Capital Hotel Brunei

... in there was no stopping us, we swam and swam. Later, much later  we wandered into the city center. The Capital of Brunei is Bandar Seri Bagawan. (BSB)  I was expecting some huge Metropolis dotted with shopping malls and fancy shops. No, ...

... , and I had the room to myself!   I went for a walk into the centre.  Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei is an odd city.  It is a mix of concrete 1950's architecture similar to the monstrosities built in England following WWII, ...

... 's little rainjacket on to keep it dry.  Never expected to do that inside a vehicle. A couple of days spent in the capital admiring the obvious sights of the fantastic huge mosque in the middle of town.  It looked great lit up at ...

... but had no problems at all just left it on the bus. The bus only took 3 hours to get to the capital Bandar Seri Begawan (it said it took 4). Our hotel was only 600meters from the bus stop so we headed up the road unfortunately just as we got to the hotel ...

... , Bandar something, this evening. {It is hard enough to  recall Brunei, but who know  the name of the Brunei capital,Bandar Seri Begawan? Tonight, we ate at a "hawker"centre where local fast food was available- mainly fish specialties. Robyn ...

... entries it is the country number 74 in my long list. I arrived at Friday, and I was really surprised how silent a capital can be. As Brunei is a islamic country, the Friday is like our Sunday. No work, no action, nothing to do except relaxing, watching ...

... get the feel that I was staying in a museum rather than a hotel   In the afternoon we took a £10 taxi into Bandar the capital. The weather had not improved from Kota Kinabalu and we spent a good hour in a coffee bar waiting for it to stop. The ...

Discovering Borneo - Brunei part 1 We landed at the airport on the outskirts of Bandar Siri Begwan (BSB), the capital city of Brunei, a Muslim state, really not having a clue what to expect from the country. We'd both heard about the Sultan of Brunei ...

... ;s riches. Read on. After two nights in Niah National Park, Emily and I started a day of bus-hopping to get to Brunei’s capital, Bandar Seri Bagawan (or BSB for short). After crossing the border, most of the drive was through small towns and lots of ...

... . On Wednesday, Paul took us to the ferry where we took the boat to Lawas and a bus from Lawas to Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah. I am still travelling with Elma which is a welcome change from travelling alone. We are staying at "Planet Kinabalu ...

... , to cut down the rainforest in favor for huge palm oil plantations. The forests that we have seen on our boat trips from the capital Bandar Seri Bengawan (BSB) look really dense and healthy. BSB has only got a population of 82,000 and is small enough to ...

... be over quickly enough. Anyway, poison dwarves aside, several hours later we found ourselves in Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB), the capital city of Brunei.  As accommodation goes it's quite expensive here so we have opted to stay in the crappy little ...

... for about 30 minutes. We take a look at the impressive Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque which is about the only tourist site in the capital and have a quick walk around the town's shops. Just as well we only have two night's here as we're sobering up ...

... . The negative part is there is not much to do there. The country kind of freaked me out at times when I would walk in the capital city and there was nobody out. It was quiet and dead, but there could definitely be worse places to be. I felt safe and ...

Here we go again. Up at 6 to drive to Bandar (BSB), the capital. Vanessa has to drive us to the Sheraton Hotel (wherever it is?) for an 8:45 pick-up. We stumble upon the Hotel with 5 mins to spare and a tour rep drives to the waterfront taxi stop! Bandar ...

... be done. But we got there and were on the plane on time.  (Dave) We have spent today sightseeing around the capital.  Everyone has been so friendly, for example, Dave wanted a bottle of water at the museum, and the receptionist gave him ...

... we left Limbang, we walked to the boat jetty with the intention of taking a speedboat to Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB), the capital of Brunei, around 30 minutes away. However, when we arrived at the jetty, we were informed that there were no scheduled boats ...

Arrived in the capital of Brunei yesterday around midday, having made an early start from Miri at 6am. Fortunately almost all the connections and ferry crossings were back to back with minimum delays. Even so, the total journey time was about six hours ...

... distaste for aquatic travel we'd decided to pay a few extra quid and take a flight from Kota Kinabalu to Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei. And it was certainly money well spent in my book.        The island of Borneo is not ...

... smooth crossing and a straight forward immigration process we were in Brunei.  It was then a 40 minute bus trip to the capital of Brunei, Bandar Seri Begawan also known as BSB, then a short walk to our hotel where we were staying for the ...