Holiday Inn Express Kota Kinabalu City Centre (solo trip)

Rooms are clean and big, but the hotel is in an awkward location for getting to or from, especially if you're walking, so don't spend the extra money because it's "centrally located". Breakfast was a big disappointment. The "hot" foods never were, probably because they keep the AC at around -10C in the whole building, and the heating elements don't ever seem to be turned on high enough so the foo...

Let’s start with their SignalHill Cafe. It’s a failure as the food is bad, oily, greasy and the papadum masuk angin. The servers are bad in their service. Super slow pace. Worst than snail. One order takes up more than half an hour whereas the place was just us and one more table which was already served. So baffled. Poor service. Bad food. Look at my photo reference, the inexperienced waitress se...

Have always liked Holiday Inn across Europe but this was even better. First time I've been able to eat meat at breakfast with everything halal. Staff all really friendly and welcoming. Convenient location from the airport unless you want to stay up on the mountain. Parking also easy.

Overall, we liked this hotel and enjoyed the room and making use of the gym. However we did some laundry at the hotel to find out after the machine we used was mouldy and made our clothes smell - when we asked the night manager for a refund to rewash the clothes again in another (clean) machine she refused on the basis that "this had never happened before" so we had to cough up more money to rewas...

Great place to stay if you are in Kota Kinabalu and reasonably priced - about 15 minutes from the International Airport by taxi. A 15 minute walk from the harbour area, which is very pleasant for an evening meal or drink. The breakfast is very good - buffet style offering English and Malay food, if you fancy noodles and spices food for breakfast. There is a good gym too. The hotel staff are a...