Name: Always Growing 79 Guesthouse
Address: 66 Lot 118 Upper China Street 93000 Kuching,Upper China Street, Kuching, Kuching, Kuching, 93000, Malaysia
Rating: 8

Air conditioning

24-hour reception

Smoking areas

Smoke-free property

No elevators

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Non-smoking rooms

Family room

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Common kitchen

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Free Wi-Fi

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Transfer

English

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Bike rental

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Pool and beach

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Kids

Pets Not Allowed

Pets

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At the hostel

Kuching International Airport

Always Growing 79 Guesthouse

Kuching

Stayed here for 3 nights as our base for the Rainforest World Music Festival. 
Location-wise, it is 5 out 5 stars. The guesthouse is within walking distance to the waterfront and Padang Merdeka. It is less than 100 metres from Plaza Merdeka. Went straight from the airport to the Plaza Merdeka to purchase our shuttle bus tickets to the festival venue. We walked to the guesthouse in less than 5 minutes from the Plaza. We arrived around 10 a.m. at the guest house, hoping for an early check-in, but the rooms were still occupied (which is fine with us as we were early). The receptionist was friendly and offered to take our bags up to our room once it is ready. We left our bags at the reception and proceed to walk around the city. There are plenty of food options nearby and the mall is just 5 minutes walk. 
We only returned to the guesthouse nearing midnight after spending the day at the festival. Our bags were still at the reception. The manager was there to greet us and gave us our keys and access codes for the front door. As we entered the room, we were greeted by mosquitoes. Lots of mosquitoes. The staff gave us a bottle of Ridsect to deal with it. One of the towels provided had stains on it. As we were too exhausted, we did not bother to go down a second time to ask for a new towel. We rate the cleanliness of the room 2 out of 5. The carpets feels and looked like it was not vacuumed. There were also stains on the bathroom floor. I did not take any pictures as I was ready to just crash and sleep.
If you are a light sleeper, you may have trouble sleeping here as the walls are thin. The guesthouse is just next to the road and a church is just on the opposite of it. We can hear the vehicles speeding up the hill and church bells. Not a problem for me, but just as a heads up to other travellers. On the second night, we got back late around 2 a.m. to the guesthouse. As I was getting ready for bed, I could hear voices from outside. Our room was directly above the lobby and there seem to be some guests not able to enter the front door. So the security is good, as only guest with access codes could enter the place but at the same time it shows how thin the walls are since we could hear people from outside talking. 
We actually asked the receptionist for help to book a taxi for us on our last day there. We had an early morning flight and had to get to the airport by 5 a.m. (we wanted to use Uber/Grab, but was afraid that no drivers will be available at 4 in the morning). The taxi did not came though (we asked for pickup time to be 4 a.m., waited in front of the guesthouse at 3.55 a.m. until around 4.15 a.m.) We end up trying our luck and hailed a ride using Grab and there was just the one car that was in the vicinity. Also, if you do need a taxi, you can walk to the Merdeka Palace Hotel which is about 5 minutes from the guesthouse. We would have walked to the Merdeka Hotel if it were not raining that morning. 



Good location, friendly and helpful staff. Cleanliness needs to be improved.

Jewels has a peaceful and nice atmosphere. Private rooms and shared bathrooms are perfectly clean. The best is the staff who are always happy to help! Thanks to all of you! 
The guesthouse is perfectly located in walking distance to the waterfront, nice restaurants and busses e.g. to Bako or the Urang Utan Sanctuary.
I would definitely stay here again! 

A perfect place to stay for a few (more) days

We've stayed here about one week and enjoyed the hotel a lot. The staff was always very kind and helped us alot with organising the trips to Bako and ferry to Sibu. 
The room was clean with a comfortable bed and a/c. Also the shared bathrooms were always clean (toilet paper was always filled up) and hot shower was working very well.
We really enjoyed the place. The location is just perfect - in the heart of Kuching.
For sure we would come again.

Clean and nice hotel and very friendly staff

The room was great and clean the aircon worked very good and silent so you can let operate wohle night. The place is well located you can explore kuching very easy by walking. 
Can highly recomend this Guesthouse. Very frindly 

Nice Guesthouse 

The place is clean and strategically located. Though the rooms are rather small it was reasonable for the price we paid and didnt matter as we only used it to sleep at nights. However, beware if climbing stairs is a problem as the rooms are only accessible by way of a steep flight of stairs.
The management are friendly and helpful

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