Genting Highlands (Malaysia) is located at an altitude of over 2000m. This is a resort city and a famous entertainment complex of Malaysia. If anywhere in Malaysia is such a bustling city like Las Vegas, Genting Highlands is the city itself.
Genting Highlands - the cloudy city of Malaysia
Genting Highlands is about 45 minutes away from Kuala Lumpur. This is a city located in the Titiwangsa mountain range, at an altitude of over 2000 m.
Genting City on Genting plateau is a resort city built on an entertainment complex model. Hidden in the clouds, Genting is Malaysia's famous play area. It is like the Las Vegas of this country with many casinos, amusement parks, resorts, golf courses and dining, shopping.
Genting Highlands is the only place where a casino is legal in Malaysia, managed by Resorts World Bhd, a subsidiary of Genting Group, and First World Hotel and Resort Sdn Bhd.
With a temperature of about 25 degrees Celsius, Genting plateau has a mild climate. Therefore, this is a regular weekend destination for domestic tourists and tourists from Singapore.
To go to Genting Highlands, you can go any season, any time of the year. However, if you do not want to be too crowded and can stay in Genting comfortably, you should choose the low tourist season (avoid November and December). Besides, it is advisable to go on weekdays. Thus, the services here will generally be much cheaper.
Genting Highlands city in the clouds of Malaysia
Genting Highlands travel guide
From Vietnam, going to Genting plateau does not have direct means. You need to move to Kuala Lumpur first and then from here to the Genting plateau.
To travel from Kuala Lumpur to Genting Highlands, visitors can travel by many means such as buses, cable cars, cars, shuttles, taxis, motorbikes. Those who have the financial ability can go by helicopter, etc.
Of the above, usually people will take the bus and then continue by cable car from the foot of the mountain up. The daily bus to the Genting Highlands from Kuala Lumpur runs from 7:30 am to 9 pm Bus journey is quite zigzag, road hugging a lot of places.
The Genting Highlands Cable Car will go a long way. Experience the cable car, you will see the scenery from above with a green of beautiful mountains. On the way, you will also see a big temple with an impressive "high floor" architecture.
For specific information, you can refer to the article Genting Highlands Transportation from Kuala Lumpur.
Alternatively, if you do not move like the above steps, you can buy a day trip (1 day) from Kuala Lumpur to Genting to visit, shop. The advantage of a day tour is that it will help you save time, transportation costs, have a shuttle for 2 trips and return, and a guide knowledgeable local information to give you an interesting trip.
Genting Highlands Cable Car
Genting plateau travel experience
As an entertainment complex, Genting Highlands has many attractions. To travel to Genting, you need to grasp some experience of playing, exploring, traveling, shopping, staying ... below.
Dress
The weather here is mild, so if you stay at night or in the morning is quite cold, you need to bring a warm jacket or sweater. Casual clothes during Genting Highlands, you can dress normally and comfortably. If you plan to enter the casino, you should dress politely, do not wear shorts, flip-flops ... This is a general rule of the casino but often few customers follow.
Shopping
Some of the shopping centers on the Genting plateau are the Genting Highlands Premium Outlets; First World Plaza; Sky Avenue; Nike Factory Store, ToyCity ... attract a lot of visitors.
Items here such as clothes, shoes, bags are pretty much discounted. Some items are discounted up to 70 - 80%. A bag that costs several million is only VND 600,000.
Genting Highlands Premium Outlets
You can visit Genting Highlands Premium Outlets for a variety of shopping options. This is the first Premium Outlet shopping center in Southeast Asia. There are more than 150 brands here, including Coach, Adidas, Moschino and Hugo Boss all open daily. There is also a food court and cafes like Starbucks, Baskin Robbins ice cream ... so you can rest.
Genting Highlands Premium Outlets
First World Plaza
First World Plaza is a shopping spot in the highest and most amazing location in Malaysia. First World Plaza focuses on more than 90 brands and attractive dining outlets.
Sky Avenue
Here more than 70 retail stores and eateries for you to experience. You can take a tour of the retail stores on each floor. In addition, you can also enjoy food here with local dishes or many international dishes (French, Spanish, English ...).
Nike Factory Store
This is a shop in Genting Highlands that sells Nike sportswear and shoes. This store has some genuine Nike clothing and shoes at very reasonable prices.
Address: First World Hotel
Country's TidBits & Candies Cottage
Country is located in Genting Skyway in Gohtong Jaya, this store sells a variety of titbits from fruits, nuts, cookies, candy, crackers ... very diverse and plentiful.
ToyCity
This is a great address focusing lots of unique interesting toys for children. Having a huge area, Toycity will take you at least 1 or 2 hours to visit.
Address: First World Hotel
Play
As a complex of entertainment and casinos like Las Vegas in the United States, there are two main things to have fun and entertainment here, which is amusement parks and casinos.
Amusement park:
Theme Park
Casino:
In Genting Highlands, apart from the amusement parks, the most prominent is the casinos spring up everywhere. A special feature is that to enter the casino you must be over 21 years old and not a Muslim (if you are Malaysian).
Note is forbidden to wear T-shirts, shorts, flip-flops.
Casino Genting
Some addresses for your reference:
- Monte Carlo casino at Genting Highlands Hotel. This is the largest casino of the Genting plateau. Visitors with foreign passports are allowed to enter the "International Chamber" VIP area if registering for WorldCard.
- Hollywood Casino, Genting / Highlands Hotel.
- StarWorld Casino at First World Hotel.
- Sky Casino, Sky Avenue: Genting Highlands, 69000 Genting Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia
- Genting Casino: Genting Grand, Genting Highlands Resort, 69000 Genting Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia
Other interesting experiences
Flying Fox
This is an interesting activity for those who like adventure sports. Flying Fox is a zipline swing with a distance of 100m down the hillside, giving you an extremely excited feeling.
Address: Awana Genting Highlands Golf & Country Resort, 8th Mile, Genting Highlands
Play golf
This is a popular activity on the Genting plateau that many businessmen come to entertain. Awana Genting Highlands Golf & Country Resort is an international standard golf course with cool atmosphere, has 18 perfect golf holes.
Address: Awana Genting Highlands Golf & Country Resort
Take the Genting Skyway cable car
This is the fastest, easiest and most enjoyable way to Genting Highlands. Genting Skyway Cable Car will give you an interesting experience when looking at the whole beautiful unspoiled scenery below.
Discover Chin Swee Cave Temple
Chin Swee Caves Temple is a Taoist temple set on a 28-acre lot. This is the place to worship Chin Swee, a Buddhist monk from Fujian province who is famous for his ability to summon rain and push away evil spirits.
Within the temple grounds are huge Buddha statues and religious sculptures from ancient China.
What to eat in Genting Highlands
Genting cuisine is Western, local and fast food. Some of the fast food chains that can be found here are McDonald's, Burger King, KFC and Marrybrown.
In general, the price of the food here is very expensive, usually twice as much as in Kuala Lumpur. Most restaurants are halal restaurants that cater to a large number of Muslim tourists.
You can enjoy Nasi Lemak (chicken); lor mee; Penang Fried Kway Teow; Herbal soup, chili crab ...
Enjoy Nasi Lemak
In addition, you can also combine dining at shopping centers such as Genting Highlands Premium Outlets, Sky Avenue ...
Where to stay when you arrive at Genting Highlands
Coming to Genting, if you need to stay overnight, there are countless hotel rooms for you to choose. If you go on weekdays and low season, the room rates are extremely cheap. The time of November and December is the peak time, the hotel price increases.
Note, all rooms do not have air conditioning, so the night can be very cold.
Genting hotels are all connected to the cable car system (except Awana).
Because this is a resort area, most of the hotels and resorts are concentrated here. However, there are also accommodation places such as apartments and homestays. The price of accommodation here is generally very high. The cheaper places are the area from the cable car station downhill, about 2, 3 km. For example, Hotel Seri Malaysia.