Cherry Inn

Pros: 1) Cheap, paid RM60 a night for a double bed that came with air-cond, two chairs, a TV, soap, a roll of toilet paper and towels. Shared bathroom, but there are other rooms with en-suites. 2) Clean 3) Rustic, old-school look with antique-looking furniture that doesn’t look out of place. The Chairman Mao statue and Chinese deities around the place gives it a bit of character. 4) Friendly manager, can speak in English. 5) Bicycle parking space. The ground floor has a fruit loading business, and the guys manning the shop will watch your bike (parked behind a wall) for you in the day. A security guard on site will also be there to watch your bike when the shutters go down. Cons: 1) Next to a main road, can get noisy during the day. 2) If you don’t like basic, this place isn’t for you. 3) No ground floor rooms, so you’ll have to bring your baggage up with you. Neutral: 1) You have to leave your shoes at the ground floor and walk up the stairs on feet/socks. I quite like this as I don’t have to wear sandals while walking from my room to the bathroom, but not everyone will. Conclusion: No-frills, cheap basic and clean hotel near the heart of Taiping town, suitable for backpackers, bicycle tourers and budget-conscious tourists. Well worth the money paid for.

The Cherry Inn is very quiet at night and very clean. I took the shared bathroom for 70 RM a night for three nights. I walked here from the bus station and found a lot of cheap and delicious food close by. I most enjoyed going to Orang-utan Island by taxi. You can take a very long walk to the zoo through the very nice park as well and check out several of the guide book's colonial buildings on the way.

Clean inn and friendly caretakers/owners. Location is central and good value for money. We paid RM70 per night for a en-suite room, there are ones with shared bathrooms and others (RM100) which had two king size beds in a larger sized rooms. No breakfast. Free wifi and water cooler facilities. If you drive there, the caretaker will help watch you car at the parking spaces in front of the inn and ensure you have a parking coupon so you don't get penalised by the council.||||Walking distances to the lovely eateries in Taiping town, lots of vegetarian choices on Jalan Tupai, two stand alone restaurants and several stalls in Pusat Penjaja Taiping. Cherry Inn is walking distance tor St. George school the Edward schools, plus First Galleria, a great place to learn about Taiping's history before venturing out on a day of sightseeing.

This is a reasonable choice. I paid 60 Ringgits for a room as a single, with shared bathroom and toilet. This i found to be quite a pain. Unfortunately my room was overlooking busy Jalan Steysen, so was noisy from the traffic.||On the plus side, the wifi worked well in the room, and there was good aircon plus TV (local channels only).||In the minus side i found the shared bathrooms to be in need of a good scrubbing. And in my room the floors had a multitude of womens hair strands all over the place. This is because they don't clean their mops.||There are no insect screens on the windows so some mosquitos did come in. ||The bed was quite hard but the pillows okay. There was a cover sheet plus blanket on the bed.||||Checkout time is 12.30pm.

This is not the Ritz or anything similar but a nice, clean basic hotel in the centre of town. Rooms are clean and functional and there is a nice lounge area where you can relax. Breakfast was not included in the rate (about £16.50 for double with en suite) but there are plenty of places nearby where food can be had. The hotel also offer free on street parking and free wifi. An excellent find.

I stayed in Cherry Inn in November 2015 and agree with the other reviewers: it is conveniently situated, spotless clean and good value for money. The showers and toilets are not en-suite but that was no problem. The only negative aspects for me was the constant noise right through the night, situated on a very busy road (and I should add, I was there on a Friday evening). However, most important for me about the Cherry Inn, is the kindness of the owner: I was robbed of my camera bag (with wallet) in front of the hotel by a passing motorbike driver. When I returned from the police station the owner, who heard about my wallet (all my cask and credit cards) came to me and gave me 300 ringit to "help" me until I had money again!

Arrived and it looked good from the outside, a handful of grapes was thrust at me (lovely) the room was fine, once we'd got rid of the cigarette smell, until the chiller units for the fruit storage started up! On and off all night, and very loud.||He offered to swap us from 70RMY to a 60 RMY room which had the bathroom beside it so accessed from outside the room, it had no window and smelt of damp, so we stayed where we were.||Even with earplugs sleeping was a bit of a problem which is a real shame as everything else was fine - shower, wifi etc and the common areas were beautifully decorated.

I write this from the Inn itselfas I happen to be looking for where to head next in Perak I thought I may as well...||Cherry Inn is exactly what you're looking for if you want a quiet, very clean, comfortable and wifi enabled sleeping spot. I use the room to scope out the town and hit the zoo.||As the above reviews state it's 12 quid for a night and all the mod cons. ||The staff are nice and helpful where need be and the rooms are in an upstairs area so that you are left with a feeling of privacy.