Tips for people planning travel to Malaysia/Singapore

General Tips

- My experience with Malaysian Airlines was good. Decent food, cordial (and beautiful ;) hostesses, on time service..
- Visit Genting Highlands only if you enjoy rides at theme parks such as Appu Ghar.
- Dont spend more than a day at Kuala Lampur city. There's nothing much there.
- Langkawi is a must specially for honeymooners..I spent two days there, but three would be optimum. Hire a bike for a day and roam around.
- Dont miss the water sports at Langkawi's Cenam Beach.
- Do take the sunset dinner cruise. I paid RM200 per person. But if you can contact the cruise owner directly, the cost is RM170(or even less).
- In Malayasia always ask taxi drivers to charge using meter. Never try and fix a preset rate. You would be fooled.
- Malaysia is not a very safe place to venture out alone in the night. Beware of chain/bag snatchers on bikes.
- Keep atleast three full days for Singapore. Dont miss the Night safari and Sentosa Island.
- Taxi system is awesome in Singapore. The easiest time to find cabs is after midnight ;)
- Singapore is one of the safest cities in the world. As my hotel's receptionist told me, you can leave your beautiful wife in a drunken state on the streets at 2AM in the night and someone would bring her back to you safely... (Disclaimer : I didn't dare try that)
- Go Little India and you know its actually a little India. The only place in Singapore where you can find filth on roads, street hawkers shouting, people discussing serials/movies at the top of their voices in restaurants...

Food tips (Skip this section if you are a non vegetarian)
- Genting was the toughest place in terms of finding veggie food.. Do carry food packets for there.
- Even KL city didnt have much Indian restaurants. Though we heard there was some street where we could find them. My suggestion : keep a few packets handy for here as well.
- Langkawi : Contrary to our expectation, this place has quite a few good, reasonably priced Indian food restaurants. So no problem here.
- Singapore : Make sure you hotel is nearby Little India, and you will have dozens of options to choose from. From exotic tandoori to authentic south indian to Indianized chinese.. you name, you'll get it here..
- Little India's Sagar Ratna is nowhere as good as we have in Delhi. Other restaurants like "The Tandoori" are better options.

Shopping tips
- Langkawi is the best place to buy chocolates gifts etc. Its a complete duty free zone and you will get huge variety here.
- If you are not visiting Langkawi, KL would be my next reco. This place is certainly cheaper than Singapore. But dont buy any electronics as there is huge duplicacy here. An IRRELEVANT information : Malaysia is one of the world's biggest pirated movie buisness hub..;)
- Singapore is the costliest. If you have to, shop at Mustafa. Though tour operators take you to other shops claiming those are cheaper than Mustafa... Its not the case.. Before buying any electronics, make sure that its not available cheaper in India. Most sony and samsung digicams were costlier there while canon was cheaper. Even sony handycams were costlier as compared to India. Things like shavers, hair dryers etc were certainly cheaper.
- Mustafa has a big currency change counter which offers a very good conversion price. So get your singapore dollors from there.. and more importantly, on your way back, get your dollors converted back to Indian Re there itself. I got a very very poor conversion rate in India.

Will update the blog as and when i recall more... :)