Earlier last month, me and my family had a family vacation to
Peladang Agro Resort,
Setiu,
Terengganu. Attracted by its reputation as an
agricultural resort, the first in
Malaysia we choose the
resort as our
vacation spot.
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Main Lobby |
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Camp site |
I went there together with my family of 4, my parent in law, sister and brother in law together with their family. We booked
3 rooms with 2 of them are
connecting room. Actually we only booked 2
rooms through
Booking.com and add another
room at the
check in counter. The
receptionist in-duty was so kind to give the third
room same
price as the other two. It was a
great deal actually.
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Receptionist |
We arrived at the
lobby and were astonished with the
tranquility of the
lobby and restaurant which are seems to be built on a man-made
lake which also serve as the
kayaking trek. Check in was a bit confusing because this is the first time we used
Booking.com, we need to
pay full amount at the
resort because the
credit card details inserted at
Booking.com was only for
booking confirmation. Luckily we have enough
cash with us,
credit card facility had been broken that day. So guys, if you are coming here, spare enough
cash for
room charges and
MYR100 per night security deposit.
We arrived on 10.30 and was given a
room for early check in without additional
charges. The other 2
rooms are not ready to check in. We headed over to the
room and put all our
luggage there. There was
no trolley present at the
lobby area, so please keep your
luggage to
minimum weight as there are
rooms that are located far
away from the
lobby.
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Road to rooms and chalet |
Setting our
luggage and eating some foods that we had bring from our home, then we headed over to the
pool which is the
main attraction here. It was
advertised as a
mini water theme park. Unlucky, the
mini theme park pool was closed and the
water level was very low and seemed poorly maintained. They only open a
child pool and
adult pool which could only cater for 20-30 persons per session.
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ordinary pool |
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adult pool |
The
pools are not only open to the
resort guest but also
open to
public which could make the guest feel nonexclusive. The
public only had to pay
MYR2.00 per person to us the
pool. It is about
USD0.50.
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Mini theme park |
The
resort is maintained by an
NGO so you could expect their
government servant level of services. No standby person on
public holiday, only a trainee assigned to collect
pool money. When asked on the closure of the
mini theme park, he could only tell us that he is a trainee,
no authoritative staff works that day,
water pressure is
too low. He was not authorized to operate the pump. What all could we do except to accept it and just use the
ordinary pools.
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Poor pool maintenance |
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Way poorer |
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Pump house |
Our childrens were having so much fun at the
pool, their main activity here is
swimming and playing in the pool. Morning, afternoon, evening. There are many
gazebos around the
resort which we used one of them located in front of our room as our
grilling station. We brought with us portable mini stove and use them for grilling.
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Closed. At first I thought there was a police case seeing the famous do not cross yellow tape |
At the
night, nothing much could we do except for
resting and
sleeping.
WIFI is not available at the resort and
3G reception is very low. So, don't dream of updating your
blog here.
The next morning, which is a working day for
Terengganu and
Malaysia, we had the pools to our
clan only. The
mini theme park was also being
open but was not properly
cleaned. We had some kind of
gross feeling soaking our feet in the pool.
The
resort once had a very great name during its
early days. Poor
maintenance, poor
management and poor
financial made the
resort very poor. They need to hand over the
resort to private company to manage it. Surely,
tourism is not
Peladang expertise. The
resort really need to be managed in the hand of an
expert in
tourism.
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1 queen bed and 1 single bed |
If you really want a
very cheap budget agrotourism resort, head over to
Peladang Agro Resort. Join the
jungle trekking activity in the jungle behind the
resort and have a taste of
local fruits here.
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Very basic |
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work station. Do you dare working there at night? |
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Dusty and antique feels |
Welcome to Terengganu, Malaysia Truly Asia
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