Breakfast at Palm Beach Resort
The Palm Beach Resort and Spa has been a good choice for us. The inclusive breakfast include in the room rate of $53 CAD per night price is perfect. The food here has been delicious. The meals that we have bought here have been super affordable. In fact, we likely could not make our own meals at home for any less. The added bonus is the staff are fantastic here. We are one of a few if not the only ones staying for more than one night. Most of the hotel business seems to be Malaysians on the weekend. We have seen a few business meetings, luncheons, and retreats here, but for the most part we have this place to ourselves. It’s great for us but not for the business of the hotel.
We were sitting at breakfast today and a man came over and asked us where we were from. Turns out he is the Manager of the Palm Beach as well as the Tiara Labuan Hotel and the Lazenda hotel in Labuan. We had a great conversation with him. He asked us for feedback and we asked him about things we wanted to know. He even mentioned that he saw us at the Tiara when we stayed there. It’s funny how we stick out here like a sore thumb. We don’t really feel like that but it seems to be. We had an interesting conversation with the grab driver one day, brown people want to be white and white people want a tan. He said many people even use skin bleaching lotions to look whiter. How sad is that, no one is happy with what they have!
After breakfast we spent a couple of hours at the pool. We snagged the only shady spot there otherwise it would have been unbearable. Since we were the only people at the pool, we had our choice of lounge chairs and social distancing. We had sunny blue skies today after the previous day of clouds and monsoon rain two days ago.
We got out of the mid day sun and spent some time in our room with a beer and a blog. Gary likes to watch a few favourite YouTube videos while Linda is looking at sewing things online.
The (non breakfast) meals we have eaten in the hotel have been really delicious at a price that is really economical. The options are the same for lunch or supper. Linda had a grilled cheese sandwich and it was good, the downside is that it was smothered in honey. Look at the plate, you can see the puddle.
Gary ordered fish and chips, we each had hot lemon tea for 38.60 MYR about $11.50 CAD. Another meal we ordered 2 Chicken Satay (chicken skewers), one plate of fries to share and 1 tiger beer each for 51.30 MYR about $14.80 CAD. Finally another meal Linda chose Sesame Honey Chicken, Gary had Curry BBQ Chicken with Rice, we each had a Tiger beer for a total of 46.40 MYR about $13.40 CAD.