Baba House Melaka

This was our second stay at Baba House, and just as good as the first.

Liked This is a large bright moden hotel in a historic building. Very clean room with great balcony.

Disliked Nothing

Excellent stay experience at the best location in Melaka

Liked the location was excellent, we had so much fun exploring the area including the night market. With the hotel itself, it was in a league of its own, definitely worth staying. Staff were friendly, the hotel's design was world class, the attention to details in the architecture, finishes, and touches are top notch. It was a blend between traditional house and modern hotel. And everything was very clean. We would come back and stay again for sure.

Heard a lot about this, great reviews and generally fully booked but ultimately a letdown

Liked Great staff, especially the front of house team. Polite, smart, professional and willing to help. Beautiful facade and exterior areas, good adaptive reuse of space explaining the architectural awards the hotel has won. Good instructional material highlighting the architectural and historical features. Clean and neat rooms. Gym is high quality for this kind of shophouse hotel. Note the swimming pool is only for sitting in, not for swimming, due to its depth, but still kudos for creativity.

Disliked Generic small dimly lit rooms, could be any hotel room in any country. No Peranakan flavour, eg decorative tiles, vases, etc in the rooms. Only the outside eg lobby, atrium, facade etc looks nice. The problem is this is a large hotel and it is difficult to decorate so many rooms nicely. Ultimately others like Majestic and 5 Heeren do a much better job of achieving a nice atmosphere. Rooms facing Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock have windows but were very noisy. I did not see any attempt to soundproof eg triple glazing on the windows, or acoustic panels. Parking is almost always full, which means the first come first served system is risky eg if one plans to drive the car out often, there may not be parking when you come back.

Liked Baba House itself is a beautiful building and the room we had was sensitively modern and comfortable. There was a very good choice of breakfast available. The staff were friendly and helpful.