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Old May 20, 2005 | 7:11 am
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jpatokal
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Originally Posted by quitecontrary
I still go with my suggestion of the Pelangi Beach (Singapore forum) - the rooms are not 'crappy' neither are they up to the standard of a 5* resort- you will only get that at the Andaman or the Datai. The rooms are fine - they are basic wooden villas in the local style with wooden floors -clean with all the amenities aircon etc you need for a beach holiday and you are right on the beach if you get a seaview room.
True enough. My memories are colored in a negative direction by that fact that I booked my family into PBR at rather short notice near New Year's, and ended up paying near-rack rates (RM 500+) for the type of operation I could easily find on east coast Malaysia in the RM100-150 range.
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