johor bahru day 1 (part 2) -- ciq hotel, singgah selalu & danga bay

we stayed at ciq hotel at jalan lumba kuda. it's a budget hotel with helpful staffs that provides clean and comfortable place to stay. we paid rm293 (including %16 tax) for 3 nights. the best thing about this hotel is its strategic location as we can just walk (10 minutes) to the town or jb 's custom and immigration building if we wanna go to singapore. it also has a parking space that is attended by a security guard 24 hours. so it was perfect for us. 

great value for money. (gambar internet)

that night, we planned to have dinner at the famous restoren zz which should only took us about 5 minutes to reach by car. unfortunately, there was this huge chinese celebration in the town and the traffic was congested like crazy. believe it or not, the four-lane road was "turned" into a six-lane road (five lanes of parked cars and only one moving lane). it took us 1 hour just to move sebanyak 3 km. it was really terrible! 

come on! get moving! (gambar internet)

since it was already late, we believe restoren zz was already closed at that time. so we changed our plan and went to another famous restaurant (appeared on tv3's jalan-jalan cari makan) nearby danga bay called 'singgah selalu'. it was pretty meriah as there were a band entertaining the crowd with live music. mummy ate nasi campur and i ate singgah selalu's nasi goreng (rm8). mummy said her lauk was nice but my nasi goreng was tawar hambar and totally not value for my money. their service was pretty quick though. 

tak perlu kot singgah selalu. (gambar internet)

walaupun customers ramai, service kat sini agak laju.

then we went for a stroll at danga bay's harbour to enjoy the night breeze. gitu. there were boats, restaurants with live music and a mini theme park. we were only there for a short-while since there was nothing much pun. plus, we were already pretty tired. so we made our way back to our hotel.

colourful lights.

mummy chilling in front of her boats. berangan kan.

a merry-go-round at danga bay's mini theme park.

it was around 12 midnight when i was driving back to hotel and the road was still congested. so frigging stressful! i think we reached our hotel around 1 am even though the distance from danga bay to our hotel is actually around 6km je. not a good way to start our trip in jb, eh? luckily, our second day here was much better. more about that soon. toodles!