Langkawi info

i stumbled across this only AFTER i started cursing Google. lol. useful information for those who plan to migrate to the island. bringing vehicles to the island isn't as simple as loading your car onto a ferry (like Penang) so... putting this down here for reference. God know how many time i keep misplacing information that you think is insignificant... but when you when you really need it, you got no idea where it is. hoho.

Wantas Shipping (Langkawi) Sdn. Bhd.
Kuala Kedah Office
2A, Jalan Kuala Kedah, 06600 Kuala Kedah, Kedah
TEL: 04-762 4130, 04-762 7188
FAX: 04- 762 4931
Email: info@wantas.com.my
Website: www.wantas.com.my

they operate 7 days a week, with a surcharge on Fridays.

i called them up to ask about shipping Significant Other's car to Langkawi, she tells me this:
- you need a photocopy of the car's grant.
- a list of things you're bringing over the the island for custom's purposes (although they did advise not to put any belongings in the vehicle).
- charges depends on what type of car you're bringing. for his car a normal day charge would be about rm130. extra surcharge rm10 for Fridays.
- send the car before 12pm, and you'll get the car the following day by 10.30am. send it later and you'll have to wait an extra day. i guess you can compare the delivery time as with Poslaju =P~~
- you collect the car at Tanjung Lembung (when i was on the phone i misheard is Tanjung Rebung wahahahhahaha).

i guess that's it. more information can be found here at their website.

have yet to go through the experience so i'll update anything else next week =D.

updated:
so we arrived at the office Friday morning at the dockyard around 11.30ish. at the traffic light, just keep going straight, you'll see Mee Abas on your left, the office is just beside it. it's small and tiny, you can't miss it. we submitted a copy of his car grant, and left the car there (along with his stuff in the car - noted down as 'barang pindah').

once you see this the office will be on your left

barang2 'pindah'

the next morning we took a ferry to the island. reached there around 1.30pm (we missed the 10.45am ferry) and paid rm16 for the taxi fare to get us to Tanjung Lembung (which was on the way to Padang Matsirat, it wasn't anywhere near the jetty). apparently people have been shipping cars to Langkawi, Tanjung Lembung wasn't unfamiliar to our taxi driver, he even asked 'ambik kereta ka?' in the most thickest loghat Kedah imaginable =P~~~

signage

once there, Significant Other registered at the front porch and collected the keys from the office. the car was already waiting for us past the gates, i saw a whole bunch of other cars there too. the guard told us to enter through the gates on the right, then to head on right and search among the bunch of cars until you found yours.

we found the car dusty, but in one piece. an autobiography 'aku sebuah kereta' comes to mind, btw.

safe n sound

so now you know =D.