Best 5 stars hotel in Melaka : Hotel Equatorial Melaka

According to our extensive research (2 mins via google), we found that there are basically three 5 stars hotel in Melaka (could be more).

They are

1. Hotel Equatorial Melaka
2. Renaissance Melaka
3. Holiday Inn Melaka

Of these, Holiday Inn Melaka has the newest and best features of these hotels because it is the latest collection in the Melaka 5 stars hotel arena.

However, its location puts it behind Renaissance Melaka and Hotel Equatorial Melaka. (This is when you consider attractions to be centralised near Stadhuys and Christ Church).

So this leaves us with Renaissance Melaka as well as Hotel Equatorial to vie for the best 5 star hotel in Melaka.

We can see that Hotel Equatorial is a short walking distance from St. Francis Church and thus Stadhuys. Also, according to our 2 min google, it was found that Renaissance Melaka is almost the same walking distance to the north.

Hence, both Hotel Equatorial Melaka and Renaissance Melaka are neck in neck at this point. The 2 factors that should determine your choice are thus

1. Style/Class/Newer. If you’re looking for a hotel with more class, style and is newer, Renaissance Melaka would be your choice.

2. Price. However, if you are looking at the cheapest of the 5 stars like us, the winner is clear, Hotel Equatorial Melaka! Plus, while we were there, there was a 88RM F&B credit for each night of stay!

Here’s a look at our room and the view it offers at Hotel Equatorial

Reminds us of our stay at Raffles Hotel Singapore…

Not only that, we were kindly given the option to choose our room. The receptionist gave us a card to one of the rooms to see if we were satisfied with the room before allocating it to us!

Here are the views from our room

Round about in front of Hotel Equatorial Melaka

View of Melaka Menara Taming Sari from Hotel Equatorial Melaka

The hotel also had a relatively big swimming pool that interconnects the various pools…

View of the swimming pool @ Hotel Equatorial Melaka

View of the adult pool @ Hotel Equatorial Melaka

View of the pool as you walk out of the lift lobby

Another reason why Hotel Equatorial Melaka trumps Renaissance Hotel is because it is RIGHT BESIDE the Dataran Pahlawan Shopping Mall! There’s lots of shopping, makan and even a cinema!