I can see how this hotel can be viewed as old or dated by western standards but compared to other similar hotels in asia, it wasn't too bad

I guess I was lucky enough to book a room here for under $50 SGD thanks to some Groupon/Hotelclub.com combination. Got a room on the 12th floor as well, it too was a corner room with some view of the three islands in the South China Sea. But the biggest gripe I had about my room it really smelled like smoke, and I asked for a non-smoking room.


I had a friend show me around Kota Kinabalu and the weirdest thing happened leaving this hotel.... I completely forgot to check out. Luckily they didn't penalize me for it, I finally was able to speak to someone about my mistake once I arrived back in Singapore.