Gayana Marine Resort

Very relaxing place to spend some days sunbathing, snorkeling and kayaking. Beautiful very spacious and well thought through villas, we had the Ocean villa, with direct access to the reef. Staff is exceptionally nice and made us feel very welcome. One restaurant for breakfast, lunch and dinner with some nice food and drink options. I loved the healthy drinks. But, Hotel is nearly 20 years old, and there are signs of missing maintenance, which could be fixed. Restaurant is nice, but prices for Malaysia too high and more vegetarian, vegan or gluten free options would be great.

This was an absolutely incredible experience!!! Small, quiet resort. The staff was amazing, every staff member was polite, helpful, ensuring that all of my needs and requests were met. Every staff member went above and beyond every time. Previous reviews mentioned garbage in the water; there was none of that. Stunning swimming area around the ocean rooms, no garbage in sight. Having stayed in similar resorts from the Maldives to Africa, this is hands down one of the best. Recommend 10/10

We stayed at Palm villa for four nights in September and loved it! The villa is well maintained and all amenities are as you would expect from this level of accommodation. (Bear in mind this is provincial Malaysia and not Maldives who specialise on luxury). The view from the villa is amazing. If you are lucky to get villa No 87 you will have a fantastic view of Mount Kinabalu.The staff are extremely friendly and try really hard to make your stay as enjoyable as possible. The food at the restaurant was top notch and the singanure massage was excellent.

We had To Come To this hotel,because Bungaraya hotel was suddenly closed due To bad,rainy weather caused some problem with waterpump. The staff In this hotel is the friendliest we have ever met anywhere,they are super!! Food is also tasty. Room itself is big,clean and nice. BUT the view from our room was a big disappointment: balcony was towards the forest. I see no sense To build a room towards forest In a place like this. In the pictures on booking com website there is no real pictures of the view. Second disappoinment was the beach In front of the main building: It is terrible. We got a free dinner for our unhappiness, which we appreciate,but anyway I believe we would have been happier In Bungaraya hotel

Staff here are very friendly. That’s it when it comes to 5 star. This is a 3 to 4 star place at best. I’ve stayed at many 5 star resorts and this is not like them. Frustratingly, there’s a few boats that they have that go to Kota Kinabalu during the day and they will charge you to go on them. When you’re paying $600+ a daY to stay here and there’s not a lot to do, you would think they would encourage this. But I assume they want you to spend your money at the resort. Everything there is way overpriced. A small 375ml bottle of champagne in the mini bar was over $130 AUD. A massage was over $100AUD (1hr) and so on. If you do go here, it’s not worth more than 1 or 2 nights just to do nothing and relax.