Hotels in Melaka

... to travel in the region. Perhaps to Sri Lanka, Phillipines, Indonesia etc etc. As with my last trip; I shall stay in hostels as far as possible, but to start with I have booked myself into a couple of hotels to ease myself into the travel mode.

... somewhere late Friday night. As I did not go to Melaka a long time, thought of heading that way. Started calling all the hotels in Melaka and they were all full house. The only available hotel was Klebang Beach Resort, which is a very average hotel with ...

... lizard) that Claire spotted in the water. During our stay, we also encountered some interesting colonial architecture including the Melaka Christ Church, post office and surrounding buildings which were deep red in colour. Melaka once belonged to the ...

... the heat being the way it was, the streets (even Jonker avenue) seemed deserted. Nonetheless, we had reached Melaka with nothing more than the names of a few hotels that we had researched the day before. Hotel Puri was option #1. The walk from Melaka Town ...

... and see the face of their visiting suitor.   Chinatown is separated from the old commercial district by the Sungai Melaka, a small, polluted river. We crossed the bridge over the river and immediately came upon the town square. This is a curious ...

... odd flavours and colours like the mauve iced 'chocolate strawberry' and the oddly orange and moreish 'cheesecake' flavour. Exploring Melaka revealed pretty flowered gardens and a quaint sense of small townishness mixed with the somewhat odd views of high ...

... taxi to one of the cheaper hotels listed - the Hinnley hotel - now renamed to something or other. Didn't recognise much of Melaka - apartment blocks and a mall now parked on reclaimed land from the sea. Hotel nice enough - 50 ringitt (Malay currency) a ...

... morning from Singapore. Immediately off the bus accosted by "touts", the people that try and push things on tourists, e.g. hotels, restaurants, goods. However we new exactly where we were staying and so we headed to Tony's Guesthouse.`Which turns out to ...

... text messages with Claire as she had access to the internet to look for a hotel for us in Melaka. Things not going well. Although Claire could find some hotels, she was unable to book any but did give us the names and addresses of where we should ...

... to read about all the explorers too. After that I went up the river on a little boat cruise and discovered a whole new part of Melaka that we had missed last night. Headed back to the Baboon art house to buy a cool shirt then had a beer with some ...

... ’t look very nice and seemed quite expensive in comparison to other places in Malaysia so we looked on agoda’s website for budget hotels. We found a quite nice looking one for only £5 each a night (or so we thought). We thought it was a great ...