About Hello Malaysia
How these pages are made
Hello Malaysia publishes free planning pages for the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and sells one paid guide. This page says who is behind it, how the pages are researched and checked, and how to tell us when something has changed.
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Who publishes it
Hello Malaysia is the trading name of Paweł Raja Consulting (Paweł Raja), a sole trader registered in Poland. The full publisher details are in the legal notice. Hello Malaysia is not affiliated with Tourism Malaysia or with any Malaysian public body.
What is free and what is paid
The planning pages on this site are free and complete: what a journey costs, how long it takes, whether it still runs, and what the rules are. The paid guide, The Malaysia Plan, is something different — the ten days in sequence, with the day plans, the maps and the judgement calls. None of its day plans appear on the free pages, and every free page says where the line falls.
How the pages are researched
The pages are drafted with AI assistance and then checked, claim by claim, against published sources. We say so plainly rather than claiming an authorship we cannot evidence. The order of preference for a source is fixed:
- 1The operator or the authority itself — KTMB for trains, the Immigration Department for the arrival card, the airlines, the ferry operator.
- 2Official bodies and governments — MetMalaysia for climate, GOV.UK and other foreign ministries for entry rules.
- 3Reputable press and dated aggregators — only where the operator publishes nothing usable, such as a coach timetable, and always with the date the figure was seen.
Every page lists the sources it was checked against at the bottom. Fares and timetables are given as typical figures with the month they were checked, because in Malaysia both move — in 2026 alone, a fuel price shock raised fares and cut ferry sailings.
What "Checked" means
The date on each page is the last time every factual claim on it was re-checked against its listed sources. It is not a claim that someone rode the route that week. When a page is re-checked, the date moves; when it has not been, the date stays where it is rather than being refreshed to look current. The same date appears in the page’s structured data and in the sitemap, so search engines see exactly what a reader sees.
What we do not do
- No paid placements, sponsored inclusions or free stays
- No affiliate links inside the recommendations
- No invented reviews, ratings or traveller counts
Corrections
If a timetable, fare or rule on any page has changed, email pawel.raja@urvis.bike with the page and what you found. We check it against the source, correct the page, and move its Checked date. Significant corrections are logged below.
Publisher details: Legal notice.
Corrections log
ETS train: ETS Silver, withdrawn on 31 December 2025, removed; ETS Express added; the booking-window description replaced with how KTMB actually releases seats.
When to go: the southwest monsoon had been described as the west coast’s wet season. It is relatively dry; the wettest periods are the inter-monsoons, October–November and April–May. Monthly rainfall figures added.
Penang to Langkawi: ferry frequency corrected after the March 2026 cut to about three sailings a day per route; Kuala Kedah added; fares updated.
Ten-day itinerary: Melaka is a day trip or one night out of Kuala Lumpur, not a stop on a one-way line; the reasoning was corrected to say so.