The weather was kind to the kids, in fact it was way too kind, showering us with a scorching sun and zero rain throughout our 3 days in Port Dickson. It was super hot (temp shot up to above 40 degrees Celsius for the past few days), humid and dry. The kids had way too much fun in the sun, like over 8 hours a day!! While me, the ‘puteri lilin’ which literally means Candle Princess (coz I will melt under the sun) stayed under those pool-side brollies while keeping guard on my 3 monkeys. Daddy watched alone not enough. Everywhere were children. One moment you spot them, the next moment, they are no where in sight and you panic the sh*t out of yourself when you could not find them. After 3 days of being roasted by the fiery sun, I had a bad bout of headache for 2 days, which dampened my mood.
We stayed at Thistle Resort. About 5 minutes’ drive away from Thistle were several Chinese ‘tai chau’ restaurants. Without even driving out (well, we thought PD was only that small, i.e. that stretch of kampung road along Thistle), we only went to those few ‘tai chau’ restaurants to have our dinner and lunch. Those stalls were perpetually full to the brim and super hot. I was drenched in my own sweat after each meal. It was no fun for me, plus my throbbing head… I wanted to eat in the hotel but our friends, the very adventurous types were all gamed to have a seafood feast outside, so, majority rules lor.
On our last night at PD, when those ‘tau chau’ restaurants were all packed, we finally drove aimlessly around PD to look for an alternative restaurant. After a 20- minute drive, we reached PD town and then realized that PD actually was quite a modern town with a small mini market, air-conditioned small restaurants (I was beaming!) and other amenities. PD is not a small kampung as all of us thought initially, LOL! We randomly chose an air-conditioned Chinese restaurant and for once ever since we reached PD, we had an enjoyable meal without much sweat dribbling down our foreheads haha!
Here are some of the pix taken at PD and I’ll let them do the talking.
Models at work.. donning on clothes from my online store — nice or not?? 😀 
Beautiful sunset at Thistle but the beach ain’t clean at all.
Hubs ordered some food but the kids had so much fun that they had forgotten what time of the day it was. No need to pee, no need to drink water and no need to eat too. I had to holler at them to get out from the pool to eat and drink.
My lil jumping bean modelling on another Jumping Beans top that mummy sells 😀
There is a play room and also a slot-machine room next to the pool side.
The kids in our trip (8 of them) watching Kung Fu Panda at the resort’s in-house cinema.
The man in orange holding a DSLR is our friend. This DSLR enthusiast had a blast snapping our pix with his canggih camera which I so drool at!
There was a pool and beach side party on Saturday and Sunday evening and the kids had a blast. Popcorns, ice-creams and fresh coconut were for sale. The coconuts were plucked from the trees in the resort compound and we were charged RM5 for a coconut. The resort Management sure knows how to make money by planting coconut trees and selling the harvest!
Cass was very good and did not whine or kick up a fuss that she was not allowed to swim in the pool. After a post-op UTI attack 2 years ago after a swim at the pool of Hard Rock Hotel Penang, I am not taking any more risk of her getting another UTI, though she has been certified free from Kidney Reflux. The pools at Thistle were teeming with kids and adults. Some people were seen blowing their noses and spitting into the water, some jumped into the pool after sea-bathing with feet full of sand and I am very sure many kids peed in the water too.
The angels with granny..
Alycia with stylo mylo granny…
While the kids had a whale of their time, I did not quite enjoy the scorching sun. The rooms were not up to our expectation. We paid double the price (over RM400++) as we stayed there during the weekends. Week day rates are half that price! And breakfast was not included too!! This will be our first and last time staying at Thistle. If we ever go to Port Dickson again, we will definitely try Avillion.
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Hey, looks like BabyC can start ballet. She can balance well with her leg up.
Look at all those smiling faces. The kids sure had lots of fun!!
The kids have lots of fun. I found Alycia getting more look alike mommy.
What an enjoyable trip! and btw, you look good in that dress. But then again, you’re so slimmm – you’ll look good in anything!
Baby C was so kuai!? Bravo!! It was not easy to keep her off the pool when so many kids were having fun.
I bet the kids had lots of fun!
thanks for the feedback, been thinking of going there but after your review, maybe will try the other ones. yea, kids when give them the pool or beach, they dunno how to do anything else but play!
you have trained Cassandra well, my HL will scream murder if she cant do what her sister is doing. well done cassandra, you deserve a big hug!
wah…your mum so “in” one ah?