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[b]chief wrote:[/b]
[quote]Taken from the General Section

Re:Road Conditions - 2007/11/04 02:48 
[By Daddy]

[quote]
Just some pointers about Century Pines if you're interested to know.

1) The room we stayed in was in the annexed building, next to the main hotel block. A covered pathway leads you to the 3 storey walk up. Room numbers starting with alphabets "A" & "B" are situated in the main multi-storey block (with lift) and "C" are in the annexed block. If you get the "B01 to probably B08" or "C01 to C04" these would be located on the ground floor and has sliding doors to a patio. However, in this weather, I noticed the grass patio was water logged. If you're concerned about mosquitoes, the room we had, came with an electric "Vape" mosquito repellent. (I assume it's standard for all rooms)

2) The King size bed was sufficient to accomodate the 4 of us quite comfortably, so no need to pay the extra RM50 for additional bed.

3) Rooms come with long bath and shower combo, but just make sure you turn on the water heater switch 1/2 an hour before you bath, else you'll hear blood curdling shrieks coming from behind the shower curtains!! The other interesting morsel of information is the "knob" that switches from the shower to the long bath faucet. You'll need a plier to pull the stubborn knob outwards to activate the faucet. Unfortunately, a handy plier was not on my survival kit list to pack, so I had to call housekeeing for assistance.
Lo and behold, quick as a flash, the security-cum-housekeeping person came with, you might have guessed, a handy plier!! A bit of shampoo to lubricate the knob thingamajig, a firm twist and you're good to go.

4) Breakfast for 2 (FOC with the room) gets you a choice of 3 options. American, Continental or Local fare (nasi lemak, noodles, etc). We opted for the American, which comes with 2 toasts, butter and jam, corn flakes (you can ask for coco crunch or plain)& milk, 2 sunny side eggs, one slice of chicken ham and 1 sausage with a small portion of salad on the side. Tea or coffee, free refill.

5) There's a public garden and children's playground right outside the hotel (across the road). Though don't get your hopes up, the facilities (swings, slides, monkey bars, etc) are all in a bad state of disrepair. Again, because of the rains, the grounds are like mud traps for your shoes!!
6) You can get almost anything, by way of groceries, in the stores in Tanah Rata itself (a mere 2 minute walk from the hotel), but most of the shops don't sell canned pork (luncheon meat or stewed pork in cans). The exception being a chinese kedai runcit, besides HSBC bank, which stocks the stuff on shelves at the back of the store.(ask the helpful shop keeper and he'll happily point you to it)

7) If you ask for a tourist map, the hotel will sell it to you for RM4. It's the same price as sold at the the tourist spots, so just get one at the hotel. It's very useful, it shows where everyting is located, although sometimes the directions indicated are not extremely precise.

8) One other thing that would be important if your kids are still on formula, the water from the faucet turns slightly brown after a heavy down pour!! So make sure you bring enough water along or go get bottled drinking water to boil!!(in-house kettle provided)

9) Every room comes with a DVD, but we found that the one we had, could not play any of the 10 discs we brought along for the kids (all the disc's worked well in our MPV's DVD). So once again we called our trusty housekeeping. This time a "technician" came (whom I could have sworn, looked like the parking attendant at the hotel's basement parking) lugging a replacement DVD. After he fixed the problem, he tested one of the disc and behold, it works. After he left, we found out that that was the only disc out of the 10 that did. The rest, the DVD had a difference of opinion and just indicated, "no disc"..!!! (It was already late in the evening, so we left it at that)(Anyway, if you know kids, they can watch the same disc/show a hundred and one times and each time be as excited as if they were watching it for the first time, go figger)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not airing my grouses, I would gladly stay at Century Pines again, were I to go up to CH the next time (and tomorrow won't be soon enough). I am just regailing some of my personal experiences (and not necessary "bad", just part of the unique CH experience) for the benefit of others, whom I hope might benefit from it as I had.

Again, Karen, I hope you are not dissuaded by my inputs about CP, there are so much more good things about CP that I did not have a chance to detail here. My inputs are just to help you make your trip as memorable and fun as it was for my family and I. 
Frankly, what's not to love about CH.

P.S. If you like real X'mas tree's, do get one from the many farm/shops in CH, beats the plastic ones I had.
[/quote]<br><br>Post edited by: chief, at: 2007/11/06 10:36[/quote]

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Topic History of: Century Pines
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coolznick	Century Pines still got rooms available, i just booked a room there on May 17, staying at 4th floor. Deluxe room cost me RM262.20. Good luck everybody!
coolznick	Oh ic...i thought there will be lot of them flying around my ears. Haha! Luckily... Century Pines hotel room are complete with sound proof room, right?
SinChee	Quite a fair bit of the hotels will have this problem. It is not isolated to only Century Pines. I'm just not comfortable with them around. Not that there will be a lot of them, just not comfortable if I see one or two of them. But they are not the Aedes type. You will encounter a few here or there, when you're visiting some of the tourist spot. You either bring along repellant or your blood donation card...... Rgds
coolznick	Century Pines hotel got mosquito???
SinChee	Mosquitoes, to be exact....
coolznick	Mosquito???

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