Last weekends we organized a family trip to Redang, the island paradise that I’ve been quite a few times, when it comes to Redang, it is always an expectation of bright sun, crystal clear sea, and white sandy beach. In another word – everything that Redang Island Resort is not.
the chalet style rooms at Redang Island Resort
Redang Island Resort is not without its plus points. It is relatively close to the airport and they provide free transfer. You never need to see the beach or get your feet wet to get to the place.
Touted as a 3 star hotel with 98 rooms, the resort usually place you in a block of 4 rooms, with mostly wooden interior that’s masterfully painted in the dullest color imaginable. If you are here to relax your colored eye sight, it is the place to go.
For a resort that is situated at the tropics, the room also comes with air conditioning that takes an hour to reduce one Celsius, be thankful to the ceiling fan provided.
Outside the room, expect a lawn and garden that would fit right in any primary school too, very nostalgic.
beach? what beach?
For those who hates beach, this is the perfect place to be. The hotel is built within the jungle at the southern tip of Redang island, on a small hill. To get to the beach, you’ll have to track through some challenging terrain. Climbing down perhaps 50 meters or so, you’ll be rewarded with a small and pretty dismay beach facing the busy harbor. The water is slightly clearer than those in Port Dickson though.
The swimming pool is actually better than the beach, and the swimming pool was quite bad.
For food, there’s a single restaurant at the hotel, I didn’t check if McD would deliver though. Oh, food isn’t included in the package (RM 250 per room via booking.com).
If you want to incorporate a little bit of drinking at night, rest assure that the bar does offer beer for RM 18 per can. No cocktail, whisky, wine, or any of those nonsense.
Other activities offered by the hotel includes a round island trip (RM 800 for up to 7 pax), and even snorkeling (RM 35 per trip or RM 45 for 2 trips, etc.). Bicycles are also available for rental, and I’d think is quite essential as the room and lobby is otherwise a bus ride away.
I would however, advice against their jungle tracking offer since you can just do that by going down to catch a glimpse of the beach.
In short, if you want an experience at Redang that you would expect being in a cheap hotel at Fraiser’s Hill minus the cool temperature, this is the place to go.
It wasn’t the type of holiday we expected, hence we checked out after an hour and went to Redang Holiday Beach Villa, and everything got back on track.
P/S: Berjaya Vacation Club: thanks for the sleight of hand. You got us this time.
Haha! Doesn’t look half bad but beach resort it certainly ain’t! Hate all these timeshare/vacation clubs…
Kong: hehehe, correct. and it depends on your definition of “half”
The only thing “special” about this place, besides the airport, is Golf.
Why’d anyone come all the way to Redang to golf?
Suertes: golf? what golf? I didn’t see a golf course.
hahahahaa… thought advetorial see seee the opposite of that.. hahahah the only good bit about this place is the pool? but then if i wanted a nice pool.. i would have been somewhere else… 😉
kena con to go one zit?
saikua: the pool wasn’t even nice lol.
Actually i think mY info is outdated haah!
Suertes: hehehe yah.
Oh well, on the plus side, free jungle trekking. 😉
Huai Bin: something that can be done much closer to home. hehe.
Being at Redang, one HAS to stay nearby the beach – not in a jungle right? Haha 😀
Ken Wooi: precisely. haha.
i never got a chance to visit redang. everytime i want to go there, some tropical monsoon hits the beach or something like that.
Michelle: well there are about half a year’s worth of visiting time!
uh-oh. OK, i’ll cross this off my list of potential honeymoon destinations 😀
Sean: hahaha.
This sure doesn’t look like the resort that I went to eight years ago unless it underwent extensive renovation and changed hands. Are there nearby hotels next to this particular resort?
Ciana: but still.. no beach. No resort is situated nearby this one.
Well said!! Nice to see a true view on a place, rather then the usual “everything is good and rosey” view on places / restaurants.
BRAVO!
Jules: *bow*
Just been there last week. Terrible. You need to pay another RM30 per pax to reach the Long Beach which is the main highlight of Redang Island because basically there is nothing in Redang Island Resort. While going back from Long Island to Redang Island Resort at 10pm, our speed boat which I believe overloaded met a storm rain and hit a rock on the journey. (because it was dark, heavy rain & storm, the person who drove the boat somehow drove to the wrong route). Luckily we managed to be back and all of us were trembling and wet after 20 minutes of hell journey.
p/s: We got the free rooms as well from Berjaya.
KW: same sort of experience and I’m glad we decided to forget about the room and moved to another hotel. Sorry to hear about what you’ve gone through, but thankfully everyone’s alright.
good that you highlight this. ewww… I’ll keep this in mind. Frsers Hill then! hahah
eiling: hahaha, good choice.