Palm Beach Resort - Paradise in Labuan
November 27th was our final night in Labuan. We had the most amazing weather with rain only occurring at night or early morning. It normally rains every night but we had two or three nights with no rain at all.
The only days we missed our morning walk were Remembrance Day and November 10 when we went shopping for long pants for Gary. We averaged 8.3 km every day but our morning walk varied between 5 km and 7.5 km. Our hotel room in Labuan was on the 4th floor, which is actually the 3rd floor if you don’t take the elevator. We did the 3 flights at least 4 times every day, some days more. We feel like we built a bit of leg strength and stamina. Three flights of stairs is 120 steps. A minimum of 480 steps up each day. Going down was easier.
Our final day in Labuan we missed breakfast as we headed to the airport at 5:30 am. We hate those early mornings. We had a bite to eat at McDonalds inside the Labuan airport. It was icky, but at least the the coffee was like back in Canada.
We landed in Kota Kinabalu and our luggage arrived without grief. A quick and cheap Grab ride got us to the Promenade Hotel 4 hours before check-in. We left our luggage at the hotel lockup and went for a walk. We stopped by the massage place where we went last year, to our dismay they don’t take credit cards. We had a fruit smoothie next door to the massage place to tide us over. After a refreshing mango and yogurt smoothie we started walking again.
There are some new massage places along the street. We decided to try one that offered a 2 hour oil massage for RM115 which was $33 CAD. They took credit cards. It actually was an amazing workout!
Our first night at the Promenade Hotel presented a challenge. The rooms are freezing cold and the thermostat does nothing. Even shutting off the thermostat does nothing to warm up the room. Secondly, the water from the sink faucet and shower was not even hot, tepid at best! No hot shower to warm up. The biggest issue was our room had a door to an adjoining room. The gap under the door, actually 2 doors, did nothing to stop the loud party sounds next door that kept us awake. Being situated right off the elevator was the final flaw with our room assignment. People are fairly inconsiderate when they get off the elevator at 1 am. Loud.
The next morning we got moved to the 11th floor. As soon as you step out of the elevator you can feel the hallways are warmer. Our new room was good, a long way from the elevator, no adjoining room and hot water!!
The next morning we went camping. If you want to hear about tenting at the base of Mount Kinabalu and our trip to the most northerly point in Borneo, read our next blog in a few days.
Our next blog will have our full camping summary with some amazing photos.