Proboscis Lodge Bukit Melapi — Attraction in Sabah

Stayed here for 2 nights on 12/9/22 as part of a Titan Tour. We have travelled a good deal & were aware the lodge would be basic but what we were not expecting basic & utterly filthy.||I'm guessing when the pandemic hit the lodges shut & have only opened very recently with no checks having been done.||We arrived after a long hot day travelling wanting a shower & a meal. The bathroom looked very grubby but I decided to have a shower, no chance. Switched it on, moved the shower head which fell in the shower as it was totally corroded. Finally got 2 guys to come, no ladder so they stood on the case table trying to mend it. Their answer was to bind it with black gaffer tape which stopped the water coming out at any angle. Finally agreed to move room & go to dinner in sweaty clothes. As this had taken so long when we got to the eating area the staff had left all the covers off the food with the result ants were crawling over it. Ended up with a plate of chips||Moved room & someone had removed the pillow cover & taken all bedding to out 'new' room. Please see the state of the pillows, yes you are looking at sweat, blood & crawling mould. The photo of the W.C. does not show my wee but the colour of the water, which was also the colour in the sink & coming out of the shower.||Lunch next day was 1.30 so we rocked up to see what delights awaited. Fish, chicken,rice & veg - COLD. A fellow traveller had seen this sitting for over an hour & the staff were about to put burners...

Stayed here for 2 nights on 12/9/22 as part of a Titan Tour. We have travelled a good deal & were aware the lodge would be basic but what we were not expecting basic & utterly filthy.||I'm guessing when the pandemic hit the lodges shut & have only opened very recently with no checks having been done.||We arrived after a long hot day travelling wanting a shower & a meal. The bathroom looked very grubby but I decided to have a shower, no chance. Switched it on, moved the shower head which fell in the shower as it was totally corroded. Finally got 2 guys to come, no ladder so they stood on the case table trying to mend it. Their answer was to bind it with black gaffer tape which stopped the water coming out at any angle. Finally agreed to move room & go to dinner in sweaty clothes. As this had taken so long when we got to the eating area the staff had left all the covers off the food with the result ants were crawling over it. Ended up with a plate of chips||Moved room & someone had removed the pillow cover & taken all bedding to out 'new' room. Please see the state of the pillows, yes you are looking at sweat, blood & crawling mould. The photo of the W.C. does not show my wee but the colour of the water, which was also the colour in the sink & coming out of the shower.||Lunch next day was 1.30 so we rocked up to see what delights awaited. Fish, chicken,rice & veg - COLD. A fellow traveller had seen this sitting for over an hour & the staff were about to put burners...

We stayed for 2 nights with a tour group of 10 people. The 'cabins' were basic, but comfortable. A large bathroom with an open shower. There was a front deck from which the local birds and the forest could be viewed. The cabin air-conditioning struggled during the day to keep the temperature down, given it was around 34C and the power was turned off from about 9:30 until 11:00 and again between 16:00 and 18:00. However, the room was cooled overnight by the air conditioner. Meals were taken in a large open, but covered dining and entertainment area. The meals were very good and there was always plenty of food. The garden of the resort was well maintained and allowed an area to walk around without going into the forest. We had morning and evening boat trips on the Kinabatangan River, a tributary and an Ox-bow lake. We were fortunate to see many colourful Kingfishers, a few hornbills, kites, eagles, Proboscis monkeys, long tailed macaques, monitors, a small salt water crocodile and a Orang Utan in a distant tree top. The resort staff were extremely friendly and helpful, including the boat operators. The resort staff entertained us on our last with some local cultural dances and asked us to join in at the end. It was a fitting farewell. Well...