5* Hilton Experience (The Hilton (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia))

Member Name: adamp111

Product:	The Hilton (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Date:	02/06/09 (8 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Rooms, service, location, food

Disadvantages: -

Instead of writing flowing prose about this fine hotel, it is perhaps more helpful to break the review down into sections that can easily be identified with:

ROOMS - The rooms (or, at least ours was), were very clean, well appointed, with everything you could need for a visit. The 42" TV, the amply sized bathroom, the rain shower, and the panoramic views of KL and the lake gardens all help to make the rooms fantastic.

LOCATION - The hotel is under 60 seconds from KL Sentral Station; Sentral links you into the centre of town in 15 minutes, and to the airport in 28 minutes, and is enormously convenient. Taxi's shouldn't have too much trouble returning to the hotel, as Sentral is known to most. Avoid paying anymore than 20RM for a ride back from KLCC/Golden Triangle; taxi drivers refuse to use their meter and negotiate a fixed price before departing.

FOOD - We only stayed in the hotel for breakfast; eating a 3-course meal with alcohol for two can be done in the city centre for under RM150, so eating in the hotel makes little sense. As for the breakfast, the choice was outstanding, with Indian dishes, Japanese dishes, and other traditional Asian dishes on offer, as well as croissants, bread selections, eggs, waffles, omelettes, fruit, cereals, and most other western breakfast products.

SERVICE - Staff were very helpful, as you'd expect. Check-in and check-out took less than 5 minutes, staff were always around to help, recommend excursions, post mail and pretty much anything you would want them to do.

VALUE FOR MONEY - We travelled on a weekend that was included in the Hilton January sale, and so paid 50% of the usual price. For us, at £80 per night, it was good value for money, but if faced with paying twice that, it would be difficult to justify given the cheaper, and equally luxurious hotels in the city centre (Mandarin Oriental and Traders for example).

OVERALL - A pleasant stay with no problems. It's nice to travel in the sweaty heat knowing you'll later be returning to a perfectly air-conditioned and luxuriously appointed hotel room. We robably wouldn't stay at the Hilton KL Sentral if confronted with a bill for 2x what we paid, but that's from the perspective of living on a student budget!

Summary: A pleasant stay with no problems - exactly how visits should be.