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Ben’s Big Trip Days 1-2: Kuala Lumpur
Nov 29th
On Friday 27th November, sletoH.com founder Ben (that’s me, Hello!) set off on a trip through South East Asia to Australia and back again. I am going to blog about the trip here.
First stop Kuala Lumpur… I was going to make this a one night stay and get out as a few people had told me it was rubbish. However, at the last minute I was promised a delightful time if I found my way to Bukit Bintang and the Batu Caves. I booked a hostel in Bukit Bintang (the Paradiso bed and breakfast) and went out to explore KL when I arrived at 11pm.
The Petronas Towers are amazing! They look spectacular from every angle, particularly from directly underneath them! I made my way to the Sky Bar at the Traders Hotel to view them from the heavens but couldn’t get near the windows as all tables were reserved. Usually I could see over the top of other people being 6′ 2″ but at the Sky Bar a swimming pool separates the window seats from the riff-raff (me) in the rest of the bar! Sky Bar was impressive but ridiculously expensive at 6 quid for a Heineken!
I did some more walking as every tourist should. Kuala Lumpur seems a very safe place to be. There are hundreds of people milling everywhere all the time and not one hint of aggression or altercation as you would find in London. It’s very impressive in that sense. Impressed I called it a night.
Day two – I woke up deciding that I after one more day here I would be bored so I booked my next destination – Phi Phi in Thailand. Still had to fill the day so went to the Batu Caves. The 272 step climb wasn’t so bad and the monkeys running around the steps were funny. The cave itself is geologically impressive but the statues and other artifacts look like they were put their yesterday so I didn’t know whether I was looking at something I should be impressed by. I know the caves were discovered 150 years ago but when were the statues added and when was all the concrete and fairground like stalls and lighting dropped in?
I did get to see some good Kabadi being played on leaving the caves which made the trip worthwhile.
Had a look round Chinatown and a bite to eat – cheap as chips and delicious!! Approx 1.50 pounds for a chicked and fried rice meal !!
Now it’s bed time in readiness for flight to Phuket, boat to Phi Phi and hopefully learning to dive…
sletoh Logo Re-design
Nov 6th
I (Ben Jackson) was at the Affiliates 4U exhibition at Excel London in October 2009. During one of the sessions, sletoh.com was reviewed by an expert panel in front of an audience of approx 150 delegates. The review highlighted a few short-comings on the site which we have since been working to address. The main outstanding issue relates t the site name and the fact that nobody realised that ‘sletoh’ is ‘hotels’ spelt backwards.
In a straw poll of the audience only 1 delegate owned up to liking the name. Most seemed to believe that a keyword based name would be better. We are not going to change the name but we are going to improve the logo to help people see the meaning of sletoh.
The current logo mentions our slogan “hotels back to front” but the font is clearly too small as nobody could see it, even with the site displayed on a massive screen during the exhibition.
sletoh.com Original Logo
We have therefore started the process of a logo re-design. The main aims are:
- Better recognition of ‘sletoh’ being ‘hotels’ backwards.
- Larger font for the slogan ‘hotels back to front’.
- Clarity of web address.
Here are the designs that we have been looking at. Which do you prefer or should we start again from scratch?
