Our stay at Majestic Hotel KL - Part 2

In Part 1 of our stay at Majestic Hotel KL, I showed you around our junior suite. We really loved our room and spent most of our time in it. If you missed Part 1, you can click the following link to check it out:

Part 1 - Junior Suite, Majestic Hotel KL

For today, we'll look at some of the attractions from the lobby up to the 4th floor. These are the more public areas of the hotel where guests can wander around and appreciate the beauty.

Lauren gazes at the chandelier hanging over the lobby from the 2nd floor at Majestic Hotel KL

Following are some images of the iconic chandelier which hangs from the 2nd floor directly above the lobby:

Looking directly up at the chandelier over the lobby at Majestic Hotel KL

The 2nd floor chandelier looks like an inverted pyramid, Majestic Hotel KL

The third floor is full of meeting rooms. Here is a view of a hallway there:

Another corridor at the guest rooms, Majestic Hotel KL

Block of elevators at Majestic Hotel KL

Advertisement messages appear on a small screen inside elevators at Majestic Hotel KL

Lauren sits comfortably on a sofa in the lobby at Majestic Hotel KL

The gents toilet on the 2nd floor at Majestic Hotel KL. I always judge a place by the quality and cleanliness of its toilets - no problem here!

Orchids are a common occurrence at Majestic Hotel, as can be seen in the toilet (above), in the rooms, and also in the beautiful Orchid Room. The Orchid Room is located on the 2nd floor, between the Majestic Wing and the Tower Wing. The doors are locked and it can be rented out for the afternoon.

The gorgeous Orchid Room at Majestic Hotel KL

Majestic Hotel KL's Orchid Room

In the Tea Lounge at Majestic Hotel hangs these beautiful lights over a piano, enshrouded in a golden dome

Lauren sits in a chair near the entrance to the Majestic Wing

Entrance to the Grand Ballroom on the 2nd floor at Majestic Hotel KL

The Grand Ballroom, Majestic Hotel KL

Lighting in the Grand Ballroom, Majestic Hotel KL

The 4th floor is home to the gym, swimming pool and rooftop garden.

Lift some weights at the gym on the 4th floor at Majestic Hotel KL

View of the swimming pool at Majestic Hotel KL

Fidelia, Lauren and Leah having fun in the pool, Majestic Hotel KL

Here are a couple of views of the rooftop garden:

Spotted the KL Tower from the rooftop garden at Majestic Hotel KL

The Majestic Spa sits by the entrance to the Majestic Wing

Well, there's plenty to see at Majestic Hotel. Hope you enjoyed those photos. The next post - Part 3 - will look at the hotel exterior and the signboards around the hotel.

Genting Highlands - Part 2 - First World Hotel

We stayed at the First World Hotel, Genting Highlands, the biggest hotel in the world in terms of number of rooms - over 6,000 of them!

The First World Hotel lobby resembles an airport terminal from the inside . . .

 . . . and looks like an old English railway station from the outside . . .

We had to queue to check in. Our number was 0509, the current number was at 0452, so we had 57 places to wait.

The lobby did smell in places, like the smell of used toilets. During the day time the temperature was significantly lower than the usual Malaysian standard:

At night it went as low as 15-17C!

Our deluxe room was in Tower 1 on the 8th floor. We had the foreordained luxury of staying here for 2 nights free of charge courtesy of my mother-in-law. I know it'd sound kind of ungrateful if I just complained about the hotel or the room, but we are very thankful that we took up the offer to stay at the biggest hotel in the world. It was clean and tidy with a wealth of elevators meaning one was always close by.

However, from a hotel critique point of view, let me continue. I regularly contribute on Tripadvisor so here is the truth.

Our room was awfully small and cramped, just as I'd read in numerous reviews of this hotel. If our room was a deluxe unit, I'd hate to see what a standard room would look like! The beds took up the majority of the space and our luggage ate up all the remaining room. It's okay for sleeping, provided you are immune to the altitude, but not for spending large chunks of the day in.

Urai, my sister-in-law, models on a bed whilst my mother-in-law and Florianna, another of my wife's sisters relax in the background. As you can see, there is not much space at all for moving around.

There was barely enough space to sit between the desk and the bed

My mum-in-law poses at the elevators on the 8th floor; the hotel being engulfed in mist outside