Genting Highlands: Feel Lucky While Enjoying the City of Entertainment
Genting Highlands, Malaysia is known as Malaysia’s Asian-style Las Vegas for high-baller Casino enthusiasts, additionally with nightlife parties and luxury hotels. Being the “City of Entertainment”, this cozy resort-town is especially popular with locals and weekend backpackers from nearby countries. With no streets to walk on, travel by foot from one building to the next one is made possible by interlinking bridges, escalators and underground tunnels. Tourists will be guided by signs which would most likely direct them to the hotels and their respective casinos.
Best Time to Visit
The perfect season to enjoy Genting Highlands is from March to September, as the temperature is cooler and there is less rainfall suited for an outdoor theme park. Tourists should make sure to book their tickets and hotel accommodations early to get the best deal possible. Genting Highlands Resort is an integrated hill resort all in one destination with hotel and casino, theme park and shopping mall which is accessible by car within an hour drive from Kuala Lumpur. Adventurous visitors may take the cable cars. Genting Skyway offers the World's Fastest and South East Asia's longest Gondola lift. Travelling the cable cars gives a perfect view of the city.
What to Do & Area Attractions
With the temperature ranging between 15 to 28°C throughout the year, the climate is perfect for all sorts of fun activities. Visitors travelling for leisure and business could swing a round of golf on Saujana Golf and Country Club and the Royal Selangor Golf Club. A variety of items to choose from for guests are offered when they stroll and hunt for bargains at the Lot 10 Shopping Centre, Empire Shopping Gallery and the Bangsar Shopping Village. Of course after a day tour, you can enjoy the night staying at the Resorts World Genting-Genting Grand or the Resorts World Awana, or the Resorts World Genting-First World Hotel.