Universal Studios Singapore (26 March 2014)

Our trip to USS is a fun one. The park is equally divided to entertain both young kids and adults. The park is not huge, so you'll need around a day to enjoy the rides and attractions (even with little children). The characters such as Woody Woodpecker, Betty Boop, Puss in Boots etc walks around freely which is a total "photo opp" opportunity but for my twins who have recently developed a fear for "mascots" it's a bit of a nightmare for their parents ;p 

 Photo from Google

First Stop : Hollywood/ New York 

  
 
The Audrey Hepburn Star, baby 

 

Can you tell me how to get? how to get to Sesame Street :)

We managed to catch the Sesame Street show, where Elmo, Bert, Ernie and Grover performed a short sing and dance session in front of the Library. Errr I think seeing Elmo in life sized kinda scare the twins because they started crying when the characters started dancing. Hahaha I was a bit annoyed because they watch Elmo practically everyday but when he's standing in front of them they ended up screaming their lungs out. Thank god I took videos which they enjoyed later :p

Elmo and Bert singing Hokey Pokey

With Cookie, Big Bird and Oscar

SCI-FI City

This attraction is for older children/adults with only one ride suitable for little munchkins. 

We mostly enjoyed the gift shops and just took photos with the Transformers cars and robots

 Miss Ranya running around

 Ryan wanted a photo with Bumblebee

Ancient Egypt

The Lost World

 Venturing into the dangerous Lost World with my little explorer (like real)

 Our bird eye view (or is it Pterodactyl view?) from above our ride :)

Far Far Away

Madagascar

We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to USS. The kids had fun and so did the parents :) halal food is not an issue in the park as there is at least 4 to 5 restaurants offering it, just check in the "park guide" and the halal sign posted on the front door. I don't mind arranging for another visit in 2-3 years when the kiddies are a bit older. 

Do check it out : Universal Studios,Singapore

Resort World Singapore : Festive Hotel (25-26 March 2014)

The trip to Singapore was organized at the very last minute due to some unforeseeable reason. Alhamdullilah despite the short planning we managed to have a very good time :) 

This time around we decided to visit Universal Studios Singapore in Sentosa Island. For our own convenience, we decided to booked a night stay in Festive World Hotel , which is one of the most child friendly hotels out of the 4 hotels in Resort World. It was a good choice based on location, comfort and price (booking was made via Booking.Com)

Resort world is situated in the red circle; Halal food can be found in the Malaysian Street (Green Circle),7 Eleven (sells microwaveable halal food) and McDonalds (The Bull Ring -Purple area), USS (blue circle) and Sea World (Yellow Circle) is about 5 minutes walk away from our hotel.

The first thing that totally caught my eye when we entered the hotel was the decorations :) So funky and whimsical. Wish I could have carried the art decos home.

Loving the bling-bling mosaic wall at the corridor

 The flat screen TV with my name welcoming us to the room :)

 How awesome pussom

 The rooms are average in size. 

Though it was comfy enough for the kids to run around in.

The gorgeous view from our balcony :)

 Love the kids pool and this mini water feature. 

The children had so much fun with the water sprinkler

We had our dinner in Malaysian Food Street. Nothing spectacular as the only halal food available is Nasi Lemak and Roti Canai.

After dinner we walked around the Bulls Ring where you can find Candylicious, Hard Rock Cafe, Starbucks etc.

Can't help but got myself some chocolate souvenirs and Nutella Go for own consumption. I think you can get these in One Utama :p shall check whether the price is the same hehe

You can't come to USS and not take a picture with the Universal Studios Globe :) 

 There's a fountain/laser/fire show at the Lake of Dream around 9.30pm at night

Morning View of Lake of Dreams

The twins with atuk and nenek :)

Review: I would say that we would not hesitate to rebook the hotel should we decide to visit Sentosa Island again. What really attracted me was the location. I love that all the attractions are just within walking distance. However, please take note that the hotel does not serve Halal food and Malaysian Street is only open at 10am. I would advice that you bring some bread/cookies/cereal if you're the type that need early breakfast. I  rate our experience at 8.5/10

Will update on our Day 2 (USS and Sea World) and Day 3 (Hello Kitty &The Little Big Club) Adventure soon. Have a nice day

Heritage Hotel, Ipoh (22-23 March 2014)

Our travel plans to Ipoh for my brother in law Nikah was a pretty last minute one, we were so thankful that we managed to secure a room at a reasonable rate from Booking.com despite the school holidays. At RM150++ with free breakfast pluss 2 free welcome drinks, I would say we got a pretty good deal.

The car ride from Klang to Ipoh took us over 3 hours due to the holiday jam, other than that the trip was pretty much uneventful :p

We chose Heritage Hotel due to its location to the wedding reception venue, anyway it is easy to access too and there's a few restaurants around if you don't feel like eating at the hotel.

Google Photo

The room is pretty big but the furniture is a bit "old". Maybe it is time for a renovation? Other than that I have no other complaints. The kids love the space and I find it comfortable.

There is a horse stable behind the hotel, so the children had fun in the morning "spying" on the horses doing its morning exercises :) We were all too tired to go out for dinner so we ordered room service. The Chicken Rice and Nasi Goreng was pretty tasty and quite cheap considering that it is room service.

Basic and clean bathroom, an absolute MUST for me :) 

(and most people I would think so)

Did not bother taking a photo of the breakfast buffet as it was very basic. Some of the buffet utensils was a bit dirty, saw loads of fingerprints on the juice glasses. I have made complaints and hopefully they'll do something about it. 

I rate our experience at Heritage Hotel a 6.9/10. It was ok and comfortable for a short stay but I don't think I would choose it again for a stay longer than 2 nights due to the lack of activities in the hotel and around it.