we really enjoyed our time at Borneo Backpackers, the staff were very helpful and we looks forward to coming back!

Where should I start? The place is very clean and looks new. It has great price also for all the offered facilities like wifi, astro, breakfast, and high security with cctv system. The place is in strategic area with most of the city's attraction nearby. The staffs are very friendly and helpful. Very nice! I really recommend this place to anyone's traveling to KK.

Borneo Backpackers is conveniently located in downtown KK, walking distance from restaurants, the markets, and long distance bus station to Mt. Kinabalu. Its filled with an international crowd (including Malaysians:), mostly researching and preparing forms for their hike up Mt. Kinabalu or limping around after. The dorms (where we stayed) and bathrooms were super clean, the common area is filled with couches, computers, and information on tourist attractions all over Borneo, and they offer the standard breakfast of toast with tea (from Sabah, really good) or coffee. The staff is super helpful and very friendly and they sell the cheapest beer in town (Rn 6 for a can of Tiger) and the most expensive laundry service (Rn10 per kilo). There is also a decent restaurant below, operated by the same owners, that serves delicious chicken curry and an interesting herbal chicken soup.
Best of all, BB recycles and has free filtered water available, reducing the mountain of plastic bottles we tourists produce.

I stayed one night here. I think it is ok if you are traveling solo and trying to save some money. The shared bathroom is small and not very private. Breakfast was supposed to be included but was not available when I was there (I never did figure out why). The wifi works, though just barely. The single rooms are really small - only a bit larger than the twin bed.

The main issue I had was that it was really noisy. The walls are really thin and the traffic noise is pretty loud. You can easily hear people talking in other rooms even though they are talking in normal voices.