Ipoh-Cherating Day 9-10: Sunway Hotel Big Box, Johor Bahru

DAY 9

We couldn't wait to check out of our less-than-pleasant accommodation early in the morning! We didn't even bother to have a proper breakfast before making our way to JB (though I managed to finish the fruits from Desaru Fruit Farm in the car).

Johor River Bridge

We arrived at Hai Kah Lang JB, which was famous for their fish / seafood noodles. Thumbs up from the foodie Lee Family! 🤭👍🏻

Managed to get a private room with a huge table!
(Address: 173, Jalan Sutera, Taman Sentosa, 80150 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia)

The clams were so big and fresh!

The soup broth was so sweet and yummy! Love it!

After lunch, we headed to Johor Premium Outlet for shopping. There weren't a lot of sales this time hence we left earlier than expected. 

We drove to Sunway Hotel Big Box, our last hotel for this trip to check in.

Sunway Big Box Retail Park

View of Sunway Hotel Big Box from the carpark

We had booked 2 Deluxe Plus King rooms at $115 per room per night (inclusive of breakfast). It was a very comfortable stay for the price!

King-size bed

Simple but clean room

Personalised greeting

Amenities like fridge, proper luggage rack and wardrobe

Good size toilet

Shower and toiletries

As part of sustainability efforts, bottled water was not provided. Instead, you'd have to fill the metal bottles in your room at the water dispenser located next to the lifts.
Small inconvenience for a better tomorrow, I'd say! 😊

We headed out for shopping at NSK, the nearest supermarket, and had tea break at our favourite fried chicken fast food restaurant Marybrown!

Marybrown at Sunway Big Box

Enjoying our tea break (as it's too late for lunch but too early for dinner..)

After eating, we went swimming at our hotel's pool.

Decent size pool that the kids loved!

Smaller pool for little kids

You can see the hotel's restaurant serving dinner

Happy kids in the pool!

At around 8.30pm, the Hubby, Eldest and I headed to Eco Botanic for our massages that we had pre-booked with Meet Wellness (the 2 younger kids and Mum-in-law stayed in the room). The sister-in-law and I previously enjoyed our foot massages during last year's JB trip in December. This time, we booked the 60-minute aromatherapy massage to try something different.

Meet Wellness

Looking forward to our massages, held in the very nicely decorated upper floor.

My massage was very painful as my masseuse used a lot of force despite me telling her to ease up on her pressure 😮‍💨 The hubby experienced something similar while the Eldest was spared the pain (maybe they pitied her low pain threshold! 😅).

Drinks and snacks provided after our massages!

I'll probably stick to foot massages after this experience!

DAY 10 

We woke up after a good night's sleep and had breakfast at Pandas Cafe. There was a long queue at the restaurant and we waited for about 30 minutes before we got a table.

Pandas Cafe

Food was ordinary but to be expected as we didn't pay a lot.
We decided not to pay for breakfast in future.

As usual, we headed to the pool for our morning swim before we checked out!

Siblings enjoying the pool together

Love this shot! 😍

After checking out, we loaded the car and drove to Eco Botanic for lunch at Makanan Ramen Champion.

Makanan Ramen address:
67, Jalan Eko Botani 3/5, 79100 Iskandar Puteri, Johor, Malaysia

Ramen Champion

My yummy spicy ramen 🍜 🤤 

We did some final shopping at Jay's Grocer and returned to Singapore before the start of the traffic jam in the late afternoon. The queue was super short when we crossed customs so it was the right decision! 

It was another great road trip to Malaysia! Look forward to our next one! 😊

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