Ibis Styles Properties in Petaling Jaya

Not too big and not too small. Shower needs a little fidgeting to prevent scalding. The bed frame corners should be rounded and not protruding out from the mattress edge. Learned that one with a graze on my shin after a hard knock against it. There is a fridge in the room but it’s tiny and empty. No water except a water filter in the hallway, and a glass bottle in the room that doesn’t quite fit under the water filter tap in the hallway. Glasses too small to constantly troop out and refill. The toilet was surprisingly low to sit on - as in it felt more like a squat than a sit. The free toothpaste is nigh impossible to open and not much to write home about once opened, and the TV shows random channels of limited interest, including Russia Today, for reasons best known only to the proprietors.  The room card slots in on the wall to activate lights, aircon. The aircon switches itself off randomly, so set the timer if you want to sleep for 8 hours in relative cool comfort. The coffee sachets next to the kettle were so old they had over some quite considerable period of time transformed from granules into a single solid slab of dried coffee. Careful when opening! The mugs are huge so two sachets of everything required to get anywhere close to something resembling coffee. Kettle is good but I think someone had made noodles in there so have a look before boiling up a brew. I opted for breakfast but about-turned when I saw dozens of school-aged children in the breakfast room taking six of everything. No orange juice but there was pink guava…and full cream milk.  The hotel is slap bang in front of the MRT which will take you straight into the heart of the city. Putting up with the noise from the MRT is therefore small price to pay. If you want to stay local, be ready to Grab it for eats etc as there’s not a lot within walking distance. I was booked for two nights but luckily only needed one night. I booked through Trip.com so they kept my money. And the money for the return flight, because I was able to return home a day earlier, after paying for an entirely new flight, even though I already had one sitting there for the next day.  The cancellation fees for the original flight exactly matched what I had paid.  What are the mathematical chances of that, I wondered, as I awaited my Grab ride to the airport a day earlier than expected.  It’s a decent hotel. Nothing fancy - does its job and the bed and shower were fine and the place was clean.