Just 500 metres away from the entrance of Kinabalu Park Headquarters, D’Villa Rina Ria Lodge is the nearest lodge outside Kinabalu Park, and with rooms price three times lower than those chalets and lodges inside Kinabalu Park. This is good enough reason to attract visitors. D’Villa Rina Ria Lodge was built in the year 1992, and it is also one of the first lodges to be built around Kinabalu National Park. Kinabalu National Park became a World Heritage site in 2000, and is also the first World Heritage site in Malaysia. In August 2008 a new management has taken over the day to day running of D’Villa Rina Ria Lodge. Since then the lodge has been refurnished, up graded and repainted. One of the improved results is that guests will be greeted with the many sweet colours of the new paint work.
standard room
For the backpackers D’Villa Rina Ria Lodge has two dormitory rooms, each has six bunk beds that can sleep up to twelve persons. There are also a shower and toilet in each dormitory room. The dormitory bed comes with a pillow, blanket and a clean white bed sheet. The price for the dormitory is only RM 30 per person per night, including breakfast. Laundry, transport service, and Internets are also available. BBQ stoves are provided free of charge, guests just need to bring their own foods and charcoals. The average temperature here is around 20 to 18 degrees Celsius, and it can get quite chilly during a stormy nights.
D’Villa Rina Ria Lodge sits on a ridge area that happens to separate two valleys below, namely the Budun Tuhan Valley and the Kiau Valley. Because of this geographical conditions most evenings in the area are covered with a thin layer of white mist by the passing cross wind, and sometimes it happens in the morning too. The patio deck and garden porch at D’Villa Rina Ria Lodge are the best places to view the perfect picture of the surrounding landscape. Starting from the Bundu Tuhan valley with its many vegetable gardens and rolling hills that extend toward Kundasang town. And the view continues with even more hills and forest until it reaches the Trus Mardi mountain range, at 2,642 metres is Malaysia second highest Mountain after Mount Kinabalu. On a clear sunny day the top part of Mount Kinabalu is visible from here too.
bundu tuhan valley
D’Villa Rina Ria Lodge has a small and clean restaurant that can sit a maximum of 30 persons. The menu has simple foods like fried rice, noodles, soup and seafood. Like most restaurants at Kundasang this place does not served pork. In the morning the chef do serve a great English Breakfast, consisting toast breads, omelet, chicken sausages, jam & butter, quite an important meal for those planning to climb Mt. Kinabalu on the same day. In the evening one should try out the Steamboat which cost RM 25 per person, especially when in a group of friends and family. Steamboat is the number one dinner served in Kundasang, where guests can savour the self cooked food and hot steamy soups, and still enjoy the surrounding cold weather. For those who like spicy foods, one can opt for the Curry Laksa or Tom Yam Seafood Soup, these spicy foods are a great way to help keep the body warm.
Restaurant Business Hour:
Breakfast – 06:00 to 10:00
Lunch – 11:30 to 12:30
Dinner – 18:30 to 21:30
Room Tariff:
| Standard Room | RM 100 |
| Family Room | RM 180 |
| Dormitory Bed | RM 30 |
| Extra Mattress | RM 20 |
Remarks:
Check in time 13:00, and Check out time: 11:00
All the above rates inclusive of breakfast
Rates are subject to change without prior notice
Near by interesting places to explore are Mt. Kinabalu, Kinabalu Park Headquaters, Kundasang Town, Desa Cattle Farm, Kundasang War Memorial, Poring Hot Spring, Sabah Tea Garden, and Moroli River (Fish Therapy).
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D’Villa Rina Ria Lodge
tel: +6088 – 889 282
fax: +6088 – 888 898
email: info@dvillalodge.com
website: www.dvillagelodge.com
thanks for the new management, i feel quite comfortable with the services the provided in D’villa rina ria lodge. The food which supplied by the little canteen there are delicious and cheap enough. There are a lot of bugs there which are quite annoying but this is a normal phenomena for living in a jungle place. ^^
Ya, the boss is friendly and helpful. Bugs? Well living too long in the city, make us forget there are actually bugs around. ^^ Glad you enjoy the stay at D’villa Rina Ria Lodge. The canteen there is one of the cheapest in Kundasang, foods are simple but nice.
Wanna go this place somewhere on May,hopefully it will satisfied me..
It is nice, no worry….
do they organize tour around kundasang area? i wonder if they can help to arrange return transportation to Poring for a half day trip?
They do. Call the boss for more information or email them.
i wrote to them, but they didn’t revert. i guess i will have to contact them directly… have you actually stayed at this place? i’ve read reviews from trip advisor & hostel world – the rating was not so good….musty smell & dirty toilet…
I’ve stayed there before the place is good. Anyway I did not experience any musty smell or dirty toilet.
I have stayed there after viewing your blog….and it is not like some other website review that they have smelly toilet or wat bcoz they changed a new boss and a new management group…so everything was fine and had a pleasant stay over there…definitely will go back again….they do provide BBQ place so u can bring ur food there and have a nice weekend…
I stayed here before, they have water problem,theres no clean piped water to this hotel ,wonder where they get their water from?the water just smell muds!
hmm,if not mistaken maybe because of they keep the water inside the water tank? i heard that before the new management take over, this lodge is always having water problem. However, after the new management take over, they added in a lot of things which including the water tank. did u complaint to them?
wanna go ther…. with my hubby…. 4 celebrating our 1st married aniversery
m still looking for one whole roof for my 4 families n our children. like that of cecelia logde n it accomodate us all but its fully book on the day. can u suggest or rather help me 19 to 20 dec 2009
It is near Christmas and school holidays are always fully booked at Kundasang. Have you try call Philip Garden Chalets?
Hi, Olombon,
Based on your opinion, I view the information about this lodge.
May I know what is the bugs in this lodge mention about?
Are they the blood-sucking insect on the bed?
I worried I can ‘t sleep.
Regards
Cordi
Last year I had stayed one night at the dormitory, every thing was good. May be the complaint happened during the previous management. Hope this information helps.
Just came back from staying at D’villa for 3 nights. No complaints at all. The owners are friendly and very helpful. On our 3 morning, she offered to change our American Breakfast to fried noodles, so that we won’t be bored.
It’s a basic and clean lodge. Great for bird watching! Lovely scenery too! Greatly recommended.
I want to ask some questions … what is the dormitory room available beds in the room …?
12 beds in a room, and D’Villa has 2 dormitory rooms.