Club Med Cherating Day 1

On Sunday, woke up pretty early.

It’s time to go Club Med Cherating!

We drove out from home quite early. Around 5.30am.

While it is unlikely to have huge jam on Sunday morning for the Causeway, we rather not take any chance. Furthermore, was expecting to have certain wrong route taken along the way …

At Woodlands Checkpoint, very smooth.

In no time, we hit into Johor Checkpoint. Just as fast as well.

But I think after the checkpoint, missed some turn, and it probably routed a slightly longer way to get into the North-South Expressway.

Of course, we still managed to get into it.

The first part of the journey was to get o Yong Peng, somewhere.

Somehow, the GPS guided us to exit from the expressway. Hmmm.

And we hit into somewhat ‘normal’ roads in Yong Peng.

Well, in GPS we trust, so we followed to the GPS’ direction, and finally see some signs for it to head to Segamat.

Based on my memory when I checked the route, seemed good.

Only thing is, the kind of road makes you wonder if you are really on right track.

Pretty much, 鸟不生蛋 roads.

Trying to keep myself alert the whole time, with 2 sleeping beauties in my car.

Safety has to come first.

Most of the way, you don’t see anything, except patches of land on the left and right. From time to time, hit into some small village, or some industrial places.

Still, in GPS we trust.

Then the road leads to Gambang. Ahhh. Another familiar name from my memory of the route checked.

GPS is a wonder. Without GPS, I don’t think I will drive to Cherating.

And yes, we managed to reach Club Med Cherating around 11.30am! Wowee!!!

But too early to check-in.

So we headed out for our lunch at some nearby town, Kemaman.

Really small town. Of course, unfamiliarity forced me to search for McDonald, one of the landscape as told by the staff at Club Med.

Managed to find it, and we had our lunch there.

After lunch, drove back to Club Med. Explored a little before we officially check-in around 3pm.

You can’t check-in earlier, unless you pay for it. Not worth it for the few hours. Would have costed us around MYR500 just to check in at around 12pm, which essentially means just to have their lunch, and getting the room earlier.

After settling the luggage and stuff at the room, we went out to explore the place a bit more. Went to have noodle as afternoon snack somemore. Greedy parents. :P

Then went back to the room to rest.

Well, I was tired. Rested a little in the room. Karinna and I actually fell asleep.

Zyan, was playing the ipad while we were sleeping.

We had our dinner around 8pm at the Mutiara restaurant, serving international buffett. Fine dining is available, but has to be booked at around 0830hrs in the morning. And it’s usually full.

Anyway, for me, any food is fine.

I only eat to live.

After we finished our dinner, there is a show at 9pm.

Every night, they will have some event show. So we went for it.

The performance is from the hospitality staff, thus not expecting it to be professional performance.

But fun is the name of the game.

And I think they got it!

After it ended, there was supposed to have another segment.

They had this “Miss Cherating” event.

However, Zyan said he wanted to go back to the room.

Thus, we called it the night for Day 1.