Thursday, May 13, 2010

1 vacation 2 heavens - Part I - Legend Water Chalet , Port Dickson

Hmmmm... this happens so long time ago and i've yet to record it down in my blog. It suppose to be a trip to celebrating BB's birthday. Because it falls on the school holiday, we got a real hard time selecting destinations for our holiday... Avillion PD was full, Langkawi air fare cost a bomb, and Avillion Marina left only a twin bed room....
At last we finalise on these 2 new place for our vacation, 1 night in Legend Water Chalet & the other 1 night in a hidden heaven in Cyberjaya.. Kudos to BB because he found this marvellous place.
Our first destinations is the further one, Legend Water Chalet. BB pick me up from home we started our journey there... its around noon so we stop by at Sg. Besi toll for KFC Lunch....
After about an hr drive, we reach to Legend Water Chalet, its not located near the Port Dickson but towards the end of it, which is nearer to Lukut town.
The Legend Water Chalet doesn't have its own private beach but sharing it with Glory beach Resort, not really sharing, but tumpang! you have to walk out from the hotels compound and enter to Glory beach. Well, nothing to be fancy about a public sharing beach....
The Legend Water Chalet has 2 types of rooms generally, 1 is the water chalet build on the coastal stretch of Port Dickson, facing the Straits of Melacca and the other type is the common hotel rooms, namely the Premium Tower..
The only carpark is available at the Premium Tower and you have to walk some distance to the water chalet. We were greeted into a room with welcome drinks while they processing our reservations rather than get you queueing up at the reception. We were then guide to our own chalet after the check in done.
We booked a single storey chalet, each of these luxurious chalet is equip with a super comfy balinese king size bed, 1 day bed next to the balcony, open concept bath room with bath tub, a private balcony and the unique features about it is the solid glass panel on the floor...



We spend our afternoon relaxing in the room and we compete the Zuma Shooting game on BB's I Phone... I then falled asleep, i guess BB stay his afternoon up reading magazines.
I woke up after a few hours afternoon nap and BB sugested to walk around the chalet to look for afternoon tea since we only had brunch. The water chalets are arrange in terrace, it could be quite chaotic especially the evening hours when kids running around. There isn't much facilities here as compared to Avillion PD, There's only a coffee house in Legend, no place to chill out too... The swimming pool too aren't too convincing as the size are quite small and BB dun have the habit of swimming in public pool. A Singaporean family were relaxing and while their children playing wildly in the pool, its even too noisy to sit at the pool side.There are 3 jaccuzies located next to the pool, but only 1 of it is working and it seems more like a fiberglass tank with jaccuzi pump...
 
There is an underconstruction hotel which is going to launch end of the year. The Legend International Water Homes is the suite with private pool and garden... this is so cool and lets hope that out next honeymoon can be Water Homes... hehehehe
We finished exploring the resort merely by 4pm and our stomach alarm rang... BB suggested to drive out to dinner.. Located in Lukut isn't too convenient, we drove some distance before we could reach the town.. maybe its still early and we didn't manage to find food. BB stop by at the only shopping arcade in PD, the Billion supermarket.. We thought we could walk around at least to kill some time but no, what we can do is grocery shopping in Billion, bought beer and cuttlefish for drinking session at night. While leaving, i spotted the Lobster crackers and bug BB to buy for me~ hahahaha
We at last drive back to a seafood restaurant we spotted in Lukut. Restaurant Chardin Seaview Seafood Village.

The restaurant is located just at the seaside but with no access to the beach. Maybe its consider too early for dinner.. The restaurant is quite deserted.. There's the open dining hall and also aircon room.. We choose to sit outside. There is a huge range of aquarium with living seafood for your selection... Here you see a lot of funny edible sea creatures...
 
I leave the task of order for food to bb, he decided not to order crab but trying on the XXL clam/ croackles instead..

Stir fried asparagus is always my favourite, i finished this up almost by myself...

Nestum Prawn... My first time trying this and its really really nice.. Prawn nice, fried Nestum also very nice..

Yamring with Kung Poh Style squid & mixed vege filling.

The XXL Size croackles - very fishy taste not to my liking... but BB likes~!
There's a balcony there where we can get the best view of sunset in PD, i guess thats why this place is famous other than their food. Many diners will gather at the balcony to take photgraph of sunset.. I took a series of photo too....  A lady was blaiming her husband for not able to take nice shot of her and she refer me can take nicer photo from the same spot... shioknye~!
Here are my collections of PD Sunsets...
 
 
 
This is one of my favourite and its still my lappie desktop~

There isn't much entertainment in Lukut or even Legend, we spend our time taking a really cosy bath in the bath tub, sit at the balcony facing the serenade night sea, drinking beer and chat~!
Next day really early in the morning, i sneak out from bed trying to catch the sunrise but the weather is not permitting... i only manage to recorded the water chalet in dusk.
 
I crawl back to sleep with my dinosaur again till its really late then only we slowly prepare ourselves for breakfast at the coffee house. Since its quite late so the food selection is lesser.. Nothing really worth to shout about the buffet breakfast in Legend water chalet. After the meal, we both sat at the lobby and doing some facebook and email updates... Only lobby are equipped with internet access.. guess what~! we got nothing better to do but sit next to each other and chat on msn~~~ (faint)
We move back to our chalet and prepare to pack our stuff to check out and move to another destination~ yay~!