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Topic History of: Travelling to CH (kid-friendly programme) Now and then
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| benedict lek |
Dear Sir/Madam,
I will be going to Cameron Highlands on the 14th Dec and intend to stay at your Inn and check out on the 16th Dec 2006. I am in a group of 4families making a total of about 18people including children. Kindly let me know if you might be able to accomodate us and the charges involved.
Looking forward to your reply.
Best rgards,
Benedict |
| Karen |
Dear Sweet
Here is the website so you can view photos of Cameronian Inn witht their well kept gardens and rooms. Below is the contact address, however, they do not reserve rooms.
The rooms are super clean and the toilets srubbed very clean and even smell very clean. Mosaic tiled floors. Reminiscent of toilets old bungalow style. Most of the rooms have carpeted floors ...great for the cold weather.
Ask for the quieter wing where the family rooms are.
They have bulit 3 extra double rooms with attached bathrooms. Those are with tiled floors.But they are near the car park though
I believe the owners are an Indian family. There is also a Chinese manager of sorts there as well. They are all friendly, sympathetic and very helpful.
I would rate it as the best guest house in Tanah Rata. We have visited quite a few and stayed at a terrible Daniel's Homestay for a night in a windowless box. The ones at Brinchang has no garden at all!
Anymore questions, I will be happy to reply
Best of luck to you if you are heading for CH
Karen
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http://cameronianinn.com/
The Manager
No 16 Jalan Mentingi
39000 Tanah Rata
Cameron Highlands
Pahang, Malaysia.
(near maybank)
Tel: 05 - 491 1327
Fax: 05 - 491 4966
Email: info@cameronianinn.com |
| sweetlinki |
Karen Chin,
Your article is interesting to read. Can you tell me who to contact at Cameronian Inn? How do you rate the room there? Are the owners Chinese, Indian or others?
Many thanks
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| Karen Chin |
INTRO
We went to CH with our daughter 4 years ago when she was 2.5 years old. We stayed at MNS for a few days and in Cameronian Inn, Tanah Rata for another few days..We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and made friends that we kept till this present day.
We did not have a car and took public transport most of the time (even the Sin-Kl, Tapah -Tanah rata). Luckily some new friends from KL kindly drove us to Sungai Palas Tea house and to Brinchang.
DAY #1
Now our daughter is 6 years old and this is how we spent the last 5 days. We took a straight bus from Singapore to CH... the night bus was good and no sign of nausea...we reached Tanah Rata at 7am. The bus stopped us just after Maybank and we walked the 50m to Cameronian Inn.
It was like coming home, the rabbits are still there, there is a new dog, (the pets are good for kids) the same manager and his family, the garden, the same breakfast menu...We sat down to a leisurely breakfast of banana pancakes, tea, eggs and toast.
The first day was spent walking around Tanah Rata and looking for familiar nooks. We were happy to find the same restaurants still aorund. However, we were not so happy to see more and more construction.
Then we had lunch at Bunga Suria, Indian restaurant. Then we took a siesta - afternoon break in our room...my daughter and I had a good soak in the Inn's only long bath. It was great.
Then we had a nice scone set at Cameronian Inn for
tea. We took another stroll down to the main street
to buy some souveneirs and see new development (some new cafes and Marry brown fast food!). And had a fantastic steamboat dinner at Mayflower.
We had an early night so we could wake up early the next morning to take advantage of the good weather in the early part of the day. Rain seem to fall always in the late afternoons.
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DAY #2
We started the second day with a public bus ride to the junction of Sungai Palas Tea Estate. We walked in very much disturbed by the numerous cars and ended up navigating much faster than the cars that choked up the bends. We took a small diversion to moongate and were happy to have a peaceful path that had strawberry and cabbage patches all along. There was a big bangalow at the end of the path. My daughter also spotted a falcon.
Then it started raining! Oh we ran to the junction and manged to hitch a ride at the back of a CH jeep that usually carry vegetables. The rain stopped and we were let off at another juction and had to walk the 500m to the tea house.
The views at the tea house were great and my hungry daughter and husband wolfed down cakes, sandwiches, tea etc. Then we had a free tour of the tea factory. That was a hit with my daughter.She also liked the stream that runs through the tea plantation.
The walk, though just 2 km was quite tiring for our complaning daughter who was cheered up by a rubber puffer ball (toy) that was dropped by soem other kid on the floor. She was overjoyed when she found an even bigger one down the road.
Then we started the walk back out of the estate and caught a ride with an old school bus. We stopped at kea farm and looked around at the disappointing shops and ugly strawberries.We also had a terrible strawberry juice at the Strawberry view cafe. We missed teh public bus so we took a taxi to Brinchang (RM6)
At Brinchang we found a nice Chinese restaurant and had a good prok rib soup (Ba Kut teh) ...it was raining cats and dogs so we were thankful for the hot soup.
Then we walked around Brinchang for a bit before taking a taxi (RM4 a nice old mercedes taxi) to Tanah Rata. We headed to Yong teng cafe (opposire May Bank)for pancakes at tea time
We were quite tired that night so I went to pack some naan and tandoori chicken , strawberry jam and yogurt for dinner. We had a quiet dinner in the living room outside our room.
That evening, my daughter drew a great picture of the tea plantation and the mist/clouds that rolled into the vballey after the rain. Sketch pads, coloured crayons accompany us on every trip.
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Day #3
We woke up even earlier today. Had a quick breakfast. Then we headed out for Robinson's Fall. It is easy for our daughter. The water fall was not impressive so we continued to Gunung Berembun. It was difficult for my daughter and husband as he had to carry her up and down some real vertical landscapes.
But the enchanted mossy forest, the family of birds, the butterflies, the pretty flowers, the vine swings were all worth the effort. It took us 4 hours to reach the summit and only 1.5 hours to descend. We had to encourage our daughter with songs, tales and cereal bars.
I would not recommend for families that have never gone trekking. Our family went to Kinabalu together. Berembun was more difficult than Kinabalu.
And if it is raining, please do not go trekking.
Then we had strawberry ice cream when we reached Mardi, the ending point. Quickly went to Yong Teng's again for pancakes, hotdogs etc etc
Went back to the Inn, had a good scrub and headed out for hot chinese food. Made a mistake to eat at Hong Kong restaurant.The black pepper beef had more celery than beef.
Day #4
Went to Yong Teng (Again)for breakfast so we can support the deaf/mute couple that runs this stall that sells everything under the sun.We had 5 pancakes in all.They remembered our daughter from 4 years back and we were signing all kinds of gestures and having a good laugh.
After breakfast, we took a taxi to Brincahng to visit the Buddhist monastery. It is a beautiful place with lots of wall paintings, statues, fish ponds.THen we bought some really nice strawberries from an orang asli who spoke perfect Cantonese. Also scouted the stalls for games and got paper dolls for my daughter. That kept her occupied that evening.
Then we had Chinese food at Jew May...ok...not so good. BUt my daughter got to play with the daughter of the owner and they went to look at pets in the shop next door after theri cartoon show.
We then went to the bakery and sat down for tarts and tea. We also took time to write postcards.
After that, I suggested taking the public bus all the way to Kg Raja so we can see what is at the end of CH. It was at first interesting...to see old wooden houses, chinese temples, lots of orang asli taking the bus in ultra modern clothes, leather jacket and all. But when my daughter started to puck...it was not fun anymore.
However, she was fine again when we got back to the Inn and demanded a scone set since her lunch has gone into a bag with all that pucking. The tea warmed us as it started to rain again.
That night was were determined to have a good meal with soup and lots of vegetables so
we headed to Mayflower and had a really good meal.
That night, my daughter drew the lighting that she sees everyday in CH.
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Day #5
It was time to leave and the manager of our Inn brought out an old photo album ...he had taken 2 of the photos of my daughter 4 years back. It was a rainy farewell
We took the CH-SIN direct bus and my daughter pucked for a good half hour on teh 1.5 hour descent to Tapah.
WE HAD A GREAT TIME... |
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