Reply To: The Malaysia and KL master thread

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AndyGWP wrote:

Hi experts… so, we’re going in Feb ’25

Our plan is a few days in KL, then work our way from there to Penang via. Taman Negara, Cameron Highlands, Ipoh.

I don’t really want to hire a car (hire prices are a bit mad and I just don’t want to drive anyways), but found this that would work really well:
https://www.tamannegara.asia/packages/cameron-highlands/4d3n-taman-negara-cameron-highlands/

Unfortunately, reviews for the company seem awful!

Anyone aware of anything similar? or a way for us to do what I’ve outlined above. It seems we can easily get from KL to Cameron using a private hire, and we can use Grab there and to Ipoh (where we can train to Penang). I just don’t know how we can squeeze in Taman Negara efficiently?

(We’d probably fly back from Penang to KL, or train but I’ve not looked into it yet)

Thanks 🙂

We’re in Singapore now for 4 nights having just done 5 nights in Bangkok, 3 nights Penang , 2 nights Cameron Highlands, 3 nights Melaka. We used Exo travel for transfers and the Malaysia hotels. Grab has been v useful throughout and astonishingly cheap. We travelled to Cameron highlands at the weekend and it was a big mistake ie 4.5 hours at a pace barely above walking speed and Majestic Hotel there was expensive and not pleasant. Weekday could be ok but we were kicking our heels for things to do in the daily rain. In retrospect swapping this out for Langkawi would have been better.

If we were repeating I’d certainly do E&O in Penang again – they were very good. Majestic KL also v good. Can’t comment on Taman Negara other than 35 years ago I spent a night in a hide there and saw one civet sans coffee beans. We preferred Melaka to Penang.

Our experience of being driven in Malaysia is generally that the standard of driving is very hairy. I wouldn’t consider it… I bumped into some guys in KL who were also using long distance buses.

Hope that helps?