If You Are Taking The Train…

•  Allocate up to 2 hours or more for delays
•  Know that the journey is actually A LOT longer
•  Use the station toilet before getting on the train
•  If long distance or overnight, take the berths
•  Actually, just take the berths!
•  Bring your own food & drinks

I have not taken the KTM train for many, many years and now I remember why… For the fun of it, Kim and I thought we’d take the overnight train down to KL last Friday to attend Charlene’s wedding dinner. It was suppose to depart at 9:45pm, we finally left Butterworth at around 11:30pm! If based on original schedule, we were suppose to arrive in KL Sentral at 6am; at 6am, we’ve only reached the Ipoh station! The toilets stank… etc etc etc. Niamah!!! Luckily, the berths were comfortable enough to actually get some sleep in! Sigh…

We took the NICE supercoach for the trip back to Penang. It was about the same price as the KTM berths but in contrast, the bus was on-time, took only 5 hours, had comfortable seats, movies shown and refreshment served. What a difference!!!