Kampung Jawa hotels & places to stay

I had to change my place of stay since the bus to Ipoh got delayed for several hours and I ended up arriving in Ipoh at 2.00 am instead 11 pm/12 am. I have called them before the first time the bus was rescheduled, informing that I will be arriving at midnight. Unfortunately, the bus got delayed further and I decided to crash in other hotel/hostel nearby the bus terminal. This has cost me more but my main concern was my safety since I travelled alone. I didn't text or inform the staff bout not showing up that night but I didn’t realized that the staff texted me, asking about my exact arrival time. I only replied to them the next morning at 7 am. The language used in the text, how they interact with me was accommodating, professional and deserve a praise. Despite the fact I didn't stay there, they treated me with so much respect and I feel valued. I highly recommend this place because of its top-notch customer service.

I really love the concept of this hostel, cozy and warm like you are visiting a friend's house, also you can see that they do care about customer experience , put lot of efforts from small things like the kitchen with complete cookware, utensils even spices, sauces and so on. It's so far the best hostel I had ever stayed. Location are close to lot of great food. However, the sound insulation is pretty bad there. The music from next door bar (or karaoke) are easily hear start from night to 4am morning on weekend, I couldn't sleep for the entire night. A group of travellers in opposite room of the dorm room stayed up night till around 2am and I could easily hear their loud noises. My suggestion is maybe can provide traveller a pair of earplugs for free, that's what my previous experience for hostel that have facing similar situation. Keep it up, I do wish to stay again even my sleep was not that great.

I arrived at the hotel around 230 am in the morning after making last minute booking and there was no one waited for me at the reception. I made calls to the number provided in the booking voucher twice and the staff came down with sleepy face. The best thing was, he had given me great service despite his sleep was disturbed. This was my very first time staying at the hotel and experiencing such great customer service left me nothing but satisfaction! I even made a great review bout this hotel over my social media - of the staff, the bed and even the toilet! I definitely recommend this hotel for anyone who travels alone or with group. ;)

excellent hotel! we already have lived here for five days. staff are so friendly and always give us good advice. This room is the most biggest room we live and the cheapest as well. Even the location is in old town so you have to walk to city 10-15mins. If you have limited budget and enough time, I really recommend you stay here! air conditioning is good, space is big, room is clean. price is affordable. it's really nice hotel! And it's easy get Uber or Grab. so don't worry about transportation. 😁

The only reason to stay in the hotel was to have a place to overnight after spending one full day at Lost World of Tambun. We only checked in late evening ie around 6pm and it was raining heavily at that point of time. The check in process was very fast and the staff there were very helpful to help fetching my kids from the car with all the stuff along and showing the direction to the food outlet if we were to eat outside the hotel. The kids were too hungry and lucky the hotel provides a cafe which is opened until 12pm daily. Food? Not bad at all for the price that we paid considering its a cafe and it is in the 3 star hotel. I liked both rooms that we checked in - spacious room for the kids and spacious bathrooms too. The next morning, we walked to the pasar for breakfast and had the best traditional breakfast overthere ie pulut ikan masin, mihun soto - awesome. Overall, thumbs up for the hotel facilities, the service provides by the staff and the location. I will definitely consider this hotel for my next trip to Ipoh.

I mentioned the three best things and the three worst were, 1 There was an ant problem in the room, 2 there was a problem with the phone system so we were constantly getting incoming calls, booking enquiries etc! 3 on our last nights stay there were hoons treating the street outside like a drag strip, very noisy!! But having said that I would recommend and would use the hotel again myself.

I stayed at New Caspian Hotel for a night. The location is superb, just 5 minutes walk to most famous restaurants, 20 minutes drive to Tambun Hot Springs. Upon check- in, the room's floor was very dusty but we requested the staff to mop it and they gladly obliged. There were also mosquitoes in the room as mentioned by a few reviewers so I came prepared with my mosquito spray. There was no remote control for the aircon so the temperature cannot be adjusted- it was a little too cold. Nevertheless, for one night's stay in Ipoh town at such a cheap price with free carpark just beside the hotel (also, with a guard watching over) was a really good deal!

Although we only stayed for a night, we lived the clean, quiet room with king sized bed. Very close to historic Kampung Jawa & the delights of Han Chin Pet Soo, the Hakka Miners Club & Ho Yan Hor, the Teahouse Museum. We strolled down Concubine Lane & enjoyed excellent local Chinese food in town that night. Next morning there was a huge, fantastic flea market with hundreds of stalls right outside the French Hotel! What a find! We’ll be back for another weekend:)

I was surprised at how centrally located the hotel was. Pub street was just behind, far enough so you don't hear the loud music from your room, but close enough to just take a 2 minute stroll to some of the best nightspots in town. It was also relatively near to a lot of the famous food shops. Two of the best dim sum in town are just a 4-minute walk away, perfect way to start your day. We took the triple room, and there was even a balcony. And the bathroom was so huge. Free drinking water too, just bring your own bottle down to the lobby to fill up. Also they had several reserved parking spots for guests at the back of the hotel, perfect if you are driving and do not want to pay for public parking by the roadside. I would really recommend this hotel, especially for other Malaysians making a short trip to Ipoh.

On first entrance into the hotel it was shocking..... a small space to the lift (with a man manning the entrance)...as the reception was on the 1st.floor....the reception was a small corner manned by 1 person with a small lounge area. But, he was very efficient and then it's next to our rooms....Wow! What a pleasant surprise! The corridors are clean and nice and on entering our rooms we were surprised to see the cleanliness of our rooms. Big bath rooms/toilets....Flat TV, kettle with cups and saucers, instan coffee, free bottled water, comfortable beds and pillows and clean thick towels. The rates were cheap for all these. Location of the hotel in old Ipoh city is good.

Stayed with my elderly parents and we booked the family room which had a double bed and single bed. The rooms are new and modern, quite basic, but all that you would need. Room safe, fridge, fantastic shower with really hot water and option to use the "rain shower", aircon, hair dryer, TV, free wifi. We didn't have breakfast in the hotel, but just behind the hotel are 2 of the best dimsum restaurants in Ipoh, serving good local fare. There are other restaurants nearby for dinner and there is a new shopping mall at 5 mins walking distance. It's a 20 min walk to Ipoh Old Town. The other good thing about the hotel was that they are affiliated with Ipoh Overland Tours and the hotel staff facilitated the tour bookings for day trips with your own driver to where you wanted to go.

I had a bit of a hiccup checking in - looked like my payment didn't go through in their system (I booked through Agoda but it was showing Booking.com) so I just had to confirm that I didn't pay and paid upon my arrival. The rooms were very clean and just what anyone needs when traveling for just a few days. Otherwise, the staff was incredibly accommodating and SO kind. One of the staff members let me borrow his personal iPhone charger when I realized I forgot my adapter for the outlets. Then unfortunately, I was mugged walking down the street in a bad neighborhood and (who I believe was) the owner of the hotel came to find me at the police station to be by my side and help if needed. He also changed my room (upgraded nonetheless) since the robber had my hotel key. I will be forever grateful to this hotel and their staff, as they made me feel so very much at home at a time that I was wishing I was not in this city at all. Thank you very much Brick Box!!

1st time stay in pi hotel. Fast check in and friendly staff. Only 3 things Im not satisfied was the room they gave me "810" have some problems - basin's mixer spoil with only hot water supply cause me brush teeth half way have to go into the shower area use the shower mixer. 2nd the body shampoo machine was out of service when I bath half way...damn! Cause me have to make a phone call ask them send me bath gel with a paper cup to my room and im on the middle of the bath! 3rd was the roon overall look like clean but actually have a lot of dust because i have a very sensitive nose. But at the end the staff shift me to another new room at "319" and thanks god everything was fine after shift into new room so just forgive them. The next morning when I woke up I leave a msg at reception counter ask them to do house keeping when I wanna go out, unfortunately during the night time when I back to my room the situation still same like morning without any house keeping. I purposely went down to reception to feedback and that time have 2chinese guys at reception and I dunno their name just can firgure out are "one fat, short with spec and another one is tall n thin". They talk nicely and good manner apologies with their miss out service. At the end this 2chinese guys still send me a room service for their sincerely apologies make feel so surprise and forget about the mad and happy to see the humble nice service. So definitely I will come back again when I visit ipoh. Thanks for the room service and keep it up. Hope to see the improvement when my next visit soon. Thanks Oh ya, the hotel location very good because all the famous places and foods was just nearby and the best things I like is the hotel provides free car park with security for only guest. Reasonable price with not bad interior decor. This hotel also very good with provide the information with all nearby famous foods to convenience/easier guests from outstation to find the place. Good job!

Nice hotel, clean and simple. Staff is very polite. I will surely book again! Points for your guys out there: 1. Reception is opened 24/7 2. There are 2 secured parking, basement and on the opposite (open space with security) 3. Good security measures, using access card to go to the room level. 4. There is no electric kettle or mini fridge but there is a hot/cold water dispenser at every floor level lobby area 5. Ironing is also available at every floor lobby area. 6. They provide clear TV receiver plus 100HD movies free on the room TV - best thing ever!!!!!!! 7. Easy to get Grabcar 8. Near to Dataran Ipoh, Ipoh Parade etc 9. Nearby to town.

Very dusty, dirty and even got cockroach in the kitchen drawer. The bed sheets and pillow sheets seemed like it has not been changed and they are of low quality standard. TV problem to switch on, when contact owner, the response was not professional as if blaming customer by saying “the previous customer did not complaint”..Customer had to show proof with pictures and tried to fix it ourselves but failed bcos we have no tools and the plug was stucked and difficult to pull out to change to the next plug point. The only plus point was the owner finally convinced and sent technician on site and got it fixed. But seriously, we hv never experienced such treatment. This will be the first and the last.

Very nice place... I might say it was my best stay ever in Ipoh! The owner was very kind #ThanksRavi and also the staffs at the reception counter was very helpful too. I personally recommend this stay to who ever needs a walking distances to the nearest eateries e.g. the famous Tong Sui Kai (Dessert Street), chicken rice bean sprout restaurants, the dim sum restaurants and the shops that sells salted chickens and local biscuits for souvenirs. Thumbs up for a superb place to stay in Ipoh. Thank you very much for a great hospitality!

The toilet of 1st floor is what they shown but it was totally different for the 2nd floor, not as nice as what I thought. There is only 1 hair dryer in the hotel and the sound system is bad. You can hear every little sound from next door and the parking is quite dangerous as the garage is in a back street although the receptionist wait for us until we got into hotel after parking. But so far so good but not recommend for elder to stay as they have to use stairs.

Basically the house is clean and nice, but do not have wifi. It could be good if the host can send a message to the customer for informing and reminding the key collection venue, because the key collection and the house are different places. Staff was unsure where is the parking lot. I was waiting for about 10 minutes just to wait for the answer where should i park my car. On the second day, there was a car parked at the parking lot that I should park, I can't find any security guard there, hence, I called the receptionist. She asked me to wait for a while, after ten minutes, she called back me and ask me park at the other floor which is a car park for public. Please try to improve on it.