Le Meridien Kota Kinabalu

For those of you who havent heard of Kota Kinabalu, (read: 99% of you), its on an island called Borneo and for those who havent heard of Borneo (read: 95% of you), its a rainforest island, shared by Indonesia and Malaysis, with hot springs, ...

... a relief to emerge into the wonderful tranquil cool of Singapore airport. We overnighted in the transit hotel and then flew to Kota Kinabalu the following morning. From my window seat I could see lots of mysterious coastlines and islands. To help us ...

Tillbaka i Kota Kinabalu var förberedelserna i full gång för det kinesiska nyåret. Till det hör självklart extra shopping. Extra promotions i alla shoppingcenter, med tillhörande hemsk hetsig nyårsmusik. Jag antar att tanken är att få folk att ...

Before we fly to Oz... first canceled flight from Tawau to Kota Kinabalu meaning a 6 hour wait outside in 34 degree heat as they don't let you in the departure hall to under 1 hour before! Off to Oz first thing next day... 3 hours to Singapore, 6 hours in ...

... Western in town and as I write this I am sat in the lobby listening to the locals murder songs on the karaoke system! Kota Kinabalu itself is great. The centre of town has numerous shopping centres, hotels, bars and restaurants that all run off the main ...

... and central for all the restaurants and the night market. It was also clean and about half the price of anything else like Le Meridien e.t.c - we didn't get to the hotel until about midnight by which time any bed would have been great. Packing took ages ...

... my first time travelling out of Malaysia so yes, I was looking forward for that trip. We spent the first 2 nights at Le Royal Meridien, Plaza Athenee, Bangkok. Its lobby looks quite grand with big staircase in the middle. Room is great and oh, the walking ...

... our great visit to Bako we stayed one night in a fun boutique hotel for our last night in Kuching. We flew from Kuching to Kota Kinabalu for 2 days back in the capital city of Sabah. We travel on my birthday and stayed at Le Meridien which had a great ...