Reviews of Abby by the river 3 stars
55 & 57, Jalan Sultan Iskandar, 30000 Ipoh, Malaysia
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Reviewed: 20 August 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 10 August 2025 · Stayed in August 2025
Verified reviewGood location. Walking distance to destinations mostly.
Noisy till 3am (next to main road). Noisy motorbikes racing till wee hours in morning disrupting my sleep. Spotted a live cockroach running on the dressing table next to the bed. Dirty and stained with handprints on the walls in the room above the bed. Sheets and pillow cases were worn. Need to change.
Reviewed: 3 August 2025 · Stayed in August 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 25 July 2025 · Stayed in June 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 20 July 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 19 July 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewGood price and location, good water pressure, good staff.
A bit musty and older facilities, air cond not very cold.
Reviewed: 15 July 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewSpacious Location
Reviewed: 8 July 2025 · Stayed in July 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 28 June 2025 · Stayed in June 2025
Verified reviewNear by to the town..
Not that much hygienic
Reviewed: 23 June 2025 · Stayed in June 2025
Verified reviewThe location is very good, the room was very spacious and clean
Reviewed: 11 June 2025 · Stayed in May 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 2 June 2025 · Stayed in June 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 25 May 2025 · Stayed in May 2025
Verified reviewVery helpful of the owner and also the beautiful front desk Sha. Recommend
Reviewed: 14 May 2025 · Stayed in April 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 21 April 2025 · Stayed in April 2025
Verified reviewSteep cimb up to get in and out of bed! Water drain from sink is blocked! This is a youth hostel and is really too expensive.. We like Ipot, and stay there every year.
Reviewed: 14 April 2025 · Stayed in April 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 1 April 2025 · Stayed in March 2025
Verified reviewLocation, Water pressure, Room saiz
WIFI not working, TV not working
Sorry for the inconvenience caused. We'll do better in future. Please visit us again in future.
Reviewed: 23 February 2025 · Stayed in February 2025
Verified reviewI liked that the hotel did not ask me for a deposit, AND did not pester by 11.00 am for me to leave like many other Malaysian hotels do. After all, my Booking.com personal user profile is also visible to hoteliers and they can see that I've never given any problems to the hundreds of hotels I've stayed in all around the world. With this good customer service attitude to me, I will definitely come back to this hotel.
Thanks for staying with us. Please visit us again soon.
Reviewed: 22 February 2025 · Stayed in February 2025
Verified reviewNice location. Big room
Booking.com rates are 30% higher than the property's own rates but booking.com won't honour their price match.
Reviewed: 22 February 2025 · Stayed in February 2025
Verified reviewThe bed was very comfortable. The room was spacious. Can check in at 2 pm. Yeay!!!
Reviewed: 17 February 2025 · Stayed in February 2025
Verified reviewThis was a last-minute booking and I didn't do much research into the hotel, so it was actually better than expected. We liked that the airconditioning was very powerful and the bed was quite comfortable. The hotel is also an easy walking distance from Old Town Ipoh.
The hot water was lukewarm at best. The noises from the corridor also travelled easily into the room.
Reviewed: 5 February 2025 · Stayed in February 2025
Verified reviewGood Location. Centre of the town. Walking distance to concubine lane and gerbang malam
Staff always not around. Have to call if need anything. At night also no staff standby if in case of emergency. Quite worrying if stay ladies only. Have to take care of ourselves.
Sorry for the inconvenience caused of our night shift staff is on leave but we have 2 staff on our 2 different location on duty monitoring on cctvs. Rest assure everything is covered online. Thank again for staying with us.
Reviewed: 31 January 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
Verified reviewReviewed: 24 January 2025 · Stayed in December 2024
Verified reviewReviewed: 11 January 2025 · Stayed in January 2025
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