I booked this hotel rather than the hotel of the same brand at KLIA2 as it was much cheaper, about £20 per night which helped a solo traveller. If you want luxury and spotting from your room then this probably isn’t for you but… I did very well here.
Allocated a room with no airport view I ventured up to the 5th floor landing which gave a view of two approaches and the third behind KLIA2 in the distance. Departures were easy to see. Aircraft taxiing in front of KLIA1 or using the middle runway can be read off.
It doesn’t matter what room you get here, as you can freely move around the balconies and levels, much like American motels, although it makes sense to hang around outside your own room rather than somebody else’s. there are five floors to this hotel, as ever the highter the metter but the third would be as low as you would want to go. I had room 415 which worked perfectly fine for me. I would recommend 5th floor rooms 510 through to 518 for good views of runways 33/15 & 32L/14R. With a little bit of moving around the building, you can also cover the remaining runways 32R/14L. As the arrivals were from the South to the North, this hotel served us well. Depending on the cloudbase, you might also catch some Firefly ATRs coming/going from Subang.
I was quite happy to spend most of the day up there with plenty of drink (the sun can be brutal here). Electronic assistance is needed for much stuff, especially the far runway and at night but the WiFi worked well.
Generally they landed from the north towards me, the early morning landings from the south passed very close. The rooms are small and very basic. I guess they’re designed for short stays so me being there for three nights must have been unusual. There’s no TV or kettle, I could live with that. There is a restaurant here and the food is reasonable with a decent reasonably priced buffet breakfast. There is a food hall across the road where bigger bottles of drink can be purchased as can some interesting local food if you’re brave enough (some of it can be quite spicy), but it shuts before evening. be warned the rooms only have two awkwardly located plug sockets and the proximity to the Cargo village makes it a noisy hotel.
To get to the hotel you need to get the free bus from the Tune hotel at the terminal, it runs every two hours. The viewing gallery in KLIA1 is still a good place for spotting, you can see this hotel from it (look over the cargo terminal and you will see the “Tune” sign, that is where you spot from).
