Johor Bahru One-Day Itinerary, Gen Z Edition: Photobooth, Go Kart

Morning: checkpoint, brunch, photobooth

Meet at Woodlands Checkpoint at 8am. Everyone will be late, plan for it. Brunch is Nimmies Pastry Cafe, the bakery in a two-storey house at 171 Jalan Beringin, Taman Melodies, or Soil Cafe at Spring Lab, Jalan Ekoflora Utama, if you want the plant-covered cottage one. Both are decent, not overrated.

Then Kacha Kacha Studio, unit A-02-08 at Eco Palladium on Jalan Ekoflora 7/2, in the same Ekoflora area as Soil. Self-shoot booth, props, printed strips, and you can make a keychain out of your photos. We come here all the time. If sitting down is more your pace, the millennial edition swaps all of this for dim sum and a massage.

Afternoon and night: escape room, go kart, burgers

There are several horror escape rooms around Eco Palladium and Eco Botanic, with live actors in some. Maybe not the one for couples. Then go karting at Racing Underdog: RUD Karting has an outdoor track at Medini and an indoor one inside Sutera Mall. Time to put your wangan skills to the test.

Dinner is Lazy Monday. The HQ is at 71A Jalan Abdul Samad 1. Huge burgers, chill space, and the service was really good.

Bonus: the Watsons run

Every JB day ends in a Watsons or a Guardian. Vitamins, skincare, the Zyrtec your mum asked for. The photo in our post was from KOMTAR JBCC, the mall linked to JB Sentral, which is the easiest stop before you head back.