KL and Langkawi?

[Madamecastafiore]

Where would you stay and how long to spend in the city before heading to the beach?

We have 3 kids 15, 10 and 18 months and want to be able to keep all of them amused.

Can recommend the Andaman on Langkawi. Stayed at the Shangri La in KL years ago pre DCs and it was very reasonable and fab.

I spent 2/3 days either side in KL and about 8/10 days on Langkawi. It was absolutely brilliant.

However, I went there on my own, not with 3 kids so I'm probably not a lot of help That's a wide spread of ages you have there, not an easy ask to keep them all happy BUT the beach is great and should hopefully keep them all satisfied, you too!

In KL you have to go to the Theme Park inside the Shopping Centre - that's a lot of fun in quite a surreal way!

Three-5days days in KL is probably enough - Sunway lagoon for a day, the Times Square mall with the indoor theme park is good if you're struggling with humidity/heat, bird park, petronas towers. Or maybe 3 days KL, 2 days Cameron Highlands, 7 days Langkawi? Or Penang on the way to Langkawi?
Langkawi -7 days. Again, I'd have to look up our hotel name but it was pink and had a reasonable amount of (poorly maintained) water activity (a few slides, wave pool, lazy river). Then in Langkawi you can do the mangrove river cruise with view of the sea eagles, caves, sea farms, monkeys. You can visit where the cable cars are and the visitor attractions around there, jet skis and para-sailing, aquarium, we got jet skiers to drop us at a desert island for a few hours.

We didn't want to stay in one of the big hotels,so chose Fox Hill and rented Malaysian village-style chalet. It was absolutely amazing. Maria was very welcoming and helpful, place was very safe and we had a swimming pool to ourselves for most of the time. You do need a car though as it is not right on the beach.