Siem Reap - Part II

We stayed at Heart of Angkor Hotel for 4 days 3 Nights. Hotel terletak betul-betul di tengah-tengah town yang meriah waktu malam, dekat dengan Pub Street dan tak jauh dari Old Market, Hard Rock Cafe dan restoran-restoran halal. Seperti biasa booked through booking.com, secured by credit card, but this time i used debit card and paid cash upon check in. Masa booking, katanya ada breakfast, tapi actually tak ada pun, tapi ada air panas and free coffee and tea, boleh buat sendiri at the lobby. Ada free wifi jugak dan bilik not bad, okaylah just to stay in nak tidur ja kan. Tapi sebenarnya di area tu ada banyak sangat budget hotels dan hostels, kalau tak kisah nak redah je walk in pun boleh, am sure ada bilik, kalau tak ada banyak je small hotels dekat area-area lain. 

First day sampai, dah memang penat sangat, dengan cuaca yang sangat panas dan jalan yang berdebu sepanjang jalan, kalau sesiapa yang nak datang tu better bawak face mask sendiri. So, sampai hotel rest dan malam jalan-jalan di area pub street. One thing not to be missed kalau datang sini is to try their fruit shake or fruit juice, sedap and fresh only USD1, I had fruit shake everyday i was here.

 Pub Street- walking distance from the hotel. Malam-malam meriah, penuh dengan foreigners.

 Our hotel room

Fruti Juice/Shake stall - ada banyak macam ni, same concept, same price. 

Siem Reap - Part I

Arrived Siem Reap at 2.40 pm local time, luckily, we Malaysians tak payah apply visa, boleh terus ke Immigration, just make sure isi siap-siap arrival card and custom declarations atas flight. Cabin crew and distribute masa di departure hall di Malaysia lagi atau atas flight. Kalau minta kat immigration kat airport memang kena berletiaq, I've seen a few yang dah kena.

Anyways, sepatutnya ada pick-up tuk-tuk from hotel, tapi tak sampai-sampai, so beli simcard dulu and call hotel, nasib baik they realized their mistake and sent a tuk-tuk to pick us up. Dalam 20 minit jugak la tunggu, but I don't really mind sebab they apologized, that's good enough. The tuk-tuk yang hantar ke hotel tu pun dok promote suruh ambik dia untuk trips, tapi quite expensive so I decided to check on Safy Angkor Wat on FB, lepas ber whatsapp akhirnya setuju untuk hire dia.

 Departure Hall KLIA2

  Arrived Siem Reap - Small but beautiful traditional architecture.

Sim card boleh dibeli di luar airport sebelah kanan. I bought the 5USD, 3GB package, tak guna habis pun sebab kat hotel pun ada wifi. Calls guna untuk call tuk-tuk driver saja. Masa nak balance ada balance banyak lagi.

Luar airport tengah tunggu tuk-tuk. Panas sangat cuaca hari tu.

A Trip to Siam Reap, Finally!

Finally, a trip i've been longing to go SIEM REAP, feels like screaming my lungs out. Tickets were purchased 6 months ago. Got it for RM150/Pax KUL-SIEM REAP-KUL via AA. I've been searching for the best ,cheap and nice hotels. Best as in located in town area, so that I don't have to take the tuk-tuk to walk around and cheap and nice since I'm not gonna stay all day long in the hotel room.

Our PEN-KUL-PEN flights were bought 1 month before our departure date. Got if for RM100.12/Pax (without baggage).

 

So, selepas buat research, as in baca dalam blog and baca reviews, I decided to book Heart of Angkor Hotel via Booking.com. Since all expenses in Siem Reap kena bayar guna USD, I tried to search for ways to reduce my expenses there, and so happened, this hotel provide free shuttle from airport to the hotel, so masa book hotel tu request for free shuttle, and after a week the hotel sent an email asking for my arrival time.

To be continued..