My nickname "pixietail"

Our stay in Shangri-La's Rasa Ria Resort & Spa comes with buffet breakfast for 2 adults and two days in a row we had the same breakfast. Buffet breakfast is available from 6.30am to 10.30am. Restaurant is clean and well organised. There's Korean, Japanese, Indian, Chinese, Malay and American breakfast available. What I enjoyed the most was the orange, apple, watermelon and pineapple juice freshly made. On top of that, there's variety of fruits such as snake fruit, red apple, green apple, dragon fruit, Australia pear, red melon and oranges wonderfully displayed in a basket. You can even request the friendly staff to cut the fruits for you. Of all the buffet breakfast that I had so far, this is the only buffet breakfast that serves ice cream! You can make your own banana split but I like to sprinkle on top the ice cream with almond flakes and nuts. Overall breakfast was satisfying and we were too full to have lunch and ended up with early dinner for both days. ...

We decided to have our dinner at Teppan-Yaki Kozan on our first night at  Shangri-La's Rasa Ria Resort & Spa . There's two options for you to choose from - either dine inside the restaurant watching the chefs in action (chef grills various cuts of seafood, meat and vegetables over a large iron hotplate (teppan) in front of the customer) or take a table on the terrace (open air). When we reached there at 6pm, tables on the terrace were all fully booked for the day and they only left the dine in restaurant for 6.30pm slot. After some hesitation, we agreed to take the 6.30pm slot. We were seated at a Teppanyaki counter and the chef was right in front of us demonstrating his cooking skill. They have limited menu and you can either ordered their Teppanyaki set menu or a la carte dishes. We ordered one Akita set and two a la carte dishes. If you are a small eater, basically one Akita set is enough for 2 person. Overall taste wasn't impressive at all and this is the m...

Shangri-La's Rasa Ria Resort & Spa is approximately 1 hour 10 minutes drive from Kota Kinabalu International Airport. Majority of the hotel staff were very friendly, warm and courteous. We stayed two nights in a deluxe garden view comes with two single beds, study table, in-room safe, wall mounted TV with limited TV channels, in-room slippers, bathrobe, iron, ironing board, hairdryer, self controlled air conditioning, minibar with coffee & tea making facilities, complimentary drinking water and fruits, mini fridge, complimentary Wi-Fi and toiletries. The room can accommodate up to 4 person and they actually turned the sofa into a bed for us as well. Spacious, comfortable and clean room with private balcony overlooking the garden. Bathroom comes with a bathtub. Water runs hot even after a long shower with moderate water pressure. In-room safe was not working when we were trying to use it at night. Glad that it was fixed immediately after we made a phone call to the mainte...