25 September 2016-26
September 2016
The Palace Hotel is a
hotel with Go Green concept. The name of the hotel also beautiful because has
the word of “Palace”, feel like all guests stay in there is princess or prince. Haha.. The taxi driver did
tell me that many people choose for this hotel for wedding dinner because of
its name. Beside wedding dinner, many businessmen come here for meeting.
The Palace Hotel Kota Kinabalu, a 4 star Green hotel recognized by the
Ministry of Tourism and successfully achieved EarthCheck Benchmarked Bronze
status certification recently is one of the few environmentally sustainable hotels
not only in Sabah but also throughout Malaysia, standing majestically on a
hill, overlooks the hustle and bustle of the city on one side and severe
tropical rainforest on the other.
The location for this
hotel not so strategic unless you has car because it is not located center of
the town. The nearest shopping ma
ll is Karamusing shopping centre. The hotel did provide
shuttle bus to town or shopping mall.
The lobby of the hotel
is big with some sofa.
At the lobby has Hotel Gallery which inside of it has lots of
recycle items such as basket which made by old magazine and many more. Beside Hotel Gallery has
souvenir shop but the time I went, it was closed.
The hotel has vegetable and herbs garden
which I will covered in next post. At there, also can jungle trekking but I did
not try for it.
Before go to vegetable
garden, you will pass by swimming pool, lounge and gym room.
The access card of the
hotel is super sensitive because it cannot near with hand phone. If not, you
cannot use it to open the door unless reset it at receptionist. I did go to
receptionist for few times to reset the card.
The room has Wi-Fi but
I did not use for it so I am not sure how the signal of Wi-Fi. When check it,
it did attached 2 welcome drink vouchers.
I was not sure what
room I stayed in but I think is standard room with a twin bed. The room booked
by my friend. You can refer to the room rate as below:-
This was my first time
to write for hotel post without many room pictures except washroom and cupboard. It
was because when I checked in to hotel, I started busy with my friend’s wedding
dinner and at the early of the morning, my friend still sleeping while I have
to go.
Beside bed, it has makeup
table. On table has hair dryer which cannot be move. Our room has a small window.
Inside room has small
fridge and also a security box. They provide mineral water in glass bottle
instead of plastic bottle. This is a
small step to show care to environment.
Inside washroom did
provide simple toiletries. It has hot or cold shower for you to choose.
In hotel you will spot
has some environment theme drawing by kids on the wall as decoration.
At 6
th
floor has ballroom, my friend’s wedding dinner held at there. Watch out your
step as the floor is not flat.
The breakfast buffet
starts on 6.30 a.m.in Tangerine Restaurant, I just mentioned room number to
receptionist. It has lots of choice for breakfast. I just randomly snapped some
pictures because I did not want to disturb others.
For breakfast buffet,
you will get penalty if you cannot finish the food.
As I quite worried
that I will late to Jesselton Point so I did not fully enjoy the breakfast but
rush for it. While eating breakfast, you also can enjoy the nice view when you
choose to sit at outside.
I was using Uber service to hotel
while taking taxi to Jesselton Point. The hotel staff helped me called taxi
driver because outside of hotel did not have any taxi. The Chinese taxi driver
charged me RM 25 per trip.
The Palace Hotel
No. 1, Jalan Tangki,
Karamunsing,
88100 Kota Kinabalu
Tel: 088-217 222
