Best Kota Kinabalu hotels near Signal Hill Observatory Platform
Hilton Kota Kinabalu is the only upscale full service hotel strategically located in the Asia city precinct and just 15 minutes from Kota Kinabalu International Airport. With its 305 technologically-advanced guest rooms, choose to stay in a spacious suite that features a separate living area and private bedroom, or opt for an executive room that offers exclusive access to the Executive Lounge. Located on the 9th floor, the Executive Lounge provides complimentary breakfast, all-day refreshments and stunning views of the city skyline. For a touch of luxury, choose a Presidential Suite featuring three bedrooms, an expansive living area and a whirlpool tub. Hilton Kota Kinabalu has a wide range of facilities that includes dining, meeting and recreational activities. The all day dining restaurant located on the ground level encompasses live cooking stations and serves both a la carte and buffet selections. Located on the rooftop, the specialty restaurant specializes in grilled favorites whereas its Zest Bar is located on the ground floor and is exclusive to those with exquisite taste in life.




Overall 8.9 Excellent
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Edging the waterfront, Le Méridien Kota Kinabalu is an urban sanctuary in the heart of the city's central business, retail and entertainment district. Immerse yourself in 5-star comfort amid stylish hotel accommodations featuring stunning sea and city views, contemporary amenities and refined design elements inspired by the eclectic beauty of Sabah Borneo. Upgrade your stay to Le Méridien club or suite rooms with exclusive access to the panoramic sea-view Club Lounge. Explore nearby cultural fascinations, and complete the experience with distinctive local and international cuisine at our restaurants. Celebrate or succeed in sophisticated event and meeting venues, and relax with creative cocktails as you enjoy a sunset in motion at our rooftop bar. Designed to inspire your senses, Le Méridien Kota Kinabalu hotel is a haven in a vibrant destination.




Overall 8.7 Excellent
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9.7
Pros: Quick efficient staff, good restaurants, clean rooms, adequate space in the room, central location
Excellent
8.8
Pros: Staff and management extremely helpful, and made the stay a real treat. Whilst the pool area was being renovated, an offer to use a sister hotels facilities was provided without hesitation - really appreciated.
Good
6.5
Located in Kota Kinabalu (Tanjung Aru), Shangri La's Tanjung Aru Resort and Spa is within a 15-minute drive of Sabah State Mosque and Anjung Samudera. Featured amenities include a business center, limo/town car service, and express check-out. Planning an event in Kota Kinabalu? This resort has facilities measuring 7190 square feet (668 square meters), including conference space. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and free self parking is available onsite.




Overall 8.6 Excellent
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6.0
Pros: Room service is great, good private jetty, and good spa
Good
6.3
Pros: location and cleaness
Good
7.0
Pros: Location and facilities were fantastic.
Excellent
8.0
Pros: very very very very nice hotel
Good
7.3
Pros: A Wonderful hotel with great view and good facilities. The best place in KK
Good
6.8
Pros: Staff is always very friendly. Fantastic place to stay, with very comfortable rooms. The new spa (Chi) is great.
Good
7.2
Pros: The food, the service and the staff was all excellent and our rooms were great.
Good
6.8
Pros: Joined some hotel activities such as bird watching, cooking etc and played tennis. Relaxed at the swimming pool.
Excellent
8.0
Pros: Paradise - had stayed at other Shangri-LA, Rasa Ria, and found Tanjung Aru to be equally wonderful.
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Good
7.6
Pros: Comfortable resort and very friendly staff. Tanjung wing rooms were clean and spacious with nice views.
With a stay at Grandis Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Kota Kinabalu, within a 5-minute walk of Jesselton Point Ferry Terminal and Suria Sabah Shopping Mall. Featured amenities include a business center, limo/town car service, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and limited parking is available onsite.




Overall 8.5 Excellent
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8.2
Pros: Friendly staffs. Spacious, clean and comfortable room. Beautiful sunset view on the rooftop
Located in Kota Kinabalu (Downtown Kota Kinabalu), The Magellan Sutera Resort is within a 15-minute walk of Sutera Harbour and Sapi Island. Featured amenities include a business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Free self parking is available onsite.




Overall 8.4 Excellent
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Excellent
10.0
Pros: I can use pacific facilites. It has many outdoor pool.
Good
6.7
Pros: We had a great time. Club rooms and club amneties rock. The evening cocktail is something of very good quality.Location and overall property is awesome..
Good
6.7
Pros: Free hourly shuttle bus to and fro to KK town. Really convenient!! . Free WiFi service in the hotel lobby and the pool area. Good massage service but was slightly pricey. Spa staffs are very courteous.
Good
7.3
Pros: The service and the room facilities
Okay
4.7
Pros: The sea view and the convenient services hotel provided.
Good
6.7
Pros: Good location, friendly and helpful staff, great breakfast selection and good facilities.
Good
7.0
Pros: Staff were excellent and very friendly. Free upgrade to superior room with sea view.
Okay
5.4
Pros: Close to city and islands. Good and tasty food.
Good
6.4
Pros: Excellent facilities, good location and value for money
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Mediocre
3.2
Pros: The location was good. Although Shangri La Tanjung Aru would have been just as good on hind sight. Regretted choosing Sutera Harbour.
Okay
5.6
Pros: convenience, next to the harbour, easy access to boats and islands
With a stay at Horizon Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Kota Kinabalu, just a 4-minute walk from Gaya Street Sunday Market and 8 minutes by foot from Suria Sabah Shopping Mall. Featured amenities include a business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Planning an event in Kota Kinabalu? This hotel features 323 square feet (30 square meters) of event facilities. Free self parking is available onsite.




Overall 8.4 Excellent
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Hyatt Regency Kinabalu is a 14 story highrise in the heart of Kota Kinabalu city overlooking the island-studded South China Sea. Features a 5 story atrium lobby in the heart of of the business, shopping and entertainment district.




Overall 8.3 Excellent
Based on 924 reviews
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8.2
Pros: Great front desk and concierge services. They were all very pleasant and helpful. The beds are meticulously made, clean and comfy
A stay at Promenade Hotel Kota Kinabalu places you in the heart of Kota Kinabalu, within a 10-minute walk of Imago Shopping Mall and Centre Point. Featured amenities include a business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Planning an event in Kota Kinabalu? This hotel has facilities measuring 8396 square feet (780 square meters), including conference space. A shuttle from the airport to the hotel is provided for a surcharge (available on request), and self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.




Overall 8.2 Excellent
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With a stay at The Klagan Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Kota Kinabalu, just a 4-minute walk from Centre Point and 14 minutes by foot from Imago Shopping Mall. Featured amenities include a business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services.




Overall 8.2 Excellent
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9.4
Pros: Love the large rooms and nice beds. Breakfast is good. Views and locations wonderful.
Located in Kota Kinabalu (Downtown Kota Kinabalu), The Pacific Sutera Hotel is within a 5-minute walk of Sutera Harbour and within a 5-minute drive of Centre Point. Featured amenities include complimentary wired Internet access, a business center, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Free self parking is available onsite.




Overall 8.2 Excellent
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7.1
Pros: Water front and good for swim with younger children
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6.3
Pros: Rooms and the view from balcony is outstanding.It is a huge hotel. There are lots of swimming pools ( but they are only 1,5m deep each). I dont like golf but if you do so there is a huge golf field.
Good
6.7
Pros: Loved Pacific Sutera.Good location very good service and Henry on front desk was the best.He was always ready for any questions.Rooms were good but did not like the pillows.If we come back we will stay in same hotel.Thank you to all the staff.
Good
6.3
Pros: Good Location reasonably priced friendly staff and good access to town
Mediocre
3.7
Pros: The swimming pool was good !
Good
7.0
Pros: The room is really nice and clean, they also provide shuttle bus to city, really thoughtful. At night,there is a live singing show in the lobby lounge, it was also good.
Good
6.8
Pros: Excellent food, friendly and helpful staff, nice grounds
Okay
5.6
Pros: Hotel staff are very friendly
Excellent
8.0
Pros: Staff were friendly. Our children were upgraded to an executive room free of charge. Our room was lovely with a view of the pool and the sea.
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Good
7.6
Pros: Excellent choice of restaurants ..breakfast buffet was very good
Good
7.2
Pros: Views and staff
Located in Kota Kinabalu, the capital city of Sabah, Mercure Kota Kinabalu City Centre is within walking distance from banks, shopping malls, restaurants, tourist attractions and the historical Jesselton Point Waterfront. It also has easy access to the new convention centre - Sabah International Convention Centre (SICC). In addition, the hotel is only 15 minutes by car from Kota Kinabalu International Airport.




Overall 8.1 Excellent
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With a stay at Dreamtel Kota Kinabalu, you'll be centrally located in Kota Kinabalu, steps from Atkinson Clock Tower and within a 5-minute walk of Gaya Street Sunday Market. Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and luggage storage. Planning an event in Kota Kinabalu? This hotel features 900 square feet (84 square meters) of event facilities.




Overall 8.1 Excellent
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When you stay at Nexus Resort & Spa Karambunai in Kota Kinabalu, you'll be by the sea and steps from Karambunai Peninsula. Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and luggage storage. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available on request), and free self parking is available onsite.




Overall 8.0 Excellent
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Okay
5.0
Pros: Beach, sea, relax free easy and the outdoor activities. Rather far to travel to the water sport centre.
Mediocre
3.3
Pros: Food and facilities were Ok. Great beachside massage. Staff try hard and are friendly but poor training and non-existent management overwhelm any efforts they might make.
Okay
4.7
Pros: The staff tried hard and were very courteous
Good
6.0
Pros: Pool Villa - Location, location, location! Staff very friendly and trying to be helpful. Good choice at breakfast, but slow keeping up with demand - often ran out of items (fruit, yoghurt, bread etc).
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7.3
Pros: It was the complete package excellent location and range of resturants.
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Good
6.8
Pros: very relaxing with a nice beach
Good
7.6
Pros: We liked special the choices of restaurants and the excellent quality of the food. Also the setting of the whole complex is excellent
Good
6.0
Pros: The food & beach
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6.8
Pros: First class beach,and good choice of restaurants
With a stay at Hotel Shangri-La Kota Kinabalu, you'll be centrally located in Kota Kinabalu, within a 10-minute walk of Centre Point and Kompleks Asia City. Featured amenities include a business center, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. Free self parking is available onsite.




Overall 8.0 Excellent
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Good
7.0
Pros: The freindliness of the hotel staff
Okay
5.3
Pros: The staff is nice and the room is clean.
Good
7.3
Pros: They opened the breakfast buffet half an hour early for our departure flight.
Okay
5.7
Pros: Just 10 minute walk to the famous sea food stall in kota kinabalu city
Okay
5.3
Pros: Low fare and friendly staff
Good
7.0
Pros: Reasonable location, easily walkable to the centre of the town and the waterfront, though it is on a busy road you have to run across. Rooms at the back quiet, those at the front noisy due to road.
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7.2
Pros: 9/10
Okay
5.7
Pros: customer service,cleanliness of room
Good
6.7
Pros: Room was nice, spacious and clean. Somewhat noisy due to the main road outside. You had to cross this road to reach the city which could be a real problem if you're not agile..lot's of traffic.
Okay
4.4
Pros: relax and have a cup of drink
A stay at Ming Garden Hotel and Residences places you in the heart of Kota Kinabalu, within a 15-minute walk of Imago Shopping Mall and Centre Point. Featured amenities include a business center, limo/town car service, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.




Overall 7.9 Good
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With a stay at Gaya Centre Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Kota Kinabalu, steps from Suria Sabah Shopping Mall and 7 minutes by foot from Gaya Street Sunday Market. Featured amenities include a business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services.




Overall 7.7 Good
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6.0
Pros: It is very near to the shopping mall and eateries places. It is easily access to airport too.
Good
7.7
Pros: Gaya Centre is a new hotel in operation only five months. It has an excellent location on the seaside with great ocean views on one side of the hotel and city on the other. There is a large new shopping mall cinema complex across the street still only partially occupied. The rest of the city is only a short walk away. Services are basic hotel services. The facilities are new therefore modern and in excellent condition.Free Internet in the room is on cable only but works very well. The oceanside promenade is across the street and provides easy access to markets of various kinds. The terminal for boats going to island parks and beaches is only a few blocks away. In general, everything you need is easily accessible.
Good
6.3
Pros: location in the heart of the city, clean room & functioning facilities
Good
6.0
Pros: The hotel rate was value for money. room were cofortable clean and nice view of the surroundings.I will definitely stay there again
Good
6.0
Cititel Express Kota Kinabalu is in the heart of Kota Kinabalu, within a 5-minute walk of Kompleks Asia City and Sedco Square. Featured amenities include a business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Free self parking is available onsite.




Overall 7.7 Good
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Excellent
8.0
Pros: Comfortable rooms. Good location. The staff are very helpful and offer some good trips that pick up and drop you off at hotel.
Good
6.0
Pros: It is near to shopping centre and the restaurant around the hotel is good choice for me as the food is nice. It is really a budget hotel but it is best if the price can be re-adjusted. Kindly of expensive to stay in with the price I pay.
Okay
5.7
Pros: Nice new hotel in the centre of Kota Kinabalu
Okay
5.0
Pros: Everything is ok, just the room is a bit too small.
A stay at Promenade Service Apartments places you in the heart of Kota Kinabalu, within a 15-minute walk of Imago Shopping Mall and Centre Point. Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, luggage storage, and laundry facilities. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.




Overall 7.5 Good
Based on 961 reviews
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