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 Traveller's Tales: Advise for travellers in Langkawi, Malaysia
Heed our handy tips on safe travel in Langkawi, Malaysia. You may read about travel warnings, health, what to wear, travel with kids, travel with pets, local weather, local government, medical information and traffic information in the area.Also, you might want to read our
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Langkawi city guide,
Melaka city guide,
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| V Parameshwaran |
21 June 2003 |
Stayed at Beach Garden Resort - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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Best to visit Langkawi by car. You get to rent a car for 60 ringgit a day(automatic). Nothing much to see around. Tanjong Rhu is the best beach. Cable car is worth taking. Gunung Raya was nothing great. There are better hills, especially for those coming from India, this place is nothing in comparison to the hill stations of India.
There is an indian restaurant called Popadums. Please do not go there. Very high price and they serve stale food. I complained to the staff but they didn't bother. Please do not go to this restaurant.
Black sand beach was a disappointment. Nothing there really. Basically Langkawi is a place to relax, not much sight seeing here.
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| C Lidstrom |
09 March 2003 |
Stayed at Langkawi Village Resort - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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The island of Langkawi unfortunately did not give us a very good impression. There was a lot of rubbish thrown out everywhere along the streets. People just didn't seem to care about their environment. This made me sad, because the island really was beautiful, but all the rubbish made it look ugly.
Anyway, if you want to buy some electronic equpiment, this is a good place to do it. Go to Khua Town and visit all of the shops in the central parts, they have a lot of nice handicraft shops too.
Some good restaurants I would like to recommend are T'Jays (Italian), they had the best pizza I have ever tasted, and The Eagle's nest with exceptionally good steaks. Both of them are at Pantai Tengha and Pantai Cenang. They also had a lot of good Malaysian and Indian food along those two beaches (roads).
We also went to the northern part of the island, to Jang Rhua beach, because we had heard the water was supposed to be much more cleaner there. It wasn't. Sometimes it was so dirty it was impossible to see your own hand under the water surface. But the beach was much cleaner than Pantai Thenga and Pantai Cenang. From here we took a boat trip to see the Mangrove area and the eagle feeding area. We also had a look inside some caves and saw bats hanging upside down, sleeping. At the end of the day we were dropped off at a private island beach for an hour or two. Sadly this small island was as full of rubbish as Langkawi was and the water was the same.
We heard that the only place where everything was much more cleaner was up in the northwest part of Langkawi, around the Andaman Datai Hotel, which is a five star hotel (very expensive), but unfortunately we never went there to see if that was true.
Finally I would NOT recommend anyone to visit the Crocodile Farm or the Snake Farm if you are not interested to see poor unhappy animals taken from their natural environment into captivity and treated in a cruel way. Carola Lidström in Kiruna, Sweden.
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| L Ye ri |
12 November 2002 |
Stayed at Langkawi Village Resort - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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Beach in front of this village is better than Pantai Cenang. In Pantai Cenang, you will get hurt on your feet if you swim without sandal due to broken shell.
I recommend you to stay Kuah town one or two day and you can enjoy duty free shopping and batik art. To stay at Kuah, City bay view hotel will be your best choice.
If you are a toy lover, please drop by the shop "original craft" which is located in near from underwater world (not the same building).
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| T Hayashi |
02 October 2002 |
Stayed at Langkawi Village Resort - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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‚h was disappointing that transparency was bad for diving's going with a purpose. The person who goes with a purpose will be careful of the season (the diving).
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| J Woelders |
21 September 2002 |
Stayed at Tanjung Rhu Resort - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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The location (beach) of the hotel is superb. Langkawi is a beautiful island with some possibilities for trips (rice fields, villages, rainforest, waterfalls, island hopping). One can easily rent a car, but it is not easy to arrange a motorbike in the neighbourhood of the hotel. There are sufficient sporting activities and tours via the hotel. For restaurants, you fully depend on the hotel! The quality of the food was generally ok and I especially liked the atmosphere of the beach fronted restaurant (mediterranean style). Note that in September and October, the weather is more rainy on Langkawi, though there is no clear raining season.
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| J Evans |
11 July 2002 |
Stayed at Berjaya Langkawi Beach and Spa Resort - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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The development of Langkawi as a resort destination has been driven by Malaysian government policy. Unfortunately, the drive from the airport to any of the resorts takes you pass an empty convention center, and a number of projects that were abandoned in mid-construction when the economy tanked in 1997. This gives the island a seedy appearance, and there is in any event nothing of interest here except the various beaches, which do not compare with those slighly to the north in the Phuket region of Thailand. Since its duty-free shopping is vastly overrated, the island is eminently missable.
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| R Roithmair |
24 April 2002 |
Stayed at Pelangi Beach & Spa Resort - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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Easy going on Lang Kawi! We will come back as soon as possible.
Beach area is a little dirty.
People are helpful and friendly.
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| S Abrahamson |
08 April 2002 |
Stayed at Casa Del Mar - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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I thought Langkawi was beautiful but not enough care is being taken with rubbish disposal and recycling. It was very disappointing to see such a beautiful place being treated as a rubbish dump.
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| P Notz |
11 March 2002 |
Stayed at Langkawi Village Resort - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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Langkawi is not our favorite place. We got bothered very much by the smell of the sullage. Even when you have dinner in a restaurant the smell can be abominable.
There is also not much shadow at the beach where you are protected by the sun.
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| B Holder |
13 January 2002 |
Stayed at Pelangi Beach & Spa Resort - Langkawi, Malaysia.
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Taxis are very good value, drivers friendly and helpful. Kuah, the main city, is interesting and has good duty-free shops; Langkawi Fair is the best shopping complex. Remember to put in the decimal point when trying to get money from cash machines ie 200.00 ringits...we couldn't figure out why it wouldn't give us cash, but we were only tapping in 200.
A sunset cruise is a must, the Bon Ton restaurant five minutes from the hotel is excellent (with a very chic little shop), and golf on the Datai's course is expensive but breathtaking (carved out of rainforest). Pelangi will arrange your transport, and golf. We were told the craft centre was excellent, but did not have time to visit. Watch out for jellyfish in the water.
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