Travel: Hotel Equatorial, Kuala Lumpur

Hello folks,

Welcome back to yet another travel segment prepared exclusively on alexleow-kimmy.com. Special thanks to my brother Alan Leow who eventually got a FREE ROOM for us to stay at Hotel Equatorial in Kuala Lumpur and without any hesitation, I would go and try out and to see how's the hotel facilities that would hopefully impress me.

I checked in quite late yesterday at about 11.45pm while Alan arrived early. It's pretty easy to find parking at their basement because not many people parked their car there due to expensive parking rate and then most of the hotel guests did not drive their car over there because they did not drive either.

Once I stepped into the hotel lobby, I looked not impressive at all because it does not look like a lobby. It looks to me like a security guard counter that guide us up all the way to the floors like those 'Wisma' type of feeling. In the meantime, the security wise is pretty poor as well. Never mind, once I stepped into their room, I look so dissapointed rather with our superior room. So does Alan as well. First of all, the bed is very small size and it's not comfortable as well to fit both of us. The TV meanwhile is just CRT TV which is kinda old and poor especially this hotel is located in the city center. The toilet meanwhile is pretty small and nothing special about it. You may refer the photos for more information. The view of the hotel from 8th floor is pretty bad because there's not much view that you can see. Even, the view of KLCC was blocked too particularly the hotel only have 10++ floors that was partially covered by those high rise buildings. There's no free WIFI or LAN in your room and it's chargeable.

During the morning breakfast, we had dine in at the Nipah Coffeehouse located at Lower Ground Floor of the hotel. The varieties of the food served is pretty limited and in my opinion, it does not meet the international hotels as well. They did served our local and western cuisine and the most impressed food for me including the 'mee mamak' and the 'nasi goreng kampung' that was really nice and good to eat. Other western delicacies looks pretty normal and some really not nice at all. We are not allowed to take any photos at the lobby or at the coffeehouse as it was banned.

Overall, I would not recommend you this hotel while you are on your stay at Kuala Lumpur. You can have more options to choose from ranging from Mandarin Oriental, Shangri-La Hotel or Renaissance Hotel which is quite near to city center and near to those tourist destination. This hotel is not up to the international standard as well as not up to the standard in the city center and I would rate this hotel as 3 stars only and not 4 stars as given. MY RATING: 2.5/5 ; ALAN RATING: 2.5/5

Address:

27, Jalan Sultan Ismail,
50250, Kuala Lumpur
Telephone: 03-21617777
Fax: 03-21619020


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