of Malaysia! The road up is alot better than the old days. Just takes about 5 hours of leisure and non-stressful drive. Normally stop by Mersing for lunch. The beach at Mini Cherating is good for children. No matter how far you walk the water is always up to your waist or lower. The mature trees provide shade while they build sand castles and there's a wide expanse of land to just run wild or fly kites. Horse riding is available but I feel there's no proper care and appreciation for them.
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| B Tan |
06 June 2002 |
Stayed at Swiss Garden Resort & Spa, Kuantan - Pahang, Malaysia.
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The best thing to do is to go to the Tourist Information Centre for your first stop before you even go to the resort. The resort is quite close to town so going there isn't a problem. Kuantan isn't so big so getting around is quite convenient. Berjaya Megamall is still the best place to shop. Kuantan Parade and Kuantan Plaza aren't really that great. I would like to recommend Golden Lucky Seafood Restuarant as a very good and inexpensive place for dining. It's a corner coffee shop along Jalan Beserah just after a Shell petrol kiosk if you're coming back from town (Just before Jalan Air Puteh.) We paid about RM70 for a dinner for 2 adults and 3 kids. 5 dishes (including crabs) and drinks! I'll be putting more information on the web later. E-mail me if you would like the URL.
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| W Jayne tonks |
28 April 2002 |
Stayed at Swiss Garden Resort & Spa, Kuantan - Pahang, Malaysia.
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I drove to Kuantan from Taman Negara and then left the Swis Garden Resort to trvel first up to Cherating and stayed there and then drove down ther East coast. I found this no better or worse than driving anywhere in malyasia. Most key roads seem to be one long construction site simultaneously.
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