Singgahsana Lodge
Setting the Kuching standard for backpacker digs, this hugely popular guesthouse, decked out with stylish Dayak crafts, has an unbeatable location and a great chill-out lobby...
Whether you're planning a trip to the cosmopolitan chaos that is Kuala Lumpur, the beaches of Penang or anything inbetween, Malaysia has a range of accommodation to suit. Lonely Planet authors have highlighted their favourite places to stay here.
Setting the Kuching standard for backpacker digs, this hugely popular guesthouse, decked out with stylish Dayak crafts, has an unbeatable location and a great chill-out lobby...
Beautifully designed and lushly planted with lily ponds, birds of paradise, bromeliads and palms, the accommodation highlight here is the over-the-water chalets that have big terraces you can swim from at high tide...
Occupying a smartly renovated, yellow-painted shophouse on the southern edge of the Golden Triangle, this is a retro-charming choice with dorms and private rooms, a small grassy garden and welcoming staff.
The G exemplifies (and aggregates) the contemporary tides of design, lifestyle and luxury amenities sweeping Malaysia’s best hotels. Rooms are studies in minimalist, cubist cool, collections of geometric form set off by swatches of blocky colour...
The tiny, private island of Pangkor Laut, just opposite Pasir Bogak, is occupied by one of Malaysia’s most exclusive tourist developments...
KB’s rooms are only so-so (the bigger the better is the rule)...
The views are good either way, but it’s probably worth paying the small supplement for a room facing the Petronas Towers at this contemporary design addition to KL’s portfolio of luxe hotels. Their rooftop pool and bar is a famous KL hangout.
Cheaper digs are in stylish A-frames while the more expensive options are in huge, louvered wood chalets. All exude a tropical-colonial charm, the staff is young and fun and there’s a bar and pool table in the restaurant area.
Nazri's is at the far southern end of the beach, which has some of ABC’s best sand...
It’s good, as they say, to be king, yet so rarely can we be. Unless you jaunt near the airport to Pura Tanjung Sabtu, the countryside retreat of a former sultan of Terengganu and, today, the best accommodation option around...
Enter the humble entrance off the busy road and it feels like you’ve stepped into another dimension filled with plants, koi ponds, a bunny hopping around (named Mr Playboy) and happy, mingling people...
If you have wheels this forest-bound ecoretreat outside the town of Serendah, 35km south of Kuala Kubu Bharu, is a gem...
Swing on a hammock overlooking the sea at this lovely section of beach at the north end of ABC. Accommodation is spread over pleasant, well-tended grounds, with a couple of chalets almost on the beach...
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