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Traveling with Kids: Tioman Island

Traveling with children can be quite challenging. They need activities to keep them busy. From my experiences with my children, they don't really like to eat or shop. They want fun play and they want to explore.

So, once in a while, we take them out for little adventures.

Last June, we decided to take them to an island.

WEEK 12: FUN PLAY

TOPIC: A TRIP TO AN ISLAND

It was a 3 nights 4 days trip.
We stayed at Berjaya Tioman Resorts

DAY 1

Lunch: I love burgers so it was a pretty good start for me. 
Despite a pretty good lunch, our journey was delayed by about an hour. There were only two ferry trips to the island from Mersing, Johor. We chose the 3pm one instead of the 7am one because we didn't want to wake up at dawn and drive all the way to Mersing.

When we reached the island, it was already dinner time. With kids along, we just had a short walk around the resort and went to bed early.







DAY 2

We decided to go island hopping and snorkelling on the first day. Our package included three islands and lasted about 2.5 hours. ( I can't remember exactly how long it lasted) We were back to the resort by lunch time.
My son, mustering up all his courage to give snorkelling a try. With Daddy's help of course! 

After lunch, we rested for a while and then went to the swimming pool. Had some snacks and dessert while the kids enjoyed themselves at the pool. 

And when the sun wasn't too fierce, we headed to the beach and had loads of fun! It was the first time the children had been on a beach and they were thrilled!!!

Of course we spent the rest of the time on the beach until dinner time. 




DAY 3

We got a package to travel around the area. Paid RM250 for a private taxi.

We were supposed to go to the Marine Park but it was too hot! We couldn't stand the heat so we checked out the Marine Life Museum instead.




Our package also included a trip to the Juara Waterfalls. 



In the evening, the taxi driver recommended this BBQ restaurant. The food was quite good and they had a variety of meat and seafood to choose from. Too bad I don't remember the name of the place but you can refer to the picture and I am sure you can find them. It's not far from the resort. 




Fish done in two different flavours. One is spicy and the other, not. 

Sweet and sour crab.

After dinner we shopped at some of the duty free shops before going back to the resort.

DAY 4

The last day of our trip. Our ferry was scheduled at 1pm so we were able to spend the entire morning at the beach.

We had our lunch at the stalls opposite the jetty.

The ferry back to mainland was on time. 😀But there were some tide problems which caused our journey to delay by about 30 minutes.

We had our dinner at a restaurant in Mersing before heading home!!

It was one of the most wonderful family trip we had.


To me, it wasn't how beautiful the place was, or how great the food was.

To me, it was the smiles on everyone's face. The quality time we had.

Do share with us one of your best holidays!


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