Sabah Oriental Hotel

A very comfortable hotel in a very quiet location. Rooms are more spacious than many Asian hotels in this price range. Buffet breakfast has an excellent selection of Asian and Western food. Staff members are friendly and efficient and provide excellent service.

The hotel is a few years old and the age is starting to show in many places so it needs a fair bit of cosmetic updating throughout.However all necessities work well. The rooms are not very soundproof so you may be at the mercy of your neighbours. It's location is at the edge of the city centre and is separated from it by some busy thoroughfares so walking access is a bit tricky, especially at night though it seemed to be safe area. The hotel does have a restaurant but if you want another eating choice it is a fairly long obstacle filled walk to another restaurant. Free wifi internet is available only in the lobby and is somewhat erratic. For 10 MYR per 24 hr. you can get in room Wifi which works reasonably well. We eventually moved to the Gaya Centre Hotel for the same price but without most of the negatives mentioned here though breakfast, if wanted, is extra....but in all a far better choice for us.

The standout factor for this hotel was the staff. They were always polite, very helpful, attentive and ready with a smile. Other good points were that the facilities were clean and I got the non-smoking room I wanted.

The worst thing was that the WiFi network was very slow or nonexistent at times. The Beverly is in the midst of upgrading to a new network and I got stuck in the middle of it. Staff was very helpful and we determined that the issue was that their ISP or server was conflicting with my DNS settings.Other factors were that some things just did not work such as the room phone was a bit wonky, the safe's battery was depleted, the shuttle bus was down one day for maintenance and the lobby phone was always out of order. Location was also a bit problematic in that it is a fair walk to the downtown core and the crossings can be dangerous. Breakfast buffets were pretty much what I expected from earlier reviews.

Nothing bad.

Better if more food is available in the breakfast

Reasonable size room. Free parking. Wide breakfast selection. Strong air conditioning.

Corridor smell. Room smell when first enter. Air condition unit emit sound after several hours of use. Thin wall - sounds audible from next room.