Hotel In Kuala Lumpur

[seefah]

I'm heading off to KL soon for a visa and was wondering what to do about a hotel.

I was thinking about getting to KL Sental middle of the day and just checking out whatever hotel I came across. Something around 100 ringgit would be fine. Presumably walk in would be cheaper than the internet booking sites.

Do you think I'd have a problem getting a hotel?

What about a hotel recommendation? If it had free wifi, then even better.

[lazygourmet]

Tune Hotel - Downtown KL

[theoldgit]

I have usually found that just walking in normally costs more than booking online, have always found it strange.

[seefah]

I thought I had read somewhere on this forum that the Tune Hotel wasn't that great a place, not clean carpets and once the extras were added that it wasn't really worth it.

Recommendation noted anyway, I may check it out.

Yeah, I would have thought that the cost of the internet booking sites would be more than walk in too.

Any other recommendations?

[wynzlo]

I'm heading to KL next weekend and booked this place: Hotel Summer View

Reviews are decent, it's 1300B/night, and within 300m from KL Sentral station.

Never been before, but from what I can tell staying close to KL Sentral station seems real convenient. Looks like there is a train line direct from the airport and also a line that gets you close to the Thai embassy.

[QED]

I'm heading to KL next weekend and booked this place: Hotel Summer View

Reviews are decent, it's 1300B/night, and within 300m from KL Sentral station.

Never been before, but from what I can tell staying close to KL Sentral station seems real convenient. Looks like there is a train line direct from the airport and also a line that gets you close to the Thai embassy.

If you fly to KLIA yes, if you fly to LCCT then no (Air Asia is the main one to LCCT but other low cost carriers use it also). The train is faster and cheaper than a taxi from KLIA, from LCCT you can get a taxi for about 800 bht or a bus for 80.

Can't help with hotels I am afraid, I only travel there on business and mainly stay at the Shangri-La which is a bit over budget.

[jonnyscot]

Hi, I went there a couple months back and stayed at the Somerset Jalan Ampang,,, cost me at that time about 2400- 2500 per night via agoda for the wife and I, very nice and spacious apartment with kitchen/Dining area, Sitting Room and toilet shower room, its right next door to the British Colsul and only across the road and about 2 minute walk from the Thai consul,,, 20 minute walk from the Twin Towers and other shopping malls close by, not much in the way of night life there, but a 5 or 10 minute walk from the apartments takes you to Ampang Park tube station, where you can easily access other areas of the city very cheaply, if you are interested be careful as there are 2 Somersets listed in Agoda in KL (as I nearly made that mistake)

[CNXSTEVE]

Citin next to the bus station was around 80/90 Ringgit a year ago with Agoda. Much more wwith walk-in.

[seefah]

I've booked something in Chinatown for the 1st day, if its reasonably okay then I'll extend the booking, if not then I can just find something else, probably in the same area. Thanks for the comments.

[wynzlo]

I'm heading to KL next weekend and booked this place: Hotel Summer View

Reviews are decent, it's 1300B/night, and within 300m from KL Sentral station.

Never been before, but from what I can tell staying close to KL Sentral station seems real convenient. Looks like there is a train line direct from the airport and also a line that gets you close to the Thai embassy.

If you fly to KLIA yes, if you fly to LCCT then no (Air Asia is the main one to LCCT but other low cost carriers use it also). The train is faster and cheaper than a taxi from KLIA, from LCCT you can get a taxi for about 800 bht or a bus for 80.

Can't help with hotels I am afraid, I only travel there on business and mainly stay at the Shangri-La which is a bit over budget.

Man, I wish ThaiVisa automatically subscribed me to replies on threads. Forgot to check back on this thread and didn't notice that I was indeed flying to LCCT. The guy at the bus ticketing got a little annoyed when I insisted there was a train line from the airport.

The AirAsia bus from LCCT was probably just as easy as a train though. About 90B and took 50 minutes to KL Sentral.

[MTH]

There is also local transport between LCC and the main terminal.

Open air bus, cost is something like 1-2 ringgit, runs about every 15 minutes.

I like the Concorde hotel on Jalan Sultan Ismail, Hard Rock in the same building and close to the twin towers.

If you're in the mode it's about a 20 minute walk to the Embassy, otherwise a short taxi ride.

[Penkoprod]

Tune Hotel - Downtown KL

Aren't these hotels something to do with Air Asia?

Owned by them, perhaps?

Rather like the Evergreen chain owned by Eva Air of Taiwan

Penkoprod