One Night Is Never Enough at Hotel Equatorial Melaka

The starting price for a ride on these trishaws is RM35 and it can sit on average 2 adults and a child.

JONKER WALK

Jonker Street is popular for its night market on Fridays and Saturdays that sells everything from tasty treats to cheap keepsakes.

MALACCA RIVER

Once you’ve squeezed your way between the human traffic jam in Jonker Walk, it is time to squeeze your way out and walk along Malacca River.

Take a leisurely stroll along the river to enjoy the heritage city. The river cruise along Sungai Melaka is also very popular with the many cruises available.

We made a video of our river cruise experience along Sungai Melaka.

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Let’s watch to see how beautiful Melaka is from the river bank view:

We skipped the queue at the ticketing counter by getting our tickets delivered to us at the hotel. All we needed to do was to inform the front desk of our desired time slot and they’ll make the necessary arrangements for us ♥

MELAKA MARITIME MUSEUM

From Melaka River, walk on to Maritime Museum (Muzium Samudera) of Malacca. It is located not far from the Stadthuys. It is opposite Medan Samudera which is a handicraft and local produce building.

MENARA TAMING SARI

About 200m meter away from the Maritime Museum is Menara Taming Sari.

The Taming Sari Tower is a revolving gyro tower and is ideal if you like to view Malacca from atop at the height of 80 metres.

Little Ayden all excited with his rented binoculars.

We also made a video of our experience getting a bird’s eye view of Melaka on Menara Taming Sari.

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Watch it here:

We got our tickets from the front desk at Hotel Equatorial Melaka. Do check with the friendly staffs of your sight-seeing needs and they’ll be glad to sort it out for you. 

DATARAN PAHLAWAN

Walk along the street from the Taming Sari Tower and you’ll find Dataran Pahlawan.

Dataran Pahlawan is a modern shopping mall in the historical city.

MAHKOTA PARADE

About 2.5km further is Mahkota Parade, another shopping mall in Malacca.

Once you are done shopping, just complete the circle and you’ll find yourself back to K5, The Street Bistro at Hotel Equatorial Melaka.

K5 THE STREET BISTRO

This place comes to live cum night time. In the mornings, they opened up the space for the breakfast crowd from the adjoining Rest House Cafe. .

K5’s teh tarik, one of the best teh tarik in Melaka. Coupled with its keropok lekor, it is a match made in heaven.

That was what we had while watching LIVE football here that day.

Big brother Ethan is a huge football fan so you can imagine how happy he was when he got the opportunity to watch Malaysia vs Vietnam with other die hard fans at K5 recently.

ENCORE

Intricate theatre props and costumes. First in Southeast Asia, 3600 rotating audience platform facing a 240-meter-long stage with multiple stages. We rotate as the stories unfold from one stage to another.

Cameras and flash photography are not allowed into the theatre but we are allowed to have our handphones with us. 

To give you an idea of what Encore is, watch this video:

Encore is one attraction that you should catch at least once if you are in Melaka and again, we got our tickets from the front desk at Hotel Equatorial Melaka (Official), the hotel we are staying at. Such convenience for their residing guests.

NYONYA FOOD COOKING CLASS

Hotel Equatorial Melaka is also famous for its Nyonya Food Cooking Class. I’ve always wanted to sign the boys up for it but never got the time. We finally did last December and boy, what a joy it was.

It was a FUNtastic family affair as both our little chefs and me got a hands-on experience cooking up a storm while Daddy sits back to enjoy the fruit of our labour.

Lil’ Chef Ayden and big bro Ethan made two signature Nyonya desserts – Onde Onde and Popiah while I learned to cook Ayam Buah Keluak.

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The Daddy managed to record a video of us so let’s watch to see what goes on in this Nyonya Cooking Class:

We received certificates from Dato Syed A. Rahman Alkaff, the General Manager of Hotel Equatorial Melaka for our participation which we will proudly frame and hang in our kitchen at home.

Upon ‘graduating’ from our cooking class, we get to enjoy feasting to the fruits of our labor.

Private cooking lessons are available for guests at Hotel Equatorial Melaka. For more information, check out their website at https://melaka.equatorial.com

As usual, we had such a wonderful stay with the best hospitality at Hotel Equatorial Melaka. One night is definitely not enough as there are many more places we have yet to explore such as The Shore and more. We’ll be back to complete our Holiday Memory Contest as we have until the end of February 2019 to submit our entry.