Name: 山打根温和民宿(Winho Lodge B & B Sandakan)
Address: 山打根Lot 8 & 9, Block 19, 1st and 2nd Floor, Jalan Dua, P O Box 178, Sandakan, Sandakan, Sandakan, 90702, Malaysia
Rating: 5

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At first they couldn't find our reservation. OK that can happen. Finally they found it after couple minutes of looking around whole office. Then we got a key of room that was prepared for us. Once we opened the door, we saw somebody lying on the bed. I complained at reception - I really didn't want to share bed with somebode else's. We got new room. It was a little dirty, the bed sheets looked like used. I didn't like it there. Messy corridor, more animals in the bathroom than in the jungle.. I don't recommend it. Rather pay a little more somewhere else than risk your health or stuff..

Small, dirty, strange

Squat toilets, sink and shower share same area...so dirty looking I didn't care to shower. Room looked liked it used to be a bathroom...had small tiles everywhere. Nothing felt clean. Old building that's surrounded by old buildings. Make sure there is more than one working key for your room, just a hint if u stay here. Close to everything and friendly staff. For the same price, 25MR, or maybe a few MR more you can easily find other accomm close by that's very clean, friendly staff and also newly opened! 

Dirty with friendly staff.

We stayed in a double room which looked like a bargain. It wasn't. The sheets were really dirty (I.e hairs and evenr a dirty footprint on the sheet from the last occupant - they clearly hadn't changed the bed) and so was the rest of the room and bathroom. In fact it looked like it was last cleaned when the original photos were posted online which was some years back. Our room was also missing a whole window pane which meant copious insects and noise from outside. The owner seemed a little affronted when I pointed it out and implied I was unreasonable in questioning if there was another room. In the end we stuck there - better the devil you know? It wasn't.
Other than low cleanliness of the hostel, the owners were amicable enough, breakfast was of the usual standard of toast and cheap jam.
Don't stay here - Borneo Backpackers looked pretty nice from the outside when we walked past - worth the extra few ringgit. Winho Lodge is the worst hostel I have stayed in.

Filthy, not worth the low price

DO NOT STAY HERE! STAFF STEALS FROM YOUR ROOM!

I would not recommend this place. We stayed here for 1 night. It is very very dirty, the bed is awfull. But above all: someone came in to our room when we were out and STOLE about 6000 ringit (= 150 euro's) from our bag. We are certain it must be someone from the hostel, because windons were closed and intact. We reported the matter to the very friendly owner, he seemed upset but also mentioned he was suspicious about a staff member. We had to go to the airport otherwise we would have done more. We did report it to the police at the airport.

Staff stole money

Even though I've already travelled and experienced a lot and I'm not very picky with hostels, this was without doubt the worst travelling experience ever...
First everything seemed to be very nice there- the staff was very friendly and even offered us a cheaper price (I think they were also really desperated to get some guests) for a double room. But during the check-in though the first weird thing happened. They let me sign a sheet of paper saying that they are not responsible for any lost/stolen goods in the hostel. It just seemed kind of odd to me as I never had to sign something like that before. The guy even asked me twice if I understood this point. Well, I signed... 

The next morning I understood why I had to sign this sheet of paper- When we came back from breakfast (included in the price) my mobile phone which I left in the locked room was gone. I know for sure that it was there before because by coincidence we took a picture of the room just before we left for breakfast and you could see the mobile on the bed. Obviously some of the staff broke in and took it (they have an extra set of keys at the reception). 
Of course they claimed not to know anything... 

Apart from that: The sheets in the room had stains and it was not very clean (but acceptable). But then we saw a big fat cockroach under our bed!!!

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