JB Review on Thistle Hotel

Hello readers! Im back to updating my recent stay at Thistle hotel @ Johor Bahru. Michelle and I wanted to do our hairs and nails in JB and decided to stayover a night, we wanted a cheap hotel but decent enough to rest since it's pretty easy to get one at S$50-60 per night. So after searching several hotels, i saw this Thistle hotel photos looking not bad based on website, and it's about $60 per night, they had a 5 star rating, so i thought it wouldn't go too bad right?

The location wise, it's not exactly near city square or KSL like Amari or holiday villa that we used to stay but we thought it wouldn't be an issue since we will be taking the grab around. So we took a grab, upon arriving, Michelle was complaining that we got a sucky hotel, why? Because their glass window already look pretty run-down as the car drove inside the lobby.

Before i start giving my review, here's my disclaimer, please note that this is reviewed based on our experience, everybody standard are different, as we have stay in many different type of hotels before, we have certain expectations so we tend to compare but i will try to be as factual as possible.

Before we book the hotel, i didn't check the reviews as it was a impromptu decision to stayover one night at JB. So after our bad experience when we came back did i realised there were many negative reviews on tripadvisor. Most of the complaints are almost the same as us if not worse. 

When we first step in the lobby, there was a kind of smell that comes probably only from old hotel, so we didn't really have high expectations when we took the key and check out our room. True enough, it was far from our expectations.

There was no do not disturb signage outside the door, before we even went in, there was a chip on their main door, when we went in, while you may thought it looks pretty decent, but it's not to us.

We can see most of their furnitures are old, chipped. 

 Despite that they have this white window that you can slide open if you want to see the bathtub in the bathroom, but it was so old that i couldn't slide it open easily, i try to push but give up because it was so hard to slide it back.

 Needless to say their bed frame seems like it was used for 20 over years and their 5 star rating i guess was 20 years ago too.

The bathroom wasn't that fantastic, the bathtub was chipped so i didnt even bother to use the bathtub because it look dirty too.

We didn't want to hang out longer over here, so after putting down our stuff, we decided to take grab to holiday plaza to do our hair. Since we are not planning to spend our time at the hotel, we went for massage at Bangkok spa after doing our hair and went to KTV after that until 2am before we returned back to the hotel.

Ordered some supper during our ktv session!

In summary, i wouldn't recommend staying at Thistle hotel because the location is not very convenient whereby you can walk to shopping mall within 5-10min walk, we only saw a KFC outlet opposite the hotel and nothing else, it doesn't fit the criteria of being a holiday resort too. The price is considered cheap, but i rather pay abit more to stay a better hotel.

I would still prefer staying at Amari, or hotels that has plenty of amenities nearby. 

As we check out early next morning, we went back holiday plaza again to do our nails!

Ice-cream after our late lunch before we returned back to sg! Shall end for now.

Till then!