With the school holidays currently underway, Mummy and Daddy decide to take JJ on a short road trip to KL.
Unfortunately this wasn’t quite planned ahead, the impetus to go really came from Mummy J’s cuz who sent her a note just last week about a 40% promo code for Kidzania Malaysia (ATOM40)*. We were lucky to have been able to leverage this promotion. Daddy J actually only booked it on 31st May itself! We ended up paying RM171 vs. what would have been RM261 for regular priced tix (2A+2C aged 4-17)**
*Note this is coinciding with the Kidzania KL Science and Space Programme happening 25th May – 16th June 2019. Disclaimer: This promotion is only applicable for online ticket purchase only from 19th April – 31st May 2019, valid for the following visit period from 20th April – 16th June 2019 with exception on 5th June 2019.
**Note Kidzania SG online price totals SGD$184.3 or RM552.9 for the same 2A+2C configuration but should not be taken as a 1-1 comparison. While there are obvious similarities, there are also stark contrasts in experiences between both. An example of this is that SG offers a Paddle Pop ice-cream making experience while this is not available in KL/MY. The latter however does have a Mc’Donalds burger making experience which is also unique between both locations.
Having secured the Kidzania tix Daddy J then proceeds to scout around for hotels during the week of 9th June. Where else to go but to the trusty Hilton Honors App. Given the gang has previously tried the Hilton KL (Jalan Stesen/KL Sentral) and PJ Hilton, we decide this time to book out the DoubleTree by Hilton located at Jalan Tun Razak, a stone’s throw from KLCC. It turns out Hilton APAC was having its timely APAC sale so we swiftly book out our rooms.
With the bookings in place, we set off on Monday (12th June) morning!
Beautiful morning to beat the Monday blues, with clear blue skies and the perfect company for a 3-hr ride up North!
Traffic was a breeze as most were probably already back at work post Raya holidays.
Midway through we make a pit-stop at Daddy’s favourite spot – The Perhentian Jejantas Ayer Keroh (Air Keroh Overhead-Bridge Rest Area) with the usual All-American A&W, KFC, Baskin Robbins and Dunkin Donuts!
KFC vs. A&W?
The choice is obvious as we make a beeline at the A&W restaurant with the regular suspects of waffles, Coney dogs and root beer floats! It was a good 20-min wait (thereabouts) but definitely worth the while! A&W Changi Jewel was still maxed out when we were there just last week (on Hari Raya) waiting for Grandpa and Grandma J’s flight back to SIN and it was truly a scene of “People Mountain, People Sea” (colloquial in Cantonese for heaps of people!). With this in mind, we were thankful for the relatively shorter queue here. Soon it was time to dig in…
After a hearty meal, Daddy J needs a solid navigator up front to keep him focused on the road while Baby J tries to catch some shut eye.
It wasn’t long before we arrive at the Sungai Besi Toll Plaza in KL!
Spot the KL Tower and Petronas Twin Towers in the background!
Arriving at the Hilton Doubletree KL co-located at the Intermark Mall.
The Lobby is setup on the 1st floor of the integrated office/shopping mall. Very interesting as the lobby could be easily missed for a swanky lounge/bistro in the mall.
Pleasant surprise to be informed we were upgraded to an Executive Room with lounge access and check-in facilitated at the Lounge on the 34th Floor.
Welcomed with the usual DoubleTree Hospitality – Chocolate Chip Cookies!
View from the top!
In our room!
When we returned in the evening, we were pleasantly surprised at the complimentary extra bed, which we gladly accepted and promptly reconfigured to a little kiddy cot!
Swimming pool on the 10th floor, adjacent to the Gym and Tosca Italian Restaurant.
Breakfast at Makan Restaurant (Level 11)
Very good spread of ‘Healthy Breakfast’ segment, Salads, Cold Cuts, Noodle and Egg station, Chinese Congee, Malay (Nasi Lemak!), Indian selection with made-to-order Prata/Dosai/Chappati!
They even have a cordoned-off area for HH Gold and Diamonds which would have been useful if there were bigger crowds.
Kids choice, and Daddy J’s Nasi Lemak, and a live-Teh Tarik station!
Day#2 – Kidzania Kuala Lumpur
First stop – Spritzer Bottling Facility.
First task was to deliver 3 cartons of Bottled Water, thereafter returning to the Bottling facility to produce (bottle blowing machine!), perform filtration, bottling of filtered water, and then the Heat/Steam machine to label the bottled water!
I don’t remember the kids ever working that hard, until now…
The apprentices posing with their guru, or boss… and even got to keep the bottles they bottled – one for each kid!
Vitagen/Marigold Milk Factory.
Very interesting lessons on pasteurisation, homogenisation and fermentation. Mummy J did find the end product a tad too sweet for her liking though -perhaps the kiddos added a little too much sugar! Nonetheless the JTwins had no qualms about slurping and sipping it all up! Slurppsss…
Burger Making @ Mc’Donalds
Reporting for work…
Kids got to eat their very own cheeseburger – literally the very ones they made themselves.
Pilot training at Air Asia!
Chocolate Making at the Chocolate Factory
Firefighter!
Jon having a go at rock (building) climbing while Jo has a go at the girlie stuff @ the Kurls salon.
Random pix from around Kidzania World!
At the end of the day, with the money (Kidzos) earned through blood, sweet and tears, the kids can buy out stuff from the Kidzania departmental store.
Note the Kidzos currency can be used at any of the other Kidzanias around the world. Just make sure you don’t convert the notes into a bankcard (stored value). The ‘banks’ are apparently different around the world so just keep them into Kidzo notes.
Day#3 – PetroSains, KLCC
On Day#3 after breakfast, we went up to Level 34 to check out the spread at the lounge…
Coffee made with Love for Mummy from Jo… 🙂
After check-out, we headed to Suria KLCC, aka home of the Petronas Twin Towers.
The Twins and the Twin Towers.
The handy Touch ‘n Go card for easy payment at exit gantries to avoid the lines at payment machines at major malls in Malaysia.
We had previously been to the KLCC but never knew about PetroSains until we read about it couple of days before this trip. Seems PetroSains has been around for the past 20 years!
PetroSains is a Discovery Centre (the Malaysian equivalent of the Singapore Science Centre or so we thought*), owned by the national petroleum company Petronas, and located smack in the middle of KL, literally in the heart of KLCC (Level 4/Centre Atrium).
*At the end of the day, while we had initially wanted to do only an hour – asking the receptionist how quickly we could get through all 11 interactive zones, we were blown-away at the quality of exhibits, depth of research that had gone into the planning and running of the centre and customer-centricity of the staff and volunteers manning the various experiments. Verdict – It definitely exceeded the JJ Twins and more so Daddy J and Mummy J’s expectations. A well-deserving 5 diapers for the PetroSains Discovery Centre!
Capsule ride which you get into at the start of your journey. You get into the pod again at the end of the day to wrap up your day and exit PetroSains.
Dinosaurs are alive at the Dino exhibit in PetroSains!
A 3D printer working its magic…
Kids and Mummy have a go at Robo-Soccer and later at VR soccer!
Fun Science with helpful volunteers and staff.
The Top-Side of the mock Oil-Rig was by far Daddy J’s favourite exhibit! Kids get first-hand experience on what an oil rig is, what is looks like, and the dangers and safety aspects on living afloat one. An incredible way to exit is via a tall-slide. Don’t worry about if your kids are decked in shorts, or dresses – the thoughtful staff have pull-up blankets which kids slid into before sliding down the 2-strorey slide so you don’t have to worry about burns or abrasions at the end of the day!
Check out the emergency escape raft!
Formula 1 fever!
Jo cracks the code…
And the Twins pit their brains against each other in a dose of sibling rivalry on who can focus the longest! T1 wins here, while T2 emerges winner of VR soccer!
Augmented reality sand box at the Molecule/Nanoworld…
At the penultimate exhibit – Digi Cybercafe World…
By the time we got out it was 4pm! (we must’ve spent some 3 hours in PetroSains!). Not wanting to wait and fight-out the notorious KL rush-hour traffic, we packed sushi from Isetan and had a very late lunch en-route down South!
