2 weeks before, I was trying to book a hotel at
Port Dickson. After
5 to 6 hotels I called, all fully booked! Until I called this
Laguna Condo Resort. There were 2 units available, every unit has 2 bedroom (with air-conditional), 2 washroom, a living hall and a kitchen. So I made a reservation with them and requested the 2 units
side-by-side, but the girl said they cannot provide both units on the same floor because of
"Fully Booked". Without a choice, we agree to have one unit on the fourth floor and another unit at second floor.
They will 'text' me through my Cellular Phone for me to bank-in a
MYR50.00 for the reservation, I agree and waiting for
'2' days! I'm started to suspect...why they need 2 days to text me the bank account number...seems like
they are not serious about the customer reservation, I think to myself...
On the day (26th December 2009), 2 families were happily drive towards the Resort to have a 2 days 1 night holiday at
Port Dickson.
Once we reached our destination -
Laguna Condo Resort, we felt a bit disappointed of the
'Rundown' outlook! But no choices, because the hotels nearby almost fully booked on this festive season. It doesn't matter, we check-in and we drove out the resort to search for some excitement around...
The rundown outlook of Laguna Condo Resort - Port DicksonWe went to the
Blue Lagoon Beach and I will blog about it in my following post...
Went back to the resort around 6pm, to have some rest and will be out for dinner. Then we noticed, the two units we got are slightly different setup...one with grilled and the other don't. And one unit short of pillows, so I called up the office to request the shortage and the girl told me :
"Please look around what are not complete in your unit, I will prepare and bring it over. Because after 7pm, the office will be close and there will be no maintenance guy around until next morning !!"I was totally
SHOCKED! No more maintenance after 7pm?! What if anything goes wrong with the electricity, you gonna wait till morning! Oh! My goodness! This was the
WORST Resort I ever stay in my life!!
Ok...we stayed!
Poor maintenance of the gardenI noticed the floor
SANK at many area around the building! I wondering will this become
dangerous building and threaten to human life??
The floor sank...I realized why we
CANNOT get the side-by-side unit because we are the
ONLY unit available on that floor! The rest are all abandon units! Some of the doors and windows even broken! Many units also have the
'Notice' attached on the main door...It shows, this is the area where peoples already
Give Up for their investment!
The Notice on the entranceWhy the town council doesn't take any action on the building? Like I said, it can become a threaten to human life? Or there are so Lose about this? Or...maybe all because of the
Great Kampung (Villagers) Spirits and the
Typical Malaysian Attitude!But inside the apartment, Everything were OK! It was clean. As you can see from the photos below...
The Living Hall
The Kitchen
The room with queen bed
The Bathroom attached to the room above
Another room with 2 single bedDuring night time, there were no
'Lights' on the corridor! Only the lights from our unit! It was looks like
HELL to me! Never see the security guard patrol around, No Security!! No privacy!! Bunch of youngster from outside ramp their bikes around!
Oh! no! I stayed in the
Hell!
The corridor without lights
So I have to get some Tiger beer to keep me company for that night! We locked the door before midnight, full of worries because of the kids around...Totally NO holiday atmosphere at all! And wish tomorrow sunlight come as soon as possible!At Last, we made it! Haha! I noticed there are few abandon houses just opposite our units, it looks really like a Haunted house to me!
The abandon houses in front of our unit
Roots are everywhere on the wall
MY TRIPS - Home
Koh Tao, Mae Haad harbour
This is at ground zero level, the general Wat or temple area and it shows an interesting structure which is the entrance to some stairs, up the hill.
This a view if these stairs, I didn't count them but there must've been at least 200 or more and most of them are totally out of sync, some steep, some shallow and it almost seems never ending! Hence my comment on yesterdays post that aren't too many stairs at the cave!
Here's the actual foot print, filled with soapy water since the visitors keep cleaning the inside of the foot print. My Thai is not good enough yet to ask if there is any foot odor.
A whole family with some monks had made the climb and they were very friendly and all wanted to take a picture of our kids!
This is how the exit to the cave temple looks like from the road. They're currently working very hard to bring this Temple up to scratch and attract more visitors, so right now it's beautifully unexplored and almost untouched.
The entrance to the cave system, the passing main monk showed us the lights leading up to the entrance and opened them up, which at night most certainly looks pretty good, right now, when we visited it didn't have the impact it will most likely have at night. The amount of stairs to climb is very reasonable.
Next to the cave entrance is this very serene looking Buddha statue.
Inside the cave are plenty of stalagmites and this Buddha statue. 
A view of the stalagmites.