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Kula Lumpar & Borneo - Jan/Feb 2013

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Day 1 – Entire day spent travelling. Flew out from Heathrow on Malaysia   Airlines A380. First time with this airline. Seats are spacious, entertainment system is top notch and strangely enough the plane takes off when it’s taxiing relatively slow. Still amazed at how something that size (4 huge engines, 494 passengers) glides so smoothly through the air. Anyway, we departed around 10am and with time difference landed just after 7am Malasian time (8 hours ahead). We had booked everything, including transports with Kuoni and our driver was there to pick us up once we cleared customs. Would have been easy enough to jump in a taxi I guess but when you’ve been on a plane for 12 hours, I guess you just want to get where you’re going as quickly and easily as possible. Day 2 Arrived At Shangri La Kuala Lumpur and it was the most impressive Shangri La I’ve stayed at to date. The welcome, reception, staff, room, health suite – all amazing and top notch service. Our room w...