This is siaran tertunda.....

2 years once, En Muddy's company will sponsored company outing for staffs and families. They normally will listed 2 locations ( 1 oversea and 1 local ) for staff to pick up like for example 2 years back, locations offered was Bandung and Sabah and we opted for Bandung. This year they give out 6 days 5nite Chiengmai trip or 3 days 2 nite ClubMed Cherating. Under normal circumstances, i would pick Chiengmai in no time but given our situation currently for we're leaving for Q8, En Muddy thought that ClubMed will fit in the bill more so ClubMed it is.

All together, our trip concludes of 10 families. Not surprising coz most of other staffs chose Chiengmai :) .. Each family was alocated RM 3000 by the company so in any cases our trip cost exceed, we need to absorb the balance incurred. Well pluspoint about opting local instead of overseas was most of the time, we have to topup minimal cost coz u see, there's no flight charges incurred. In this case, we just had to topup around 300 bucks more for Erin as Alis's cost was absorbed by the company allocation. Super nice huh.. I love free getaway hahahah.. Who doesn't anyway ?

So, we left KL around 1030 as we need to checkin after 2.30 pm. CludMed won't allowed any guest check in before 2.30. In fact, their security won't even let u in if u reach early and if u insist, they'll charge u 200 bucks for early checkin. Not pretty huh..I dun understand it at 1st but later on, I sorted of begin to understand reason behind this rule and I will explained in later part of this post.

As planned, we reached nicely around 2pm and singgah for a while at Kg Budaya Cherating. Simply just to buy times till 2.30pm. I got myself a very nice brown divers baby tee and my husband got himself divers shirt as well. I bought also batik rompers for Erin and Alis opted to buy toys to built sand castle.


-arrival-

Sampai je, as expected security de sangat strict. Lepas reception confirmed kat plate number , confirmed kan total guest, confirmed kan nama guest baru lah de bagi masuk. Upon reaching the lobby entrance, dh ade bellboy tunggu and GO. They will escort you to the reception counter where u'll be given welcome drinks, hot towels for freshen up and then the manager came and pass to us room card, towel cards, 20 % voucher for Mandara Spa and also entry forms for both MiniClub and Petite Club.

After short briefing, we were escorted to our room by Australian GO named Alex. As other GOs we found along the way, he's been very helpful, resourceful and cheerful. Soon after dropping our stuffs in our room, offed we go to The Theather for short briefing, then go back room again, changed to swimming attire and get some good splash at the pool till 7pm where we then excused ourself to clean and dressed up for dinner.


-It's a must for kids to wear floaties all the time in the pool, not to worry to bring ur own as they hv it prepared for u. Size basis-







Anyway, it's 88 theme dinner so everyone's was encouraged to wear 88 shirt. The more the merrier as they'll hv 88 group photoshoot at the end of the nite. 88 is anyway was a ClubMed symbol or icon. I didn't ask why 88 and not 99 though heheh. They hv large variety of 88 t-shirts selling in their souvenir store. All kind of shirts. Round neck, collared, polo, baby tee, and many more. There just should be something for everyone.



I always love theme party so why not. Anyway it's not like u can't wear it anywhere else later so it's a worth purchasing. I bought 88 matching shirts for all 4 of us while Alis, Erin and En Muddy enjoying their swimming. Unfortunately, I cannot involved in any water activities during this "period" of time as red flag decided to berkibar, hence no water xtxt for me uhhuhuhuhu.. Instead En Muddy offered me to get some retail shopping at souvenir store beside the pool. I can buy anything I like as long as it doesn't exceed RM 1500.. Deal sealed !! Am 100 % okay with the arrangement.. kah kah kah...

In ClubMed, they hv ventured this hassle-free system. As there's a lot of water base xtvts offered for guest, and most of the time guest will be out trying activities available, so it is quite a hassle to have to bring ur wallet or other stuffs with u all the time. In order to tackle this, and to make things easier for everyone they have this debit card system. Upon checkin, u can activate ur own debit card by charging RM 1500 using ur cdt card or pay cash. Anything suits u ! With this debit card, u dun have to worry about carry-ing your wallet or cash around and u certainly have not need to worry if u hv nobody to keep an eye for ur belongings when u participating in any xtvt, anymore. So as to say, u can basically pay anything with this card. Be it souvenirs, panadols, personal needs like tooth brush or others and also for some xtxt offered that required some additional charges like Batik drawing Alis did or fees for Erin's Petite Club. Just slipped the card in ur pocket together with towel cards and u ready to enjoy ur day out. If u ended up did not spend anything by the end of the day of ur stay, they'll void the charge or return ur cash. Just like that.... Hmmmmmm macam iklan promote ClubMed ekk hahahah.. For info, i am not paid to do this promo. Just pouring out my experiences I had incase korang2 nak pergi, so dh ade skit guidelines....

Back to previous topic, dinner was on the house. So did breakfast, lunch and beverages all day long during ur stay. Even lunch on your departure was on the house. Only lunch on your arrival day was on ur own, hence they only allowed u to checkin after 2.30pm. To avoid mix up with guess who are leaving on ur arrival day, I guess!


Anyway, the dinner was awesome. The spread was overwhelming. There's chinese, western, Indian, Malays, Japanese and so many. Anything u want. U can even ask for custom made menu from the Chef and they'll tried to prepare for u provided they have the ingredients. They even have this baby corner where they had placed warmer, food processor and selections of Heinz baby food. Just grab one for ur baby. If u feel like feeding ur baby with porridge or something else, just ask the Chef and they'll help u to prepare it. Talking about family oriented huh.. It's very spoiled and convinient too. Everything was made easy for you and your baby. U just have to ask.




After dinner, we were ushered to The Theather for show of the nite. All GOs will presenting a show tribute to Michael Jackson. It's hillarious but not bad though as they choreographed all the moves themselves. Deserve a big clap for effort and passion. They even have broadway-like props and portable sets imitating Michael Jackson's video clips. The Black & White indeed the most hillarious of all as they creatively copied the scene whereby the faces changes from male to female, from black people to white. Remember? Tyra Banks was in this scene. In this case, they made a box painted with black and white on each side. There's 2 GOs ( 1 white man and 1 black guy) hiding behind it and when "Michael Jackson" sing "It's no matter if u black or white", they will emerged from behind the box one by one it's damm funny ha ha ha .. I know it may sound not as funny as I described it. I am damm not good putting things like this into words. U just got to see it for urself then u'll get what i meant.




- So called " King of Pop" from Brazil. He may moves like Michael but he doesn't look much like him and it's upset Alis so much -

Alis have this hugeeee thing for Michael Jackson. Her most favourite track of all time was a number titled They Dun Care About Us. She will choose Michael's video clip over Little Einstein for all I know.

So basically, she was the most excited one about watching the tribute. She kept mentioning it while bersiap and kept insisting us to finish our dinner faster so she wouldn't miss the show. Helloooooo! Mummy was in the midst of enjoying tiger prawn grill okayy, u little bugger.. hahahah.. I guess in her mind, real Michael will be coming performing that nite as they had put up all this posters and bunting featured his face on it. Of course it's not possible as Michael already rest in peace by this time but I just dunno how to explain to her that her idol had died without being ambushed with thousand questions hahahhaha. It's more on I am not in a mood for Q&A session that nite so I just let her be and see for herself.

Sufficed to say that she didn't enjoy the nite as much as the rest of us coz she was expecting Michael to show up. Duhhhhhh.. She kept this "chetung" ( moncong) face along the show. Hahahaha ..

The tribute takes around 1 1/2 hrs or so and finished sometime at 1130 hrs, then they announced that they'll be organizing Beach Party by the private beach and everyone is invited. Good value about ClubMed is that they're very family oriented. Not much of resort from it's kind have this value which I think why ClubMed are so popular amongst holiday goers travelling with kids. Someplace may said their place are so-called family oriented, but believe me, so far I've been to many places if not many as others but ClubMed are the best place to go as a family.

The beach is reachable via train so they had lined up trains for guests whom wished to joined the party at the train stop. It's tempting alright. They even have this Monkey Bar located by the beach so everything is covered. Good music, nice mocktail, transport provided. All u need to do is dragged ur feet to be there. U can even ask for milk for ur baby if u want too. Well it does sounds like some night-out if there's only 2 of us. To tell the truth, I was so eager to see the beach party myself as from what I heard it was damm fun but the other 2 members of Muddy's clan, junior one, obviously doesn't agree with me hahahahha.. Both sleepyhead yawning 5 min once so we called it the day off .

End of day one it seems.

P/S : There's WIFI connection available for everyone almost everywhere here for free. We even tried it by the beach side and there's a signal, but weak though. All we need to do is get the password from the reception. They'll give u connection based on ur stay. We're staying for 3 days so we were given 72 hours of connection.

PP/S : Not much picture i can post here as En Muddy's camera only have one bar battery and about to die soon. Somehow, he forgot to charge it before returning to Malaysia and worst part is, he forgot to bring the charger back. I tau la tak sabar nk balik jumpa i :) .....