It's Nice To Be Posh Sometimes...

I've been whining to Zaini for the past few weeks that I missed the experience of having a leisurely breakfast at some nice hotel. Not just any buffet breakfast, sharing space with hordes of tourist groups, screaming children or groups attending seminars, mind you. I wanted the quiet elegance 5-star hotels' club level or executive level floors offer.

I've been trying to get Zaini to say yes to me booking a room in some hotel for my SCKLM 2012 run (and me paying for it) but up till Saturday, 23rd he was still adamant that he'd send me to the race site on Sunday morning. Plus, he refused to stay at any 3 star and less hotel in KL! Sheesh!

I actually booked a room on the day we were checking-in because at 9.00am'ish, Zaini read my runners' guide booklet and noticed that shuttle buses were provided from certain points to ferry runners to the race site. That meant I can go to the race site by taking the bus myself.

Nice room at Level 30 for us.

and it comes with a view. Can see Lake Garden, Tugu Negara, Parlimen, etc from our room. Very nice... Absolutely love the bathroom with a view.

The room was so nice, I was hugely tempted to DNS SCKLM and stay snuggled up in my bed instead!

I can see Jalan Travers from my room and while getting ready to head out for my run on Sunday, I got to see the full marathoners in action, running along the road.

Raimie in his "rich boy" mode. LOL

Dinner and breakfast at the Club Level lounge were absolutely divine. Quiet. Understated. Attentive and friendly staff. No snootiness here. I really do miss this. But of course to enjoy this, fork out money lor.... hahaha

I actually stank up the breakfast area on Sunday (sorry fellow guests!) because seeing that I still had time to enjoy breakfast, we headed straight to eat breakfast - but not before stinking up the LRT first as we took the LRT back to our hotel; and me in my running gear (bib and all intact!) @.@ I had a lovely breakfast while Zaini had two lovely breakfasts. He had earlier eaten breakfast with Raimie there, before heading off to Dataran Merdeka to wait for me.

Equally nice was the friendly staff at the hotel. If I'm to fault them (actually, I'd blame the management), it's the total ignorance of the staff about the KL Marathon that was happening on that Sunday. After all, I wasn't the only guest at the hotel running the SCKLM 2012. Three Japanese diners at a table next to us were running in it too. Two of them overtook me at KM10, and were talking about having a drink later! ;)

A few guests asked me about the marathon, seeing that I wore a bib and all and were very interested about the event. A hotel staff later told me that she actually had to google up about the marathon as a lot of the guests who were having breakfast (and saw the swarm of 10K runners whizzing by) asked about it. It's rather a pity that big hotels (and other establishment in and around KL) don't really support and being made aware of this event.

Awesome stay and awesome run. What more could I ask for a weekend?

I told the staff when we were checking-out that we'll see them again next year. Yup, I'll join SCKLM again next year. Which category? Do I dare say it'll be a Full? ;p