Shahbandar Jetty — Attraction in Terengganu

🤗 a combination of 8 families joined trip to Redang island 4d3n tour during May 2019 school holidays. Booked a luxury tour bus & departed from Johor at 1930hrs. Few piss-stop at fuel stations along the way to allow children "release tension" 😆💦

Driver was taking faster route & avoid highways. About 7 hours journey to reached Shahbandar jetty nearby Chinatown at 0330hrs, much earlier than expected 🙄 while jetty just 10-15 mins away. Driver parked our bus at Chinatown area & tuned aircon to optimize temp, asked everyone to continue sweet dreams 😴

About 0600hrs, driver shifted location to Chinatown for everyone to enjoy Chinese style breakfast. Johor wantan noodle taste better than local wantan 🤫 Then we headed to jetty at 0700hrs. About 10 mins drive from Chinatown. Apparently all ticket counters still closed 🤔 & we waited around 0830hrs, our ticket counter K8 for Redang beach resort has finally open for collecting our ferry & marine park tickets.

Then we moved to departure lobby & crowed with tourist 😮 Everyone waited at departure hall & entered gate at around 0900hrs. Limited seat for tourist & the departure hall is quite small but it has clean & convenience toilets. Please take note that no announcement made via PA system, basically you need to aware of your boarding pass colour, the gate man will call for boarding pass colour e.g. blue, yellow, red respectively to enter departure gate 🙄 Perhaps this is the area jetty management should improve i.e. calling via PA system.

After entered departure gate, we took about 10 mins walk to reach jetty pontoon & queuing to board ferry. Old but well maintained, clean, ac & life jacket at hand reach & visible compartment. So, we were heading to Redang Island. Check out my review about Redang Beach Resort for more...

Toilet are provided but cleanliness are soso, limited also. Marine park ticket counter are opening really last minits but the staff are friendly. I park just outside in the designed area and a guy approach and tell me this is not for those tourist, ask me to park the other side for RM10/day, i felt strange and asked the people inside shahbandar jetty and they say those people are directing you to their very own place to profit so can ignore it. The local shop nearby open after 7.15am, food taste not so good, not so friendly. The local people will stares at female and make impolite sound & movement even though the female's cloth reveal only small part of their shoulder. Boat depart quite on time, expect at least 1.5 hours to reach your destination.

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What can I say.....this place is one of the places that you should drop by whenever you are in Kuala Terengganu. The MERE view is TREMENDOUSLY AWESOME!

The sight or view from here is so breath-taking. Do not miss to snap some beautiful photos with the newly built drawbridge in the background.....they will surely look perfect in your picture frames, albums, instagram or perhaps Facebook!

The area is a famous tourist spot, visited by the locals and tourists everyday. It is maintained pretty good, and the public should help as well by not littering. Otherwise, it will ruin the cleanliness of this...