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Finding an ideal romantic guest house in Sungai Lembing does not have to be difficult. Welcome to Sungai Lembing Hillview Cottage, a nice option for travellers like you.
Guest rooms offer amenities such as air conditioning, and guests can go online with free wifi offered by the guest house.
If you’re looking for an Asian restaurant, consider a visit to T & Co Cafe, which is not far from Sungai Lembing Hillview Cottage.
During your visit, be sure to check out popular attractions like Rainbow Waterfall (0.6 mi) and Bukit Panorama (1.0 mi), which are all within walking distance of the guest house.
Sungai Lembing Hillview Cottage puts the best of Sungai Lembing at your fingertips, making your stay both relaxing and enjoyable.
Stayed in this cottage for 3D2N with a group of friends with young families during the year end school holidays. My experience can be summarized as below:
What's impressive: - The location (near the top of the hill) - cooling and offers great view of the area. It gets misty especially during the raining seasons. - The owner of the cottage (friendly and helpful) - drove us around on his 4x4 to show us the places that we can visit in the town. - It offers a home-stay concept with huge common / dining / entertainment area which is suitable for family or friends gathering which can accommodate up to 80 pax. - The cottage comes with a common entertainment area that has a pool table, foosball table, kiddy rides, etc. - The rooms are relatively clean & tidy. - The cottage offers home-cooked food upon request. - The town is rather small so it's not too far away from the places of interest (ie., Rainbow Waterfall, Lembing Hill, Pebble River Beach by the river, Lembing Old Town, Lembing Museum, Lembing Mines, etc.)
What to expect: - As the building was built with bricks to offer the home-stay feeling, do expect poorer sound proof especially when people talk loudly or walk with heavier steps. - Mosquito and insects bugs are your next best friends since you are staying within the jungle area near the top of the hill. - Since it's a small town, do expect poor mobile reception in most area of the town including within cottage compound. However, the cottage provides free WiFi services at the common / dining / entertainment area to allow guests to connect with the outside world (though it's 4Mbps but due to many simultaneous users, it typically runs at the speed of 1Mbps and occasionally gets disconnected).
What can be improved: - Room TV offers mostly mandarin speaking programs, could do better by improving on the choices of programs by including other language selections as well. - Since the mobile coverage in the town is rather poor, faster and more stable WiFi services will serve better purpose as alternative if guests would like to connect with the outside world.
Final verdict: - This cottage is suitable to spend some quality time with friends / family and away from the busy city life as well as getting close to nature. It's higher up from the ground level hence providing cooler environment especially in this tropical country.
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Date of stay: December 2014
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Trip type: Travelled with family
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I have to be fair to this BnB. Yes, the owner is very friendly, a free trip around the town as a welcome gift to every guest with many foods; scenery & attractions introduction. The room is cozy and clean, to be frank, it is more than my expectation with a rate of $180 per night. The staff there are helpful as well.
Everything is fine until night, when there was an open air karaoke session. The front lobby is equipped with powerful stereo speakers together with some colourful lighting and big screen projection, for the guest I guess. Due to I have no other place to go during night at Sg. Lembing, I have to cover my head under the pillow, guess what, it didn't work at all.
When I politely express my feedback about it, this is what the staff reply: "They won't sing for long, only until 11pm." WHAT???!!! If this is happening everyday, I wonder how come no one complain about it at all? Their neighbour? The other guests?
My ears were saved by a power failure in the entire town, before 11pm. Perhaps it's quite a common incident there as the BnB are equipped with generator. It's pity that the power generated are only enough for corridor lighting. Not for the air conditioning in every room. Why can't they think of the guest before everything?
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Date of stay: July 2016
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Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:If you can't stand the noise from Karaoke session, find other hotel
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Highly recommended . Clean n comfortable. Towels, basic sanitary items, water dispenser, coffee , tea n bread are provided. They also served welcome fried noodles n green beans soup as supper. As we go on off peak season, instant noodles, vegetables n eggs are also provided for us to cook ourselves. A 30 minutes introduction trip to drive in their jeep around Sungai Lembing also provided as FOC. We booked by calling directly at room rate if RM180 to occupied 5 of us including 3 kids age 7,11 n 15.
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Date of stay: June 2015Trip type: Travelled with family
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Air is fresh but with too many residents smokers came and went polluted it 😅. We were there 3D 2N. The bedsheet looked clean but the blanket is too thin to keep us warm and it is don’t look clean as well as the towels. Thanks to God we brought our own towel. There are not much things to do at night because it is a small village. There is free karaoke which guests can enjoy singing with many hundreds of song. 👍The place of attractions are very good, we loved it. We never ever see a rainbow so closed to us. We missed to see the sunrise on the 1st morning and the boss was kind to ask the worker to bring us to climb Bukit Panorama with no charge. The cottage also provide car and motorcycle for guest to use free of charge.
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Date of stay: November 2019
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Room Tip:You can choose your room if the cottage is not full house👍
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A very friendly boss and he really treat us unexpected. Once we reached there, we have a fried noodles, bread & kaya and free flow of coffee & tea. He ride us around the village for 45 mins with his 4WD which other hotel do not have this offer unless you pay for it. The most exciting is we went thru the river with the 4WD with a speedy mode and was wet splashing by the water. It's so fun and enjoying. The boss serve us dinner with free of charge as it's raining and he encourage us not to go out. The night won't feel boring as there have karaoke, mahjung, billiards, kids ride and many many more. They serve us green bean soup on that night which is the dessert of the day. The next day we allowed to check out late which other hotel don't have this benefits. Kudos and will come back again.
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Date of stay: December 2017Trip type: Travelled with friends
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They have big rooms with 3 single beds and 1 double bed suitable for family. Tv and aircond with satellite channels are available. Bathroom wster ptessure is very strong with hot and cold mixture. The rooms comes with 2 small living hall. Late check out is allow during low peak season. Owner are friendly and caring. Motorcycles are free for your usage as long as you pump petrol back in to the fuel tank. The owner even buy us fresh fruits as complimentart.
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Date of stay: July 2015Trip type: Travelled with friends
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Stayed in a 6 person room. 2 single beds and 2 queen size. Rooms and common areas are very clean and spacious. Free WIFI, parking, safe and wonderful fresh country air. You will need to drive to all nearby attractions but all within 5 mins. 24/7 Free flow of water, hot beverage (coffee and tea) and bread with kaya. Would be nicer if they had a bread toaster though.
Owner was very friendly and accommodating. Giving guests a free 4WD guided tour around town and even throwing in complimentary fried noodles and desert during our stay. Note that owner may not always be around as he has other businesses.
Mahjong, cards and karaoke is available so may be a little more noisy at night. Best to bring earplugs if you're planning to sleep early.
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Date of stay: December 2016
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Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:no lifts and can be noisy at night so best to request if you have old folks or plan to sleep early.
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The owner of the Homestay is quite a friendly man. He provides one round of free roaming on his 4WD for his guests around Sg Lembing's attractions with some brief history. He said that other Homestay owners will charge RM20 per head for such tour. It provides bread and kaya, 3-in-1 coffee sachets, and tea throughout the day. Dessert and afternoon snacks such as fried noodle, green bean soup and red bean soup is served daily too, all self-service. Taste not too bad. The rooms and the common areas are clean and serve the basic purpose. Not a bad experience.
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Date of stay: June 2016Trip type: Travelled with family
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Very good service and perfect package they offer IF there is nothing happen on your travel date...once you forced to cancel the trip even because of natural disaster issues happen during your travelling period, the owner very rude when talk about refund...
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Date of stay: October 2023Trip type: Travelled with family
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Good location on hill top, well kept, comfortable rooms and good view. Friendly, helpful and generous owner. We arrived at 12.30pm on 14 May and was greeted with green-bean soup, pau and chee chun fun. Check-in was a breeze.
He drove us (5 pax) for 2 hrs orientation on Sg. Lembing town. Plan our itinery with Ah Hong for Sunrise Hill, Rainbow Waterfall and Panorama Hill.
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Date of stay: May 2023
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Room Tip:You can discuss and plan your itinery with the owner of Hillview Cottage.
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Johor Bahru District, Malaysia36 contributions37 helpful votes
Btw if you manage to stay at Hillview Cottage and going to Rainbow Waterfall. Hillview C is located just on the way to Waterfall. If the waterfall tour guide wants to pick you all up at 5:30 am or earlier but you prefer to sleep a bits more. You may skip their breakfast arrangement at the market ( breakfast pay is on your own). request for pick up time at ard 6:30am to caught the sun rise view on the way to Waterfall.
The cottage will provide sufficient coffee , tea and bread as breakfast everyday.
There are more places to choose from in the Sungai Lembing area.
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