Sandakan Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Don't get me wrong, it's a lovely wee town, there is just NOTHING to do!
The bus arrived early afternoon, and after walking the wrong way (again) we managed to find the hotel we were looking for, only to find they were fully booked. Bugger! Luckily they pointed us in the direction of another (rather smoky) hotel. After checking out a couple o...

We flew up to Kota Kinabalu (KK for a very reasonable amount, RM226 (39 pounds) for the two of us. This saved us a lot of time and transfers of buses. We’d stopped for a night in KK just as a pit stop and next morning shipped out on the express bus to Sandakan with the purpose of finding a couple of nights at the Kinabatangan River where t...

We got a 6 hour bus to Sandakan the next day, all those posh flights had spoilt me and the twisty roads made me feel quite ill. We checked into the Mayfair Hotel - cheap but amazing luxury...air con, a comfy clean bed, hot shower, telly AND dvd player - how quickly we take all these things for granted at home. Predictably we slept through our al...

Up at 6 again for our bonus morning cruise - once again the mist greatly enhanced the beauty of the river. Breakfast, pack up and back to the boats for the fast cruise back to the river headquarters (if you can call it that). We saw a tugboat moving hundreds of logs, all floating and tied together - poor trees. (Wood is definitely a cheap commod...

I haven't written for a bit but that's because I'm enjoying myself far too much and feel I might start to bore people going on about the last few weeks I've had so I'll keep it brief. Spent 9 days working in the clinic with the baby orang utans and as you can imagine I LOVED IT and could quite happily bring them all home with me!! There's 11 bab...