Hello Kitty Town & Little Big Club @ Puteri Harbour

While we were in JB for Chinese New Year, we took the kids to the Puteri Harbour Family Theme Park. I must say it was a great day out for the kids. We went to the Hello Kitty Town and the Little Big Club. Admission is RM50 for one park and RM85 for both (same price for both adults and kids, but kids under 3 enters for free). I think RM85 is pretty expensive since the parks aren't at all big but Hubs was happy and felt it was worth every single penny since his kids had so much fun. His comments: It's much cheaper than lugging the whole family abroad, and less stressful too! I guess he has a point.

 

 

Hello Kitty Town

What's there to play? There isn't much in the Hello Kitty Town to be honest, and it's really more for girls but I guess kids that age don't really think that way. Hello Kitty Town is more activity based. You're given an activity card whereby you need to get it stamped before the start of each activity. That means you can only do each activity once. There are 6 activity stations:-

• Cookie decorating. You are given a Hello Kitty cookie to paint with chocolate or strawberry jam. The kids only wanted to decorate but didn't want to eat so daddy had to gobble up both cookies
• Jewellery making. Here you're given a necklace and all you do is choose a charm and chain it to the necklace. The quality of the necklace and charm is pretty good I must say. L's been wearing hers ever since :-)
• Nail salon. Both kids didn't want to have their nails painted so H painted mine and L just ran around. I had to bear with uglily painted nails until I got back to KL (sigh ugly nails for CNY)
• Hello Kitty's house. This is not really an activity but more for photo taking. You get to walk through Hello Kitty's living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, walk-in wadrobe, etc.
• Black wonder. For me this is the most interesting activity, but H was shivering with fear (I kid you not he was really shivering and crying, and insisted to be carried). L was cool though. Well the place is quite dark, it's supposed to be scary. You walk through a maze, then you come to a hall with multiple rooms (spookily set up), in which you have to find clues to solve the puzzle.
• Dressup. We didn't do this but I think it's just dressing up for photo taking

Apart from the activity stations above which requires stamping, there is also the spinning tea cup ride and a jungle gym type area with air guns, balls, etc. Oh, there's also dance performances on stage.

 

That wraps up the Hello Kitty Town. Time for lunch before we head up to the Little Big Club. The problem with Puteri Harbour is that it's still quite dead so there's really no place to eat apart from one restaurant at the harbour front. We were told the Lat restaurant is quite good but they weren't open for lunch that day.

 

Little Big Club

If you were to pay for only one park, I would suggest you go for the Little Big Club. It's spread over 2 floors (did I mention the parks are indoor, so you're not affected by rain or shine), and also divided into areas according to the cartoons/characters.

• Barney's Yard and Playhouse. This is just a simple play area for the kids to run around. Nothing much. Kids can also watch Barney video in the playhouse
• Pingu's Igloo. You get games machines in this room much like an arcade but on a much smaller scale (H's favourite). We almost gave this place a miss cos we thought you have to insert coins to play but later found out the games are all FOC. There's an air hockey table, 2 basketball shooting machines and 3 hit the bobbing penguins (?) machines.
• Bob the Builder. This is again similar to the jungle gym type set up where you have playstructures to climb, slides, etc. But what is different here is that there's a section in which you can build a wall using big puzzle pieces (imagine tetris if you remember the game). The kids loved this. They'd build the wall as high as they could, then run through it to crash it down.
• Angelina's dance studio. Only L went into this cos she wanted to see the mouse and she has a thing for ballet. The room's set up like a stage with Angelina on the stage to take pictures with the guests. Kids and adults can also play dress up
• Thomas and Friends. A whole floor is dedicated to Thomas and Friends. This is where you get rides (finally). There are 6 rides altogether - they're all pretty mild (well I guess they're designed for young kids). H is normally quite timid but when it comes to rides, he's just fearless. L on the other hand would only sit on my lap. There's also a huge playstucture here. The slides are quite scary I must say, and going after the kids can be a real nightmare as you have to be quite small and flexible to go around the structure. 

Overall it was a great day out. Thanks Yi-Yi for inviting us along. I think having their cousins with them added to the fun. We must check out Legoland next...