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$891
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Japa Mala Resort Tioman Island
Japamala Resort & Spa is the only Relais & Chateau hotel in Malaysia (only 475 ...
Pulau Tioman hotels and hostels
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$142
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Hotel resort
Berjaya Tioman Resort
This huge resort has a vast number of rooms, ranging from chalets and blocks of fully f...
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Tioman Dive Resort
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Hostel
Juara Turtle Project Hostel
Pak Long Island Chalet
Pak Long has wooden chalets with peeling plastic flooring and OK verandahs, the more expensive of which face the sea. What sets this place apart is the family-run atmosphere that makes it feel like its own mini-village.
Paya Resort
Paya Resort is the best place to stay at Paya, with most of the spacious modern chalets linked together by wooden bridges over a lily pond.
Ella’S Place
There’s usually a lounge-able patch of sand at this cute-as-a-button family-run place at the quiet northern end of the beach. There are 10 clean chalets (some with air-con) and a small cafe.
Mokhtar’S Place
There’s a very mellow family vibe going on at this quiet spot. Cheaper bungalows are set back from the beach under pleasant shady trees and all rooms are spacious and clean, though ageing.
Rainbow Chalets
Super-friendly and fittingly colourful, the seven beachfront chalets (all with shower) have an excellent reputation and thus are always full. It’s right before Bushman at the southern end of the northern bay.
Mukut Coral Resort
Traditional village-style chalets (all with air-con and hot water, some with TV) are set in a marvellous location. The resort has a sea-view restaurant serving Chinese and Western food.
Juara Beach
All the rooms here have air-con, wood floors and hot-water bathrooms and face a grassy garden studded with coconut palms. It doesn’t have much character, but service is friendly and there’s a good restaurant on stilts over the beach.
Bamboo Hill Chalets
Perched on rocks overlooking the sea at the northern end of the beach, six well-kept chalets are in a stupendous location surrounded by bougainvillea and humming cicadas alongside a waterfall and pool. They are almost always full, so call ahead.
Nazri’S Ii
Towards the north end of Air Batang, this place is set in a particularly well-tended garden that spreads up the hillside.
The Nipah Beach Tioman
The Nipah Beach Tioman is run by young and friendly Abbas and offers some rustic chalets on the beach.
Mizani’S Place
On the southern section of beach, Mizani’s is directly next door to Beach Hut and has simple, old but clean bungalows with fan, mosquito nets and attached bathrooms.
Swiss Cottage Resort
The rooms to nab here are the seaview chalets (RM120) directly on the beach, which have breezy bamboo and wood interiors alongside colourfully painted walls and comfy deck furniture.
Melina Beach Resort
Melina Beach Resort is the only place to stay at this remote beach of photogenic boulders and white sand.
Khalid’S Place
South of the jetty, behind the Salang Complex and across a festering section of Sungai Salang, this place has 47 cleanish chalets set in a large grassy area.
Tioman House
Between Johan’s and Nazri’s II, the setting of this place (in a sparse garden right off the main path) is nothing special, but the chalets are the most comfortable in Air Batang.
Salang Indah Resort
An expanse of chalets seemingly sprawls forever here, north of the jetty. Most rooms aren’t in tip-top condition, but if you look at several you’ll probably find one to your liking.
Salang Sayang
Also called Zaid’s Place, this place spreads along the luscious knuckle of beach south of the jetty before trickling up the hill (meaning a handful of the chalets have excellent bay views).
Bersatu Nipah Chalets
Bersatu Nipah Chalets has clean beachfront longhouse rooms, great service and an excellent riverside restaurant.
Mawar Beach Chalets
Just south of the jetty, the chalets here are the same as everywhere else in Air Batang, but run in a row facing the beach. The restaurant has tables on the sand.
Panuba Inn Resort
Over the headland from Air Batang, the peaceful Panuba Inn has a pier and restaurant and 30 chalets built on a hill overlooking the bay.
Johan’S Resort
The two four-bed dorms here up the hillside are clean and good value, while the chalets are exactly the same as all the other cheapies on the beach.
Sun Beach Resort
The biggest place in Genting, it has plenty of beachfront chalets.
Beach Hut
This is a bona fide surf shack (on the southern bay) run by a surf pioneer Australian/Malay couple. Chalets have heaps of character via shell mobiles, strategically placed driftwood and even some Bollywood fabrics and fake flowers.
Bushman
Nabbing one of Bushman’s three new varnished wood chalets with particularly inviting wicker furniture on their terraces is like winning the Juara lottery – reserve in advance! The location is right up against the boulder outcrop and a small river.
Mutiara Resort
This is Juara’s largest establishment, just south of the jetty, with lots of options that all have relatively high standards.
Paradise Point
North of the jetty and with a homey vibe, this place offers simple, unnoteworthy rooms in a longhouse and has a small restaurant on the beach.
My Friend’S Place
Busy, social and priced a hair lower than the competition, this is a clean place with all rooms facing the garden. The restaurant is just as popular and serves good food. It’s south of the jetty right before Mokhtar’s Place.
Riverview
Run by the same crew as Juara Lagoon, Riverview nabs a prime location at the north end of the northern bay. Relatively chic and vaguely Tudor-style A-frame huts have balconies directly over a lazy jungle river that winds its way to the sea.
Nazri’S Place
At the far southern end of the beach, which has some of Air Batang’s best sand, Nazri’s has clean rooms and a wide range of accommodation, from budget rooms with air-con (cross a small river to the cheapies at the rear) to deluxe rooms and family.
Babura Seaview Resort
This very Chinese place offers ageing longhouse fan rooms and a selection of newer, freshly painted rooms and chalets with air-con and hot-water bathrooms.
Juara Lagoon
At the very far end of the southern bay, the Juara enjoys sensational views of the entire sweep of the bay.