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Melaka Slideshow
Top Hotels in Melaka
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Hotel Equatorial Melaka
414 reviews -
Renaissance Melaka
221 reviews -
Mahkota Hotel Melaka
207 reviews -
Bayview Hotel Melaka
102 reviews
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Everly Resort Melaka
67 reviews
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Golden Legacy Hotel Melaka
80 reviews
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A'Famosa Resort Hotel Melaka
186 reviews -
Grand Continental Melaka
104 reviews
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Emperor Hotel Malacca Melaka
33 reviews
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Majestic Hotel Melaka
251 reviews -
Naza Talyya Melaka
29 reviews
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Fenix Inn Melaka
199 reviews
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Hotel Puri Melaka
388 reviews
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Hallmark Hotel Melaka
44 reviews
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The Baba House Melaka
139 reviews
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Accordian Hotel Melaka
31 reviews
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Belmount Hotel Melaka
43 reviews
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Hinly Hotel Melaka
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Mimosa Hotel Melaka
29 reviews
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Trend Hotel Melaka
6 reviews
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Hotel Bachang Melaka
1 review
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City Theme Hotel Melaka
2 reviews
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Valiant Hotel Melaka
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Hotel Perlangi Melaka
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Coastal Park Hotel Melaka
1 review
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Hotel Orkid Melaka
27 reviews
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New Regal Hotel Melaka
1 review
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Venus Hotel Melaka
3 reviews
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Hotel Sento Melaka
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Comfort Hotel Melaka
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Hotel Portugis Melaka
5 reviews
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Ng Fook Hotel Melaka
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Zaini Mesra Hotel Melaka
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New Livo Hotel Melaka
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Pacific Inn Melaka
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City Park Hotel Melaka
6 reviews
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Harbour Inn Melaka
9 reviews
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Famous Inn Melaka
1 review
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Seri Costa Hotel-Resort Melaka
48 reviews
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Palace Hotel Melaka
1 review
Melaka
Travel Blogs from Melaka, Malaysia
Melaka
This is a top pick! Having eventually left Singapore after our extended stay, we took a bus from Singapore to Malaysia, with our first stop being a small city called Melaka on the west coast. If only the bus journeys and border crossings for the rest of the trip are as ...
Crazy KungFu
This is a top pick! ... waiting for my flight from KL to Kuching, Sarawak, I decided to go to what Lonely Planet calls the "premier tourist destination" of Malaysia. Why is it so described? Not even the locals could tell you. The writer must have been on some really good drugs ...
Me lika Melaka
This is a top pick! ... we are lucky because if it were any hotter we might drown in our own sweat. The city is on the southwestern coast of Malaysia, and was once a booming port town, belonging to the Dutch and then Portuguese so it has some European flavor and heaps of ...
High Tea High Up!
This is a top pick! ... town and has a real charm about it. There are lots of little markets dotted around the Historical district in amongst Malaysia oldest Buddhist Temple oldest Mosque. There are lots of little Antique shops selling some wonderful stuff and big squares and ...
Day 135
This is a top pick! ... Caves before heading to Melaka so I took my time, enjoying a cooked breakfast with dormitory-mates and left at 1pm. Melaka is on the West coast of Malaysia and has switched hands a few times as a result of being on a handy shipping route (The Straits of ...
The Star Of The Show
This is a top pick! ... ! In Melaka we stayed at Apa Kaba Home Stay with Kenny and his family which included his two children. Melaka is the historical centre of Malaysia and an area of National Heritage. Historically Melaka has been used as a major Asian port, and has been ...
Day 136
This is a top pick! ... Express and he won in straight sets leaving me wondering what to do for the rest of the day. I walked down to where the Melaka "Sound and Light show" should be but instead of finding that I found the cinema and watched a supremely poor film - "Epic ...
Discovery in Melaka - days 17 to 28
This is a top pick! ... by the Portuguese in the early 1500s, the Dutch in the 1600s, and was under British rule from the early 1800s until Malaysia was returned mid-Twentieth Century. The result is a place which reflects very much on its history, most evidently within ...
The Fast and the Flowery
This is a top pick! Earliest bus available with seats to Meleka was 11:30am with my watch strap breaking on arrival, so that lasted less than 24 hours. The bus station is quite a ride out of town so took a local bus into it with the conductor repeatedly telling me ...
Melaka
This is a top pick! ... internet looking for accomodationoptions. Malaysian railways have a line called the Jungle Line which runs up through the middle of Peninsular Malaysia and skirts round Taman Nagara National Park. It's meant to be a beautiful train journey, and is how ...
Melaka
This is a top pick! ... Stadthuys, which was beautiful, and then visited Christ Church a very impressive Church constructed from bricks brought over to Melaka from Zeeland in 1753, which is equally impressive! A little walk through the pretty streets including Herren Street, ...
Key Historical Port
This is a top pick! ... East India Company and then as a Crown Colony. It formed part of the Straits Settlements, together with Singapore and Penang. After the dissolution of this crown colony, Malacca and Penang became part of the Malayan Union, which later became ...
My first foray into Malaysia
This is a top pick! ... cafe listening to what I presume to be the Malay equivalent of Bic Runga (whose mum incedentally, was a nightclub performer in Malaysia I just found out) and listening to little kids bash the hell out of little computer sprites. I've booked my hostel in ...
Food. It's what's for breakfast, lunch, dinner...
This is a top pick! We are now in Melacca, Malasia enjoying one more day here before we hear up to the Taman Negara National Park for some hiking. We've gotten a few email questions on the food here and I thought I'd take a moment to descibe what we've been eating so ...
Chapter 26: Best Supp. Actor in a Malay Miniseries
This is a top pick! ... backtracking a little, I decided to go there too and see a new city. I'm glad I made that decision - Melaka is the coolest! It's one of Malaysia's most historically important port cities, and it's a relaxed and friendly place to hang out for a few ...
Enjoying Melaka
This is a top pick! ... this vantage point with the region's favourite beer: Tiger. The guesthouse turned out being in an excellent location. Melaka has some interesting historical relics, an entertaining Chinatown and relaxing bars/restaurants along the canal. After this, ...
No Pirates in Melaka
This is a top pick! ... out in Melaka. We were quickly absorbed by its quaint ambience, charming architecture, delicious cuisines, and relaxed atmosphere. Melaka's history as a strategic trading post is evident everywhere; characterized by Chinese, Malay, Portuguese, and Dutch ...
Malacca, history, food, and street races
This is a top pick! ... not too fancy. They do have an egg counter where we order two soft boiled eggs. Little do we know that soft boiled here in Malaysia is actually hardly boiled so egg white runs out when I crack the shell. We ask the waiter to toss them back in the water ...
Melaka
This is a top pick! Melaka was once an It city of the world a few centuries ago. Four hu Sorry I wrote a huge entry on this and the computer decided to crash... One of the joys of using internet cafes... I'll write some more some other ...
Kuala Lumpur, Melaka and back again
This is a top pick! ... 't go into it as you might switch off) we finally made it back to the bus. It was certainly an experience we wont forget. Melaka We headed a few hour south of KL to the old historic town of Melaka yesterday for a night. It was pretty interesting, ...
Meandering in Melaka, Friendly and Quaint
This is a top pick! ... not impressed with Melaka or our hostel. We expected more of a village and less of a city. The hostel (Travellers Lodge, 214B Taman Melaka Raya) was casually run and a real maze. After dropping our bags we went for a walk around with our new friends, Liam ...
Its a Cracker
This is a top pick! ... they'd just been fed (chicken limbs still visible in between those vast jaws). Down the road was a park called "Mini Malaysia" (construction costs estimated to be one miiiiillion dollars). This has 13 life sized traditional Malaysian houses and some Thai, ...
'The World's Best Coconut Fingerer'
This is a top pick! ... with giggles and squeals - absolute pandemonium considering we were right in the middle of the restaurant while the rest of the place was trying to dine. Again, MADNESS. I can't say I've had many nights like that. I've been in Malaysia only a ...
Portugal? China? Holland? England?
This is a top pick! ... very much more multi-cultural than the other countries I've visited in South East Asia - Malays, Chinese, Indian, the odd Portugese. Malaysia is also richer - which makes them taller and fatter. They even wear helmets on motorbikes, if their not driving ...
deeper levels of patience
This is a top pick! ... I have to head back to Bukittinggi to catch another bus to Dumai in eastern Sumatra from which we catch a ferry to Melaka in Malaysia. After standing the two hours on the public bus from Maninjou to Bukittingi, we are already becoming exhausted. After a ...
Melaka
This is a top pick! ... 's guesthouse helped us plan our entire itinery for Malaysia. So it now looks like we will be spending 3-4 weeks in Malaysia: Melaka -> Pulau Tioman -> KL -> Cameroon Highlands -> Taiman Negara -> Pulau Perhentian -> Kota ...
Melaka
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Melaka in our entry from Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia entitled 'Malaysia, Borneo, Brunei and Bugs'. Cheers, K & ...
Malaysia - Part 4
This is a top pick! Our 4th and final stop in Malaysia was in a city called Melaka. Used to be a British port and has lots of museums to look around. Unfortunately we didn't go to any because we went to a Water Park instead. This seemed like a great idea until we arrived ...
Back To The Peninsula
This is a top pick! ... saying he had a wife and kids at home and was on business. I could hardly keep a straight face. There are a few hostels in Melaka but we chose Travellers Lodge. It sounded pretty nice, Julia had recommended it, and it was quite good. Had a nice rooftop ...
MALAYSIA
This is a top pick! ... is certainly a lively bar and club scene around KL and we had great fun partying with the locals. Our last stop in Malaysia was Melaka. It's a port town which has had the Portuguese, the Dutch and finally the British ruling here. All three types of ...