Park Royal Hotel, Kuala Lumpur

Last year I went to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2x, in April for a SEANET forum and in November for the PRA-IDEAS forum, my hotel was Park Royal, it's 5-star. I stayed there for two nights I think, November 15-17, 2015.

This is a bit far from the KLCC/Petronas Towers. The lobby.

My bed, comfy enough though some molecules of cigarette smoke remained. It was possibly a smoking room, don't know.

My work area, beside the tv set.

Breakfast area, also  the main restaurant.

Two swimming pools, 0.5  meter deep for kids, and 0.9 meter deep for adults.

View outside my room.

Hotel view at the back, from the swimming  pool area. I don't remember how tall or how many floors, around 20+ I think.

It's on a busy street. Across it after an intersection is this huge two-towers hotel below, casino I think.

IDEAS has a contract with Park Royal, so room rates for them are discounted. 

Thanks Wan, Lorenzo, for the good forum and accommodation.

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See also:

Kuala Lumpur International Airport, September 07, 2012

Food of Penang, Malaysia, September 14, 2012

Le Apple Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, May 30, 2015

Tamarind Springs Restaurant, Kuala Lumpur, May 30, 2015

Tamarind Springs Restaurant, Kuala Lumpur

On my last day in Kuala Lumpur, April 23, flying back to  Manila the next day, IDEAS CEO and friend Wan Saiful Wan Jan, brought me and fellow panel speaker Prof. Cris Lingle, to this very beautiful restaurant in a suburb of KL, the Tamarind Springs. IDEAS hard working staff Yogi and Amir joined us. It was after our panel workshop at the ASEAN People's Forum (APF) 2015, then a visit at IDEAS office.

It is wide , rolling and spacious, surrounded by  many big trees. The place is in a high-end suburban residential area of KL. From the carpark area, one must walk about 60 meters to the resto proper. Nice water fountain.

With many freshwater turtles, cool.

A golf course below the resto.

Some of the big trees on one side of the  restaurant.

From where we  sat on the  2nd floor, this swimming pool  is visible.

But it seems no one is using or  swimming in this  pool, moss and small fishes inhabit  the pool. This view is opposite where I  took the photo above.

No need for air-con, just a silent ceiling fan.

The bar. Buddha in red lights.

I forgot to take photos of our food, but it was sooooo delicious. I was not feeling well that afternoon actually. After slurping the soup, it was like magic, I immediately felt better. So I took more soup and the yummy fish.

This pathway from the carpark to the resto is lighted by those small scented candles at dawn until evening. Here the candles were already laid. Really nice and cool place.

Thanks again Wan, Yogi and Amir, for that great and memorable panel discussion then dinner.
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See also:

Yummy Korean Food, July 12, 2013

Food of Penang, Malaysia, September 14, 2012

Le Apple Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, May 30, 2015

Le Apple Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, April 2015

I went back to Kuala Lumpur, April 22-24, 2015. I attended a panel discussion organized by the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) and the South East Asia Network for Development (SEANET) on April 23, one of the many panel discussions/workshops under the bigger ASEAN People's Forum (APF) 2015.

IDEAS put me at Le Apple Boutique Hotel (dark building in  this phoo) at the city center, about two blocks from the famous Petronas Towers (to its left). It is also beside Corus Hotel, where  I  stayed in 2005 when I  first visited Malaysia.

View of Le Apple, Petronas Towers, not far from WISMA CMA, the venue of the conference, about 5 minutes walk  from my hotel. Corus Hotel at the right.

View of Petronas Towers from my room at Le Apple. Afternoon and early evening.

Another view from my room, further lefft of the tower.

And view at the right side. I do not know the names of the  neighboring buildings.

My room. Modest and clean. Wifi is free/complimentary.

The hotel lobby, at the 2nd floor. Ground floor is the hotel restaurant and main entrance. When I took my breakfast on my 2nd day at the hotel, I learned that almost all staff of the restaurant -- cooks, waiters, waitresses -- are Filipinos. Good to briefly chat with them.

One downside of this  hotel -- we experienced power outages. Not once, not twice, but thrice  I  think. The back up power came to provide basic lights in the room but no air-con, no lights at the toilet, no tv. And even the elevator was affected.

When the electricity went back, the wifi would come on and off. I hope those were just accidental glitches and not regularly happening. Good hotel location but not good power back up.
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See also:

Kuala Lumpur International Airport, September 07, 2012

Food of Penang, Malaysia, September 14, 2012