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On arriving in Langkawi it was very humid and overcast, and the airport did look like it was capable of taken large aeroplanes. We only had hand luggage so there was no waiting around for us, we hailed a taxi and showed the driver our address and headed straight into town five minutes away. The town of Kuah wasn’t very big and it looked more like a typical Australian suburb than an Asian paradise. The driver pulled up outside our hotel, " Azio " and pointed the way, we went up the spotless white ceramic stairs to the first floor and approached reception. After taking our passport details the two receptionists smiled and told us our room was down the corridor on the right. Opening the door something hit us straight away, the room had no windows and the bathroom was three glass walls and a door, what you gained in privacy from having no windows, you lost with the bathroom, at least it had a curtain, oh the irony. We ditched our bags and went out immediately, what was the p

Arriving at Penang was a bit hair raising, the Air Asia pilot who thought he was Tom Cruise overshot the small runway and had to pull up before we went straight on in to the river; this is not a good feeling when you are already clenching for all your worth with food poisoning. He circled one more time, then tried to land again, even then he hit the ground quite hard, we were just glad we were going to be off this plane in a few minutes.  After going through passport control and a trip to the loo, we were met by a large man who looked like a Samoan rugby player who loaded our cases into the minibus and sat us next to an Australian couple. The Australian couple constantly talked about how many time they’d been there and how it was only a short hop for them, all the time I couldn't stop staring at the man who seemed to have no neck and rather sweaty.   After about an hour in heavy traffic, we arrived at the Holiday Inn Penang and we’re dropped off on the "wrong" side