Staying here was an unexpected back up plan. My original hotel did the dirty and bumped me for someone paying cash (Abode, U.S.$5 gift voucher and you will pass it on to higher management? Please, don't spare the massive effort). On the bus up from Singapore, a Friday no less so very busy in Melaka with over 80% of rooms booked, so I did what all good travellers do. I panicked! Booked the first one on the list and here I am.
So the good: location is great on the river, the owner is really friendly (though prone to the odd absence so make yourself comfortable with the Bangladeshis next door and watch some football or cricket with them) and most of all it's the cheapest place in town. Actually the restaurant next door was great, don't expect alacarte but nasi goreng and a drink for RM9 is awesome.
The average: 4 flights of stairs was a little haul with the luggage and the fan only room got sun all afternoon so I felt like a rotisserie chicken the first night. Internet seems to have upload massively throttled back (thanks vloggers) so photos to Facebook was a chore, video was impossible. The 2 inch foam mattress, not a winner. I was alone in a twin so used both mattreses on night 2 for some improvement.
The ugly: you can't avoid it, the toilet and bathrooms. Sounds like some improvement since April, 2 sit down toilets in the showers, but that's where it ends. It was the centimetre deep layer of hair I had to scrape off the drain that got me, clearly these are not cleaned each day and he could massively improve his business just in this one area. Paint and remove the mould, clean daily and inspect twice daily!
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