Gaya Island Resort Day 2 - Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

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It's all about sun, sea and food! We started off our second day in Gaya Island Resort with buffet breakfast at Feast Village. Buffet breakfast starts from 7am to 10.30am. Our 3 days 2 nights Resident Package at Gaya Island Resort includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. You may check out my earlier blog on Gaya Island Resort by clicking this link - Gaya Island Resort, Gaya Island Resort Day 1

Feast Village serves pastries, cake, bread, pan cakes, cereals, juices, fruits, Asian food such as nasi lemak, Dal, ginger chicken, Western food such as hash browns, beef & chicken sausages, beef bacon, baked bean, oatmeal and fried egg. Standard buffet breakfast and my all time favourite breakfast dish is fried egg with baked bean and hash brown. Basically you can never go wrong with this breakfast dish.



Pastry section


Pan cakes


Apple strudel


Bread and muffin


Bread spreads


Juices


Asian food


Asian food


Asian food


Western food


Western food


Fruits


My healthy breakfast


After our buffet breakfast, we hang around the beach area and I love swinging in a hammock that can melt my stress away... We decided to have our two-course lunch at Tavajun Bay Instead of Feast Village or Pool Bar & Lounge. So we took the 12.30pm speedboat ride from Gaya Island Resort to Tavajun Bay. Tavajun Bay is a private beach just 5 minutes away by speedboat from Gaya Island Resort. Perfect white beach with turquoise water.

Tavajun Bay private beach speedboat schedule:
a) Gaya Island Resort to Tavajun Bay - 10.30am, 11.30am, 12.30pm, 1.30pm and 2.30pm
b) Tavajun Bay to Gaya Island Resort - 11.45am, 12.45pm, 1.45pm, 2.45pm and 3.45pm

I had grilled prawn while my partner had grilled beef comes with white rice, stir fried vegetables, fish crackers and top with butter cream sauce. Lunch was good. Grilled beef was tender and prawns were fresh and tasty. Love the stir fried vegetables as well. We chose one main course with dessert instead of Hivana because we don't eat raw fish. Hivana is a traditional native dish of the Kadazan -  Dusun people and it's made from raw fish mixed with lime juice, salt, chili, sliced shallots and grated ginger.

Borneo Lunch at Tavajun Bay - choose either one appetizer with one main course or one main course with dessert
a) Appetizer - Hivana (RM35)
b) Main course - grilled beef, grilled prawn or grilled mackerel comes with white rice, stir fried vegetables, fish crackers and top with butter cream sauce (RM60)
c) Dessert - mix fruits (RM30)

Lunch time: 12pm to 2.30pm



Chillax


Gaya Island


Gaya Island Resort private jetty


Speedboat to Tavajun Bay private beach


Tavajun Bay


Tavajun Bay private jetty


Tavajun Bay


A ray of sunlight


Spotted a wild boar


Tavajun Bay private jetty & restaurant


Restaurant ambience


Grilled beef


Grilled prawn


Mix fruits


Live corals


We took the 2.45pm speedboat back to Gaya Island Resort and hang around the island until dinner time. Two nights in a row we had our buffet dinner at Feast Village. Dinner starts from 6.30pm to 10.30pm. Overall dinner at Feast Village was just okay.



Asian food


Asian food


Asian food


Asian food


Asian food


Seafood section


Salad section


Salad section


Western food


Western food


Assorted fruits


Assorted desserts


Desserts


My dinner


Desserts and fruits


Strawberry ice cream

Address:
Gaya Island Resort
Feast Village
Malohom Bay Pulau Gaya,
Tunku Abdul Rahman Park,
88000  Kota Kinabalu,
Sabah, Malaysia
Tel: +6018 939 1100

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