The Spider Incident : Royale Chulan Cherating

We were on our way home from Kuala Terengganu. Back from the long holiday over Eid. Shu had planned a short getaway before actually going home. Let's face it, we needed to be at a beach.

Anywho, since Shu is already a member with the Royale Chulan hotel chain (thanks to our long stays in Mutiara Damansara) we decided to check out the hotel in Cherating.

The place was new and was previously owned by the Sultan of Pahang. Basically, the lobby and reception area was his private getaway. The rest of the resort was extended and constructed.

We rented a villa with a neat view. It was tight. The original idea was to stay over 2 nights but then something happened.

It was midnight and I had fallen asleep on the bed with Safiyya. Yusuf was watching tv and Ali Imran was already asleep on the floor. Shu came out from the washroom and screamed. Seriously, it was a legit scream because it totally woke me up.

It turned out that there was a huge spider that came out from the curtains near the bed and that it crawled behind the frame of the sofa area by the window. I didn't see it but I knew it was something to protect the kids from because Shu is an arachnophobe.

I immediately grabbed Safiyya as he got on the phone with the front desk. They sent up a security guard. The dude was blur and had no clue what was happening. By then, Shu had picked up Ali Imran and Yusuf and I were on the foot stand.

Shu asked the guard if he had any plans to kill the spider. His reply was yes. How, we wondered...... He went outside and picked up a slipper :-/ At this point, we were thinking 'We Are Gonna Die' The next thing he said was that he was gonna wait for his partner to come up.

The other guy arrived and after understanding the gravity of the situation, he said he was going to kill the spider. He walked out and grabbed a broom. So I thought, 'Yep, he's gonna get this done'

We told them where we thought the spider was at and they took apart the entire sofa. Then, one guard wiggled the blinds and the spider came out. It was moving fast and it got onto the bed and then it disappeared for a bit and it was back up on the bed and when it was on the floor behind the nightstand BOOM! The guard smacked it to its death.

It was chaos for a bit but after tge guards left, we were trying to decide whether to stay the night. We did and there weren't any more spider encounters after that but everyone slept on the bed that night. Keeping away from the headboard and edges.