1. 20th Century Fox World Malaysia
Address:
Genting Highlands, Pahang
20th Century Fox World is an upcoming movie inspired theme park project at Resorts World Genting, Genting Highlands, Malaysia. The park is going to be the only functioning 20th Century Fox theme park in the world and the first in Asia. It is scheduled to open sometime in 2019. The theme park is 250 acres in size and would feature roughly 25 thrill rides and attractions based on diverse films and franchises like Blue Sky Studios’ Ice Age and Rio, Life of Pi, Night at the Museum, Planet of the Apes, Alien vs. Predator, Titanic and Sons of Anarchy.
2. Genting Casino
Address:
Genting Highlands Resort
Genting Casino is one of the most popular evening venues in Genting Heights, where you can test your luck and win a huge bonus. Genting Casino also has 400 types of electronic table games, 3,000 slots machines, and 30 tables with games ranging from Blackjack and Tai Sai, to Russian roulette and French Boule. The casino is divided into several themes, exclusive international and VIP rooms with elite gamblers, and 24-hour food and beverage service. Do note that the casino denies entry for visitors who are Muslim or below 21 years old. Open 24 hours daily, all visitors are required to dress appropriately when visiting this casino, which means plain or batik-printed attire and covered shoes for men, while ladies only require to wear smart casual clothing and shoes. Backpacks, electronic gadgets, and cameras are also prohibited at Genting Casino.
3. Genting Club Casino
Address:
Genting Highlands Resort
Genting Club Casino is one of the many gambling centres you can find in Genting Highlands, attracting travellers and locals looking to win a massive pay-out during their holiday. It offers a wide range of electronic table games, slots machines, and tables offering the usual array of games such as Blackjack, Russian roulette, and French Boule Tai Sai. Genting Club Casino also shares space with stylish restaurants, and you can enjoy more than 400 premium wines, champagne, cigars and delicacies in Genting Heights. In addition, there is a dedicated seven-room karaoke centre that provides a 24-hour housekeeper called Be A Star Karaoke. Open daily, this upmarket entertainment centre is a good alternative if gambling isn’t your cup of tea.
4. SkyCasino Genting
Address:
Level 1 & 2, SkyAvenue Shopping Mall, Genting Highlands
SkyCasino Genting, known as the largest casino in Gening Heights, spanning two floors with eight dining venues, a massive LED screen on the ceilings, and a variety of gaming tables and slot machines. Located in SkyAvenue Shopping Center, it is open 24 hours a day and is a favorite entertainment center for adult tourists. The forest-themed casino is equipped with a large number of earthen furniture and wooden installations, while its state-of-the-art ceilings, 16 meters high, provide digital images of the sky and towering trees. Gaming tables and game consoles are distributed at these two levels, together with seven LED screens that show ongoing competitive games. You can easily find self-service kiosks, cloud top ATMs and bank teller machines, as well as casino personnel, if you need help. For added convenience, treasury counters are also available for transactions at SkyCasino Genting.
5. Awana SkyWay
Address:
Level 2, Awana SkyWay building, Genting Highlands
Opening Hours:
7am – 12am
Price:
RM8 for Standard Gondola, RM50 for Glass Floor Gondola
Awana Skyway is one of the most convenient ways to reach the peak of Genting Highlands, where you can find a variety of options for shopping, dining and entertainment. Operating between 07:00 and 00:00, the most advanced cable car system takes about 10 minutes from the Awana Station to SkyAvenue Station, which is directly connected to the SkyAvenue Shopping Mall. The line is still at the Chin Swee Station where you can disembark at no extra cost to explore the breathtaking Taoist temple of the same name. Remember to keep your ticket, as it needs to continue your journey, whether to SkyAvenue or Awana stations.
6. Awana Horse Ranch
Address:
Awana Horse Ranch, Awana Genting Highlands Golf & Country Resort, KM13, Genting Highlands
If you’re tired of bright lights and kitschy slot machines, you can walk to a cool hillside, saddled atop a beautiful horse and take in the sights of the greenery of the tropical forest. The equestrian centre is located within the Awana Genting Highlands Golf & Country Resort. This is a good way to spend time in the dense jungle without having to walk on your own feet.
7. Genting Skyway
Address:
Gohtong Jaya, Genting Highlands
Opening Hours:
7am – 12am
Price:
RM8 per person
Genting Skyway is one of the two cable car systems serving Genting Highlands, travelling between Gohtong Jaya and the peak of the highlands. While Awana Skyway serves as the main method of transportation, Genting Skyway operates when the former undergoes maintenance and during busy periods, such as weekends and public or school holidays.
8. Genting Highlands Mountainside
Address:
Genting Highlands Resort
Genting Highlands sport some lush tropical greenery in stark contrast to what you would expect from this supposedly glitzy Asian-style Vegas hillside station. Although this does not sound like an interesting adventure, it is a good idea to go for a walk; the fresh air and lush greening and the spectacular scenery around the hillside are spectacular.
9. Genting Strawberry Leisure Farm
Address:
1, Lot 3707, Jalan Jati 2, Bandar Gohtong Jaya, Pahang
Opening Hours:
9am – 6.30pm
Price:
RM10 for adult visitors, RM7 for children below 12 years old
Genting Strawberry Leisure Farm is a family-friendly attraction in Genting Heights, where you can spend an afternoon exploring many of its colorful fruit farms and flower gardens. Set within Bandar Gohtong Jaya, it’s accessible within a six-minute drive from the Genting Premium Outlets and Awana Skyway cable car station. Genting strawberry leisure farm provides various vegetables, flowers and mushrooms, and exports to all parts of the country. You can also pick your own strawberries straight from the orchards, which costs about RM8++ for every 100g. One of its most unique features is the lavender garden, which is equipped with a unique fountain, surrounded by full bloom of lavender. A variety of kiosks can be found throughout the farm to sell honey, cacti, clothes, soft toys and souvenirs, while visitors can enjoy a simple dish in the on-site strawberry theme restaurant.
10. Butterfly Wonderland Genting
Address:
6452, Genting View Resorts, KM 11-3, Genting Highlands, Pahang
Opening Hours:
9am -9 pm
Price:
RM20 per adult, RM16 for children (3 – 12 years old) and senior citizens
Accessible within a five-minute drive from Genting View Resorts, the butterfly area is also fitted with a miniature waterfall, which houses colourful Japanese koi fish and freshwater turtles. Here, visitors can also enjoy the magnificent view of the dense rainforest and cable car heading for Genting Heights. The butterfly Wonderland cloud top has more than 100 kinds of colorful creatures, and they are also friendly and can be settled on unsuspecting tourists, although most of them tend to collect nectar from all kinds of plants and flowers in the garden.
11. World of Phalaenopsis (Orchid Farm)
Address:
Lot 100, Gohtong Jaya
Opening Hours:
8am – 5pm
World of Phalaenopsis Genting is an expansive farm in Genting Highlands, where visitors can find an assortment of exotic orchids. It covers an area of about 6500 square meters and is the largest grower of Phalaenopsis in Malaysia. There are more than 390 species of orchids growing on the top of Phalaenopsis clouds, with pink, yellow, purple and white in all colors. The world of Phalaenopsis not only exports flowers to luxury hotels and restaurants across Malaysia, but also its farms are open to the public. Visits can be arranged between 08:00 and 17:00 every day, and local guides can share useful advice and techniques on growing orchids.
12. Happy Bee Farm Genting
Address:
6452, Genting View Resorts, KM 11-3, Genting Highlands, Pahang
Opening Hours:
9am – 9pm
Price:
RM20 for adults, RM16 for children between 3 and 12 years old
Happy Bee Farm Cloud Top provides visitors with first-hand, but safe experience, where bees are planted in Genting Highlands. There are butterfly farms, cafes and retail stores that sell reasonably priced products such as bee pollen, propolis and natural honey. There are live displays all day, and you can see a swarm of bees passing through a transparent panel, from building hives to collecting pollen and nectar from many plants and trees on farms. An experienced beekeeper also appeared in one of the presentations, collecting raw honey from the hive and surrounded by thousands of flying thorns. Happy Bee Farm Genting is also an educational hub for those looking to learn more about bees, featuring extensive displays of bee specimens, ecological life system, and various hive formations. There are also interactive learning stations equipped with pictures, diagrams, and audio-visual presentations of bees and their role in the environment.
13. Chin Swee Caves Temple
Address:
3.7 kilometres away from the Theme Park Hotel
Chin Swee Caves Temple is a Taoist temple located on 28 acres of rock woodland in Genting Highlands, where locals often hold religious ceremonies and enjoy a quiet atmosphere. It was erected in honour of Reverend Master Chin Swee, a Buddhist monk from the Fujian Province who was renowned for his ability to summon rain and drive away evil spirits. One of the temple’s most recognised landmarks is a nine-storey Pagoda, which is fitted with images of Buddha and thousands of blessing lamps. Tourists can climb the steps leading to the top of the tower, where they can see a panoramic view of the top of the mountain. There are huge Buddhist statues and Guanyin statues in the temple, as well as complex animal sculptures and inscriptions of ancient Chinese traditions and beliefs.
14. Picture House Cinema Genting
Address:
Level 1, SkyAvenue, Genting Highlands
Opening Hours:
10am – 3am
Price:
RM22 for Premium Seats, RM17 for Executive Seats, RM16 for Standard Seats
Picture House Cinema Genting is where you can watch the latest blockbuster in Genting Highlands. Located on the first floor of SkyAvenue Shopping Mall, there are four spacious cinema halls with 170 seats, as well as a state-of-the-art screen and a Dolby Atmos audio system. Each hall consists of three seats-advanced seats in the back seat and ergonomic design and innovative sliding system to ensure comfort; standard seats occupy the middle and executive seats are arranged in the front row. Unlike typical front row cinema seats, these are equipped with electric recliners and foot functions, bringing a comfortable viewing experience.
15. SkySymphony Genting
Address:
Level 1, SkyAvenue Shopping Mall, Genting Highlands
Opening Hours:
10am – 6pm (every two hours) & 6pm – 12am (hourly)
SkySymphony Genting takes shoppers by surprise with its unique orchestra of audio, visual and motion graphics in Genting Highlands. Also known as the Theatre of Lights and Sound, it’s widely regarded as Asia’s largest permanent winch installation. This family-friendly and free visual experience lasts about 15 minutes, performed every two hours between 10:00 and 18:00, and then every other hour from 18:00 to midnight. Located on Level 1 of SkyAvenue Shopping Mall (in front of the main entrance of SkyCasino), where you can find 1,001 winch balls suspended from a four-level ceiling as well as gigantic screens installed throughout the mall’s main atrium.
16. SeniKome Péng Hēng East Coast Arts & Cultural Centre
Address:
Level 3, First World Plaza, Genting Highlands
Opening Hours:
8.30am – 5.30pm
The SeniKome Péng Hēng East Coast Arts & Cultural Centre in Genting Highlands has a large number of cultural relics, textiles, traditional games and handicrafts from the east coast of Malaysia. The vast museum also provides a good choice for history enthusiasts and those who want to know about the local culture, as well as a range of family-friendly activities, exhibitions, live performances and seminars.
17. The Arena of Stars
Address:
Genting Highlands Resort
Since its completion in 1998, Arena of Stars in Genting Highlands has held hundreds of international concerts, performances and competitions, making it one of Malaysia’s most famous venues. Set in front of Resorts World Genting, the all-roofed amphitheatre is equipped with state-of-the-art audio and lighting systems that can accommodate up to 6000 people at a time. Some of the world’s biggest artists who have performed at Arena of Stars include Boyz II Men, Leona Lewis, Deep Purple, Michael Learns to Rock, and Lionel Richie, as well as Jolin Tsai, S.H.E, Joey Yung, Stefanie Sun, Vanness Wu, G.E.M, and Twins. Visitors can also enjoy a variety of live events and competitions at the Resorts World Genting throughout the year, including the Genting International Jazz Festival (GIJF), World Lion Dance Championships and Genting International Magic Festival (GIMF).
How to go to Genting Highlands from Singapore
1. Private Taxi Service
Taxi transportation from Singapore to Genting Highlands is convenient. It is only 45 kilometres from Kuala Lumpur. If you want to enjoy your trip to Genting Highlands from Singapore, you need to hire a private taxi. The Rickshaw Run is a service that you can hire a very professional driver to plan your trip. This is the most preferred and popular choices among the rest of transport since the travelling time will be most convenient as compare to others transportation especially if you have young children on board. We also provide door-to-door service and the driver will pick you up at your preferred time and place in Singapore. The travelling time normally take less than 6 hours’ drive from Singapore to Genting Highlands and that of course must depend on both immigration clearance and traffic condition. You will save many times to relax with your family and just focus to enjoy your trip only. Believe me, our drivers are punctual, professional and friendly.
Due to high demand, The Rickshaw Run (Main website link) is now providing this transportation services from Singapore to Genting Highlands too.
How?
– Simple and easy to make a reservation through online in just few click.
– We will pick you up at your selected location in Singapore Island wide.
– With us you can enjoy sit in the car and across border without alight your luggage.
– Affordable price with 5 stars services experience.
– Friendly driver with simple English speaking.
2. By bus
If you travel according to budget, consider taking a bus. The bus ticket can be booked online. To avoid traffic jams, it is recommended that you book a bus as soon as possible. Later, you need to get off the bus to clear the customs. Carry your luggage with you for scanning.
Bus schedule:
https://12go.asia/en/travel/singapore/genting-highlands?date=2019-05-18&people=2
