The boutique Hotel on Kota Kinabalu's iconic Gaya Street where the weekly festival Sunday Morning Market is held, as well as the Friday and Saturday Api-Api Night Food Market, featuring open air dinning and high energy music atmosphere with performers playing crowds, particularly around 10PM. Walking distance to the large Suria Sabah Shopping Mall with varieties of restaurants and fashion and to the ferry jetty for Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park, a very popular premier island hopping destination for swimming, snorkelling, water sports and beach picnics just 20 minutes boat ride from the City.
"In Kota Kinabalu, accommodation is generally categorized into two price ranges: above and below 500MYR. For those above 500MYR, there are only a handful of decent options, but they often lack convenient transportation. For those under 500MYR, the quality you get pretty much depends on how much you spend, and frankly, it's a bit of a gamble – a 400MYR room isn't necessarily better than a 100MYR one, it's all down to luck. This hotel, however, gets a big thumbs up from me! The room size is around 15-17 square meters, so not huge, but everything is fully equipped, clean, and tidy, which is super important for a Libra like me.
The only minor downsides were the insufficient hot water (though after showering with cool water on the island, even lukewarm water felt warm back at the hotel, haha!). Also, the parking lot behind the hotel had about 15 minutes of noisy trash collection every night.
Overall, I'd give it a 4.5-star recommendation – it really blew the competition out of the water! I'll be writing up a full guide on Douyin and Xiaohongshu soon."