Grand Borneo Hotel Kota Kinabalu

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The Wild Man Returns

A travel blog entry by kingsandems

For those of you who are not aware- the wild man decided to shave his beard off after Toby's pleading for the sake of their wedding photos. Strangely it has not been allowed to re-grow and I attribute this to my father's comments about the Wildman from Borneo heading back to Borneo. So the semi-wild man and I arrived in KK at 1Am where we realized …

1Borneo Hypermall, chilling & shopping, 4 nights

A travel blog entry by mchavez

Ok, this might sound stupid, but we're really just waiting to get the hell out of Borneo, so currently we're staying at a mall... Well, it's the biggest mall in Borneo with a bowling alley and a movie theatre. At least there's something to do and it's easy on our wallets. In two days we'll be back in Singapore for one day and then we FINALLY will …

Shopping

A travel blog entry by oliver10

The flight from Singapore took 2.5 hours with Air Asia. We hadn't expected much from the plane but it was fine and we picked up our bags quickly. We paid for a pre paid taxi to our hotel RM50 for a 20-30 minute taxi ride! We checked into the Grand Borneo Hotel which is a lovely big hotel next to the Hypermall Complex. Our room was really nice, we …

Borneo and Beyond

A travel blog entry by stacythedreamer

We were up at 3:45am for a ride to the Bali airport on 9/24. It was sad to say goodbye to Bali, but we were looking forward to being alone, basking in our new marriage and exploring far off exotic places together. We arrived in Singapore for an 8 hour layover before making our way to Kota Kinabalu in Borneo. Because we had such a long layover, we …

Definitely a mountain not a molehill!!!

A travel blog entry by laurs-and-matt

... wooden stairs and a big balcony with chairs inside and out. It almost felt like it was a shame we only had one night there. Within minutes of us entering our lovely clean room, it turned into the biggest mess you can imagine, as we all had to rearrange our bags to get the right things sorted for the trip. After commenting that we had no air conditioning we soon found out why as once the sun dropped the temperature dropped even more, actually to the point of being deemed pretty ...

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