Accommodation Near
Kuala Lumpur Airport

Kuala Lumpur International Airport

Kuala Lumpur International airport Malaysia is one of the busiest airports in the world but there is no accommodation near Kuala Lumpur airport.  The good news is express transport from Kualu Lumur airport to the nearest accommodation to Kuala Lumpur airport and Kuala Lumpur CBD is frequent and cheap.

Nearest Accommodation To Kuala Lumpur Airport

The best accommodation near Kuala Lumpur airport is at the new modern satelite city of Putrajaya / Cyberjaya. Putrajaya and Cyberjaya, the ITC and administrative centre of Malaysia, are near each other and about half way distance travel from Kuala Lumpur airport to "Sentral Station" in Kuala Lumpur CBD. If you want hotel accommodation with fast internet then CyberJaya is the place to stay.  Catch the train from Kula Klumpur airport to Putrajaya train station and then taxi to your hotel accommodation at Cyperjaya.

5 Star hotel near Kuala Lumpur Airport at Putrajaya

Shangri-La 5 Star Hotel Near Kuala Lumpur Airport

Video of "Cyber View Lodge" Resort Hotel Accommodation Near Kuala Lumpur
and train from KL Airport to Putrajaya Train Station

Photo of Kuala Lumpur's Alor Street resturant cool open air dining on Chinese food Bukit Bintang

Big Map of Kuala Lumpur International Airport KLIA

Resort hotel accommodation near Putrajaya, at Cyberjaya is about halfway from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and KL CBD. Allow at least one hour's travel from Kuala Lumpur to Kualu Lumpur airport,  Taxi, bus and rail transport is cheap and usually reliable but on the last trip, the Red KL airport transit express bus with a big Air Asia ad on the side, broke down.  I had to throw my bag on the checkin conveyor belt and run through the Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) with helpful AirAsia staff.‎ ‎ With no time to get warm clothes out of my bag, I froze on the midnight flight to Perth Australia. I told an air hostes about how cold I felt after 4 months in South East Asia's monsoon season but all she could do was turn the aircraft cabin temperature up one degree.  AirAsia will be moving from the LCCT to the new budget low cost terminal, KLIA 2, after it opens October 2012.  If you are not flying a budget airline, it is a little easier to catch the train directly from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport to nearest accommodation at Cyberjaya / Putrajaya.

Accommodation Near Kuala Lumpur City Centre

Accommodation near Kuala Lumpur city centre is in a range of 5 star to 1 star. I've stayed in 3 star budget hotel accommodation in China Town. It's good if you like lots of VERY crowded busy market shopping and good street restaurants but for me I like the tourist area of Bukit Bintang for its delisious Chinese food served at open air street restaurants on Alor Street.  The last time I was there I didn't book accommodation in advance because previously there was always a room available. But this time, at the end of the Holy month of Ramada, the begining of Malaysian national holidays, I had to move out of my 1 star budget hotel accommodation to a 3 star hotel near Alor Street. The view of KL was much better than the rubbish I had to look at previously.

Photo of Apartment Accommodation Kuala Lumpur photographed from a 3 star Bukit Bintang hotel

Some of the best shopping malls in Kuala Lumpur are near accommodation at Bukit Bintang.  I liked the IT gadets shopping mall at "Low Yat Plaza" where ipads are about $70 cheaper than Pantip Shopping Mall in Bangkok. Camera shops here are good too.  See photo inside this ITC KL shopping mall. You can get transport to Bukit Bintang by monorail from "KL Sentral" station.

Restaurants Near Kuala Lumpur Hotel Accommodation

Street food restaurants near hotel accommodation in Kuala Lumpur are my preference in Kuala Lumpur for price, taste and variety. Diners can eat at Chinese restaurants in tourist districs sush as Bukit Bintang or at cheaper KL retaurants near tourist areas. I love dimsums for breakfast.  Some KL restaurants hire workers from cheap labour counties such as Myanmar. Spelling is Restoran Kuala Lumpore. Restaurants near the centre of Kuala Lumpur don't have to be as busy as restaurants near China Town.  While restaurants near Alor Street are Chinese, different districts have different cuisine. Try restaruants near Little India for good Indian food. Dishes like Malay BBQ satay are delicious too.

Things to do Near Kuala Lumpur City Centre

Book a morning bus sightseeing tour of Kualu Lumpur from any of many travel agents in Kuala Lumpur. KL guided tours stops near Petronis twin towers, batik shops, chocolate factory, the royal palce, Museum, KL War Memorial, Sultan Abdul Samad Building near the 127 Brittish Club House on Brickfields near Little India, and drives past the old Kuala Lumpur airport in the KL CBD.

Watch the Kuala Lumpur calendar for festival dates in KL. At the end of the Ramadan festival, I got on a hop on hop off bus ride. I hoped off near the royal palace on the only open day of the year for a free feast including prawns and all sorts of delisious Asian food. The beautiful queen of Malaysia gave me a beautiful box of delicious biscuits.

Day trips for tourists from KL to destinations near Kuala Lumpur are popular with tourists. These include tea plantations and casinos in the cool Genting Highlands, The port city of Malacca (Melacca) near the "Straights of Malacca", one of the businest shipping lanes in the world and home to great restaurants and cooking schools. Elephant rides in national parks near Kuala Lumpure is another day trip activity.

Enjoy the night life. Though KL is predominantly a Moslem city, Malaysia is a tolerant, moderate Islamic society, so enjoy nightclubs, cafes, bars and for the lonely, street walkers but be careful to know what sex of the person is before you go off with a stranger.

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Gerrymander Politics in Malaysia

Politically Malaysia is not a true democratic country. Dissatisfaction with gerrymandering by Malay politicians to block political power for Chinese and Indians, bubbles under the surface among other ethnic groups.  The slogan "One Malaysia" throughout Kula Lumpur is propaganda to supress demotraic sentiment of other ethnic groups.  Maylaysia is between two of the worlds largest armies of China and India.

Our tour guide said the Sultan (King) of Malaysia is elected. I wondered what the difference is between that and a president?  The monarch can only be a male Malay.

Airline Flights In & Out of Kula Lumpur Airport

The IATA code for Kuala Lumpur airport is KUL. Locally it is know as the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport.  Location is in the state of Selengor.  Because of the very large size of Kuala Lumpur International airport, congestion and airport taxes are lower than Singapore airport. KL airport is the 13th busiest airport in the world with 19 million plane passengers per year.  It is the base for Malaysia Airlines, Firefly, MASkargo, AirAsia, AirAsia X.  The list of airlines which fly in and out of Kuala Lumpur airport include:

Qatar Airways Malaysian Airlines (MAS) FireFly Cathay Pacific, , Emirates Airline Royal Brunei Airlines AirAsia AirAsia X Tiger Airways Air India Cathay Pacific Cebu Pacific China Airlines China Southern Airlines China Eastern Airlines EgyptAir Emirates Etihad Airways Garuda Indonesia Gulf Air AirAsia Indonesia

Japan Airlines Jetstar, a budget Australian airline KLM Korean Air Kuwait Airways Lion Air Lufthansa Merpati Airlines Myanmar Airways Nepal Airlines Pakistan International Airlines Royal Brunei Airlines Royal Jordanian Saudi Arabian Airlines SilkAir Singapore Airlines SriLankan Airlines Thai Airways Vietnam Airlines