Go to the Petronas Towers & get your ticket for the Skybridge first thing in the morning -it give you a time to come back.
Visit the Islamic Arts Museum (formerly Muslim Museum of Decorative Arts) http://www.iamm.org.my/ & right around the corner is a lovely food market where you can gorge on all sorts of dosa, satay and biryani currys for dirt cheap!
A friend who was there recently said to visit the Traders Hotel Skybar where they play funky house & serve tasty cocktails (but it’s a lil pricey).
Singapore:
Hotel 1929 is a good place to overnight, in the centre of Chinatown, with a lovely colonial facade and super funky bedrooms, although some are a tight squeeze! They used to have a hot tub on the rooftop, brilliant combatant of the humidity but unfortunately they got rid of it in favour of a silly sun-deck.
Raffles Hotel is a must for the original Singapore Sling cocktail. When you walk in the door it's like stepping into a Betty Davis movie; the British Colonial Style, brown leather upholstery on grand armchairs and wicker tables, large wooden fans blow down overhead and everyone peeling monkey nuts and throwing the shell all over the floor.
Bali:
Candi Dasa is a beach resort to the east of the island, although they decimated all their coral for cement in the 90s so the beaches are washed away, all the hotels have infinity pools & you can get absolute bargain on www.asiarooms.com I think we paid about €35 a night for a 5* with our own luxury bungalow with a four poster bed & own butler etc.
There is fabulous diving on a US cargo ship that was bombed by the Japanese in 1945 & loads to see and do around the area, ancient gardens & villages.
Jimbaran is brilliant for fish dinners on the beach but not much else that we could make out, so we just hit Kuta every day from our hotel.
Kuta has fantastic European fusion restaurants, esp. if you’re sick of Balinese cuisine and just want a bit of steak & mash/pasta but done with panache! There are some really cool bars too & although I can’t remember any names if you just walk up & down the main street you’ll spot them easily I’m sure. One of our favourites was up on a rooftop overlooking the street, it was made of wood and playing funky house.
*Rent a mopehead/car & drive out to Dreamland Beach, out past Jimbaran is amazing -the local food is really tasty (whereever surfers are, the food is usually good) and the waves are spectacular! Be careful if you try to go in for a swim, I nearly got dragged out n lost my cozzie!!
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