Kidz Play House

If you are like us, you are always looking for new places for your children to play and unleash the reserves of energy they have in abundance.

We came across Kidz Play House, located at:

#6 Ground Floor,

Indian Town,

Putra Square,

Kuantan

Kidz Play House is in Indian Town, Putra Square, Kuantan

Kidz Play House is in Indian Town, Putra Square, Kuantan

This is a great little place for your children to play. The owners are really nice people who genuinely love children. The wife will even spend most of her time playing together with the children and just helping them to have a real fun time.

A view of Kidz Play House

A view of Kidz Play House. It is air-conditioned

Inside Kidz Play House

Inside Kidz Play House

Inside Kidz Play House

You can keep up to date with activities at Kidz Play House on their facebook page, which you can find by clicking on this link:

Kidz Play House Kuantan on fb

Kuantan City Mall, November 2014 (part 1)

The notice of construction is up for a brand new shopping mall opposite East Coast Mall in Kuantan, which will be named Kuantan City Mall.

This is an area which has experienced unbelievable growth since I moved here. The whole area used to be an empty patch of land which I once walked across to get to Berjaya Megamall.

Now it has The Zenith Hotel, SAS Convention Centre, Menara Zenith, East Coast Mall, Putra Square and rows of shoplots. 

Kuantan City Mall will be the next addition in this area.

Here is the plot of land where Kuantan City Mall will be built opposite East Coast Mall in Kuantan

To the right of the picture is a brand new mosque (white with black dome) which I'm guessing will replace the old mosque in the centre (green and red roof) to make way for Kuantan City Mall

Close-up of the early construction progress of Kuantan City Mall. Machinery is in place as work begins on the foundations. Took this photo from the roof of East Coast Mall

There will be a sub-basement and 6 floors to Kuantan City Mall, so it is looking to be a lot larger than the current East Coast Mall!

A view through the fence to the plot of land where construction has begun for Kuantan City Mall

Check back to The Kuantan Blog often - I'll be keeping up-to-date with the construction progress as often as possible!

East Coast Mall 2 rumoured to be in progress

Kuantan has experienced a lot of growth right on my doorstep including The Zenith Hotel, East Coast Mall and Putra Square. An old block of flats have recently been demolished to make way for the rumoured construction of East Coast Mall #2.

Work is going on along the side of East Coast Mall

In the following photos taken in October 2013, you can see that work is ongoing all along the side of East Coast Mall facing the now empty plot of land where an old block of flats once stood:

And here is the plot of land just opposite East Coast Mall:

This plot of land used to occupy a few blocks of flats. They have now been demolished and the ground levelled off ready for construction

Looking through a gap in the fence to the empty land which may hold East Coast Mall #2

Views of Kuantan taken from The Zenith Hotel

Kuantan is a small town on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It has been my home for 7 years. Following is a series of photos of my adopted hometown, most of them taken from the very top of The Zenith Hotel.

East Coast Mall describes itself as 'the most happening place' in Kuantan, which at least holds true from Fridays to Sundays when people from the northern state of Terengganu come down to Kuantan for the weekend. The heavily Muslim state of Terengganu hold their weekend on Friday and Saturday. East Coast Mall is here visible from the gym at The Zenith Hotel

As it looks over Kuantan, The Zenith Hotel illuminates in colours of purple, red, green and blue every night

A closer view of the Jalan Dato Lim Hoe Lek/Jalan Bukit Sekilau junction. To the left lies Putra Square and East Coast Mall; straight ahead sits the newly refurbished Darul Makmur Stadium

The stairs from the lobby to the First Floor at The Zenith Hotel light up in a brilliant blue when the sun goes down

Kuantan looks like a burning heap of night lights as the moon hangs high above

View from our 22nd floor room at The Zenith Hotel

Aerial view of part of Bukit Sekilau. The purple and yellow building to the left is the UiTM campus, while the gold dome and blue roof of the Bukit Sekilau mosque is visible in the background. Behind the mosque lies SK Bukit Sekilau. The open ground at the front left is being prepared for a Ramadan Bazaar. The Muslim fasting month begins on 10th July

Menara Zenith towers over Putra Square below. The white building in the distance is Vistana Hotel. Beyond that to the right, just out of the picture, is Teluk Chempedak beach

Jalan Haji Ahmad runs to the left behind The Zenith Hotel. Straight ahead is the residential area of Taman Galing

The Zenith Hotel, Kuantan - A Year and A Half On

The Zenith Hotel in Kuantan is over 18 months old now and stands as Kuantan's tallest building. It is one-third of a complete structure which includes the Sultan Ahmad Shah International Convention Centre (SASICC), and Menara Zenith.

At the end of 2011 I documented The Zenith Hotel after one year of operation

We attended the buffet dinner and soft launch opening on 31 December/1 January 2011.

A couple of weeks before the opening, I photographed The Zenith Hotel

The Zenith Hotel 2 months from completion

The Zenith Hotel 4-5 months before completion

Check out the progress of the construction of The Zenith Hotel from the earliest days of its existence back in April 2009.

Here's how The Zenith Hotel appears now, as of July 2012: