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I am the reg­u­lar cus­tomers of Impe­r­ial Inter­na­tional Hotel of Kota Kinabalu.

6 months back, I must say that I am totally impressed with their ser­vice. I like how the hotel staffs offer help and will always greet and smile to the cus­tomers. I always tip them though we don’t have to. I still remem­ber the very first time my friend and I vis­ited the hotel, it was still under ren­o­va­tion the toi­let bowl, bath tub, and the sink is still shin­ning and clean. First class with best rate!

Last week when I’m there again for my monthly visit, I real­ize there wasn’t any smile or greet­ing. Nor­mally, when I’m walk­ing head­ing to the lifts, I will keep myself espe­cially alert because I don’t want to be impo­lite for not respond­ing to the ener­getic staff with their smile and greet­ing – they always greet! I was sur­prise that the staff wasn’t greet­ing this time and in fact just look­ing down the floor and hold­ing walkie-talkie and passed by cus­tomer as if noth­ing happen.

Dur­ing my stay 11th – 16th May, (unfor­tu­nately) I have lost my Sony T100 cam­era charger. I have make a total 3 — 4 calls and per­son­ally vis­ited the hotel again last week 18th – 20th Jun while stay­ing I requested the counter per­son to help me to check. From the calls I made and per­sonal visit, the answers given to me was – “I’ll get house­keep­ing to check and will get back to you”

I haven’t heard from them since… (by the way their email on their web­site doesn’t work, make it dou­ble suck!)

From the pass 2 visit I stayed with the hotel, I have a great break­fast at the RoofTop! Cof­fee is ready as soon as cus­tomer seated and clean plate, forks & spoon is served and always ready for cus­tomer – it’s so comfortable.

Last week, cof­fee was on self ser­vice (not a big deal – most hotel do) what FREAK me out are NO cof­fee cup, and NO plate at the buf­fet table?????? The table has no com­plete forks and spoons ready…. I am force to take fork and spoon from another table. The foods are hor­ri­ble and cold. At 8.30am the foods on the table is almost empty and cus­tomers keep com­ing in. Guess what, curry left over was the bones and no one seems to care to refills. Some cus­tomer is look­ing up and down the cof­fee table hope­fully to find a cup or hope­fully the atten­tive staffs to notice the funny grumpy face.

There is this for­eigner ladies try to pour the fresh milk out of empty fresh milk dis­penser, she went back to her table than few sec­ond later come back again and repeat the funny move on the empty milk dis­penser! It’s doesn’t make sense I know, but it hap­pen.
Some old ladies cir­cle round the buf­fet table. I am one of them in the search for plates. In fact I did it 3 times and I guess morn­ing exer­cise is good for cus­tomers who weren’t that awake. The cir­cling also strength­ens ones Kiasu-ness.

Any­way, the hotel ser­vice sucks period.

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  1. lankapo
    Jun 25, 2008 @ 22:53:25

    hi nester,
    I thought this is a post paid but my thought was dashed away when you said the ser­vice sux hehehe.

    Main­tain­ing a ser­vice is a hard thing to do, when it is still new every staff is pas­sion­ate to do their job. Greet­ing and smil­ing to cus­tomer , but after a few months they get bored :)

    Man­age­ment should send all their staff to a moti­va­tion camp hehe and improve their service

    lankapo.com

    p/s
    I will come to Labuan and Sibu, any good hotel that you recommend?

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  2. oOo Netster oOo
    Jun 25, 2008 @ 23:04:35

    Hey Lankapo,

    Believe it or not I deleted this post while approv­ing your com­ment. WP2.5.1 sweet but con­fus­ing! That’s bad for day! grrrr

    Yes it’s hard to main­tain good ser­vice. the only prob­lems with this hotel is that, the staff were new, staff turnover is noth­ing new in ser­vice line. So, to me it’s more about lack of well train staff.

    Sibu try King­wood hotel for Labuan I’m not sure. Since the place is small I guess you just shop around the town you will get what you want ;)

    It’s good to see you, hope you and you wife are well and did your wife beat you hand down these day? hehehe

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  3. oOo Netster oOo
    Jun 25, 2008 @ 23:09:51

    Actu­ally this the first time I had a bad ser­vice from this hotel. You can try the next door Radius Inter­na­tional Hotel if you are in KK. Their ser­vices were not as pathetic as Impe­r­ial Inter­na­tional Hotel!

    Radius is cheaper than Impe­r­ial Inter­na­tional Hotel, fix with 32’ LCD as well.

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  4. slowcatchupkuan
    Jun 26, 2008 @ 11:29:15

    waaa… ahy always stay in hotel geh… kekeke

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  5. oOo Netster oOo
    Jun 26, 2008 @ 12:49:12

    Stay in hotel nicer than house ma… less headache less stress haha­haha I’m kid­ding. Peo­ple who want or have to stay in hotel because they look for “mafan” haha­haha to sur­vive la… what to do… no work­ing no money ma… don’t think “wai” ah… me no gigolo… I hap­pen to be super lucky always have to go out­sta­tion. Tomor­row I need to fly KK again! This time I want to stay at the cheap­est hotel hope­fully can get some­thing like RM100 per day de… need to save money although can claim from company.

    I’m just an ordi­nary man with ordi­nary job on ordi­nary day and ordi­nary liv­ing stan­dard and on death sen­tence for petrol hike!

    Cheers babe!

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  6. eyc
    Jul 06, 2008 @ 23:04:11

    why so chialat one?

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  7. oOo Netster oOo
    Jul 08, 2008 @ 00:14:21

    they turns lazy I guess :)

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