What a place!

It is an hour and a half by taxi from KL international airport to Melaka, ( also know as Mallacca to us Brits), and another half hour to find the place when the taxi driver goes round in circles. Eventually we found a guy at a security post in the middle of nowhere- it turned out to be the hotel, the Philea Resort, some 7k outside the centre of Melaka, and just 150 mtrs from where we came off the motorway! (See location below)

What a place- reception is in an outdoor complex which includes a lounge, two restaurants, a conference room and bars, (as well as two karaoke rooms!) quite different from usual hotels.Oh- and a ballroom too! (Unfortunately I have lost the photos of that area!!)

As we were taken up to our rooms we passed the swimming pool - well, we haven't seen anything quite like this. Two waterfalls drop into a river alongside the pool, which is a good forty metres long, and 20 wide. A cafe is across the river, as well as a games room, and some of the more expensive log cabins too. Beds line one side of the pool, but behind are a number of open sun cabins where one can get into the shade if we wish.

This place really takes your breath away, for £80 a night it is unbelievable, all the resort is made from logs, and I understand there are no nails anywhere!

Just up the path is a sauna, a large gym and treatment rooms all in seperate litlle cabins.Our own cabin is in a block of four, a sizeable bedroom and a large bathroom with a bath as well as a large shower. But we don't expect to spend a lot of time in there- there is too much else to see and do!

There is also a forest walk, and a team building course which we didn't have time to see, as when we were not seeing Melaka we spent all our time by the pool, completely reserved for just us!
It turns out that the hotel is almost empty, apart from a conference that arrives after breakfast as we are leaving for the airport on the third day we only see one family and another couple, and that is in a resort that will take 500 people in 180 cabins. We are told that they expect to be full the next week which is a local holiday.
Full or empty, we would reccommend this place to anyone for a peacefull few days, quite apart from the city itself, which I shall write about in my next blog entry. In the meantime here are a few more pictures.......