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Kuala Lumpur City of Lights Tour

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Kuala Lumpur City of Lights Tour

65 MYR
Kuala Lumpur City of Lights Tour
4.2

Rating

 4.2/5

Flyctory.com Pros

  • Amazing views of Kuala Lumpur
  • Comfortable bus seating (without using lower deck)
  • Absolutely competitive price

Flyctory.com Cons

  • Lack of commentary
  • Zick-zack driving through the city

When I met with a dear friend during my February 2024 trip to Kuala Lumpur, she insisted that I have to do the Kuala Lumpur City of Lights Tour. While the city is known as a premier cultural and shopping destination in the world, she stated that it shows its real beauty during the dark hours. Of course, I trusted her – and the result is this review.

 

Kuala Lumpur City of Lights – Location & Admission

The City of Lights tour is driven by KL Hop On-Hop Off, who are also driving the typical hop on-hop off city sightseeing tours during daytime. While you can enter and leave these tours at given stops, the City of Lights tour is having one starting (and arrival) point, which is right East of the Sungei Wang shopping mall at Jln Sultan Ismail road. The Kuala Lumpur Monorail / Rapid KL stop Bukit Bintang is just a few steps away.

During my visit, there was only one time slot per day, at 20:00. The tour is kicking off daily. In peak times, there seem to be departures at 19:30 and 20:30 as well. However, the time slot has been served by multiple buses (see below) in parallel, so that the capacity is likely rather dynamic. Adult admission for visitors is 65 MYR, roughly 12.70 EUR. Children and Malaysian people pay less.

 

Kuala Lumpur City of Lights – The Buses

The Kuala Lumpur City of Lights tour is done with the same buses used for the hop on-hop off tours. However, the company only sold tickets for the upper deck, which is split into an open part at the front and a roofed part in the rear. I can’t fully tell how many buses have been used during my trip, but I am aware of at least five ones. The atmosphere on the buses is relaxed, I even had a full row of two seats on the right side of the bus. However, the vehicles do not feature toilets. At one stop (the Palace), there are public toilets, though.

 

Kuala Lumpur City of Lights – The Tour

The City of Lights Tour is advertised to last two hours, with deviations due to traffic. The trip I had rather moderate traffic and lasted some more minutes than that. I gave you the pictures below in (almost exact) chronological order. The fact that you see the same sights multiple times also shows you that the tour did not really follow a straight order. Thus, I feel that the tour could have been organized as a 90 to 100 minute tour if you just re-order the trip. This time could be used to visit some parts of town which are especially beautiful due to their light installations. For example, we just very briefly touched Little India Brickfields, which felt to be very vibrant at night.

Having the Petronas Twin Towers in sight most of the time, the first key sight the bus passed by was the beautifully illuminated Saloma Link Bridge. Thereafter, the tour headed towards KL Tower / Menara Tower, where was the first of three photo stops. However, as a clear “First come, first serve” strategy was announced, rather few people dared to leave and potentially lose their seat by that.

New Palace and Merdeka Square

From there, the bus headed to Istana Negara, the second photo stop. Unfortunately, in contrast to the first stop, the view from the bus was rather limited. I nonetheless did not get out, as the palace is in quite some distance from the nicely illuminated entrance gate. The third stop was close to Merdeka Square, which is somehow the heart of Kuala Lumpur. I did not focus on this area too much during my trip, it definitely deserves more attention.

Rather at the end of the tour, we finally headed to the famous twin skyscrapers of the Petronas Towers. The tour does not stop there (likely due to the lack of available parking), but you have a great view of the twin towers and the famous double decker Skybridge, which is linking the two towers apart from ground connections. To me, this was definitely one of the key parts of the tour – the illumination of the building is lovely.

 

Kuala Lumpur City of Lights – Service

Entering the buses has been organized very effectively. It was a bit of bothering that even though I booked the ticket through their official website, I had to exchange the online ticket to a paper one before the trip – but that service worked smoothly as well. I would have loved to learn more stories and explanation during the tour, though. The commentary was a bit too limited in my point of view.

 

Kuala Lumpur City of Lights – My View

Even though I see a lot of potential to make the tour even better, I really loved the tour through nighttime Kuala Lumpur. The City of Lights gives some great views – the price is more than reasonable. While I feel that public transport and Grab (some sort of Uber) give easy ways to commute in Kuala Lumpur and likely does not make the daytime hop on-hop off necessary, this tour should definitely be on your schedule when visiting the Malaysian capital.

 

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