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Reviews of The Happy 8 Retreat @ Kuala Sepetang

3 out of 5
The Happy 8 Retreat @ Kuala Sepetang
LC 151A3, Tepi Sungai, Kuala Sepetang, Perak

Reviews

7.4

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 14 out of 67 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 29 out of 67 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 14 out of 67 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 8 out of 67 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 67 reviews" "

7.4/10

Cleanliness

7.4/10

Staff & service

7.6/10

Amenities

7.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Kian Wah

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
genrally good
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

ShinYeong

Travelled with family
Liked: Room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

Libby

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Room with sunset view , great exploration surrounding and restaurant just downstairs. Just that need to walk three floors up and not suitable to bring young children cause quite dangerous to walk up three floors.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

6/10 Okay

HONESTA

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2022

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good.. however no wifi or tv available. Furthermore hotel need to tell guest about weather/sesdonal conditions for vehicles safety.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2021

8/10 Good

Lisa, Teluk Intan

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
There was no one at the reception when we arrived. Need to call the person in charge for check in then they will come to attend you. The room and environment are good.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2020

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness
Sound proofing 1* If u choose a balcony, like us.... Be prepared for no sleep. Sound from boats' engines will wake you as early as 4am and this goes on non stop. But the plus points more than outway the sound problem. Decor 4* Linen 4* Cleanliness 4* Location is superb. 5* Everything u wanna do at Kuala Sepetang is nearby.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2020

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
My booking package which I paid is with breakfast but the end there is no breakfast provide and serve
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with family and small children
Hotel yang kurang menarik, bising dan harga mahal
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

10/10 Excellent

KP

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The hotel is most artsy meaning it's decorated like a boutique hotel, very creative & pleasant. It's right by the riverside & the view is a sight to behold. Departure jetty points are closeby. Restaurants are plenty with one Chinese food restaurant right in the hotel itself. There are many things to like about this hotel. Perhaps a night staff on duty might help. Parking spaces for cars are limited.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

8/10 Good

Geetha

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
0verall good but mosquitoes. Also no proper rack to hang clothes or wet towels.
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

10/10 Excellent

Terry

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Happ8 happy time very pleasant stay friendly staf
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

6/10 Okay

Ahmad

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
For Backpackers only
Not a place for family stay.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I love it...will come again
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Many people think the fish smell is off-putting but the fish is fresh fish smell to me, not like those supermarket fishy smell and not stale fish smell so I’m alright with it. Water provided is their own boiled water, so if you prefer, buy your own bottled water. Breakfast is simple sandwich but it’s good enough for us.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

Adeline

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Enjoyable
Interesting deco by using all beautiful wooden block for the furniture. Cozy ambience with nice cooling balcony. Great value.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2018

6/10 Okay

Sim Fong

Liked: Staff & service
Good value for money seafood & nice scenery from hotel but too bad the fireflies are diminishing
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2018

8/10 Good

Naidu, Kuala Lumpur

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Only hotel in the area. Got to climb steep staircase unless u get the ground floor rooms
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good
The uncle is so helpfull ie know what to do eventhough we check out very early in the morning.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

8/10 Good

ENG HENG

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good stay
Very nice hotel and love it. But not drink or coffee at room which I expect hotel to provide it
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

6/10 Okay

GOH

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
OVERALL OK. HOWEVER TOO NOISY TO STAY. CAN HEAR PEOPLE TALKING AND RUNNING INSIDE THE ROOM. FURTHERMORE, 3RD FLOOR POWER CUT FREQUENTLY AT NIGH,
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

8/10 Good

Tiffany, Selangor

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

4/10 Poor

Est, malaysia

Disliked: Cleanliness, room comfort
its dusty and dirty, maintenance was not well keep and its not old folk friendly.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

6/10 Okay

HanJin, Malaysia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Room comfort
Friendly staff
We arrived late (730pm) & staff were no longer there (check in till 7pm). But they return back again at 845pm to assist us for the late check in. Room (sea view) is clean & tidy. Poor isolation for noise & smell. You wont have a good night sleep as due to boating noise from the sea. Smell of smog from nearby charcoal factory leaks into the room.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

8/10 Good

John, Malaysia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2018

6/10 Okay

YeongHean, Malaysia

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Hi, I was visiting Sepetang for the 1st time with my family earlier (14&15th of July), and stayed at your hotel for a night. While we were really mesmerized by the design of you hotel, we were disappointed by some of the events that happened during our stay. 1) Water disruption on 15th of July which lasted till we checked out causing inconveniences (can't take bath, can't flush the toilet etc) 2) Our package was suppose to come with breakfast but there were none. 3) The access card quality is bad (very thin), when we accidentally break it, we were asked to pay RM50. The replacement card given were the thicker one. 4) Room WIFI is not working, there were signal but we were unable to access (error : access unauthorized). These were some setbacks to an otherwise nice, relaxing holiday.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Kat

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Exactly in the middle of the village
Rooms were clean and proper. Design was unique as well. Would be even more satisfied if noise filtering was better. I can literally hear the a lot of noises. The hotel has no elevator therefore, if it is inconvenient for you to climb the stairs, then this is not the place to go to. The steps up to the hotel rooms were uneven as well (small & big steps when alighting through 1st floor) therefore causing inconvenience to old people to climb those stairs
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

4/10 Poor

SU, Malaysia

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
RM400++ unworthy to stay cos overall was quite disappointed
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

Willie, Singapore

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Unique Hotel Stay
Apart from a good stay,the hotel is unique with the wooden structured building n painting of nature found around Sepetang.Situated by the river gave a relaxing feel n refreshing.Room is well equiped even with fan besides air condition. Well decorated set up.Staff are friendly n helpful.Quiet surrounding with kopitiam,tour agency n restuarants just there.A short 500m walk to centre where locals do marketing n have their meals.Will go back again to Kuala Sepetang n Happy 8 Retreat Hotel.Thanks for the enjoying experience !
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

Hambali

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Staff & service

2/10 Terrible

Eznil Anaz , taiping

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
I didnt check in.
Ive called expedia asking for a cancellation. However the call was disconnected. The place looks scary from the outside with lots of dogs, strange looking china men.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2018

8/10 Good

Jotan, Kuala Lumpur

Disliked: Cleanliness
PROS: - closer to nature - nice view on eagle flying around the mangrove if staying in room with river view - close to harbour (for boat trip to firefly) - close by to most of the seafood restaurant CONS: - spider web can be seen mostly on all corner of the room..
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2018

6/10 Okay

Jennifer, Malaysia

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Hotel room
Pillow sheet, blanket and bed sheet not clean (feel not change) due to blood mark, feel disgusting. Head light got spider web, TV channel can't receive in clear condition.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Historical village
A historical fishing village, great location. Only the boat engine noise

4/10 Poor

Adam, Subang Jaya

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very noisy
Can hear people talking at another room. The bed very hard
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A well located unique boutique hotel.
Excellent location overlooking the jetty. Nice view of the river. But acoustic insulation is not good due to the use of wooden plank floor and probably the partition. Rooms are all on either 2nd or 3rd floor, with good but relatively steep stairs. Not recommended for those using wheel chairs or have difficulty climbing stairs.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2017

8/10 Good

msharith, malaysia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Perfect getaway from the normal hotel in the city
Love the idle of doing nothing but enjoying the scenic view, watching the fishermen labor day’s catch and walking by the streets in the ‘cowboy’ town nearby.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2017

8/10 Good

cindy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Eco hotel looking at mangrove and egrets
Most items in room are made of wood including wash basin. Can sit at the balcony and watch the birds. only setback is it is hot in the afternoon.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2017

6/10 Okay

Zuraini

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2017

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Room comfort
Too noisy
too noisy if you are staying on the second floor. Will recommend to stay on the third floor.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2017

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Loo

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing places to stay
The places is amazing. Working day is noisy because of the fishing boat. I'm staying the family suit, my kids are enjoy with the upper deck bed very much. The hotel staircase is not suitable for the children below 3 and also old people. Recommend take breakfast at outside.