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The new 6-month old hotel is a Renaissance, which is under the Mariott group. There are 272 Deluxe rooms, 48 Club rooms, 8 Pool Terrace rooms, 19 Junior Suites and 1 Presidential Suite. The number of rooms is ideal. Generally, I dislike staying at hotels with more 400 rooms as I find that the lobby café cannot cope with so many guests. It becomes quite chaotic you have to wait for a table, it is noisy, food runs out very fast etc. None of that happens here.
Located in Permas expiration date on canned goods Jaya, halfway between Johor Bahru town and Pasir Gudang, expiration date on canned goods where the ports and heavy industries are, the hotel is only a 15-20 drive from Malaysian Checkpoint or Johor Bahru town. It is also just 10 mins away from the North-South Highway. North-South Highway is the main traffic artery of Malaysia. It runs all through Malaysia up to Thailand. In other words, driving on North-South Highway connects you to Kuala Lumpur and other parts of Malaysia.
The hotel is located right beside a small highway (not the North-South Highway), but it is not noisy inside the hotel. This highway connects you to Pasir Gudang in 15 mins. It is infinitely convenient for business travellers whose work takes them to Pasir Gudang. They can be back in the comfort of the hotel in 15 mins. Right beside the hotel is a gasoline station. It is infinitely helpful for business travellers who may not be familiar with the area. They never have to worry about driving around and finding a gasoline station—-there is one right next door! Also, for leisure expiration date on canned goods travellers on a driving holiday around Malaysia, they can easily fill up their tanks before embarking on their journeys. No time wasted. Behind the hotel are several rows of shophouses. You can find very inexpensive local food, desserts shops, car washes, a McDonald s, legitimate massage places, pirated expiration date on canned goods DVDs as well as the other kind of massage places. There are also inexpensive Japanese restaurants. expiration date on canned goods I also found a mid-market Italian restaurant and a couple of Irish pubs. Beyond the shophouses, around 15 mins walk from the hotel is Aeon Mall, a one-storey air-conditioned expiration date on canned goods mall. You find pharmacies, newsstands, a supermarket, fast food restaurants, mid-market restaurants, a food court as well as clothing retail stores. In short, it is a very typical mall. Staying at the Renaissance, you are not short of anything. The surroundings provide a fair bit of exploration and shopping.
In the hotel, there is the requisite lobby café (Café BLD), which serves breakfast, buffet and a la carte lunch, buffet and a la carte dinner. There is also a Chinese restaurant Wan Li (open for lunch and dinner), as well as a bakery The Chocolate Cake Company.
My room was spotless and for that I was relieved and grateful. Cleanliness in Malaysian hotels may not meet international standards, especially in a 2 nd tier city like Johor Bahru. expiration date on canned goods But Renaissance definitely meets international standards. The sheets in my room actually smelled clean and laundered. The deluxe rooms are not particularly spacious but they are still acceptable. There are no bath tubs in the room, only shower expiration date on canned goods stalls. The hotel provides Tokyo Milk toiletries which smell lovely. The TV has 20+ channels, most of them are Malaysian or Singaporean free-to-air channels. The down feather bed is the best I have experienced (even better than Sofitel)—firm expiration date on canned goods underneath but soft to touch. They have very thoughtfully installed night lights under the bedside tables.
Breakfast here is a sumptuous spread that definitely matches up to any international hospitality brand in any capital city. There are the usual Western basics—–sausages, ham, eggs. There is a bread counter with all kinds of bread and pastries. expiration date on canned goods There is dim sum, a live noodle station (noodle soup prepared right in front of you), fried noodles, fried rice and some Chinese dishes such as Ginger Fish. There is even pizza as well as the local dish Nasi Lemak (Coconut Rice). What s more, there are specially prepared smoothies right by the restaurant entrance every morning. This is an edge over other hotels.
The service here truly surpasses some of the biggest names in hospitality Ritz Carlton, Mandarin Oriental, The Peninsula. The staff is always energetic and smiling. Everyone greets you. They speak good English, which is not always the case in a 2 nd tier Malaysian city. One way of deciding whether a hotel is well-managed is to look at perhaps the lowest rank staff, because they have the most physically demanding jobs but not necessarily the highest pay. In this case, the doormen are always friendly and they always pull the doors for you. I have seen doormen at the above-mentioned establishments pretend not to see guests or just stare despondently, hopelessly into spa