Weekend at the Empire

We took advantage of  cheaper room promotions at the Empire over the weekend.  It only cost B$190++ per night, with a choice of activities either kayaking, futsal, bowling and tennis. 2 goodie bags for the kids and breakfast for 2.  My brother came with us with his kids and both families stayed at the Lagoon North Building.  Our first time here though, we stayed at the Seaside building the last time we were here last January.

We enjoyed the stay although there were lots of people checking in, I guess since its school holidays and everyone is taking all the kids over.  Long queue at the reception, I guess they need to be more efficient and work faster. 

The only downside of the stay was the room and the rundown nature of the whole building.  I wonder why when it comes to maintenance, Brunei is really bad at that.   We found the curtain didnt work.  So we slept at night with the curtain not fully close and we could see the night sky!  

Another thing, its about time the management of Empire change the TV to flatscreens.  I am sure they should have the money to do that!  Almost all hotels have flatscreen tv these days.  The tv at the Empire are old and the channels are limited and the broadcast was very poor. 

The floor need to be polished more.  It lacked spark, some cushions missing the buttons.  And the most important of all is cleanliness.  Nobody tidying up the place the next day.  Rubbish were thrown over all the place the night before and nobody swept them off the next day. 

I guess, they only took care the main buildings but not the other buildings huh.  Nevertheless it was a good stay and we were ok with the rest.  Afterall we were supporting the local economy here and I hope to see some improvements soon.  Anyway, some pictures below, taken from my Galaxy tab.  I will post more interesting and clearer pictures soon, once hubby managed to fix his Macbook Pro....

On our way to the Lagoon Building

Our room.

Me chilling at the balcony

The swimming pool at the lagoon building, so many kids!

The empire chocolate we bought, this was locally made at the Empire and they were quite nice. We also bought some Macarons, although I didnt like them as much, very sweet.