Surrounding by nature, suitable for those who has been visiting too many commercial kind of hotel! The hygiene is good, room is nice! Very vintage! Love their bathroom the most! Very chilling here especially during the day time with sun light!
We booked Kunang Kunang Heritage Villas for the experience of staying in an old traditional Malaysian home and we loved it. The villas have loads of character and everything in the villas and around them has been carefully selected to be old and in keeping with the period which all adds to the experience. The large old Malaysian house used as the reception area is particularly authentic and wonderful.
The villas are quite out of the way but don't worry it is ridiculously quick and easy to get a taxi with the grab app and so cheap. To Pantai Cenang beach or the airport about £1.80. Panorama cable car about £3.60 and Tanjung Rhu beach (also where mangrove tours are) £5.30.
All of the staff were friendly and made us feel at home in this chilled out place. We would certainly recommend spending a few nights at Kunang Kunang located out in the villages next to a large lake rather than in a modern hotel in the busy Cenang beach area. If you are travelling around experiencing different places and hotels this is definitely one to add to your itinerary. Enjoy it we certainly did!
The warmest welcome, excellent facilities (a floating swimming pool?!) and stunning, perfectly refurbished historic villas on stilts all set amongst beautiful, lushly planted gardens. So sad to leave this wonderful place.
We had initially booked 5 days at another hotel (Royale Chenang) but were not happy there and moved to this place our last couple of days at Langkawi. It is just a magical place, with beautiful and very old Malaysian wooden villas. Our kids of 6 & 8 loved the floating pool, the breakfast (us grown ups as well), and we all loved the friendly staff and the absolutely lovely buildings & surroundings. It is close to the airport, but it does not disturb as it doesn’t land that many planes per day. You do need a car to live here ( or order in food through Grab when the restaurant is closed) but it is totally worth it. My warmest recommendations if you like genuine & beautiful local culture combined with calmness.
This is a lovely setting of genuine heritage villas, but let's address the obvious issue - the noise.
Yes, you can hear the planes, both jet and prop, but they don't come in and out too often (not after 11pm or before 7am by recollection).
We stayed in Temonyong (#13), and that row of 4 villas does have a small road running behind it, and there were a couple of noisy motorbikes late at night.
You can also hear prayers from a nearby mosque early in the morning.
And, if you have noisy neighbours (it's 'family friendly'), there's not a lot to stop that noise travelling either.
Location-wise, we had a number of cancelled Grabs as it is positioned along narrow roads, so book with time to spare!
The place itself is lovely though!
