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Melaka Hotels – Finding the Best Hotel in Melaka

Best Hotel in Melaka - Majestic Hotel


Melaka or Malacca is a city with great historical significance and located near the Straits of Malacca. The city is recognized as a world heritage site by UNESCO. The state of Melaka has 3 districts such as Alor Gajah, Jasin and Central Malacca. Malacca city is the capital of the state. The tourists can find several historical places, buildings, museums, and monuments in Melaka. The tourists can enjoy several other attractions such as cultural parks and theme parks.

Best Hotel in Melaka

To enjoy various tourist destinations in Melaka, you can find several hotels in Melaka that offer different types of accommodation depending on the budget and requirements of the visitors. Below are some of the best and recommended hotel to stay in Melaka:

Hotel Equatorial

Hotel Equatorial in Melaka is one of the best hotels in Melaka. The tourists can reach St. Paul’s Hill and A’Famosa Fort by walking from this hotel. Mahkota Parade shopping complex, Jonker’s Street and antique shopping area are also within the walking distance from Hotel Equatorial. In this hotel, there are 496 well-furnished suites and rooms with all the amenities such as Jacuzzi, steam room, sauna, gym, massage service, etc. The visitors can enjoy outdoor activities such as swimming, golfing, table tennis, and tennis as the hotel provide all these facilities.


Address: Bandar Hilir, 75000, Melaka, Malaysia
Phone: +60 (6) 282 8333

Hatten Hotel Melaka

Hatten Hotel Malacca is one of the best hotel in Melaka with more than 700 rooms and suites for the guests. The hotel is situated in close proximity with the popular tourist destinations in Malacca such as A’Famosa, Menara Taming Sari, Dataran Pahlawan shopping mall, etc. The restaurant at this hotel provides all-day-dining facility. Some of the facilities provided by this hotel are gymnasium, spa, swimming pool, ballroom, and meeting rooms.

Address: Hatten Square, Jalan Merdeka, Bandar Hilir, 75000 Melaka, Malaysia
Phone: +60 (6) 286 9696

Casa Del Rio

Casa del Rio is a luxurious hotel located near Melaka River with 66 rooms in Mediterranean style. Each room has private balcony overlooking the river or courtyard. Some of the amenities provided by the hotel are organized cruises, rooftop pool, gymnasium, spa, and Wi-Fi facility.

Address: Jalan Laksamana 88, Taman Kota Laksamana, 75200 Melaka, Malaysia
Phone: +60 (6) 289 6888

Jonker Boutique Hotel

The Jonker Boutique Hotel is a one of the best hotels in Melaka, which is located near the topmost tourist destinations. The hotel is surrounded by coffee shops, Peranakan houses, bars, eateries, and antique shops. This boutique hotel has only 16 rooms, all of them are spacious with teak floorings. Private car park is the main attraction of this hotel. The facilities offered by the hotel are air-conditioned rooms, safe deposit locker, hairdryer in every room, tea/coffee maker, valet service, and many more.

Address: Jalan Tokong, 75200 Melaka, Malaysia
Phone: +60 (6) 282 5151

The Baba House

The Baba House is a budget hotel situated nearby Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock and several other tourist attractions like Cheng Hoon Teng Temple and Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum. This hotel offers different facilities like Spa, Wi-Fi connection, coffee/tea maker, telephone connection, and meeting rooms.

Address: 125-127 Jalan Tan Cheng Lock, 75200 Malacca-City, Malaysia
Phone: +60 (6) 281 2168

The Majestic Malacca

The Majestic Malacca is among the best hotels in Melaka. The hotel was the mansion of a Chinese merchant and some of the original decorations are still maintained in the hotel. The hotel has three restaurants, conference rooms, swimming pools, library, and a gymnasium. The Majestic Malacca hotel has 54 rooms and suites that are luxuriously decorated.

Address: 188 Jalan Bunga Raya 75100 Melaka, 75100, Malacca, Malaysia
Phone: +60 (3) 2783 1000

The Gingerflower Boutique Hotel

This hotel is located in a Peranakan townhouse with 13 luxurious rooms featuring Italian bathrooms, Wi-Fi connections, rain showers, valet service, 24-hour reception, telephone connection, and satellite TV. The different types of rooms available in this hotel are superior double room, deluxe double room, executive double room, and luxury double room.

Address: Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock, 75200 Melaka, Malaysia
Phone: +60 (6) 288 1331

Hotel Puri Melaka

Hotel Puri Melaka is one of the best hotels in Melaka, which situated only 20 minutes drive from North-South Highway and 5 minutes away from central bus station. The hotel is in a Peranakan house that is restored beautifully. Enjoy the hotel facilities such as conference room, laundry service, babysitting facility, Wi-Fi, safety box, room service, television, and coffee/tea making facility.

Address: 118 Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock, Melaka, 75200 Malacca Johor and South, Malaysia
Phone: +60 (6) 281 7388

Mahkota Hotel Melaka

Mahkota Hotel Melaka is situated in the heart of Melaka, the city’s main entertainment and shopping area. The tourists can reach to various historical sites by walking from the hotel. The hotel consists of 480 rooms and apartments that are well-furnished. The hotel offers all the modern facilities to the guests. Mahkota Hotel Melaka offers facilities such as tennis court, bar, conference room, amenities for disabled people, babysitting, room service, fitness center, restaurant, etc.

Address: Jalan Syed Abdul Aziz, 75000 Melaka, Malaysia
Phone: +60 (6) 281 2828

These are some of the best hotel in Melaka, which are popular among tourists as well. If you want to suggest a Melaka hotel then please do so by adding comments below.

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Mother nature’s water theme park

A ‘cave’ created by an ancient avalanche of rocks upon a stream is one of Malaysia’s most unique ‘water theme parks’.

Want to walk, crawl and float through it?

“Wanna go to Gua Batu Maloi this weekend?” asked Ahli a.k.a. Lee Kok Chung, the hiking buddy I have known since 1999.

The answer to that question was a resounding “Yes!”

The bucolic welcome arch to Gua Batu Maloi, Negeri Sembilan

Gua Batu Maloi is not a conventional cave but more like a huge pile of giant granite boulders that tumbled down from the mountains over a stream. The result is a kind of water theme park inside a cave!

Ahli, an experienced nature guide and birder who runs Endemic Guides, was bringing a group into the cave that weekend. This was my sixth trip with him to the cave in Negeri Sembilan’s Gunung Tampin Forest Reserve.

After getting to Tampin town via the North-South Highway, we headed towards Kuala Pilah through a beautiful forested road past the tail end of the Titiwangsa mountain range before arriving at Pekan Air Mawang. We then turned left and drove through kampung roads covered with “landmines” (cow droppings!) before finally arriving at Gua Batu Maloi.

Everyone was in high spirits as we started our 15-minute walk through the jungle towards the cave entrance.

A lazy stream flowed alongside the trail – the same one that flows through the cave. To get to the cave, we had to cross the vertical face of a huge boulder by stepping on some thick roots, while holding on to a rope so we wouldn’t fall off.

Beautiful ferns and moss grew on the gigantic boulders at the cave entrance. Huge roots from the trees above grew downwards and clung majestically to the rocks. The rays of the morning sun streaming between the trees made the place look magical.

Before we entered the cave, Ahli gave a short briefing on the cave, and on the safety aspects.

“Are any of you afraid of dark and tight spaces? Are any of you claustrophobic?” he asked. Anyone who suffers from claustrophobia may panic, and hence it was important for Ahli to check before we entered the cave.

He also advised everyone to always stay in front of our “sweeper” guide, Aki, 20, who was from the nearby kampung and had been exploring the cave since he was four. The group this time was relatively small, and this meant shorter queues in the cave.

Batu Maloi is not a conventional cave but more like a huge pile of giant granite boulders that have tumbled upon a stream.

We soon disappeared one by one into the cracks between the huge boulders and plunged into the cold water from the stream in the cave. The smell of guano permeated the air. We continued, wading and crawling through holes so small that it seemed impossible that anyone could actually go through them.

Some parts of the cave had only inches of space between the surface of the water and the top of the cave! We had to lie on our backs and push ourselves through those small gaps, with our noses just barely above the water, to get to the other side. It was indeed thrilling!

Some members of the group even had to be assisted out of these tunnels by having their legs pulled by the others. Hilarious. Halfway through the cave, Ahli asked the group if they preferred to continue using an easy or more challenging route. We chose the latter, of course.

We soon came to a part of the cave that was really narrow, where we had to crawl on our hands and knees. Soon, we encountered a huge submerged rock. There was no way across, except to crawl on our bellies!

It was rather tricky having to manoeuvre my body, and I found myself perched on the rock like a walrus! I had to figure out how to get off the rock and move forward without plunging head first into the water where the rock ended. With a little space to turn my body around just before sliding off the rock, I managed to land safely in the water.

While waiting for the others, I switched off my headlight and was plunged into total darkness. It was strangely relaxing, sitting on a rock in the dark cave, listening to the gurgling stream as the water flowed swiftly below my feet.

We then came across another narrow but sandy part of the cave where we had to literally dig our way through like giant nesting turtles! Who needs a spa when you can get sandy body “scrubs”, “aromatherapy” (thanks to the “wonderful” bat guano scent) and even natural “Jacuzzis” in Gua Batu Maloi?

We were in the part of Batu Maloi called Gua Kelawar (Bat Cave – home to many swirling bats rather than Batman’s lair!). This area was dry, with “sandy” areas all around, which we soon found out were actually hardened bat poo! We were really happy to plunge into the water when we saw the stream again.

The writer at one of the many little “jacuzzis” inside the cave.

We even got to do some canyoneering as we climbed and crawled through the many waterfalls inside the cave. There were many hydro-massage opportunities, too, as bubbles formed from the cascades, creating wonderful little “Jacuzzis”, even though it was rather cold.

It was like a water theme park, but this natural version was much more fun and exciting.

After a few hours of climbing, crawling and stretching over many waterfalls and tunnels, we emerged into the outside world. What a workout! We had used every part of our body to get through the cave.

On our way back, we came upon a gigantic boulder the size of a double-storey house. This was the actual Batu Maloi, after which the cave was named.

According to local legend, Maloi is the name of the guardian spirit of that area, which Aki told me he had seen a few times before in the guise of an old man. Being a silat (Malay martial arts) practitioner, Aki is more sensitive and attuned to the “other realm”.

We trekked back to our cars and changed into dry clothes, before going to Tampin for drinks, toast and half-boiled eggs at a packed old coffee shop. Food never tasted better.

Ah, what a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon. – Anne Cheong


Map: Gua Batu Maloi, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

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Pasir Panjang Recreational Park

“This lush recreational park is situated within a 13-hectare forest reserve at Kampung Teluk, a coastal village in Port Dickson.”

This lush recreational park is situated within a 13ha forest reserve at Kampung Teluk, a coastal village in Port Dickson. Situated 28km from Port Dickson town and two minutes drive from Pasir Panjang, it is easily accessible from the Seremban-Port Dickson Highway or Pedas-Linggi toll plaza of the scenic North-South Highway.

With amenities like parking areas, huts, toilets, walking track and children’s playground, the recreational park is a favourite family outing spot. It is also well-known physical training arena as the forest houses two OBS-type physical challenge camps, one managed by PDS Camp and Resort while the other by the National Youth Leadership Institute (IKBN). These camps are well equipped with variuos facilities for physical training including an obstacle course, confidence test, platform for abseiling, equipment for kayaking and boating as well as an administration building and hostels. Thus, it is a popular training arena for corporate companies, government agencies and students from schools and higher learning institutions.

The profile of trees and shrubs covering the hills and valleys with roots, branches and fallen leaves carpeting the forest floor makes this forest a haunt fo nature lovers. With it’s abundance of flora and fauna, it is no wonder that many traditional medicine practitioners can be spotted scouring the woods for medicinal herbs and plants.

Trekking through this beautiful forest, you may come accross an old tomb at the peak of Bukit Kurau. There is also a bay where you will find many shrimp-netters casting their nets which doubles up as an area is filled with villagers looking for kupang (a kind of cockle, delicious when cooked sweet-sour). At high tide, a beautiful view of several offshore floating decks can be seen from the forest. These decks, installed with wooden stools, are a favourite among anglers.

Nearby this recreational park, you will find food stalls operating late into the night. Located amidst a fishing village, this stalls offer delicious mouth-watering dishes (grilled or otherwise) of fish, shrimps, crabs and squids fresh from the sea.

Last viewed – October 17, 2011

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Pasir Panjang Recreational Park

“This lush recreational park is situated within a 13-hectare forest reserve at Kampung Teluk, a coastal village in Port Dickson.”

This lush recreational park is situated within a 13ha forest reserve at Kampung Teluk, a coastal village in Port Dickson. Situated 28km from Port Dickson town and two minutes drive from Pasir Panjang, it is easily accessible from the Seremban-Port Dickson Highway or Pedas-Linggi toll plaza of the scenic North-South Highway.

With amenities like parking areas, huts, toilets, walking track and children’s playground, the recreational park is a favourite family outing spot. It is also well-known physical training arena as the forest houses two OBS-type physical challenge camps, one managed by PDS Camp and Resort while the other by the National Youth Leadership Institute (IKBN). These camps are well equipped with variuos facilities for physical training including an obstacle course, confidence test, platform for abseiling, equipment for kayaking and boating as well as an administration building and hostels. Thus, it is a popular training arena for corporate companies, government agencies and students from schools and higher learning institutions.

The profile of trees and shrubs covering the hills and valleys with roots, branches and fallen leaves carpeting the forest floor makes this forest a haunt fo nature lovers. With it’s abundance of flora and fauna, it is no wonder that many traditional medicine practitioners can be spotted scouring the woods for medicinal herbs and plants.

Trekking through this beautiful forest, you may come accross an old tomb at the peak of Bukit Kurau. There is also a bay where you will find many shrimp-netters casting their nets which doubles up as an area is filled with villagers looking for kupang (a kind of cockle, delicious when cooked sweet-sour). At high tide, a beautiful view of several offshore floating decks can be seen from the forest. These decks, installed with wooden stools, are a favourite among anglers.

Nearby this recreational park, you will find food stalls operating late into the night. Located amidst a fishing village, this stalls offer delicious mouth-watering dishes (grilled or otherwise) of fish, shrimps, crabs and squids fresh from the sea.

Last viewed – October 07, 2011