After the GY camp post-mortem last Wednesday, Wuan Chin invited me with a few people to go on a little roadtrip the next day (public holiday). To check out a potential YAF Retreat venue. Her sis' friend had highly recommended this venue: Morib Gold Coast.
Wuan Chin was beginning to feel bad, having led us this far...for nothing. We decided to check a resort we saw earlier just to fill our time before heading back to Klang, so that the trip was not wasted.
Impian Morib. That was the name of the place. From the outside, it looked kinda classy, for Morib's standard. We went in to check it out. Thought of just walking around and make some enquiries. No harm right? Thank God we did. Cos we were slowly seduced into making serious considerations.
After making some initial enquiries at the reception, we headed straight to the swimming pool area. It was beautiful! They have a pingpong table, a goalpost in one corner, sand area for beach volleyball/futsall. Saw three BBQ pits and then the beach. The beach was still awful. But nevermind, everything inside the resort was just great.
Then we walked up to the conference halls. There were two halls: one huge and another smaller one. They were equipped with stage, mics, speakers, OHP, whiteboard, flipcharts, tables & chairs. Only thing missing was LCD projector. We could imagine having our 'Relationship Enrichment' seminar there.
Next we talked to the Sales Coordinator, Cik Siti. She sat us down at the restaurant (quite a decent one) and explained to us the different packages and details. Things looked quite good actually, including the price. We asked for a short tour and she kindly obliged.
There were two types of rooms: Deluxe and Superior. We first saw one of the deluxe rooms. We were kinda impressed. It had one double bed and one single bed, dressing table, TV with astro, fridge, nice bathroom with shower and little sitting area beside the window. From the window, we could practically climbed out straight to the pool. The Superior rooms were just ordinary, but decent enough. Next she showed us the gym. It wasn't big, but the equipments were quite new.
After the tour, everyone was in favour of having the retreat there. The price will be above RM200++ for 3D/2N per pax. Not bad for a venue so near with wide variety of possible activities. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are Malay-style buffet. One of the dinners would be pool-side BBQ. Free-flow and served by the staffs. Transportation cost and duration is minimal.
We chilled out at the pool area playing "bluff" and snacking "kuaci". All in all, We had an enjoyable and fruitful afternoon there.
Let's take a look at some pictures captured:
Beach volleyball
Jeff making himself comfortable
Gorgeous pool
Table tennis, anyone?
Tortooises
Restaurant, dining area
Utensils nicely arranged
Conference hall. Why Hermann, you didn't take pictures inside?
Rooms
Window. Shortcut to the pool!
TV with Astro 
Checking the shower
"Gold Coast" sounded like wow. But, the word "Morib" brought back memories of dirty beach, muddy sea water. I've not gone back to Morib since Port Dickson appeared, like decades ago. Forgotten that Morib still exists.
We (Sherene, Wuan Chin, Jeff, Nick Aaron, Hermann & myself) drove there after Bah Kut Teh breakfast in two cars. After 45 minutes drive, we arrived at Morib beach. The beach looked horrible. Hermann bluntly said that if we decide to have the retreat there, he'll boycott it. Not only that, he'll tell everyone to boycott!
We knew that that wasn't the place....we were going to "Gold Coast", remember? So we asked the local people where was this "Gold Coast". But they gave us a "huh?" kinda look. Said they never heard of it. We said that this is the latest "happening" place in Morib.
We decided to drive further to look for it ourselves. We eventually found it. Guess what? We saw a board at the side of the road, beside a contruction area. It said that Morib Gold Coast is still under construction. Won't be ready in two years' time! Wonderful!! Was thinking I should have gone to movies with Benny & Wei Loong instead.
Wuan Chin was beginning to feel bad, having led us this far...for nothing. We decided to check a resort we saw earlier just to fill our time before heading back to Klang, so that the trip was not wasted.
Impian Morib. That was the name of the place. From the outside, it looked kinda classy, for Morib's standard. We went in to check it out. Thought of just walking around and make some enquiries. No harm right? Thank God we did. Cos we were slowly seduced into making serious considerations.
After making some initial enquiries at the reception, we headed straight to the swimming pool area. It was beautiful! They have a pingpong table, a goalpost in one corner, sand area for beach volleyball/futsall. Saw three BBQ pits and then the beach. The beach was still awful. But nevermind, everything inside the resort was just great.
Then we walked up to the conference halls. There were two halls: one huge and another smaller one. They were equipped with stage, mics, speakers, OHP, whiteboard, flipcharts, tables & chairs. Only thing missing was LCD projector. We could imagine having our 'Relationship Enrichment' seminar there.
Next we talked to the Sales Coordinator, Cik Siti. She sat us down at the restaurant (quite a decent one) and explained to us the different packages and details. Things looked quite good actually, including the price. We asked for a short tour and she kindly obliged.
There were two types of rooms: Deluxe and Superior. We first saw one of the deluxe rooms. We were kinda impressed. It had one double bed and one single bed, dressing table, TV with astro, fridge, nice bathroom with shower and little sitting area beside the window. From the window, we could practically climbed out straight to the pool. The Superior rooms were just ordinary, but decent enough. Next she showed us the gym. It wasn't big, but the equipments were quite new.
After the tour, everyone was in favour of having the retreat there. The price will be above RM200++ for 3D/2N per pax. Not bad for a venue so near with wide variety of possible activities. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are Malay-style buffet. One of the dinners would be pool-side BBQ. Free-flow and served by the staffs. Transportation cost and duration is minimal.
We chilled out at the pool area playing "bluff" and snacking "kuaci". All in all, We had an enjoyable and fruitful afternoon there.
Let's take a look at some pictures captured:
Beach volleyball
Jeff making himself comfortable 
Gorgeous pool
Table tennis, anyone?
Tortooises
Restaurant, dining area
Utensils nicely arranged
Conference hall. Why Hermann, you didn't take pictures inside?
Rooms
Window. Shortcut to the pool!
TV with Astro 
Checking the shower
No idea what they were doing
Could this be our venue for YAF Retreat 2008??
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3 comments:
hello..Am aznet would like to know how to get there...the Impian Morib? Is that the name. If you could kindly get back to me with the contact number, will be much appreciated!..tqs!(aznet_leen@yahoo.com)
Been there last week. Nice place. Rugi tak bawa anak-anak, boleh masuk kolam sama-sama.
thanks for the post!
i'll be heading there for a reunion and the word 'morib' did made me worry.
but with ur help.it made me..lets say..excited!!hahah
thanks.
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