We stayed at the Berjaya Times Square Hotel in the city (not far from the Twin Towers) in an apartment on the top floor (43rd storey) for 2 nights. I’ll tell you what I won’t miss when we get home. Elevators! I don’t know exactly what height 43 floors is but by my calculations I’m guessing it’s about 150m. The view from the room was fantastic but the seemingly very thin windows which went from floor to ceiling were quite disconcerting.
There was a bidet in the bathroom which, as we discovered, works extremely well as a hand basin for people around 3 foot tall. 
Like the hotel in Singapore, this one is attached to a shopping mall as well. Except this mall is a little larger. Here’s some of the specs:
In one complex of 7.5 million sq. feet, there are:
- 1.7 million sq. feet of luxuriously appointed service suites (1,200 suites)
- 2.1 million sq. feet of shopping area
- 320,000 sq. feet of food and entertainment area
- 380,000 sq. feet of indoor theme park
- 200,000 sq. feet of extreme sports arena
- 450,000 sq. feet of corporate offices
- 29,000 sq. feet of world-class meeting space
- 2.35 million sq. feet of car park & building services (4,500 parking lots)
So just a small one really. This place has over 700 retail stores, 45 restaurants and cafes, and IMAX theatre and an indoor theme park with a full size roller-coaster. Very cool.
Went up the KL Telecommunications Tower on Saturday. It’s the sixth tallest tower in the world at 421 metres. The observation deck is 276 metres above ground level and, as you can see in the photos, you can see the entire city.
After we had finished at the tower we came across a city tour bus called the KL Hop-on Hop-off. It cost RM38 (about AUD$12.50) for a ticket and you can get on and off as much as you like withing a 24 hour period. There are 22 stops along the way and they provide a commentary as it drives around. I reckon this is probably the best way to see bits of KL that we would not have seen any other way. A few of the best stops were the Royal Palace, the “Eye on Malaysia” ferris wheel and the Petronas Twin Towers. We didn’t get time to go up to the walkway in the twin towers, which was a shame. They look pretty spectacular though, even from the ground. All shiny and sparkly.
We got off the bus at a stop close to Bukit Bintang, one of the main shopping districts in KL and not far from our hotel. There are some large shopping centres and also a heap of market stalls selling copy watches, sunglasses and the like. I wanted to get a few Rolex’s as gifts but had heard that customs were cracking down on this sort of thing, so I gave it a miss.
Sunday morning we walked across the road from the hotel to a little food court for breakfast. Had a “roti”, apparently one of the local favourites. It’s like a piece of pizza dough that is stretched out very thin and then cooked with various ingredients. We just had egg but you can choose all sorts of other stuff like cheese, onion etc. They cost about RM1.80 (AUD$0.60c). Pretty bloody tasty too I thought.
Sunday afternoon. We left Times Square and transferred to the Concorde hotel which is closer to the airport as we have a 7am flight to Hong Kong in the morning.
I know he’ll probably never read this but the same taxi van driver who we encountered when we first arrived in Kuala Lumpur took us up to Genting, drove back up to pick us up and ferryed us back to KL, also picked us up to take us to the Concorde. Thanks Lawrence, your service was impeccable. The message here is that if you get a good taxi driver get his card or number from him.
