Sibu Hotels - Reviews and Rates

It took two terrible boat trips, but finally we arrived in Kapit, our half way point on the way to Belaga. The first was in some fairly choppy seas that, for a vessel designed to deal with them, would have presented no major problems. However, ours was no such vessel, and every wave had us pitching as if we were about to capsize. At first I thou...

Came here only to get to supposedly the best homestays at a longhouse. Booked the overnight trip with Alice Tours & travel Agrency SDN. BHD. (Alice Chua Bee Hun - 60198593126) Recommended in Lonely Planet however there were serious problems with the tour we booked and I am not sure if the problems originate with Alice or the Longhouse and I ...

So after Sibu and its strange small town delights we headed for Kapit. Smaller, dirtier and somehow more menacing. I think that it may have been that the boat dock was just a row of Express Boats that had docked to the concrete steps and you had to thread your way over a series of narrow boat decks to get to the steps, combined with the determin...

Llegamos en taxi a la terminal de botes express sobre las 8 am. Llovía. El barco estaba casi lleno y tuvimos que sentarnos separados, cada uno en un extremo. Habíamos comprado algunas guarrerías para desayunar pero no sabíamos dónde ponernos para zampar. Al final terminamos sentados juntos en la parte de arriba, la Vip: una cabina más pequeña co...

The 4x4 that was going to pick us up from Bintulu to go to Belaga along the Batang Rejang only had 1 seat inside and it was raining so we headed onto Sibu and spent the night here.

About 30 mins by plane is the Gunung National Park which is a World Heritage Area. Of the 250 kms of caves in region just over half have been explored. Only 4 of them are on show to the public by having walkways and lighting within. I had booked into the Resort which seemed to be of the 4 or 5 star standard and a great contrast to the hostels th...

The river is the only way to travel in this region. Larry, my guide, and I hit it off pretty well and whilst the others had a free afternoon he and I went upriver in the boat to a couple of villages. At one of then they had recently harvested so rice and one of the men was getting the grains off the stalks by using his feet to crush them on the ...

Rather than take the bus from Kuching I decided to take the express boat which was quicker. there were not many on board for the 4 hour trip out to sea and then up the Sangai Rijang which is Malaysia's longest river. In addition to the people the boat also took on cargo which included some chicks in crates which would have made the animal rights...

A three and half boat ride from Kapit back to Sibu (150km). Two buses totalling 4 hours from Sibu, and a short taxi ride to reach Bintulu (220km). Staying at the Garden Inn in the centre of town. Bintulu is booming due to the discovery of natural gas. On the way into town from the bus terminal, plush estates of villa's are dotted around everywhe...

The bus takes 7 hours to reach Sibu and the boat only takes just over 4.5 hours. So I opted for the express boat, but it was hassle getting from central Kuching to the boat terminal outside the city at 6.30am this morning. Jumped in a people carrier driven by some random guy, as it looked like the bus wasn't going turn up. There's only one boat ...