Best Star Resort: "Best Star Resort - view from the road" Top 5 Page for this destination Pulau Langkawi Hotel Tip by phil_uk_net

I'm getting soft as I get older but I do like a basic degree of comfort when I'm travelling. I also have an aversion to mosquitoes which makes a lot of the cheap and cheerful places almost unbearable for me. The Best Star Resort will not be everyone's ideal choice but for me it was perfect. Having arrived on Langkawi feeling very sick (the start of a chest infection) and stressed out I needed some clean, roomy, comfortable and free of biting insects.

It is a new place and has open been open just a few months, I believe. The rooms are large and spotlessly clean. Sitting on the bed or walking barefoot on the carpet doesn't make you cringe, like some other places I've stayed in.

Superior rooms go for RM105, Junior Suites with a beach view RM150, and Suites with a beach view RM250. I arrived at the start of Ramadan and Cenang was really quiet so they let me have a room for RM95. I stayed in one of the lowest priced rooms and it was a good size so the Suites must be huge.

There is a RM10 surcharge on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month and during school holidays. The peak season surcharge (festive holidays) is RM20. As always, prices are subject to the laws of supply and demand. If it's busy be thankful for getting a room. If it's quiet you should be able to haggle for a bargain.

Unique Qualities: Facilities include A/C, hot water showers with a large dispenser of liquid soap, big fluffy towels, TV and a desk in the rooms. It is Muslim run and the staff are extremely friendly. I also had confidence that things wouldn't go missing from my room or that my credit card wouldn't be 'borrowed', as has happened in Thailand in the past. Breakfast is included in the room charge, nothing extravagant but quite sufficient - eggs, toast, jam, tea or coffee.

Address: Lot PT 892, Kalan Pantai Cenang, Mk. Kedawang, 07100 Langkawi
Comparison: about average
othercontact: Fax: 04-9551809
Phone: 04-955 1808
Price: US$20-40
Theme: Hotel