"Take a twenty-minute boat ride from Malaysian Borneo’s Kota Kinabalu and you’ll find Gayana Eco Resort fringing a small cape on Gaya Island’s northern coastline. With its thatch-roofed villas and sprawling decks, the Gayana is wholly faithful to the over-water genre, on equal footing with its Fijian and Maldivian counterparts. Throw in room-service-by-raft, a marine research center and a spa that offers 180-dollar caviar facials and the resort’s split personality begins to emerge: soulful-slash-super-luxe, earthy yet indulgent, remote but refined." - Tablet Hotels