Langkawi island - by flight and car rental

I had been travelled to Langkawi quite sometimes, but since there are friends that interested to know more about my trip arrangement, hence I decided to post it out and hope that my little bit sharing here could serve as reference to those who plans to visit Langkawi.

There are many ways to reach Langkawi include ferry, flight or land transport to Kuala Kedah and transfer by ferry to the destination. Sometimes due to the strong wave, certain people taking ferry might not get use to it and having seasickness. To ensure comfortability to my family members, I had planned out my trip through taking flight instead of ferry.

I caught free tickets from Penang to Langkawi for my family members at zero fares during AirAsia promotion and only paid for the airport tax. But due to AirAsia only has one trip daily from Penang to Langkawi, after considered to maximize our time in the island, we decided to take Firefly for our return flight. The flight only took us about 35 minutes compare to ferry that needs almost 3 hours from Penang to Langkawi. It is my first time taking flight to this island. The airport is quite established but to me there is nothing surprising.

Langkawi Airport

Langkawi Airprot

Langkawi is a small island and driving by our own giving us the most freedom. Of course, all cars in Malaysia including Langkawi is right handed-drive setting. Before we travelled, I had did survey on the websites include read up reviews from previous visitors. Initially I thought to book car on-line, feeling more secure compare to bargain during the arrival. Luckily got contact from the locals and known that Langkawi is full with car rental service and price quoted is much cheaper than the on-line deals. Hence, we decided to gave it a try. 

Upon walked out from the airport arrival hall, there were counters that providing us with the car rental service. Without compared to each and other, we walked to a counter who offered us a full auto Nissan Sentral for RM180 per 3 days (if I remembered correctly). The company name was Indra and it was serviced by a Malay lady. After settle all the payment and registration process, we being lead by this Malay lady to the airport car park. Just few minutes time, she drove the car and passed us the car key. We had made appointment with her by when  we shall return the car. Just few steps, the deal on. 

The car was not new but guess to be only few years age. According to our mutual agreement, the car was half tank filled during receiving and returning. RM 50 should be enough for this type of saloon car for travelling around 3 days' time.   To be secured, normally I would take photo on the car interior and exterior during receiving the vehicle to avoid any unnecessary argument with the owner when returning the car.

In overall, we are satisfying with the car rented from Indra at the Langkawi Airport. They quite trusted us without checked in detail the car condition when we returned the car. Of course, we did take good care of this rented vehicle.

If you do plan to rent a car in Langkawi, I would recommend you to rent it during your arrival rather than book on-line. Frankly speaking, the price quoted on-line somehow is very expensive. The same price from on-line reservation would give you car with one grade lower than the local counter offers.

Hope the above information help.