Kelantan & Terengganu Road Trip (Part 8)

On 13th April 2011, we checked out from the DJ Citi Point Hotel and headed off to Hulu Terengganu / Kuala Berang. The journey took us around 40 minutes.

Before we visited our workplace at Hospital Hulu Terengganu, we stopped over at a local restaurant for a Nasi Dagang. I had been traveling all over Terengganu since 2008 and this place offers the best Nasi Dagang that I had ever taste in the whole Terengganu, can I say Malaysia? (my taste). So on this trip, I would not want to miss the opportunity of having the Nasi Dagang at this place.

We took a longer time here in Hulu Terengganu but this time not because of it is a huge project to visit, but due to lack of facility specifically internet connection. Available but crawling like snail. Worst, we need to Full Restore the whole system due to virus.

As we were already late and we knew that our next stop would take us longer hours, I was in dilemma whether I wanted to overnite here in Hulu Terengganu or proceed to drive south to Dungun. At last, decision made, to Dungun we go.

We reached Dungun at dusk. In Dungun, we always stayed at the UiTM Dungun Hotel, so once reaches Dungun, we drove straightly to the hotel. And we were shocked to know that the hotel was fully booked.

As it was already dark, we quickly drove along the beachside to look for a good hotel/motel. Lastly we found a resort which from the look of it, looks great & luxury. The resort name is Mayangsari Resort.


I went to the reception counter and was lucky to know that few rooms were still available. They offered me 2 type of room, one at RM90.00 and another one at RM140.00. As we were tired and I wanted a good room to ease the tiredness, I took the RM140.00 room instead of the RM90.00. After they hand over the room key, we went to our room and were totally disappointed with the room.

What kind of RM140.00 room is this?

Small set of TV with only channel 1, 2 and 3. You can also see the dirty floor tiles.

The RM140.00 was not worth at all. Ants were everywhere. The air conditioned system failed to function where we can't controlled the temperature and worst, the water pressure was too low making impossible for us to take bath. We were 'fighting' with mosquitoes all nite long even.

Mayangsari Resort concept is great and the outside of the resort looks beautiful, so is the lobby. But I think the maintenance need to be improved. The resort is not well maintained. I took a RM140.00 room, I wonder what would be the RM90.00 looks like? Nevertheless, the staff from gardeners, front office, waiter and waitress are friendly.


The next morning we woke up and had our free breakfast. Not many choices of foods even. And during checked out, I was told that they can't provide me any receipt as their printer was down. I told them to provide me with a manual hand written receipt but they said they can't do that as they do not have a manual receipt book. They promised me that they will email a copy of scanned receipt by 2 hours once their printer is functioning. Gave them my email address and after 2 hours while at Hospital Dungun, I checked my mail, no email received. I got worried as I need the receipt so that I can claimed my stay. Waited for another 1 hour, no email from the resort. As I really need the receipt, I drove back to the resort and the reception staff told me that the printer is now okay and she can print the receipt. I was totally disappointed with this resort and I will definitely not going to stay again in Mayangsari Resort, Dungun.

During the lunch hour, I went to Dungun Wet Market in Kuala Dungun to buy some spices. There is a ridge in front of the wet market which I think is very interesting for photography but due to lack of time I only managed to take 1 photo of it.

After done with Hospital Dungun, we drove south to Kemaman / Cukai Town.