What have I done to deserve this?

Imagine, if you would, the Metro Centre at Gateshead. Now imagine that all the shops are shut, apart from the fast food chains, and the only thing open is the indoor theme park. Now fill the indoor theme park with thousands of the most ignorant, oblivious and loud people you can imagine. Now imagine you’re stuck in the middle of this for four nights in a hotel room with paper thin walls, slowly getting more and more sleep deprived each day. You now have some idea of what we are going through here!

This place is Hell! Get us out of here!

It’s not all bad, as we’d have checked out and headed back to Kuala Lumpur, but it’s the sort of place that you spend the majority of your time in your room rather than face the horrors outside. And luckily, the best thing about the hotel is the views from the room window.

These change every hour as the clouds below form new shapes, and almost make the rest of the resort bearable. We’ve also had a free breakfast included each day, which has saved a bit more cash for us.

The casinos are as we first thought – very limited in terms of choice. We found a couple of machines to go on, but realised pretty quickly that the odds of winning were too high.

Pretty much all we’ve managed to achieve here is to go for a couple of games of bowling. We tried to go on a couple of rides today, but unbelievably they closed down vast sections of the theme park because of (literally) a couple of drops of rain! Including some of the indoor rides!!

We have one day left here, before catching the overnight train from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore. It can’t come quick enough!