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Sabah Tea Resort

2.0 star property

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Daily local cuisine breakfast for a fee
Breakfast, lunch, dinner served; local cuisine
Breakfast, lunch, dinner served; local cuisine
Breakfast, lunch, dinner served; local cuisine
Triple Room In Long House

Reviews

7.4 out of 10
Good

Popular amenities

  • Parking included
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Restaurant
  • Air-conditioning
  • Breakfast available
  • Business services

Explore the area

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KM18 Jalan Ranau-Sandakan, Kg Nalapak, Ranau, Sabah, 89309
  • Place, Sungai Moroli Fish Spa
    ‪4 min drive‬
  • Place, Kokob Rafflesia Conservation Garden
    ‪22 min drive‬
  • Place, Poring Hot Spring
    ‪30 min drive‬

Room options

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Triple Room In Long House

Triple Room In Long House

  • Garden view
  • 11 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Single Futon
  • Free Wi-Fi

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Cottage

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  • Garden view
  • 27 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed and 1 Single Bed
  • Free Wi-Fi

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About the area

Ranau

When you stay at Sabah Tea Resort in Ranau, you'll be in the historical district and 5 minutes by car from Sungai Moroli Fish Spa. .This guesthouse is 12.4 mi (20 km) from Kokob Rafflesia Conservation Garden and 13.8 mi (22.2 km) from Viviane Rafflesia Garden.
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What's nearby

  • Sungai Moroli Fish Spa - 4 min drive - 3.5 km
  • Kokob Rafflesia Conservation Garden - 22 min drive - 25.0 km
  • Poring Hot Spring - 30 min drive - 29.1 km
  • Desa Cattle Dairy Farm - 45 min drive - 49.2 km
  • Mount Kinabalu Park Entrance - 46 min drive - 53.0 km

Getting around

  • Kota Kinabalu Intl. Airport (BKI) - 170 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Sabah Tea Garden - ‬12 min walk
  • ‪Nawaitu Cafe - ‬16 min drive
  • ‪Relax Café, Sungai Lohan Café - ‬15 min drive
  • ‪Kantin Gembira - ‬18 min drive
  • ‪LadyNong’s Cafe - ‬20 min drive

About this property

Sabah Tea Resort

Sabah Tea Resort offers 41 air-conditioned accommodations with complimentary bottled water and ceiling fans. This Ranau guesthouse provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Rooms have partially open bathrooms. Bathrooms include showers. Irons/ironing boards and hair dryers can be requested. A nightly turndown service is provided and housekeeping is offered on request.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Make yourself at home in one of the 41 air-conditioned guestrooms. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms have showers and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and complimentary bottled water, and housekeeping is provided on request.
Take in the views from a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless internet access and gift shops/newsstands. Additional features at this guesthouse include wedding services, a television in a common area, and tour/ticket assistance.
Satisfy your appetite for lunch or dinner at Sabah Tea House, a restaurant which specializes in local cuisine, or stay in and take advantage of the room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at the bar/lounge. Local cuisine breakfasts are available daily from 8:00 AM to 10:30 AM for a fee.
Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, luggage storage, and laundry facilities. Event facilities at this guesthouse consist of conference space and a meeting room. Free self parking is available onsite.
Local cuisine breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 8:00 AM and 10:30 AM.
Sabah Tea House - This restaurant specializes in local cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transport

  • Free offsite parking
  • Free self parking on site
  • Limited on-site self parking

Food and drink

  • Daily local cuisine breakfast available 8:00 AM to 10:30 AM for a fee: MYR 23.30 for adults and MYR 11.65 for children
  • A bar/lounge
  • A restaurant
  • Snack bar/deli

Restaurants on site

  • Sabah Tea House

Things to do

  • TV in common areas

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities
  • Snack bar/deli

Conveniences

  • Gift shop/newsstand
  • Laundry facilities
  • Limited-hour front desk
  • Luggage storage
  • Safe at front desk

Guest services

  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Housekeeping on request
  • Tour and ticket assistance
  • Turndown service
  • Wedding services

Business services

  • Conference space
  • Meeting room

Outdoors

  • Barbecue grill
  • Garden
  • In a national park

More

  • Banquet hall
  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Hair dryer (on request)
  • Partially-open bathroom
  • Shower
  • Towels provided

Food and drink

  • Free bottled water
  • Limited room service

More

  • Air conditioning
  • Ceiling fan
  • Desk
  • Iron/ironing board on request

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; Check-in end time: 8:00 PM

Late check-in subject to availability

Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11 AM

Special check-in instructions

The front desk is open daily from 7:00 AM - 10:00 PM

Guests must contact the property in advance for check-in instructions; front desk staffed during limited hours

To make arrangements for check-in please contact the property ahead of time using the information on the booking confirmation

If you are planning to arrive after noon please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation

Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours)

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

Payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Fee for local cuisine breakfast: approximately MYR 23.30 for adults and MYR 11.65 for children

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher

We should mention

Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms

Property is also known as

Sabah Garden

Sabah Tea

Sabah Tea Garden

Sabah Tea Garden Longhouse

Sabah Tea Garden Longhouse Ranau

Sabah Tea Garden Ranau

Tea Sabah

Sabah Tea Garden Hotel Ranau

Sabah Tea Garden House Ranau

Sabah Tea Garden House

Sabah Tea Garden Guesthouse Ranau

Sabah Tea Garden Guesthouse

Sabah Tea Garden Ranau

Sabah Tea Garden

Sabah Tea Resort Ranau

Sabah Tea Resort Guesthouse

Sabah Tea Resort Guesthouse Ranau

Sabah Tea Resort Reviews

Reviews

7.4

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 8 out of 26 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 9 out of 26 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 4 out of 26 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 1 out of 26 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 4 out of 26 reviews

7.4/10

Cleanliness

6.8/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

7.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Katherine

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

Traditional experience

The Resort is set in a stunning location with wonderful views of Mount Kinabalu from the affiliated Restaurant. A stay in one of their 2 longhouses is a must and we thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The only downside to our stay was that we didn't get to try their famous homemade scones as they are too popular!
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Khairi Hasrul

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
To get to the hotel, you will have to drive to unpaved road for maybe less than 1km. The cottage that I stayed is clean and tidy. However, insects can be quite troublesome at night. Maybe due to its location. The restaurant is superb. Breakfast is also wonderful. The tea is a must try!
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very comfortable lodges and decent restaurant. Great for families.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Zaki

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice staff, great food and views. The sunset and sunrise views were amazing. The air was so fresh and clean.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Donald

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

Great Longhouse experience

we knew it would be a Longhouse so it was a fun experience, but everything was as clean as a bamboo structure could be, bedding & towels were clean, washbasin in the room, short walk to toilets, great food at restaurant and wonderful views to Mount Kinabalu - so it was great VALUE FOR MONEY
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The road leading to the place needs upgrade.

10/10 Excellent

CAMPUS

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

6/10 Okay

Lily, Singapore

Close to nature

Long house is a better way to stay rather than camping to be close to nature. Please be aware of all weird insects/animals and the sounds they make.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2017

8/10 Good

Wai chuen

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

Beatiful surrounding.

Was very impressed with the surrounding. Mountain valley with spectacular Mt Kinabalu view in the morning. Added to that room was in good order and comfortable. Kids and family love it very much.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2017

4/10 Poor

lin, my

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Not much choice for TV channel and all channel image are blur with snow

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort

simple and nice hotel

overall okay

10/10 Excellent

Kenneth

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

longhouse and tea time

friendly local people and tea plantation, and sandakan memorial

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service

Nice accommodation inside Tea Garden Area

Two options of accommodations:- 1) Rooms (shared bathroom) just like at "Rumah Panjang" (traditional Long House in Sabah) 2) Cottages The surrounding are quite cozy and suitable to relax with family. The cafe serves delicious food with quite a lot of variety. A few things that might need to be improved: 1) Access to the hotel from the main road is quite difficult. No tarmac road about for the access, only hard gravel road for about 2 km before reaching this hotel. 2) Internet and mobile signals are weak in this area. Other than these, everything is okay and we had a pleasant stay here for 2 nights.

6/10 Okay

Cathie, Australia

Love staying in the longhouse. Food at the restaurant was a bit blah though not very flavoursome.

8/10 Good

Susan, Kota Kinabalu

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

Clean,Comfortable Cottage

Nice, clean and comfortable cottage. i got best mountain view cottage, but I couldn't see the mt. Kinabalu due to the bad weather. :(

8/10 Good

Suria, Singapore

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

Superb View of Mount Kinabalu

We have to drive up a rocky road to reach Sabah Tea Garden. However, upon reaching the cottage, we were welcome with a spectacular view. We stayed in Lofty2 n the side window gave us the view of the Mount Kinabalu too. A great place to stay and will definitely return.

10/10 Excellent

Wilma, Kota KInabalu

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

Room with a view!

We stayed in one of the well appointed cottages that had a wonderful view of Mt Kinabalu. The location is magic, transporting you into a lost world of peace and solitude. The restaurant offers spectacular views overlooking Mt KInabalu across the tea plantations. We sat there for hours, sampling their tasty menu, mesmerized by the incoming storm and the changes of cloud cover that passed across our view. Spectacular!

10/10 Excellent

Holger

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Die Lodge bot ein sehr gutes Preis-Leistungsverhältnis, sie war sauber, ohne Schnickschnack und ohne besonderen Luxus! Dafür mitten in der Teeplantage, und himmlisch ruhig!
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2025

2/10 Terrible

eizo

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

こんな体験初めて！

僻地の山の上に有る宿泊所。到着すると予約が無いと言われ、またwifiも調子が悪いと繋がらず、スマホから予約の内容も見せる事が出来なかった。仕方なく町まで20分ほど戻りwifiが繋がる場所で内容を写メして戻ってから見せた。日本語なので内容が理解できない様子でしばらくどこかに電話を掛けてずっと待たされた。ただ一泊3000円程の移動で寝るだけの部屋で一時間近くも掛かりヘトヘトになった。予約がないのはホテルの問題かhotels.comの問題かは定かでは無いが、非常に危ない体験だった。もう少しで山奥で野宿させられる所だった！どうせHOTEL’S.comは悪い口コミは意図的に載せないので書いても無駄だと思うが、本当は他の方の今後の参考の為にも是非この体験談を載せるべきだと思っている。過去数多くの悪い宿泊体験の口コミは全く載せないというhotels.comの対応は今後どこかで消費者を欺く行為として裁かれるはずである！私もいくつかの抹殺された口コミを保存してまとめて糾弾したいと考えています！
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2019

6/10 Okay

Astrid

2-star accomondation

Ok accomondation. 2 star hotel. The restaurant is a little away down the hill from the cottage. Laundry service. Breakfast included is malaysian breakfast (fried noodles, portidge with fish and a pot of tea).
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Daniela

Disliked: Staff & service

wenn Sabah Tea Garden dann nur Bungalows

sehr unfreundliches Personal. Darauf achten dass das Langhaus mit Frühstück gebucht wird. Das Reastaurant ist zu Fuss mindestens 15 Min. weg. Kein Shuttle oder eine Möglichkeit auch nur einen Tee zu bekommen obwohl die Anlange auf einer Teeplantage ist.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

2/10 Terrible

Julianus Bin

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worse ever...no water available when you really need it. Imagine the smells when you go inside the toilet and ni water to flush when you done doing business it smells like worse

8/10 Good

Rohaiza, Kuala Lumpur

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Untuk mereka yang suka flora dan fauna

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort