Great hotel - stayed two nights.

Friendly staff, nice decor all around- we found it very good value if you are looking for a few days of comfort after backpacking around the island. Very close to the pier and to the middle of town for the shops/ restaurants etc

The hotel has nice atmosphere dating back to 1950's. Situated in the very center of Kota Kinabalu everything is close enough. We had Superior Double Room which was really classy and nice. Because I dive, I had booked the hotel via Downbelow Padi center and we got discount and free breakfast. Superb! Which by the way was also superb!

The personnel was helpful and friendly. For instance when Malaysia Airlines caused us trouble by canceling our flight we could use the telephone at the reception instead our mobile phone (without local SIM card) and the expensive telephone in our room.

While coming back to hotel during night it was nice to notice the promotion sale fof wines in the bar!

I ate a curry with prawns here and got terrible food poisoning that put me in bed for 3 days...

Considering that the cost of food here is 10 times the price of the cafes on the street I expected better... I would only eat in the small cafes in the street....

Really enjoyed our stay here. For the money it was an excellent stay and was hard to fault.
The staff are exceptionally helpful and polite (i managed to lock myself our of the safe twice but each time they came to fix it within seconds and were simply happy to help).
The rooms are larger and pleasant (for our usual 2 adults and 2 kids configuration) and well equipped. There is no pool but to be honest we didn't miss it at all.
The place has a lot of character, not least the barman who has served cocktails there for 40 years now!! The cocktails were a bit 1970's but it was fun and the pizzas we were served are some of the best I have ever eaten - and I have eaten a LOT of pizza (they kept tempting us to stay in and eat they were so good - instead of sampling local food). Particularly good value if you eat at happy our (1/2 price when they were cheap to start with).

I would happily stay at this place again, it is central to everything and can't really be faulted.