Another Semporna hotel that I would like to review before I started with my continuous KK posts (again) is this place that me and hubby dearest went to just last week. It was around Valentine's Day so both of us were feeling a bit giddy and decided to drive to Semporna and stay for the night.
We'd noticed this green coloured hotel (and its yellowish twin just beside it) at the back of the newly finished Kapalai Township way before it had opened (they're right at the back of Petronas gas station). It was fully booked everywhere else during said time and we'd also barely managed to get a twin room at the hotel as we'd decided to be 'adventurous' and just do walk in (and trust me when I say that as an ISFJ it drove me a bit crazy). All I can say is that since it is a relatively new hotel, it would be obvious that the room will also be clean even if it is a tad small-sized. Wall sockets were also abundant and the water pressure was also among the best that I've experienced in this town.
Now comes a few somewhat negative things that I think I need to addressed as well. For one, the receptionists blatantly favors foreign tourists rather than local ones. We were told to wait until 3.00pm for our check in (which we had no problem with even though we had to wait over an hour for said time). So when the time came, the female receptionist personally hand a couple of foreign tourists their room key right in front of us (mind you, said tourists came later than us) and literally just either ignored or totally forgot about us sitting there while continued to arranged rooms for another group of foreign tourists. Sad that things like this still happened nowadays. And it was telling that the hotel was probably in a rush to opened that they didn't even hooked up the tv channels yet (yup, not even a blurred channel was available). Plus, while the hotel has a lot of free parkings nearby, location wise it is actually a bit far from the main town area and jetty.
Type - Deluxe Twin Room
Room - 4/5 (relatively new and clean, with acceptable view)
Price - 4/5 (above average even with no tv channels)
Service - 2/5 (I'm sorry but I have to be fair based on my personal experience)
Decor - 3/5 (nothing too outstanding but is better than other smaller hotels that I've been to)
Facilities - 4/5 (parkings were abundant and there's even a shower area for patrons should they needed them right at the back)
Location - 4/5 (they're at a quiet area at the back of Kapalai Township & quite hidden from immediate views)
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