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Bungaraya Island Resort - Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

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Bungaraya Island Resort is located in Gaya Island. It's the largest island in the Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park and the closest island to Kota Kinabalu. Echo Resorts have 2 luxury island resorts in Gaya Island namely Bungaraya Island Resort and Gayana Marine Resort . We have stayed one night at Gayana Marine Resort earlier this year and this round we decided to check out Bungaraya Island Resort. It's approximately 45 minutes slow boat ride from Jesselton Point. There's 4 types of room - Superior villa, deluxe villa, plunge pool villa and two-bedroom deluxe suite. We booked a 3 days 2 nights stay. Currently the resort only opens on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Package (RM 650 per night for 2 pax in a Superior villa) includes breakfast for 2 person, 1 night accommodation and return boat transfer (Jesselton Point - Bungaraya Island Resort - Jesselton Point). Our room comes with a king size bed, in-room safe, mini fridge, LCD TV (variety of channels), 4 bottles of drinking w...

Shangri-La's Tanjung Aru Resort & Spa (2D1N) - Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

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Finally, the government is easing restrictions for fully vaccinated people. Since my partner has bought this KK Luxury Escape (KKLE) package which includes 1 night stay at  Shangri-La's Tanjung Aru Resort & Spa , we decided to have a short staycation. So we checked in at 1pm, walked around the resort, relaxed in our mountain view room and had our dinner at Coco Joe's Bar & Grill. It was raining that day hence I was unable to capture any sunset photos. Tanjung Aru Beach is one of the perfect spots to view the stunning sunset with your loved one. It happened to be Friday and they had this buffet dinner set - RM 98 per adult, add RM30 nett per person for unlimited beverages such as STAR's signature Borneoska cocktail, Borneoska mocktail, wine, beer, freshly brewed coffee and tea. (All prices are inclusive 6% government tax). Every Friday and Saturday they have live band performance from 6pm to 10pm and fire dance + live DJ performance on every Saturday. Our buffet dinn...