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  • Grand Borneo Hotel (Formerly Mercure Kota Kinabalu), Grand Borneo Hotel, ☎ +60 88 526888, ( ), . 325 rooms. Part of the largest mall in Sabah, 1 Borneo Hypermall; an entertainment complex with over 400 stores of leisure, entertainment and culinary delights.
  • Novotel Kota Kinabalu 1Borneo, 1Borneo Hypermall, Jl. UMS. ☎ +60 88 529888, ( ), . Part of 1 Borneo Hypermall, the largest mall in Sabah. 263 rooms, an outdoor pool and jacuzzi on the 7th floor and a business centre.
  • The Palace Hotel (formerly Berjaya Palace Hotel), 1 Jl. Tangki Karamunsing, +60 88 211911. Blends old architecture with modern facilities. Hilltop location, 15 min drive from the airport.
  • Jesselton Hotel, www.jesseltonhotel.com 69, Gaya Street. ☎ +60 88 223333, (Fax:+60 88 240401 ) Jesselton was the initial name for Kota Kinabalu during the British colony. Boutique hotel built in the early 1920s. Hotel has their own limousine, a imported British cab.
  • Hyatt Regency Kinabalu, Jl. Datuk Salleh Sulong (In the city centre), +60 88221234 ( ), . Recently renovated 5-star resort hotel. Good for business people who just want to eat, sleep and work. This hotel has an impressive choice of restaurants and a coffee shop serving Malaysian food, a Chinese restaurant with 'dim sum' or 'yum cha', a Japanese restaurant with teppanyaki and a fresh bakery. Close to shopping centres, fast food outlets and cafes. From around US$100. �
  • Le Méridien Kota Kinabalu, Jl. Tun Fuad Stephens, ☎ +60 88 322222. 306 rooms. Gym, seaview pool. Next to Centrepoint shopping complex.
  • Nexus Resort Karambunai, (30 km northeast of Kota Kinabalu). 485 rooms, 8 restaurants, golf course, spa.
  • Promenade Hotel, Sdn Bhd. ☎ +60 88 265555, (fax:+60 88 246666). 451 rooms, swimming pool, gym, beauty salon and health spa. 2 restaurants specialising in local and Asian cuisine, 2 cafes, lobby lounge, promenade floor lounge and a karaoke bar.
  • Shangri-La Rasa Ria Resort 5 star hotel located on beach. 18 hole golf course, excellent kid's club and has an orangutan sanctuary where guests can see young orangutans up relatively close. A resort suitable for families, pools with small but good water slide equipment, watersports activities. Coast restaurant is beachside. RM90 taxi ride of about 40 min from the airport.
  • Shangri-La Tanjung Aru Resort ☎ +60 88 225800, . An older, grand and comfortable 5 star hotel. The rooms in the old wing are confined inside the building and look out to the pitch-and-put golf course. A tiny jungle is built in the middle of the corridor leading towards the rooms of the old wing and the rooms there are larger than the new wing. The new wing overlooks the sea or the swimming pool and is a bit more secluded for those who enjoy lazing out in the sun. A taxi ride from the Terminal 2 is about RM10, but to the city center is RM15. Shuttle from the airport to the hotel is available upon request.
  • Sutera Harbour Resort (Includes the 5* Pacific Sutera hotel and the 5* Magellan Sutera resort hotel (formerly Pan Pacific)), Sutera Harbour Blvd, Kota Kinabalu (A RM10 taxi ride to town, or a 20 min walk (if you're in good shape)), +60 88 318888 (fax: +60 88 317777), . 27-hole golf course, fully equipped marina, 2 spas, squash, badminton and tennis courts and various other sport and leisure activities. The rooms are of a high quality with either a sea view, a golf course or a Mount Kinabalu view at the Pacific Sutera. The Magellan Sutera has views of the garden or a sea-view. You can easily book trips to the islands, starting at RM35. The resort has a free shuttle bus going to town every hour until 9PM. Cross-signing facilities mean that if you stay in one hotel, you have access to the entire resort. An internal shuttle takes guests between the properties, the marina and the golf club. From RM 400. �

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