#6 Boutique Hotels in Malaysia · 2026
Else Kuala Lumpur
🌺🌺🌺 Worth the Detour · 🛎️ Boutique Hotels
Why go
A 49-room design hotel slotted into the restored 1930s Art Deco Lee Rubber Building, smack in the middle of Chinatown. Raw concrete, plants everywhere and a rooftop saltwater pool with skyline views - and it has held a MICHELIN One Key since Malaysia's first 2025 selection.
⭐ Don't miss: Check official info
- Entry fee
- From about RM400/night (unverified)
- Opening hours
- Check-in from 3pm, check-out by 12pm; confirm with hotel (check before you go)
- Best time to go
- Weekdays
- Time needed
- 1-2 nights
- How to get there
- LRT/MRT Pasar Seni, then a few minutes' walk past Central Market; Petaling Street is steps away; Grab; free self-parking when booking direct
- Address
- 145 Jalan Tun H S Lee, City Centre, 50000 Kuala Lumpur
- Area
- Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur
- Facilities
- 🍽️ restaurant
- Muslim-friendly
- No surau confirmed on site · 🍽️ Halal food nearby
Unverified. - Accessibility
- Unverified.
- Kids
- Unverified.
☪️ Halal status changes. For food, look for a valid JAKIM certificate (check at myehalal.halal.gov.my). Hotels and venues we have not verified are described as "pork-free", not halal.
- Entry based on one news article; verify address
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Petaling Street Chinatown
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Don't miss: Fresh chestnut and wanton mee
KL Forest Eco Park (Bukit Nanas)
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Don't miss: Canopy walk with city-skyline views
Sultan Abdul Samad Building
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Don't miss: The clock tower and the Merdeka Square flagpole
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