Can't really complain about this place. The rooms are clean , beds comfortable, staff helpful and everything's well-kept. Also the wifi works great. No a/c in the common area, which is unfortunate, but it's cheap and a hostel.

It's really a small, cosy and friendly place for backpackers. I love the window where i can look down the street and the yealow leaf trees. Staffs are hospitality and cool.

We booked online to stay in this hotel 2nights ago,they had advertised having a double room available+took a deposit off us through the website we booked on.We later received an email to confirm they received our deposit but regretted to inform us that they were fully booked+suggested we stay in a different hotel. We read some bad reviews online about the suggested hotel so did not want to stay there....after all if we did we would have booked that hotel in the 1st place!! We went to North Borneo Cabin to get our deposit back but they were very unhelpful.+refused to give it. We at this stage had made other accommodation arrangements+when they learnt of this they were suddenly offering to give us a double room some other person had booked but that they hadnt taken a deposit off! Everything screamed unprofessional+unreliable so id advise any1 thinking of booking this hotel to think again!!

We got into Kota Kinabalu late in the evening without reservations. We didn't want to walk around too much by that time so we stayed in a 6-bed dorm - 46 ringgits for the two of us. It's a very typical hostel and you only get a/c for 12 hours so it turned off sometime around 6 or 7am and the room got hot pretty quickly. The common area was not air-conditioned and it was not comfortable to hang out in with that heat. The showers were pretty bad and the water pressure was the worst.

The staff were good and there's free internet. The "breakfast" is just toast like everywhere else. The beds were ok and there were a few little shelves in the dorm room. It worked for one night but we didn't want to pay more to move to a private room and still only have partial access to a/c. This place was in our Lonely Planet and it seemed like any hostels in KK mentioned in the book had increased the prices drastically and they were definitely overpriced compared to all the other options in town.

We came back to Kota Kinabalu twice while we in Borneo and we did not stay here again because there's a ton of backpacker hostels and low-range hotels to choose from. We did enjoy the Blue Ocean Lodge over this place.