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D1 · Thu 10 Sep
🎢 Arrive & Waterpark
Pick-up 10:30am · Waterpark · Dinner · Live band
D2 · Fri 11 Sep
🍉 Mangroves & Fruit Farm
Mangrove tour · Woodfire lunch · Fruit Farm · Hard Rock dinner
D3 · Sat 12 Sep
🐾 Zoo & Tidepools
Mini Zoo · Lobster lunch · Tidepool tour · dinner at hotel
D4 · Sun 13 Sep
🚐 Head Home
Checkout · Van pickup 10:30am
🚐 Transport
Soon Brothers Transport · Hyundai Starex, JTP 2020 · 7 pax
Thu 10 Sep, 10:30am — SG → Westin
Ref 455869
Sun 13 Sep, 10:30am — Westin → SG
Driver: Mr Khairul, +60 13-831 1230 · exempt from MDAC at manual counters
🏨 Hotel
The Westin Desaru Coast Resort
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1 King, Garden View (2 adults) + 1 King & 1×2 Queen, Garden View (3 adults)
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Check-in after 16:00 on 10 Sep · Check-out before 11:00 on 13 Sep
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Breakfast included, all rooms
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Dinner booked: Seafood Corner, table for 7, Thu 6:30pm
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Trip.com booking 1578948265809024 (hotel conf. 94599851) — 1 King, 2 adults
Booking.com confirmation 5790833091 — 1 King + 1×2 Queen, 3 adults
Booking.com confirmation 5790833091 — 1 King + 1×2 Queen, 3 adults
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MYR 200/day deposit required at check-in (cash/card)
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No durian or mangosteen in the hotel
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D1
🎢 Arrive & Waterpark
Thu 10 Sep · The Westin Desaru
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☀️ Morning
Pick-up & drive down
Soon Brothers van at 10:30am · via the Second Link and Kota Tinggi. A lunch stop along the way is still being decided — maybe around JB after clearing customs.
Drop bags at the Westin
Arrive early afternoon — hotel can hold bags at the front desk if it's before the 4pm check-in
🌤️ Afternoon & Evening
Adventure Waterpark Desaru Coast
Straight into the waterpark for the afternoon — 20+ rides across themed zones, one of the region's biggest wave pools, and a water coaster
🏖 rent a beachside cabana — a base for bags between slides
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Check in
From 4pm · MYR 200/day deposit at check-in, cash or card
Live band at Hard Rock Hotel
Nightly live music at Hard Rock Hotel Desaru Coast, a short drive along the coast — a fun way to close out the first night
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✨ Also Consider
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Timing after the waterpark
Leave enough time to shower and change between the waterpark and the 6:30pm dinner
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Grandma's afternoon
The waterpark itself is a lot of walking, sun, and stairs — she could stay back and settle into the room, or relax by a quieter pool at the resort, then join everyone fresh for dinner and the live band
D2
🍉 Mangroves & Fruit Farm
Fri 11 Sep · Dinner at Hard Rock (firefly KIV)
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☀️ Morning
Hotel breakfast
A slower morning after yesterday's waterpark
Desaru Lebam River Mangrove Cruise — booked
Private boat with JungleWalla Tours (Order #15761) — kingfishers, sea eagles, and sometimes otters along the way. Return transfer included — 10:00am pickup at the hotel lobby
📋 6 adults + 2 children · JungleWalla noted Grandma's needs, she can join
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🌤️ Afternoon & Evening
Lunch — Woodfire
Back toward the resort area for lunch before heading out to the fruit farm
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Desaru Fruit Farm
About 15 minutes from the resort — farm tour, herb garden, petting zoo, and a box of fresh-cut fruit to take home. Benches scattered around if anyone needs to rest partway
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Dinner — Sessions, Hard Rock Hotel Desaru Coast
Back toward the coast for dinner at Sessions, with the hotel's live music as a bonus
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Firefly Tour — KIV
Traditional wooden boat through the mangrove swamps, ~30 minutes, RM20/pax, departing from Restoran Terapung Bujang Firefly around 8pm. Since dinner's moved to Hard Rock, this would need a separate drive back out — still deciding if it's worth it
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🦟 bring mosquito repellant if we go · board early for the best seats along the sides
✨ Also Consider
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A full day — pace it for Grandma
Mangrove boat in the morning and fruit farm in the afternoon is already a full day. If the firefly tour is added back in, that's a third outing and a late night — worth checking how she's holding up before committing to it
D3
🐾 Zoo & Tidepools
Sat 12 Sep · Dinner at the hotel
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☀️ Morning
Hotel breakfast
Last full day — an easier pace after yesterday's waterpark
🌤️ Afternoon & Evening
Lunch — Super Lobster Village
Fresh lobster and seafood at good prices in Sungai Rengit — well worth the drive
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Desaru Beachlife | Tidepool Discovery — booked
JungleWalla Tours (Order #15762) — 3 adults + 2 children (ages 8 & 6). Tour is at 5:00pm; return transfer included, but be at the hotel lobby 20 minutes before (4:40pm) for this one
👥 3 adults + 2 kids booked for this one · tour operator lists it as not suitable for ages 75+, so Grandma sits this one out
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Dinner — in/around the hotel
Keeping it easy on the last full night — one of the Westin's restaurants or somewhere close by, nothing to book or drive far for
✨ Also Consider
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Gentlest day of the trip
The mini zoo and lobster lunch are flat and easy — good for Grandma to join. The tidepool tour itself isn't an option for her (the operator excludes ages 75+), so she can rest at the hotel while that subgroup goes, then everyone regroups for dinner
D4
🚐 Head Home
Sun 13 Sep · Van pickup 10:30am
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☀️ Morning (departure)
Last hotel breakfast
Checkout before 11:00
Checkout & deposit refund
Collect the MYR 200/day deposit back at the front desk
Soon Brothers van pickup
10:30am from the Westin, ahead of the 11am checkout — back via Kota Tinggi and the Second Link
🗺 Desaru — Key Locations
Westin Desaru
Hard Rock Hotel
Tidepools (Beach)
Waterpark
Mini Zoo
Super Lobster Village
Fruit Farm
Woodfire
Bujang Firefly (KIV)
🚐 Getting Around
Soon Brothers Transport
Handles the Singapore ↔ Desaru legs on 10 & 13 Sep. Driver contacts us directly on pickup.
Grab coverage is thinner out here than in the city — check with the hotel concierge for local trips to the farms or firefly park if we're not all going together.
📝 Trip Notes
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