So a quick review on the Sri Enstek hotel.
Arrived into KUL on a domestic flight. Previously gave the hotel my flight number etc and arranged for a shuttle in advance (RM11 one way) at 9pm. Surprisingly, when I landed, there was no one to pick me up at the designated pickup area. I emailed the hotel and they almost immediately wrote back and said a shuttle was sent to pick me up. Ended up waiting 20/25mins or so for the shuttle to come. So it got off to a bad start.
Ride to the hotel was 20mins. Roads were generally clear without much traffic.
Arrived at reception and they said that they had put my shuttle request into the system, but were unsure why the shuttle was not dispatched on time. Very friendly front counter staff I must say.
The hotel is in the middle of the town town centre with PLENTY of foods options around. There are two local muslim food eateries around the corner from the hotel (see one of the pics). And a burger stand selling the local Ramly Burger - or at least the patties were (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramly_Group). Ate a burger and also at the local muslim eatery. The latter sold non-alcoholic beer called "Barbican"
Also saw a Pizza Hut and KFC around the corner. And a specialist satay restaurant! Saw a western family from the hotel go to the KFC. Why would you do that when there are so many other food choices around?
Room wise was basic. I prefered the bedding and the mattress versus the slumber room - so this is a win. Small room but functional. Requested a "quiet room" at the back as I heard on tripadvisor it could be noisy. Bad mistake for this request as the back is a small back street which unfortunately had a restaurant kitchen that was closing (11pm) so there was a lot of noise with pots/pans and also woks being scrapped etc. After a while I requested to be moved to another room and they gave me one without windows (hard to describe it exactly - but it is one of those rooms sandwiched in the middle of the floor, between the front and the back of the building). Perfect. Hot tip - if you don't want any noise from the road / back restaurant, this is the room type to go for as you only get corridor traffic. For me I will book this sorta room next time.
Next morning, caught the 7am shuttle back to KLIA and got back in 20mins again. Note the shuttle leaves from the hotel every hour. My flight was at 925am from the main terminal - next time I will wing it and leave at 8am and am travelling HLO.
All in all. cost me RM90 +RM22 for shuttle. So, it is very good value. And I will do this again for similar timed transits.
Look forward to trying to satay restaurant and other local muslim eateries soon.
