KL airport has an overnight hotel just off the airport car park. The rooms are tiny, and I mean tiny, but are fine if all you are wanting between flights is a bed. To get anything extra it costs, even if you want the air con on, but hey its budget. As a bonus after leaving the airport, on the far side of the car park is a cafeteria. The food is basic but a lot of choice and great for the budget conscious. So we stopped for a feed.The Tune Hotel also has a 7 eleve...

We came back to KL from Penang for one night and spent it in the China Town area staying at a very budget priced "Swiss Inn", which was easily accessible from the monorail. Public transport in KL is generally, cheap and easy. The accommodation proved perfect for one night even though room did not have a window. We enjoyed wandering the streets, heard some bad karaoke, before preparing for the next leg our next adventure, to Sabah. 

"That's the smallest receipt I have ever seen!" exclaimed the Air Asia Sky bus attendant and he laughed as he showed his colleague. We had just boarded the bus from the KLLCC (Kuala Lumpur Low Cost Carrier terminal) after an Air Asia flight from Perth. Rather than carry bulky A4 size pages printed off the Internet for our airline and bus tickets, I had reduced the size on a photocopier and cut out just the necessary receipt and barcode. It is all about the w...

We flew through the night from Dubai to Kuala Lumpur and were supposed to have a tarmac stopover in Mumbai, India (as we did on the way over). As the in flight map got to above Mumbai we were still at 30,000 ft, so we realized there was not going to be a stopover. It was not until we were in our hotel room in KL and turned the news on, that we realized there was a very good reason not to land in Mumbai. It was the night that extremist gunmen took control of sever...