Twin Jets Resort in Broga, Negeri Sembilan, features two cargo planes that have been converted into suites. (Photo: Facebook/Twin Jets Resort)
Tho Xin Yi
@thoxinyiCNA16 Apr 2022 06:05AM(Updated: 16 Apr 2022 11:33AM)BookmarkWhatsAppTelegramFacebookTwitterEmailLinkedIn
BROGA, Negeri Sembilan: Settle into the pilot seat of the Boeing 727 jet, flip a switch and the control panel comes alive with lights travelling across the display.
The weather ahead looks good. Peaks of Broga Hill, which frames the skyline nearby, are clearly visible against the blue sky.
Welcome aboard Twin Jets Resort, a newly opened spot located in Broga, Negeri Sembilan, just a stone’s throw from the state border with Selangor.
It features two cargo planes that have been converted into suites, and placed at either side of a “terminal building”, a hallway that serves as a function room.
“I was thinking one afternoon, how do I make these planes special? Then it hit me – Malaysia has Twin Towers, and if I make a bridge, it will be Twin Jets,” resort owner Peter Lee Pang Say, 64, told CNA.
The idea to refashion planes into a hotel came to Lee during the lockdown in Malaysia in 2020, which sent many businesses – including his – screeching to a halt and kept people sheltering at home from the mutational coronavirus. Previous
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Itching to occupy himself with a pursuit, Lee was inspired to purchase his own aircraft after driving past the Boeing 737 parked at the Palace of the Golden Horses, a hotel in Seri Kembangan near where he was staying.
But where and how does one buy an airplane?
Lee began a relentless hunt for possible leads that could point him in the right direction, and long story short, he sent 10 trucks to pick up two Boeing 727 jets from Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang to his idle plot of land in Broga in November the same year.
The journey took two nights, as it was an arduous feat to transport the 40.5m-long planes. The trucks could only move at night when the roads were quiet, and – odd as it may sound – they had to reverse to get ahead at times.
“At some junctions, the trucks could not make a turn like normal as they were obstructed by utility poles. They had to go in front, and then back into the road,” Lee explained, adding that power lines also had to be disconnected to unload the aircrafts in Broga.
After 13 months of renovation, plus three months of hiatus when movement curbs were in place, Twin Jets Resort is finally ready to welcome its first guests this April, just as Malaysia opens its international borders and begins its transition to COVID-19 endemicity phase.
Reference: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/malaysia-twin-jets-resort-broga-aircraft-hotel-peter-lee-2621661?cid=cna_flip_070214