Kota Kinabalu Hostels - Reviews and Rates

We took the boat from Brunei to Labuan, an island off the coast of Malaysia, and then another boat to Kota Kinabalu (KK). We had been informed by the useless Lonely Planet that the trip would take an hour and a half. We left our hostel at 6am and arrived in KK at 4.30pm. Hmmm. After this long and boring trip we were exhausted so had food and wen...

Deze ochtend was wel het hoogtepunt van onze reis in Maleisie. Het was oorspronkelijk Maarit's plan, maar ik werd zelf ook steeds enthousiaster om de top van de Mount Kinabalu te beklimmen. De berg wordt hier soms genoemd als de hoogste van Zuid-Oost Azie, maar dat is volgens wikipedia helemaal niet waar (er zijn die andere hogere bergen). Hoe d...

OK kiddos, like I said there won't be many entries in this one - and I have just discovered that this is infact the last one until we get down to Kinarut next Tuesday since we will be playing adventurers in the Borneo jungle for the next week. We arrived yesterday after too much flying to beautiful Kota Kinabalu - blue water, lush green islands ...

We spent several days in the not-wildly-exciting town of Kota Kinabalu, doing very little except rubbing our knees and eating western food (not all at the same time). Our next destination was Kinabalu National Park, home of the mighty Mount Kinabalu. Once upon a time, I wanted to climb it but after the 'Pinnacles Experience' I thought better of ...

Our flight out of KK was scheduled for the next day after we'd arrived so we were determined to make our time in Malaysia count. Picked up at the airport by a guy holding a sign with my name (I'd booked the hostel earlier that day online and by the way could really get used to this name sign treatment!), we dropped our stuff at Borneo Global Bac...

I've been travelling for over 4 months now, so you would think that I know what I'm doing, but I still managed to turn up in Borneo without the address of where I was staying so ended up wandering round Kota Kinabalu after a 3 hour flight from KL in an increasing state of panic trying to recognise the name of the place I'd booked (I'd even got t...

Well, this was one of the highlights of the trip that I personally had been looking forwards to for some time. Jungle, Orangutans, mountains, diving etc you name it we were going to do it! However it didn't really go as planned! The first night in Kota Kinabalu we arrived fairly late and went out for a meal. Most of the places seemed to be servi...