The Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur
Expert reviews
“The Chow Kit, the first hotel from the Ormond group, offers a promising glimpse of what’s to come from the brand. A small hotel big on style, its 113 rooms are compact but luxuriously finished, with non-essentials stripped back to keep the rates pleasingly affordable.”
What guests liked
- Central location
- Free Wifi
- Air conditioning
- Private parking
- Great views
All you need to know
Chow Kit, primarily identified as a district in Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, is famous for its bustling markets and its intriguingly dubious past. It has evolved into one of the most trendsetting areas in the city today, housing a namesake hotel.
Designed by the Brooklyn-based Post Company, the hotel arguably stands as the city’s first truly stylish luxury boutique accommodation. The guest rooms take inspiration from the area’s former gambling haunts, while the Chow Kit Kitchen & Bar, a restaurant with an open layout, offers a variety of Malaysian dishes and serves as the hotel’s communal hub.
The accommodations are reasonably priced yet come with some excellent facilities. This allows you to conserve your funds without compromising on a fantastic experience.
The establishment houses 113 rooms, with 27 of them being suites. If your budget allows for a bit more spending, it’s highly recommended to consider upgrading to one of the superior rooms.
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Location
Recent guest reviews
8 July 2024
Charming stay
The staff are excellent and are attentive and helpful. They are the hotel’s best asset. It was comfortable and well located for public transport.
We had a small room called The Den. The lighting was inadequate which made the room dark and not very well laid out to use hairdryer near a mirror.
2 July 2024
Very good
Excellent location, close to monorail for easy commuting around KL. Very good breakfasts, good service, polite and attentive staff. Great hospitality. Bedroom was clean, spacious and comfortable with an excellent view over to KL Tower. Busy junction but traffic is pretty hectic across the city. Excellent value for money, would definitely stay here again.
2 July 2024
Very good
The location is great, quite convenient to get by in town. The room size is relatively smaller than other hotels in town, however, they are very stylish, vintage style decorated with beautiful furniture.
1 July 2024
Pleasant
The location
The room was tiny.
30 June 2024
Fabulous
It's clean, the finishing is well thought. Cohesive and really brings out the old KL with modern style.
The bathrooms has no bidet. Which is a MUST nowadays for self hygiene.
28 June 2024
Very good
I loved the whole look and feel of the facility.
The fact that the bathroom was a bit small and there was no hot water but only warm water. Room is a bit small and there was no bidet
18 June 2024
Value for money but definitely can improve further.
Loving the room design especially the headboard of the bed. Lobby is retro and classy.
Although the look of the hotel is very classy, a few basic amenities are lacking, such as toilet bidet, tooth paste just to name a few. Corridor at times can feel too dark. TV programs feel very dated.
10 June 2024
Fabulous
The interior deco
Room service can be 24 hrs. A pool will be nice.
5 June 2024
Good stay that can and should be improved
The hotel is very nice looking and most of the staff is pretty much helpful and polite - no issue here. The atmosphere around it is good and the facilities are really good as the bed is pretty comfortable and the bathroom is spacious as comfortable as well. Lobby is well taken care off and the doorman working at the front were absolutely gentleman, only nice words to them.
We had a problem while having breakfast there as my girlfriend felt sick from the French toast and spend a couple of hours throwing up in the bathroom. Moreover, and during a 3 day stay our room was never cleaned and we had to purposefully go to the reception to ask for towels and toilet paper. This was explained to us as there was a need to take care of rooms being check out first (sure I get that but explaining it this way to a customer when we are trying to get our room cleaned is a bit weird I would say and not very service-oriented). They did try to come and clean the room at 5pm but we were on the room resting a bit after exploring the city during the day. This needs to be done way earlier to ensure guests are not in the room - major fail in my opinion, moreover for such a highly-rated place
26 May 2024
Worth it! ♥️
Beautiful concept! Kitchen & bar’s menu are so good
Hope you can put the amenities (ie: toothpaste etc) in the room!
26 May 2024
Wonderful overall!
Staff at the concierge were super duper friendly, customer service was awesome
It took a little while for our iron to be sent, I had to call twice but all good.
20 May 2024
Great hotel!
We had an amazing corner room with incredible views of the city! The room and bathroom are very well styled and decorated. Very comfortable bed and I can definitely recommend staying here.
I personally like a little coffee/tea facility in the room and this was not available. Communication between staff can be better. There was a slight issue, but somehow this seemed to be lost between shifts.
18 May 2024
Fabulous
A very beautiful boutique hotel, the room is great, the service was excellent
Parking is limited and not so convenient. And the windows cannot be opened
14 May 2024
Fabulous
Design, location, king size bed
No toothbrush, no tea, no coffee
13 May 2024
LOVE THE HOTEL VIBES
- Love the attitude of the staff (forgotten to get his name) as during my check-in the room given is differ from what i had booked but informed back the first person that assist me to check-in and he had assigned/change me to the exact room that i had booked to the extend he assist me to carry my luggage during changing the room and keep apologizing. - Check in and check out is really smooth and which it doesn’t took that long. - Love the facilities of the room its really calm and peaceful. - Its really safe for ladies who doing solo traveling - The water dispenser is really superb as i don’t have to worry to carry so much water from the supermarket as it has been provide by the hotel
- the light is a bit too dim probably the management can consider to lighten a bit the light especially lift area. - probably management should prepare the toilet bidet spray but im not sure other room but for my room there is no toilet bidet spray everything were superb only concern on this area mention above
9 May 2024
Very good
Design very unique
No coffee n tea supply in the room, parking has to pay
8 May 2024
Very good
all good
1 May 2024
Fabulous
Very great vibe , bed is very comfortable definitely will stay again here
1 May 2024
We had a pleasant stay at the hotel except the cleaning bit that would make us happier.
Staff at the reception and restaurant were so pleasant, very professional.
We stayed there 11 days but the bed sheets only got changed once when we asked the house keepers to do so, it often forgot to provide the toilet paper or clean the used cups.
26 April 2024
A lovely small hotel in good location.
Beautiful decor and atmosphere
No where to hang clothes.
21 April 2024
Fantastic hotel. We will definitely be back!!
Extremely comfortable beds and not too far from local amenities
The rooms were on the small side
17 April 2024
Welcoming surroundings; great room
Interior design lovely!
8 April 2024
Chic, simple, and delightful.
Stunning buffet, excellent cocktails and even better location. Really felt like I was centrally located to experience a bustling capital which is a veritable melting pot filled with chic luxury hotels, world-class restaurants and fascinating cultural spots.
I requested room service, particularly cleaning at specific times and that was generally not adhered to. As a result, I often came back to a room that had not been cleaned and then would have to make the same request again.
7 April 2024
Very good
Beautiful hotel and comfy room with great views
Maybe a variety of teas (eg herbal / green tea)
Hotel facilities
Food & Drink
- - Restaurant
- - Bar
- - Special diet menus (on request)
- - Wine/champagne (additional charge)
Services
- - Meeting/banquet facilities (additional charge)
- - 24-hour front desk
- - Express check-in/check-out
- - Luggage storage (additional charge)
- - Daily housekeeping
General
- - Non-smoking rooms
- - Lift
- - Soundproof rooms
- - Non-smoking throughout
- - Air conditioning
- - Designated smoking area
Activities
- - Walking tours (additional charge)
- - Happy hour (additional charge)
- - Tour or class about local culture (additional charge)
Miscellaneous
- - 24-hour security
- - Key card access
- - Security alarm
- - Smoke alarms
- - CCTV in common areas
- - CCTV outside property
- - Fire extinguishers
11 July 2024
Cozy and love the hotel ambience.
Cozy feeling.