The Westin Kuala Lumpur Review

CZM and I went to KL over the weekend (17-19 March) and ate so much food! I shall leave the food post to her.. On a side note, I was not allocated any Kimly shares :'( Imagine that 100% gain even with just 4/6 lots.

We have traveled quite a bit but this is the first time (maybe the only time since it is much cheaper this time round) we stayed in a 5 star hotel - The Westin. After booking the trip online, we received an email the next day from Westin asking if they can help with anything. 

We replied asking for higher floor and the price of the breakfast buffet as we booked the cheapest rate without breakfast. You can read about it here.

Not too bad for a 5 star buffet breakfast, so we asked them to add one morning of buffet to our reservation.

When we were deciding between various hotels, we were quite amused by the fact that they are constantly marketing their bed as a feature - WESTIN HEAVENLY® BED. To our surprise, upon our arrival at the hotel, they actually placed their heavenly bed in the middle of the lobby!

We were given floor 28! The highest floor is 35 and this is a picture of our Deluxe room and the window view, nothing too spectacular. One thing which I really like was that they gave us 6 bottles of water each day! Not sure if it was due to our SPG membership or what but we were glad that we did not had to buy separately or boil any water.

 This is a snapshot of our itinerary and what happened over the weekend:

Day 1 Lunch	Overseas Restaurant	Char Siew sold out :(
Day 1 Cafe	Miru Dessert Cafe	Shiok Toast comparable to After You in BKK
Day 1 Dinner	Jalan Alor	Wong Ah Wah Chicken Wing and Roast Pork Dark noodle
Day 2 Breakfast	Dolly Dim Sum	It was not opened when we reached. Too hungry, so we ate at a random place
Day 2 Lunch	Bak Kut Teh	Char Siew sold out on Day 1 so we went back to Overseas Restaurant again
Day 2 Cafe	Coffee Amo	3D Coffee
Day 2 Dinner	China Town Seng Kee	Surprising good mee tai bak/pearl noodle
Day 3 Breakfast	5 Star Buffet Breakfast	A lot of selections!
Day 3 Lunch	Meal at Pavilion	Cheap cheap! (Sushi Tei)

We ate so much that we had to exercise in order for CZM to not feel guilty (I do not have the slightly guilty feeling. lol). I do not gym but Westin gym WestinWORKOUT® certainly looks pretty well equip. The best/worst part is that the gym is 24 hours! CZM wanted to drag me to the gym at night!!

Westin is also located at a very convenient/central location. Across the street is the super huge shopping mall - Pavilion (I dun think we finish walking/shopping it) as well as other smaller mall such as Lot 10, etc. Special mention to Grab for sponsoring our transport! Nope, this is not a paid post and they did not really sponsor us. It seems that Grab just launched their GrabShare service few weeks back and was having a RM8 promotion. CZM and I traveled to KL at the right time! lol. Even without the promotion, using Grab in KL is definitely a great idea since you do not have to worry about getting stuck in the jam with the meter jumping every second.

5 star buffet breakfast certainly did not disappoint us because they have a huge variety of food! CZM said that the breakfast buffet is a lot better than the one at Kuala Lumpur Grand Millennium when she went on a business trip 2 years ago. Even a simple egg, they have it in various forms (omelette, poached egg with salmon and egg benedict with fancy french name), we ate a lot a lot of eggs! 

With a heavy heart and a heavy stomach, we left KL bloated and return to work the next day. No work no money, no money no adventure.

Short Weekend Trip to KL

CZM and I will be going to KL (Kuala Lumpur) this weekend (17th to 19th March) because CZM has food cravings (Roast Pork/Char Siew from Restoran Oversea)!! She tried to justify it by saying MYR is at a all time low ($1 SGD = $3.14 MYR).

Fortunately/unfortunately, she is correct. Look at the exchange rate for the last 10 years:

We booked a return coach to from redbus.sg which has 10-15% discount (RBSG10 or RETURNSG). RedBus provide a platform for the booking of buses similar to what Expedia does for flights and hotels. They are not in one of the top google search results but being a KPO, I always look for cheaper deal and came across this site.

It is also an excellent opportunity for us to stay in 5 star hotel! We eventually decided to stay in The Westin because of its location which is near the shopping and food area. We thought we might as well made use of the SPG (Starwood Preferred Guest) and World Mastercard promotion to get ourselves a SPG Gold status which normally requires 10 eligible stays or 25 eligible nights in a calendar year. However, upon the registration and verification, we were immediately given a 20% discount!

At the above rate, we are paying around $150 SGD per night for a 5 star hotel stay that comes with SPG Gold status! A quick search at trivago shows that the cheapest rate available is $161. Sense of achievement whenever KPO finds a cheaper and better deal.

Hopefully, CZM will write some food blog post after this trip and share with everyone. Do comment and share with us if you have any food recommendation!