melaka - lodging

The heart of Melaka - where gastronomical orgies are performed. My two-day trip was all about food. Chinese, mamak, Portugese, Italian... but let's not go there first, lest I cannot restrain myself from driving 2 hours there on impulse for another cendol.

We stayed at Baba House, just a street beside Jonker Walk. They're running a promotion and I got a Deluxe room at just RM89 (with crummy breakfast, but still...)! Hotel Puri with a similar heritage-y setting right opposite Baba House is charging twice the rate. My gain! I'm definitely staying here again the next time I'm in Melaka.

Okay, the room was a bit musty but I liked it just the same. The whiff of room smell I got when I first opened the door reminded me of my gramma's house during our Chinese New Year gathering. It smelled like... a lot of history. But it wasn't dirty or anything. Some said the place is cheap because it's ridden with ghosts. I say bullshit. Value stay is value stay. But you don't-lah expect 5-star amenities. Air-conditioning, telly, hot shower, soft pillow... I got all I needed.

Baba House is huge with spacious corridors, nicely decorated balconies and quaint reading/afternoon-tea lazing area. Located smack in Jonker Walk area, I thought sleep would be tough at night, but this place is an unexpectedly quiet (minus the rowdy children running along corridors and banging on their relatives' doors) oasis.

No, I didn't imagine the children.