Weekend Retreat in Mont'Kiara KL

Living in the city in modern days are stressful especially if you are working in the competitive corporate world, struck in traffic jam while on the road, do weekly grocery shopping at crowded shopping malls and hypermarkets... Raising kids in modern days are no easy task as well with extra attention and effort to provide them with the best education, exposure, and learning opportunities in different fields. Therefore, it's important to enjoy ourselves whenever we can. While it's difficult to go on long holidays all the time, it's viable to take short trips or a weekend getaway.

While we fancy going on short trips to island retreats around the region, it's always nice to have a weekend home near to your base. We found it in this beautiful resort condominium in Mont'Kiara KL. With almost 6 acres of land and a very lowest density development, our unit has 3 bedrooms with 2,090 SqFt of space. With it's lush tropical landscape and recreational facilities, we don't have to go far for a weekend retreat. The kids love the water maze, waterfalls, spa garden with koi pond, swimming pool, and kids play gound. My wife and I enjoyed the hot jacuzzi pool, sauna, and steam room at the secluded spa garden.

This is our weekend vacation retreat. We have also decided to share this property with others. Then came the idea of CondoClubKL. CondoClubKL offers vacation condominium rental to tourist with family or kids. If you do not wish to stay in a hotel, you may try vacation condominium. Why stay in a hotel while you can put your kids in one room, yet still have the privacy at night with your partner. For more info, visit www.condoclubkl.com

Koh Phi Phi Islands

Located 45 minutes boat ride from Phuket or Krabi - Southern Thailand, Phi Phi Island was made famous by the movie "The Beach" staring Leonardo de Caprio. These islands are stunningly beautiful with beaches of powdery sand...

Sala Phuket Resort & Spa

Sala Phuket is a stunning new pool villa resort, featuring private swimming pools in its 63 villas and suites. This sino-portugese architecture design resort has won numerous awards since its opening not too long ago. Located on Mai Khao beach, a national reserved, which mean no commercial activities on the beach. Sala Phuket is just 10 minutes from Phuket International Airport.

We love our Sala Pool Villa No 48. It is located at the secluded end of a long pathway. The pool and outdoor bath area is stunning especially with lighting at night. We spent the whole day in the villa as it is so comfortable and relaxing. Good place to read a good book, have a cocktail, and have a no-bikini line sun tanning.

This resort is so exclusive that we hardly see or hear anyone accept going to the restaurant for our meal. The restaurant is located next to the swimming pool and facing the Andaman sea. The food here is fantastic. We tried the Sundays Fisherman's Catch... A whole mud crab is steamed in saffron broth with wine, garlic, sweet peppers, and potatoes. Rock lobsters and tiger prawns seasoned with cajun spice & herb oil and char grilled over coconet wood...yummy!

The spa is good with attentive staffs. I especially enjoyed the snacks and ginger tea after the spa treatment. I like the design of the whole spa area from the feature wall, wood carving wall and table, furnitures, and floor tiles... all well put together. Walking thru the misty path to the massage treatment room was an experience.

Sala Phuket is very suitable for couples retreat as it's very excludie and there are not many families and kids around. If you want a lot of privacy and exclusivity, this is the resort to stay in. I must say that it's one of the best designed hotel in Phuket.

http://www.salaphuket.com/

One Island One Resort - Pangkor Laut Resort

The Spa Village at Pangkor Laut Resort is a unique retreat that offers extensive range of treatments from China, Japan, India, Thailand, Bali, and Malaysia. 22 beautiful Spa Villas situated over the sea offer direct access to the Spa Village. We enjoyed every moments when we set foot on this private island with only one resort. It is a great weekend getaway or a spa retreat vacation destination.

We are most impressed by the Spa Village. The Spa Village Bath House bath rituals experience is really relaxing. It starts with a "Foot Pounding", a traditional practiced in the feudal China for relief of pain and blood circulation. Followed by the "Malay Bath", we walk thru a waterfall bath and four types of herbal inhalation - Passion, Calming, Uplifting and Detox.

After the herbal inhalation, we were refreshed and was ursher to an outdoor hotwater jacuzzi next to Japanese bath house. After 15 minutes of dipping in hot water under the trees canopy, it's time to enter the Japanese bath house for a "Japanese Bath". I am talking about sitting on a small stool and pour water over yourself with a dipper... You basically use the Goshi-goshi cloth with bath gel to scrub your body in the bath.

Lastly, when you are done, you will be ursher to a pavilion with your partner for the "Shanghai Scrub". Previously offered extensively to males in Shanghai. The body is vigorously scrubbed with a body brush and rinsed with sizzling hot water.

When we have completed the Bath Ritual, we were escorted to the library pavilion by the beach. We were then served with ginger tea and snacks. While waiting for our massage, we found overselves some interesting books about the histrory of the island. After about 10 minutes, it's time for a massage. I had the best massage ever.... Hawaiian Lomi-Lomi Massage. Pangkor Laut Resort is indeed one of the best Asian spa retreat for couples.