Happy moment before vacation
Our 3 days 2 nights vacation begin on 10th January 2014. We didn't go during school holiday due to we expect high number of tourist visiting Sabah. My daughter had to take 1 day leave from School but since it just 1st week after school restarted, I think still not much thing happening in her school. I did pre-informed her teacher as well.
We took Malaysia Airlines since this trip was 1st flight experience to my children and as travel with children is not that easy. Air fare was much expensive compare to low cost airlines but we pay as what we get. Smooth check in and hassle free air craft boarding. If in LCCT, you have to walk quite far before you can board the air craft and also tricky check in procedures. Our flight schedule was at 900am. We departed from home at 645am, reached Putrajaya at 730am. We took KLIA transit train and arrived at 8am in KLIA.
The flight we took was transit flight where it landed in Labuan before proceeding to Kota Kinabalu.
1st flight experience for the kiddos
Our kids were the happiest kids in the world at that time as it was their first flight experience. They didn't fear when the plane screaming during take off and also vibrating during touch down. The were happy through out 3 hours flying although the weather wasn't good. The plane was in huge vibration almost in 2 hours. Hot tea and coffee serving was called off due to safety issue.
Just before landing at KKIA
We arrived at Kota Kinabalu International Airport at around 1245pm. The KKIA is a new international airport for Sabah replacing the old one which now become low cost terminal. KKIA also know as terminal 1 while LCCT is terminal 2. Baggage claim was fast. After immigration and custome clearance, we quickly find an airport taxi to bring us to Hotel in Kota Kinabalu. We didn't want to lost even a minute to enjoy Kota Kinabalu trip. The airport taxi fare to our hotel was RM30 which we consider reasonable. It took us around 15 minutes from airport to our hotel in Jalan Padang, Kota Kinabalu city.
Taxi fare from air port to Kota Kinabalu
Our hotel - Dreamtel Hotel Jalan Padang
The difficult part of planning this vacation was the Hotel. There are many hotels in Kota Kinabalu to choose. You can refer hotel booking sites like Agoda.com or booking.com for available hotel with good discount offering. Normally, online booking will save a lot. We booked Dreamtel hotel through Agoda for special price. The cost for 2 night stay was RM468 inclusive hotel tax charges for triple deluxe room. The hotel is located about 0.5miles from Kota Kinbalu Hot Spot such as Pasar Filipino and handicraft market. Although those hot spots were in walking distance from our hotel, it was hard due to I need to carry my 3 years son weight about 16 kg all the time because he refused to walk by himself. We would like to suggest this Hotel for couple vacation but if you have small kids below 3 years accompanying your travel, we suggest you to stay in the heart of Kota Kinabalu town nearby the hot spots area.
We took a brief rest and power nap after arrived in hotel before enjoying our first night in Kota Kinabalu. Our 1st target after resting was Pasar Filipino or known as Sinsuran Night Market. We have been long admiring the seafood in Pasar Filipino especially its lobster! Please continue to read our story spending time in Pasar Filipino in next posting. Stay tuned!
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