Travelogue: Johor Bahru ( Pulai Spring Resort)
13th July 2015
I seriously took really long to think of whether to write out this post because firstly, Pulai Spring resort doesnt surprised me and yet im so disappointed by their services, food & amenities. Secondly, we over spent our budget because of the costly food price but I thought that it would be fair for all of you to give it a try and to judge.
On my Boyfriend's ORD week, we wanted to get away from Singapore to find a place for vacation. We know that we have to control our financial well so we refused to go somewhere far like Bangkok or Hong Kong. We were a step closer to book Batam but declined it because of the extra charges that we need to pay due to school holidays so the only plan would be Malaysia and that's when I do some hotel/ resort research on it.
I was awed by the 5 stars rating on Pulai Spring resort and it was 20 mins away from the checkpoint so why not give it a try on their resort since its a 5 star resort and the price wasn't that expensive as what I thought so we took an early bus down to cross over the borders hoping that the traffic would be smooth. No doubt it was if you start travelling at 8am.
I'm glad that the custom held us 2 hours if not we have to waste our time doing nothing to wait for all the malls to open at 10am. The first thing we arrived at Johor city square was to hunt for food. My tummy was groaning ever since I woke up so it was a tough fight to travel from Singapore to Malaysia with empty stomach.
Our lunch was at T-bowl which was not familiar for myself as I used to dine in at this restaurant when im in JB but not for my boyfriend, he has never been to T-bowl before. Designed with the same concept of a washroom theme, you can find toilet seat as your chair, table that looks like basin. How sincere they are to even get a toilet bowl/ bath-tub as our plates and bowls.
Not forgetting of their cuisine, they are mainly on Western, Japanese cuisine. They have a lot of pages to flip through so both boyfriend and I took quite a while to place our order. We got ourselves a bowl of curry chicken karage stuffed with white rice and he was fond of their char siew baked rice which tasted normal. My curry chicken scored it!
After lunch, we thought that we should take cab down earlier so that we can check in early to rest and wash up but unfortunately, they only allowed us to check in after 3pm which we find in unreasonable. Other hotels usually allow guests to check in at 1 or 2pm but how can a reason like the cleaners haven't tidy up the room shut us up? Absolutely angry!
Not going to ruin my mood since im here for a vacation, we went around to explore their "resort". They have facilities like swimming pool and gym that we can access to but only these two are free whereas the rest you have to pay for it. Golf in their area is definitely expensive so we concluded that guests who stayed here are golf-lovers so people like us shouldn't even considered this place for vacation.
After exploring around, we decided to just sit in to their cafe for dessert. I have been stung by thousands of mosquitoes and they are sucking my blood very fast so I gave up walking and just want to sit down and rest.
At 3pm, we finally got to check in. Our room was rather spacious for two but the bed was not cleaned at all. I found stains on the bedsheet which I think it was from coffee. Strings of hair was laid on the bed ( i don't think its my hair because of the length!). I totally feel so uneasy staying here so I requested to walk out to sports club centre to do something meaningful.
Our dinner here which costs 40 SGD. Too expensive to dine in the resort but if you have to leave and travel around, the cab driver might charge you even more. So we stayed in and just dined at the cafe near the pool. Lucky, the pizza was good if not I have to flare up. But a plate of wedges like this cost $15!!!
Our night was lasted in the gym as it would be good to make use of their facilities. We leave swimming for Day 2 morning before we book out.
14th July 2015
Breakfast in the wee morning to start our day right. Food was great especially their nasi lemak. I have never ate such nice nasi lemak and the chef impressed me!
Since we have a bit of time, we decided to go for a swim and suana session which we made a right choice. Day 2 wasn't that bad after all as we managed to sweat and exercise after our buffet food.
Checked out at 12pm and we call the cab to bring us back to the custom but before heading back to Singapore, we had dim sum at one the cafe.
This simply sum up our weekend although it wasn't the best vacation for us but indeed we get to spend our time alone together (:
Always so glad to have him around with me. Thanks baby <3
