Club Med Cherating at Cherating, Kuantan

Club Med (Club Méditerranée) is a French corporation of vacation resorts found in many parts of the world, usually in exotic locations. It is considered the original all-inclusive resort.

"The Club was started in 1950 by former Belgian water polo champion Gérard Blitz. Blitz, a Belgian, had opened a low-priced summer colony of tents on the island of Majorca. Trigano supplied the tents, and in 1953 Blitz wooed him into a partnership. The first official Club Med was built the next year in Palinuro, Salerno Italy. The original villages were simple with members staying in unlit straw huts on a beachfront, sharing communal washing facilities. Such villages have been replaced with modern blocks or huts with ensuite facilities.
The club joining fee was set at 300 French francs and the cost of a two-week vacation at 15,900 francs."
If you like know more about the history of Club Med, please visit the Wikipedia here. 

It was our first visit to Club Med Cherating (N4.13877 E103.40784) during the year end school holiday, the journey took about 6 hours drive from Johor Bahru to Cherating.

The security guard post at Club Med Cherating

It's a private club, means visitor cannot simply walk-in unless you are the guest of the club. Once we reached the main hall, the GO (Gentil Organisateur or Gentle/Kind Organiser) was stand-by and start to arrange our luggage to the room. Then we were direct to the reception for welcome drink and activities briefing...

Main entrance of Club Med Cherating

Reception of Club Med Cherating

The GO who welcome our arrival was Ms Jojo (if I'm not mistaken), she was friendly, humble and patiently explain the club facilities and activities to us and it was a hassle-free check in. Then all of us proceed with the club tour before we step into our room...
Let me show you the surroundings...

The club house or the main hall

The tourism counter for those who like to know more about Cherating

There was a bar counter at the left of the main hall, and it was the crowded area during the evening time...you can order your favorite juice, beer, cocktail or wine from this bar (yes, inclusive in the package)

The bar counter

Further left of the bar counter, it's cool and silent reading or should I say relax corner. I saw some of the guests holding their favorite cocktail and reading their books comfortably in this room (there's a desktop computer for guest to use it too)

The huge swimming pool is located after the club house...well, look at the size of the pool, it included the adult, children and baby pool...

The huge swimming pool of Club Med Cherating

The performance theater is at the left side of the pool, there will be performance every night on 9pm.

The performance theater

You can enjoy the short 15 minutes Balinese massage is available just outside the theater, where you can relax within the crowd next to the pool.

The Balinese massage area next to the swimming pool

The Spa center is at the end of the club house...which we didn't step in because the limited time stay in Club Med.

The Club Med Spa Center

There are still many activities within the area, I'll show you in my next posts...

Signage are everywhere, don't worry...you won't get lost in Club Med!

We continued our tour to the next session, where all the rooms are located...the area was well maintained and green!

The rooms in Club Med Cherating

The building architecture is similar to the Malaysian traditional house...

I like the green while we walked into our rooms...

The rooms area were constructed in timber, with the touch of the tropical...

We booked 2 rooms which were equipped with one King's bed and two single beds, the 2 rooms were inter-connect (options you can select while you make your reservation online)

The King's bed

The 2 single beds on the next room

Each room also has a small bed which is similar size of the single bed and its more than enough for children or even adult....

The small bed in each room

40" LED TV for each room, but we not even on it during our stay...haha...

Simple and clean bathroom...same design for 2 rooms...

The both rooms have the nice view of the garden area, we like it!

Both were garden view...

The view from our rooms...

It might be our lucky number 'a1112'...haha!

First, we were impressed by the well maintained in every area, friendly staffs around and full of activities. Jojo (GO of Club Med) did pass us the activities schedule, and everyone was too excited to rock 'n roll once we settle everything in our room...

The Club area and rooms area were covered by high speed Wifi, don't worry...you are connected all the time! Unlike previously, where you need to keep all the phones, watches in the locker...(everyone was talking about it, but I haven't experience it before)

Stay tune on my next post for the Club Med Cherating...

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*  Restaurant and food in Club Med Cherating, Kuantan.

*  Some of the photos were taken by phone's camera, apologies for the poor quality.

Club Med Cherating, Malaysia

Official website : http://goo.gl/L7wzGy

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ClubMedCheratingBeach/

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Location map of Club Med Cherating

Tunamaya Beach and Spa Resort at Tioman Island

Tunamaya Beach and Spa Resort (N2.72072 E104.15162) is located at the southern tip of Tioman Island. The resort had just established a year ago, and the surrounding is so nature and not polluted. The white sandy beach accompany with the crystal clear water, the mythical Twin Peaks as the backdrop of the resort...everything painted a beautiful picture in front of us, it's almost heaven! That's the reason of their resort's slogan - "Between heaven and earth."

The jetty of Tunamaya Beach and Spa Resort

The crystal clear water at the jetty

The Tunamaya's staffs had a warm welcome for us at the jetty...song, music and friendly smiles. Suddenly I heard : "Welcome to fantasy island!" said by the Resort Manager - Mr Paul Cheah. The phrase remind me of Mr Roarke from the American TV series of 1977 - The Fantasy Island, which was one of my favorite series. Kind of traveling to the past...haha!

By walking towards the lobby from the jetty, I was amazed by the marvelous view of the resort...seems like 'guarded' by the Legendary Twin Peaks behind it.

Between heaven and earth - Tunamaya Beach and Spa Resort

The Legendary mythical Twin Peaks of Tioman Island

And greeted by the visitors who snorkeling beside the jetty...

Snorkeling in Tioman island

The check-in process was smooth! Seems like the staffs at the front desk already know our names by walking directly to each of us for signatures, can it be coincidence? I'm impressed.

The lounge and the lobby

Everyone was presented a coconut as a welcome drink to cool us down on the hot and humid weather at the lobby.
After a short rest, we were served by the buffet breakfast at the restaurant...

The sword fish - deco of the restaurant

Variety of foods, included Asian, Malaysian, Western and many more...

My simple breakfast at Tunamaya Beach and Spa Resort

An 'ice breaking' session for all of us during the breakfast session...it was totally relax.

When we about to walk to our room, and realized that all the keys already in the room and the air-conditioning was on. The staffs were so considerate, appreciated because they cool down the room on the hot weather before we step in.

The area was well maintain, with lush of green...

5 minutes walked, we reached our villa.
There are 2 type of views for all the villa, sea view and nature view. Every villa has 2 rooms and its interconnected, few types of room available - 2 persons, 3 persons and family room. All layout and deco almost no different except the beds.

Me and my friend were staying in the same villa with individual room, my friend's room was a 3 persons room equipped with one queen and one single bed, my room was equipped with one king bed. Both rooms were interconnected.

The Villa of Tunamaya Beach and Spa Resort

3 persons room - one queen bed and one single bed

2 persons room - one king bed

Every room has a 2 entrances, one from front and the other at the side. As you will notice from the photos above.

Bathroom are all same design

The sea view's room has the spectacular view!

View from the room window

Lazy chair outside my room

According to Mr Paul (Resort Manager), the drinking water in the room is the natural water from the waterfall of the island. This is one of the best drinking water I had among all the resort I visited before.
As I noticed, the room was equipped with all the quality product like electrical switch, toiletries and many more...

After we settled our bags and luggages, it was free and easy session...we walked around the resort.

The nature view's Villas have a simple and greenery view from their windows, and the sea view's Villas have a nice wooden pedestrian connected to each other.

Wooden pedestrian connected to all sea view Villas

You can choose to have your swimming session in the sea or the edgeless pool in the resort...

Crystal clear water at the beach

Magnificent view from the edgeless pool of the resort

The resort is fully covered by surveillance cameras to ensure the safety of every guest in the resort.
While strolling around the resort, we reached the Sarung Spa. The Spa center is located in the natural environment, green and with the touch of nature.

Entrance of the Sarung Spa center

2 minutes walk from the path above, the Spa center appeared...

Sarung Spa of Tunamaya Beach and Spa Resort

The well train ladies providing their Balinese Traditional massage for all guests.
The center has few rooms for spa therapy, photo below...

Every room is equipped with the jacuzzi pool and bathroom, you can enjoy it after the massage therapy and spend your own sweet time in the room.

The natural herbs for spa therapy

We had our massage session on 4pm that day we check-in...it was comfortable and relax!

The room services are twice a day, that means every morning you took your shower and out for activities, once you back in the afternoon or evening, everything is being arranged. Impressed!

We were hanged out around the Ombak Bar for the afternoon session, just to grabbed a glass of Budweiser beer to cool ourselves down...

The shark at the Ombak Bar

We were greeted by most of the staffs around the resort remember included our names, impressed!

After few glasses of Budweiser, it was time for the dinner. The post will be coming up next...

Some history of Tunamaya Beach and Spa Resort :-
The resort established about a year ago, we view through their video where everything constructed from zero. One of the partner - Mr Gan was from Penang, explained to us about the story behind the name of the resort. He said before they name the resort, another partner has a resort at Perhentian Island - The Tuna Bay Resort. That's why the word 'Tuna' is mentioned here, and 'maya' is the national language of 'mythical', it means the mysteries, mythical of the Legendary Twin Peaks just situated exactly as a backdrop of the resort. At last, we understand the name of the resort is nothing to do with the Tuna fish...

Please check out their promotion from time to time at their Facebook page.

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Tunamaya Beach and Spa Resort, Tioman Island.
Lot 20 & 21, Kampung Mukut, Pulau Tioman
86800 Pahang, Malaysia.
Tel : +607-798 8108
Email : info@tunamayaresort.com
Website : www.tunamayaresort.com
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/TunamayaResortTioman

Location map of Tunamaya Beach and Spa Resort of Tioman Island