smudge,
your invitation for us to recall our best loved places visited in the 'K'
occupied several pleasant hours perusing my log books.
Malaysia is high up there mainly because when I was on the Group EU we used to do a two week annual inspection visit. We stayed in KL but I have to confess a little infidelity here. I used to prefer to sneak away to Labuan to fly with the Caribou squadron.
Langkawi I visited when we supported the Red Arrows trip to the middle and Far East. It was such a nice place I told my wife about it. Result was we went there for several holidays always via KL. In KL we usually put up at the Traders close to the park and the Twin Towers. The exec floor gave nice views and a two hour cocktail and snacks event every evening.
Then she discovered the Maldives and snorkelling, despite my protestation of 'HMQ used to pay me to go there'.