skybridge tickets

so this is my first time queuing up as if i'm some kind of tourist just to get tickets for the Petronas Twin Towers Skybridge visit.

on Monday Significant Other asked me to help him get skybridge tickets for one of his colleagues who was visiting from the States. had he told me 3 days earlier about this, i wouldn't have to endure the hassle that i had in order to get the tickets for him.

the number of skybridge tickets are limited each day so tourists would join the queue as early as 7.30am (or earlier, who knows?) just to get a ticket. the counters, however, only opens at 8.30am.

so on Tuesday morning, we left for work early and i arrived at KLCC earlier than normal. even the SMART tunnel traffic was smooth, for the first time i didn't have to switch lanes to avoid lane hoggers, hee~. i could not believe my eyes at the number of people who were already down there waiting in line for the counters to open. i joined the queue at 8am. the queue was S-shaped, to accomodate the number of people waiting in line @@.

so while waiting for the ticket counters to open, i updated my status on FB via FB mobile =P. i was bored! i wished i had brought along a book or something. the couple behind me was already daydreaming about McDonalds, lol. i think most of the people queuing up in line were foreigners, many of them were holding guidebooks and maps. i heard snippets of conversation around me saying that the queue wasn't so bad at the KL Tower, but they had to pay rm8 per person. the skybridge ticket, of course, was free =P.

only at 8.30am did the line began to move, it began creeping slowly forward. i had expected the line to move a lot slower though, haha. it helped that there were those guards to help organize the line. there was a TV display showing the session of the tickets that were currently being distributed. i guess you can't pick your time in this case. the gap of each session was 15 minutes. before i knew it, the 10.45am session was already displayed on the screen, and i was only halfway through the line. some of the tourists at the back of the queue decided to give up and come another day. i realized that by 9am+ they no longer allowed new people to join the queue. no wonder i usually see the 'tikets habis untuk hari ini' sign erected at the top of the escalators so early in the morning, apparently they've all been snapped up like hot cakes by the early birds.

to speed things up a lady came up to each person queuing in line and jotted down on a piece of paper the number of tickets they needed. they also jotted down from which country they were from. i told her i was local, so she wrote 'Country: Local' on mine. hahah. should i have answered her Malaysia instead? O_o. i opted to take two tickets, because i was thinking, takkan Significant Other's gonna let his colleague go up the skybridge alone without any teman, would he?

i managed to reach the front of the ticket counter at 9.15am. i received tickets issued for the 12.30pm session, and i was told to come back here 10 minutes before the session started. the tickets were valid for that date and time only.

jergh. i waited in line for practically 1 hour 15 minutes. i wasn't even a tourist!

queuing up for Petronas Skybridge tickets

the humongous queue of people that was behind me

see the TV display thingy at the back there?

skybridge tickets for two

if you work in the Tower and you're offices are way higher than Level 41 and Level 42, you sometimes feel that the view at the skybridge isn't much =P. i've been on the skybridge before during my internship years. but for first timers, it's worth the visit. the view is actually nice, btw =).

i was so hungry after that long wait that i had breakfast with my colleagues at Level 4 right after picking up the tickets =P~~~

anyway, i'm glad you enjoyed your skybridge visit, Carol =)