JPO christmas 2012

Christmas eve 2012, we arrived JB in the late evening after a long, hot day of traveling from Mersing without any advance hotel booking. There is no more room available during this festive season but lucky us got a last room on earth in Amansari Hotel located in the heart of JB city center. We had a nightmare checking into this hotel ...Nothing compares to Havanita Hotel that we stayed in Mersing.. The room size was ridiculously too small and the parking area was too narrow. We arrived the hotel at late hours, the hotel parking are ridiculously limited (30 bays VS 200+ rooms???). Hubby spent half hour for parking searching, eventually he gave up and so lucky that there is one place to park in somewhere at the parking lot. As i said earlier this is the only room left and we were damn exhausted by that time and ready to snuggle in for a night of rest in our room. ended up all 4 of us squeezed in one tiny room....zzzzzzzzzz

The room

The view

The very next day, hubby decided to check out and start our journey back to Kuala Lumpur. Before we leave, we had our lunch at Singgah Selalu. They have a wide range of Malay food.

The entrance

Funny her of having burger for lunch LOL

Hubby n me sharing the mee bandung

Heading to KL and stop by at JPO but our driving to JPO is so damn thrilling . It was an interesting for a moment, for sure until we got a little lost due to the lack of signage. After all the hype and anticipation, we finally made our way to JPO... question? Is it worth going?

Yess ...Johor Premim Outlet is the first premium outlet in Malaysia and I am sure many of you have visited this place on its opening day; and I am only here now, kinda outdated. I was all the ready and dreaming that i could buy designer goods at a fraction of the price ..

Anyway, I was told by few of my friends that the concept and design is about the same as the Premium Outlets in U.S. except that this is much more smaller. How small it is then? I had a look in most of the stores available here. All items sold are mostly old stocks and outdated items around 3-4 seasons ago....maybe The price wasn't that impressive as I thought especially for KL people. I guess too many warehouse sales in KL spoiled the fun of doing shopping spree here, I can find much more newer and cheaper items back then in KL rather than in JPO.
I was shocked seeing the Coach Outlet is the only store that you might need to be queue to go in. If anyone are aiming for coach, I guess you can get good deal here. Most of the prices are slashed around 40%-50%. But not for me, i dont go for coach,I have definitely lost my need for Coach hand bags. I thought i always have the feeling that i should have one or two and hopefully last me a very long time....but not now...Yueukkkkkkkkssssss I'm sorry to have to do this, but let me get this off my chest. Coach is officially over!!! I know that's a bold statement.. Is there something about designer handbags in general that becomes unoriginal when everyone is wearing them??? everyone i see

Esprit where me ended up shopping at? Yes the fluorescence green shopping bag catched my eyes. And there were bargains aplenty! Had a normal price of RM 179 which was discounted to RM39 at the outlet store! And same goes with Hannah's. The same fluorescence green sling bag...so much for RM20.



Anyway it was nevertheless a nice experience.