A road trip to CorbettPark and Naukuchiyatal from Lucknow

We took a road trip to Corbett Park and Naukuchiyatal from Lucknow during Holi. We started on the 9th of March '09. We started early at 5:30am with Pankaj, Divya and kids from Lucknow. We had the day's food with us. As usual the National Highway 24 which has major stops at every approx 80 kms--Sitapur, Shahjahanpur and Barielly.
We had bought a pair of walkie talkies from Penang, Malaysia and they were put to good use with two cars going in line we could communicate with each other with them, without having to use our mobiles.
Another thing which was of great use was the special cloth which Shaleen had got from Big Bazaar with the help of which you can put almost anything on the dashboard without it sliiping off even when the car would turn acutely. This cloth he had seen the cab drivers in Singapore use.
FM radio was available till Shahjahanpur from Lucknow, so we had latest music available to us without effort. We used the HP pumps for refuelling and washroom facilities. From Barielly we went to Moradabad as Pankaj and family were planning to stay there for the night as Sanjay and Moushmi's guests.
After having a delicious lunch at Moushmi's house, we left to meet my friend Minoo. From her house it took us around 2and a quarter hours, to reach the Corbett Hideway, where we were staying as Club Mahindra guests.
We liked the room and the resort was good. We tried the food at Jim's Grill it was great.

Genting- First world Hotel- Reception area looked like a railway platform

We had been strongly recommended to visit Genting Highlands for the theme parks so we planned to stay there on the 1st of January 2009 for one day. When we reached First world hotel, by the cable car, we were shocked to find that the reception area looked like Railway platform. It was so crowded with many people waiting patiently and icecream and candy vendors. We had a long 4hr waiting period for checking in, that, when we had made a confirmed paid booking through internet!! We were shocked and dismayed. Maybe it being a public holiday contributed to the mass public inflow to Genting. Moral-- STAY AWAY FROM GENTING ON A PUBLIC HOLIDAY!! By luck we got our room earlier otherwise we were supposed to leave our luggage in a baggage room and proceed to the theme park.
We took a combined ticket for indoor and outdoor theme parks. The parks esp the indoor one was open till 2:00AM.
I enjoyed the roller coaster but we had to separately purchase tickets for that. Our family of four got separated in two groups in the outdoor theme park due to some misunderstanding and we lost almost 4 hours looking for each other and we were literally in tears, when we found each other. IN GENTING STICK TOGETHER!

Sunway Lagoon our second best stay in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur

map of Sunway lagoon theme park

We were in Sunway resort hotel on 31st Dec 2008. After having a great breakfast there was a lot for the indian palate as well. We went to the theme park and and the water park. It was fun. The wave pool was great and I loved the Victoria falls. The entry to Water park, Amusement park and wild life park was included in the stay package. We would have had to pay extra to go to the extreme park and scream park. In any case there was not enough time to cover these  3 parks. We had not taken our cameras and handycam along so we do not have many photos of the theme park but I found a great video on you tube and i am embedding it for you folks.

Sunway Lagoon, Kuala Lumpur

It was a long journey reaching Kuala Lumpur. We had taken a Singapore airline flight which stopped at Singapore. The flight from Kolkata was a bad experience as the in flight food service took almost 3 hrs, there was no time to catch up on sleep. The lights were never put off and when we reached Singapore airport there was no place to sleep, we just explored the airport in early morning hours.
We reached Kuala lumpur. Luckily at the airport we found a taxi which took us to Sunway Lagoon at two thirds the price, that they were asking at the official desk.
We reached Sunway Lagoon and checked into the resort and went to explore the pyramid mall. The mall was huge with lots of showrooms of international brands. The ice skating rink in the atria was great and amazing. Then we went to our room to rest and all of us fell asleep at 4pm local time and then woke up at 1.30am night. We were more jetlagged and tired than we had been when we had reached New york from New Delhi, due to the poor inflight service in the flight from Kolkata. We placed an order with the room service and to our relief the food was good. We even got daal and rice at that hour.