I didn't find this hotel as good as the Hilton in Bangkok (which worked out to be similarly priced) and not worthy of an Excellent rating....maybe I was expecting too much after reading the reviews on here.

Anyway, location is good, price very good, breakfast is good for a buffet breakfast and rooms are very good. If you have a City View room, upgrade to at least a Park View (£7 or 45RM per night) which gives you a view of the Twin Towers and also the KL Tower if you're lucky. We upgraded to the Club Suites (£25 or 150RM per night) as it gave us access to the Club Lounge on floor 32 which had 360 degree panoramic views of the city, free drinks, afternoon tea, internet and cocktails/beer every evening as well as huge rooms on a high floor.....well worth doing.

Pool/Skybar complex a bit strange as they were both the same place - smallish pool and the Skybar lost a bit of its glamour at night being around the pool complex.

Concierge tried hard but ended up not being particularly helpful, language barrier a big issue - strange that all the other hotel depts had superb English apart from Concierge!

KL itself - KL tower a must - superb 360 degree views of the city, if you want to visit the Skybridge of the Towers then tickets are free but given on 1st come 1st served basis - opens 830am but queues start from 7! Skybridge itself a little disappointing to be honest. Independence Square also worth a visit and the Sultan Abdul Samad building looks great at night. Batu caves full of monkeys but not much else to see.

Watch for taxi drivers trying to rip you off - e.g. from hotel to Batu Caves should be 25RM but some will try and charge over double that so don't be afraid to walk away from one taxi and try another. We found a good one who charged us fair prices, gave us history of various landmarks and even came to the hotel and took us to the airport on our last day.

Kuala Lumpur hasn't got loads to see but if you're in the area it is worth 2 nights, if time in Asia is at a premium, check out Bangkok instead.

It was our first time in KL and we chose Traders based on TripAdvisor - very good choice, we were not disappointed!

Room: If you book the Traders Club rooms, double check beforehand that you will be given a room on the 27 - 31 floors (=Traders Club). We were first given a room on 25th floor for the 1 st night (including access to Traders lounge) even though we had booked a Traders Club room and requested a room at a higher floor with good view. The rooms are actually the same size and decoration so in that sence it did not matter. But I insisted that the next day we want to get a room from the higher floor with a better view. I tried to move us immediately but the hotel was fully booked and they were unable to give us a room at the Traders Club floors.

The first room, 2503, was in the inner corner (the hotel is shaped like the letter L) so we could see (and be seen) directly to the rooms next to us and to the gym on the 26th floor. I did not want anyone to see me sitting by the window and admiring the Petronas Towers so we moved to 3119 the next day which had a much better view. The L shaped part of the hotel ends on 27th floor so upper than that the view is much more open. The rooms are spacious and clean and with plenty of closet space. The bathroom is beautiful with the marble decoration, and has both shower and bath. Our air con did not work properly in the new room but was immediately fixed upon our request. Housekeeping brings complimentary water bottles and fresh fruit to the room every day.

Traders lounge: We loved the lounge on 32nd floor! We ate breakfast there each 6 mornings (from 6.30 to 10.30, included in our price). We could have also eaten on the 5th floor main restaurant but did not go there once. At the Traders lounge breakfast here is plenty to choose from and chefs prepare you eggs etc. based on your separate request. Ask the waiters for capuccino or other special coffee and they will prepare it for you (for free).

The cocktail hour from 5.30 - 7.30 is GREAT! Lots of food and all the drinks are for free - they have a full bar so not just wine and beer but your favourite drinks. There is plenty of staff during breakfast and cocktail hour so you do not need to wait to be served. And the staff wants you to enjoy the free drinks in the evening, they keep coming and asking what would you like to drink next, and warn about the ending 5 minutes before so you can order 1 - 2 additional drinks to your table, if you like. Cocktail hour was very popular and all the tables seem to be full almost every evening.

In the Traders lounge there are 2 computers with internet access and a printer, which was good and which I used many times for printing sightseeing info etc.

Service: We noticed that all workers are very young (18 - 25). It did not bother us as they were friendly and there was always plenty of staff at the Traders lounge. However, it seemed that maybe they do not have enough experience to deal with more complicated issues, but just the basics. The main thing is that they are friendly and wanted to make us enjoy our stay. Special thanks to beutiful Jayde at the Traders lounge, it was nice to talk to you during our stay!

Hotel: We only ate once on the 5th floor restaurants. We got the food fast as we mentioned being tired after the flight and wanted to go to bed soon. Food was good.

We did not use the pool on the 33rd floor as it was not so appealing with only 3 sunbeds and the SkyBar tables around the pool. We agree with previous writers that the bar and pool should be separated. We did not go to the SkyBar at all in the evenings as it did not look that attempting and we got the same beautiful view from our room 2 floors below. We tried to book a table to SkyBar on Thursday morning for Friday evening at 8 pm but they were fully booked. We read from TripAdvisor that without a booking you have to queue for a long time so we didn't bother trying. Instead, we went to nearby restaurants / cocktail bars.

Surroundings: The hotel "buggy", shuttle bus is fun and convenient for going to Suria KLCC under the Twin Towers. It is not a long walk, but a hot one. You can walk inside the convention centre all the way to Mandarin Oriental and then only a short part outside. KL is not designed for pedestrians and when you leave the hotel, there are not very good walking lanes by the roads - it is not very tempting to walk around.

The huge and very good new shopping mall Pavillion is within walking disctance, we walked there and back with our shopping bags. You need to run over the roads and watch out for the cars as there are no pedestrian crossings on the road behind the hotel on your way to Pavillion. The nearest LRT station is under the Twin Towers, we only used it once - quite hectic and full of people and not so clean and comfortable as the MRT in Singapore.

The hotel gets you normal metered taxis and limo taxis based on your request as well as fixed fee taxis. We used a fixed fee taxi to go to the jungle FRIM and to the airport. We went to FRIM another day with a normal metered taxi and it was much much cheaper so I would prefer using normal metered taxis in KL (as long as the meter is running normally and not faster than it should, which they apparently sometimes do in KL for tourists!).

The hop-on hop-off sightseeing bus has a stop in front of the Mandarin Oriental hotel near Traders and they sell 24 h tickets on board (38 MYR). One round takes 2,5 hours and is a recommendable tour to take!

My wife and I usually don’t like large, modern hotels and we feel a bit uneasy with service that is highly “attentive.” However, Trader’s is definitely an exception for us, and all in all it was one of the most comfortable hotels we’ve ever stayed in. We were there for four nights in late April ‘08 during our month-long travels in Malaysia.

Trader’s is in the newer section of KL, across the very nice KLCC Park from the Petronas Towers. It is about a 10-minute walk to the Towers (shopping, restaurants), and from the metro stop there you can connect to Chinatown and other areas of the city. More restaurants and shopping are an easy walk in the opposite direction. “City View” rooms have terrific unobstructed views of the Towers. The hotel connects with the Convention Center and City Aquarium, and both the hotel and the center are very new. The common areas and lobby are beautiful marbled architecture in a modern Asian style. Don’t miss the rooftop bar and swimming pool with an excellent view of the Petronas Towers.

Our room (2227) had a full view of the KL Tower and an angled view of the Petronas Towers through floor-to-ceiling windows along one side of the room. The room was large and attractively furnished in the same modern Asia Style as the common areas. We had a very comfortable king bed, and there was a built-in desk, bureau, t.v. stand, mini-bar, and double closets. The beautiful marbled bathroom was very large, with separate tub and shower, plenty of counter space, and all amenities. The a.c. (essential in KL) was quiet, effective, and unobtrusive.

One of the remarkable aspects of Trader’s is unusually friendly and helpful staff. When we first arrived this was a bit startling and unnerving until we realized that is was quite sincere and genuine. Although service throughout Malaysia was way above what we are used to in the U.S., at Trader’s it was extraordinary.

All in all, Trader’s is a great value and if we return to KL we will absolutely stay there again. We recommend it very highly.

I picked the Traders Hotel for our short stay in KL based solely on the fact that it was rated as # 1 on TripAdvisor. I picked a park view room on the Club Floor (when i booked it was around AU$200 p/n).

There wasnt too much to the room, just the bathroom and bedroom, so in retrospect we should have picked a suite since we had the budget BUT the room was reasonably spacious. It was clean and modern. The bed was ridiculously huge. We had a great view. The staff were very friendly and helpful. The food was good & well priced. And the hotel was a 5 min walk to KLCC shopping centre. So all in all i think the Traders is a good choice for travellers. The hotel and club floor rooms did seem a bit "business traveller" in feel but that wasnt an issue for us.

I think the important point for travellers is that Traders is in a clean, quiet part of town. KLCC is the only shopping mall in walking distance (its still big enough to keep you busy for a few days though). Butik Bitang is hectic and congested but has about 4 or more major shopping malls. It is only a very short and cheap cab ride from Traders so it depends whether you want to be in the thick of it, or just on the outskirts.