The Dragon Inn Floating Resort, located at Semporna, Sabah, secured the seventh place in the top ten floating hotels list, based on a compilation by a leading men's lifestyle website that attracts more that 7 million monthly readers, AskMen.com (http://www.askmen.com/).

The website describes the resort as such: "Built on the sea near Semporna, the Dragon Inn Floating Resort or Semporna Floating, as it is otherwise known - offers guests sumptuous rooms on stilts and a unique paradise island resort with palm-leaf roofing. Not only does the hotel offer every conceivable creature comfort, but the structural design of the hotel affords guests a sense of a traditional Bajau water village. An experience you won't find in cloned hotel chains on the mainland. As you'd expect, the hotel offers some of the best diving opportunities on this side of this world, with daily dive trips to the world-famous spots in Sipadan."

The complete list of the Top Ten Floating Hotels includes some properties that have yet to open:

1)     King Pacific Lodge, British Columbia, Canada

2)     ReefWorld, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

3)     Oberoi Udaivilas, Udaipur, India

4)     Aerohotel, Russia

5)     Conrad Maldives, Rangali Island, Maldives

6)     Floating & Rotating Hotel Tower, Dubai, U.A.E.

7)     Dragon Inn Floating Resort, Semporna, Malaysia

8)     Bora Bora Lagoon Resort & Spa, Bora Bora, French Polynesia

9)     Punta Caracol, Panama, South America

10) Six Senses, Soneva Gili, Male, Maldives

The listing is even more meaningful as the Dragon Inn Floating Resort is the only Southeast Asian property that made it into the top ten.

Sabah is known for its many wonderful and unique attractions that appeal to both local and international visitors. The prominent Mount Kinabalu, located at the Kinabalu National Park, a World Heritage Site, is one of the highest mountains in Southeast Asia. The Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre, Tabin Wildlife Reserve and Crocker Range National Park are some of the places that offer unlimited flora and fauna discoveries. 

For those who love the islands, Mabul Island, Pulau Tiga, Turtle Island, Tunku Abdul Rahman Park, just to name a few, are the well-known diving spots in Sabah. For adventure-seekers, Mountain Torq Via Ferrata at Kundasang, a mountain ‘trail' made up of iron rungs, palettes (footholds), cables and rails that are wrapped around the North Face of Mount Kinabalu, is not to be missed.

For more information on Malaysia holiday destinations, please log on to www.tourismmalaysia.gov.my.

 

Issued by: Communications & Publicity Division, Tourism Malaysia
Date: 2 September 2009
Tourism Infoline: 1300-88-5050 (Within Malaysia)
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