Genting Highlands, Kuala Lumpur

If you sick of the hot wheather in Malaysia, proberly you can consider Genting Highlands. Here have cool and windy enviroments. Most malaysian come here are because of the cooling enviroment or gambling. Genting Highlands is popular in casino. In Malaysia, you only can found lisence casino in Genting Highland. Even it attract a lots of Malaysian citizen during school holidays, it also attract numbers of neighbour country's people come to spend thier holidays here.The casino here open business 24 hour. They strictly allow the customer who are more than 21 year old to go into the casino.Besides that, you also can found theme park, magic show,concert,fast food restourant,asian food restorant here. If you got plan to stay in Genting, i suggest you to choose on weekday because the hotel rate is much more cheaper during weekday than weekend and school holidays.

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The fun never seems to stop at Genting — City of Entertainment, perched on the top of Genting Highlands, and reached by road or cable car. There is a choice of outdoor or indoor theme parks, indoor splash pool with warm water, or outdoor waterpark. In the evening, there is spectacular entertainment at the Genting International Showroom or Pavilion, be it a thrilling magic show or an ice-skating extravaganza, shopping at newly opened First World Plaza, games, and feasting on a wide range of delicious food.

Over 30 rides can be enjoyed in the Outdoor Theme Park. Thrill-seekers will want to try all four roller coaster rides — the double loop Corkscrew, Rolling Thunder Mine Train, Cyclone and Flying Dragon. The daring ones will also want to ride the Spinner Flying Carousel, the Super Toboggan, and the intense Turbo Drop that drops riders 185 feet down in the air and then instantly shoots them upwards. On the Sungai Rejang Flume Ride and at the Genting Splash, the only waterpark experience available at 6,000 feet (2,000 metres) above sea level, be prepared to get wet. It’s part of’ the fun!
There are children’s rides and famiIy rides including the Monorail and Theme Park Skyway cable cars. Younger children will enjoy rides such as the Flying Baby Jumbo, Teacup, Pirate Train, Rodeo Rider and Astro Fighter. In the Indoor Theme Park are three more thrill rides - Space Odyssey, Disco Bumper and the Motion Master Simulator that maneuvers around sharp turns and dives into deep gorges, and a rich variety of skill games and video games that can be enjoyed until late at night.

GETTING THERE:
About 45 minutes drive from Kuala Lumpur via the Karak Highway. Kuala Lumpur-Genting taxis are available from the Puduraya Bus Station in Kuala Lumpur. The Kuala Lumpur-Genting direct coach service is available from KL Sentral, Jalan Duta Coach Station. Puduraya and Gombak LRT Station

Opening hours: Outdoor Park = Weekdays - 10am to 6pm
Weekends - 8am to 8pm
Indoor Park and First World Plaza rides - Daily 8am to 12midnight.

During our Educational Trip to Malaysia, we were given free time at Genting Highland Resort. It houses 5 different hotels, a shopping center, an indoor theme park and an outdoor theme park. You can go all out here! All you need is RM 37 and you can ride all the rides you want at the Outdoor Theme Park, with a few exceptions like the Flying Coaster.

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Getting into Genting Highlands is a breeze. You can go by bus or by taxi. Drive by all means (as a tourist) but best to park your car at the Genting Skyway (at GohTong Jaya) which is an almost halfway point up to Genting.

Take the Genting Skyway for various reasons
(1) the step incline from the Gohtong Jaya to Genting Highlands is a stressful drive up although it is quick
(2) the view from the Skyway is cool
(3) a peaceful ride up for 10-12 minutes

Note:
(a) On public holidays, the queue to get on the Skyway may be as long as a 45minute wait.
(b) It cost RM10 for a return ticket. Do get the return ticket. Although you can still get it up there at Genting Highlands, the queue to get a ticket may be long.

Yes, the size of this area has made Genting entitled to be called as city. Due to the location in the highland, the area is often foggy, and this is one of the reasons why the city is called City in the Clouds.
The whole area is wide range of entertainment and it purposes to make people feel as they live in their own childhood phantasy of “fun land”. Adults can satisfy themselves and try their luck in the casinos. Women can still enjoy the luxury of shopping. Children would love this place for its different kind of merry rides and theme park. Family can enjoy the sky lift to see aerial scenery of Genting.
You can opt for go around city by walking or board into trem. Both are fun. The joy of daylight changes its scene when the dark comes. Dressed up people head to bars , clubs, discos and karaoke, or…back to casinos to finish the unfinished business. Not fancy nightlife scene? Bowling, cinema, theater, massage and hair salon are also available. It’s a truly fun land concept.

Your visit to KL is not complete if you don’t spare your time to visit Genting Highland. Claim the area as “City in the Clouds”, the city also knowns as “City of Entertainment”.
Genting Highland becomes a busy spot when weekends come. And even six hotels with more than 7000 rooms are fully occupied in holiday season. My visit to Genting is the same time when school holiday started. The huge lobby area is packed with people from all over the regions and also many tour groups, where the guides seem desperate to look for their tour members. Sitting in row of benches, waiting for your que number for check in to arrive has became one of the unforgettable parts of the visit to Genting.

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During my younger days, I used to follow my family up Genting Highlands which is located near Kuala Lumpur. This place has many hotels and is mainly for casinos, joy-rides, fun fairs and other forms of entertainment. It is very popular among Malaysians and Singaporeans and a cool weather to get away from the tropical heat. If you want to look for scenery, then this is not the place for you. Latest: My latest visit to Genting Highlands is during Aug 2005, more information and photos are at my VT Genting page.

Genting Highlands is around 1.5 hours away from KL and situated in a breezy and cool mountain top. Kids can play in their outdoor or indoor theme parks and the adults can play in the casino. Be appropriately dressed for the casino and bring a light jacket.

We managed to watch an entertaining show of acrobats with live operatic singers. The matinee show at 2 pm was 50% off.

The Genting Skyway (cable car) is not to be missed as it is the fastest and highest cable car in Asia or so they claim. You can see green mountains of Genting.

After 6pm and on weekends, the taxis charge premium rates for overtime. They drive pretty fast on the zigzag road.