Three nights in a de-luxe room (a/c - view of the Night Market - no real noise!) All facilities worked well; good size. The bathroom was small, but functional. Refrigerator, kettle, tea, coffee all in room.
Breakfast was OK and included. Eggs to order, cereal, fruit, toast, jam, honey, tea coffee - buffet presentation.
Location is unbeatable. Right on Petaling St and the night market. LRT and Pasar Seni within easy walking distance as are the National History Museum, Galleri Kuala Lumpur and Merderka Sq. Banks - it's all within easy walking reach.

I´ved first made my reservation throw agency and that workt out very well. I was very welcomed at the front desk. The room where quite nice accapt the bathroom witch where acctualy horrible. running toilets, no pressure in the tubs etc. atherwise very frindly and helpful staff. Very good breakfast buffe. Do try to get a room high upand with a windoow. I´ve tire too make my next resevstion at thh front desk but they recomended me to book via internet to get ther cheeper rates. it´s a B but it saved me 20 RM/night. All in all its quite
money well spent. considering that you hav exit both too the well appreciated chnise market on the back side and china town in front.
I stayed 6 nights durig marsh 2007

All in all this a qiute good place to stay!


my speling in always ok/ but you get the drifrt

Mats Olsson
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The Swiss Inn in Kuala Lumpur has a great location for anyone interested in China Town and the Central Markets.

It can't quite make up it's mind whether it is a budget hostel or a modest hotel and suffers as a consequence. The rate is not that cheap, being only about £10 cheaper than some of the more upscale hotels, but internally the hotel needs a serious update.

Because of it's long thin plan, getting around in the hotel involved the use of two lifts and a long corridor with numerous obstacles.

I didn't feel especially welcome on arrival at reception, although the porter was very friendly who took our bags up to the room.

The room itself reeked of tobacco smoke. With no opening windows and marginal air conditioning it's clearly going to stay that way forever. The bathroom was small, and suffered from a toilet that wouldn't stop running. I now know why there's a drought despite the rain! The twin beds were adequate, although very soft and creaky. Once upon a time it was clearly a very nice room, but lack of maintenance has hurt it badly.

Breakfast was included, and was served in the nice restaurant area fronting onto Jalan Petaling. The buffet was not extensive, but included cereals, toast and my personal favourite coconut rice with chicken curry. The coffee was probably, by some margin, the worst I have ever experienced anywhere. I only mention it because it was really bad. A nice local coffee or teh tarik would have been a much better.

Check out was as unfriendly as check in.
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All in all it was acceptable, mainly because we simply slept there and didn't hang around, but you are paying a premium for the location and not getting a great room.

A quick tip - If you are using a taxi to get to the hotel, the front entrance with recepetion is actually on Jalan Sultan, which is the next street up from Jalan Petaling. To avoid a long walk with your bags, make sure they drop you there and not at the entrance to Petaling Street.

We stayed there 4 days, at arrival and before departure from Kuala Lumpur Airport. We found this hotel good and well priced. The rooms were old, but o.k. and clean. Beds were comfortable and clean as well.

Staff was very friendly and helpful. We enjoyed the breakfast very much but for dinner we did not visit the hotel restaurant as it was very expensive.

The location is excellent, directly beside the china town night market. We had no problems but some people said it was very noisy at night.