*denotes a proper alcoholic drink

Here’s an important GTMS (Good Things Must Share). Folks, if you’re like us, frequent business  travellers and sometimes forced by  circumstances to travel by budget airlines, you’d know what we’re talking about when we say we feel silly having to pay top dollar for wine or beer in a cramped shoulder-to-shoulder seating situation, front and back locked as well. Hard enough to properly enjoy a beer amidst the turbulence and occasional abuse from the flight attendant. So best advice is to tank up in the airport before you board. If that didn’t happen, then your next best economical bet is to rush for a thirst quencher right after you touch down. And if your low cost airport terminal is anything like the one in Kuala Lumpur, then this post will save your life.

Tune Hotels LCCT - Oasis for the Thirsty Traveller

Introducing Tune Hotels’ LCCT property, sitting right smack within the airport grounds, a short walk from the terminal building. There is a wine shop there called Decanter, a popular chain store in Malaysia, not unlike our Denise chain here in Singapore (Malaysia also has Denise now). Decanter is rumoured to be the ONLY joint that sells alcohol in the whole LCCT compound, as quoted by a Air Asia staff who shall remain unnamed. Now if that’s true, we know you won’t be wasting time hanging around in a desert when waiting for your flight when the oasis is the  next building.

If walking several hundred metres in the Malaysian heat is not quite your style, then consider their RM1 (US0.25) shuttle bus to transport your lazy bum in comfort and most important – SPEED- to your cold, waiting alcoholic beverage.

Bus that Brings you to the Booze

The hotel itself is a ‘limited service’ hotel, just like its sister company, Air Asia, which, incidentally, brought us from Singapore to KL and back in the most efficient way in their Recaro seats. Room rates when on promotion go for as low as 1 sen++, we kid you not. And that’s great value when you consider you’re getting a 5 star bed (they procure beds from the same supplier as the 5 star hotel chains). The $ saved by you can buy a lot more beer. Now that makes ‘sens’ to us.