Reviews of Top Rated Budget Hotels in Johore Bahru (JB), Malaysia – Walking Distance to Causeway

Reviews of the top rated and relatively inexpensive hotels in Johore Bahru (JB), Malaysia. Special attempts were made to focus more on those within the city center with easy and quick access to the Causeway linking Malaysia to Singapore. All reviews were independently submitted by people from around the world who actually were guests in these hotels.

While there certainly are quite a few other better rated hotels in Johore Bahru, the list chosen below are confined only to those that can be easily reached by walking from the Immigration checkpoint on the Malaysian side of the Causeway link to Singapore. There were cases when four-stars hotels in the selected list being dropped when their averaging ratings drop too drastically. 

The Puteri Pacific Johor Bahru

Average Rating:      7.5

Number of Rooms:  500

REVIEWS

Negative:

Although the hotel area is very near to the City Square Mall, but because of the construction u have to walk much further distance... :(

Positive:

The room is beautiful and clean and the most important is i love the toilet! 2 showering area (standing and bath tub) everything is good the food was nice! Many Varieties types of food from Malay food (nasi lemak), Indian food (prata n curry), Chinese food and salad plus slices of beef/ham and the hotcakes and delicious pastries! yum! The services were good! The stuffs were very friendly! Keep it up!

~ Rating:  7.5

~ Nurul, Singapore

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Negative: 
Room cleanliness could be improved i.e. edges around bathroom and shower curtain a bit mouldy at the bottom. Unfortunately, cigarette smoke permeated non-smoking part of the restaurant.

Positive: 
Value for money. Excellent food

at the hotels D'Coast Restaurant and pleasant entertainment.... enjoyable. Very

friendly & helpful hotel and restaurant staff. Despite the aspects we did

not like, would we come again? Yes, booked on line and got real value.

~ Rating:  8.3

~ Pierre, Australia

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Belllo Hotel JB Central

Average Rating:      8.4

Number of Rooms:  49

REVIEWS

Negative: 
The  surroundings of the hotel.

Positive: 
The room was very clean and the bed was comfortable. It was easy to walk to the border crossing.

City Square shopping mall was in walking distance.

Friendly service.

~ Rating:  7.9

~ Kirsi, Finland

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Negative: 
None

Positive: 
Strategic location : 5 mins walk to nearest mall ( City Square & Komtar JBCC ).

New building with unique design.

Facilities in a good condition.

Fast check in / check out process.

Receptionist willing to help me to print my boarding pass flight.

Security guard stay in front of hotel, not worry to come back at night

Rating: 9.2

Shahrul, Malaysia

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Negative: 
Some noise caused by guests.

Positive: 
Located near shopping malls and station.

Very friendly staff.

Clean.

Everything worked.

Comfortable bed.

Quite Aircon.

Rating: 10

Michael, Australia

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Citrus Hotel Johor Bahru

Average Rating:        6.6

Number of Rooms:  125

REVIEWS

Negative: 
The first morning of our stay, the hotel was run of water but they fixed it the next day. Plus need more cleanliness, the floor seems have never been vacuumed.

Positive:

The room is big, comfort bed. Great location, very close to JB Sentral

checkpoint, and lots of street foods near the hotel.

~ Rating: 6.7

~ Fhitria, Indonesia

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Negative:

1. Finding a lizard in our room.

2. One of the windows could not be shut completely.

3. Pillows were pathetic -- I woke up with a stiff neck.

4. Staff at the reception during check-in was not the friendliest (he even gave me an unhappy side glance of the eye even when it was him who was confusing me). Check-in staff could have been more knowledgeable.

5. Walls/doors are thin -- you can actually hear what's going on in the next room. However, if you fall asleep quickly like me -- it won't be an issue.

6. Although there are signs everywhere to say no smoking, the whole hotel/floor smells of it.

Positive:

1. I LOVED that this hotel is literally at the doorstep of the Malaysian customs, and that facilitated this whole trip.

2. I LOVED that this hotel was next door to both City Square and Komtar (which meant that we literally could drop our bags of shopping when we got too tired, and start shopping all over again). That’s actually what we did.

3. There is also a 24-hour Indian stall for your supper fix!

4. Kudos to the security staff who came by our room to catch a lizard. We were upgraded to a "suite", but you can see from the picture, what that meant.

5. I must say that the bathroom was huge AND CLEAN (which gets good points from me). Overall room was also clean.

6. Breakfast choices were more than sufficient -- from pasta to fried rice to toast and fruits.

7. Free wifi

8. As we were an all-ladies group, it is important to note that we felt safe during our one night stay (something that I think money can't buy).

For the price you pay, this is decent, especially if this is going to be a room where you are just going to rest for the night from all that shopping. Top quality is the location.

~ Rating: 7.1

~ Shehnas, Singapore

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Baguss City Hotel

Average Rating:        7.1

Number of Rooms:  261

REVIEWS

Negative:

Major construction was underway during time of visit, my room was facing the construction workers hostel, dirty n sight to behold.

Positive:

The hotel was infront of shopping mall.

~ Rating: 6.3

~ Saadi, Malaysia

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Negative:

The hotel requires a deposit of rm50. Could just do off with the deposit. Only one proximity card was issued and it was not usable.

Positive:

Breakfast were of local flavor. There's even an egg station where the staff prepare fresh scramble or sunny egg for you.

~ Rating: 5.8

~ Edison, Singapore