The First Resort

After our harrowing night at the Last Resort, we called Mufasa to take us to Port Langasuka to catch our ferry to Rebok Island. We laughed about how we had island fever, which prompted us to leave Singapore and go to....another island.


If we had tried, we could not have found two more different places. The Last Resort was a lot like camping, but without clean water and the warm, companionable glow of a campfire. The Rebok Island Resort was another matter altogether. We were picked up at the dock in a golf cart by a guy who probably apologized for one thing or another about 9,000 times. They carried our stuff and gave us cool towels and fruit juice at the check-in point. There was cheesy disco tech Christmas music playing over the intercom, which we grew to hate over the next 5 days, although we kind of wanted to buy the CD when we left...


The first thing they established with us was the transportation rules to and from the island. The ferry ran pretty much willy-nilly between the hours of 7:30am and 7pm. After the 7pm ferry, the cost each way was $150 Malaysian ringets (about $47). This was an obvious ploy to have guests eat an expensive dinner at the resort. At first, this really ticked us off! But on Day One, after we made sure the boys could not pay the passage back to the mainland, we went to bed giddy with the knowledge that we could hold them captive while we slept! HAH! We were just sorry we had not thought of moving to a deserted island off the coast of Malaysia when they were teens.....