Melaka Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Milli says: We sadly left Penang (not sure if I wrote this before or not, sorry) though the manic dog barking on our street through the night we will NOT miss. The hostel owner was the sweetest man, and as we drove to the airport we realised it was the best part of the island as so much of it was full of high rises. Would like to get to the nati...

Melaka is a funny little town down on the western coast of Malaysia. In July 2008 it was made a Unesco World Heritage site, and they are obvioulsy very, very proud of this fact. For about 500 years this place has changed hands between the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British, being taken and traded for a little bit of land here or there. As a c...

Jeg havde igaar besluttet at jeg ville tage vaek fra KL idag da jeg alligevel ikke var i stand til at bevaege mig saerlig meget rundt. Jeg havde foerst planlagt at tage til Penang, en oe mod nord, men det var for langt i den forkerte retning ville betyde at jeg skulle sidde i bus hele dagen d. 23 for at komme tilbage til Singapore. I stedet valg...

The road border crossing from Singapore to Malaysia proved to a very efficient affair, stamp here, stamp there and done. None of the jumping through hoops I'd experienced several times between Argentina and Chile which was very welcome. After a fairly short bus ride I arrived in coastal Melaka, formerly capital of the Malayan empire, way back wh...

Singapore to Melaka by bus. Funny imigration system; you jump on and of the bus; leaving Singapore on one side of the bridge and coming into Malaysia on the other side! 5 people to stamped my pasport and it was in the wrong place!!! Lodge hotel (best in Malaka), but no air con and cold shower.... promise of improvement the following day (air con...

So we jumped on a bus across the border (had to get on it and off it three times, lost the tickets, lost the bus etc) everyone was so nice and told us where to go and what to do - i found a pair of glasses on a seat, and moved them the next thing i knew an old man had sprung from no where and given me the business card of his siter, an optician!...

Up early and walked to the local bus station to catch the prompt coach to Malaka with Graham, a fellow backpacker. Luxury coach for our four hour trip, but we feel sure the driver would have driven off with our luggage if we had not adhered to his instruction of 'Quick, quick' when he wanted us to get off the coach. These were, in fact, the only...

While I was 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 going through Malaysia. Anyway, as with most Malay towns, you can see most of the...

Returned to Bangkok but immediately felt a bit under the weather, a condition which lasted more than a week. Nothing serious and i am now back to full fitness. I travelled up to Chaing Mai where i took a course in Thai cookery for a day before heading south again to Koh Tao where i took an Advanced Diving course to go on top of the open water ce...

Melaka is a nice change from KL. It's a big enough place but the centre is nice and chilled out. We're staying in the Travellers' Lodge guest house where Brian has become the resident babysitter. Every time I leave him alone for a few minutes he ends up minding all the Malay kids that live there. On our first night here we went for a few drinks ...