Bon Ton Restaurant & Resort
Style Rustic Malay restoration
Setting Lagoon-side Pantai Cenang
This rustic retreat offers the opportunity to stay in genuine Malaysian stilted wooden houses, most more than a century old, on a former coconut plantation. Surrounded by manicured greenery and centred on one of Langkawi’s most celebrated restaurants, Bon Ton Restaurant & Resort is an essential stop-off for the savvy traveller.
Need to know
- Rooms Eight traditional Malay villas.
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Rates
Double rooms from $206.05 (MYR650).
Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (MYR650), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
- More details Rates include Continental breakfast.
- Facilities Art and textiles gallery, cigar room, private dining room, books, magazines, DVDs and music, free WiFi throughout, computer/printer for guest use. In rooms: TV, DVD/CD player, tea/coffee-making facilities, toaster, fridge.
- Poolside Flanked by palms, the pool and Jacuzzi area is a sliver of blue and white cut into the grass – its sunloungers providing views of the surrounding mountains and coconut groves.
- Check-out Noon, but flexible subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 2pm.
- Children Cots and baths for babies can be provided for free and babysitting can be arranged for RM10 an hour, if booked one day in advance. Baby monitoring equipment is available and there’s a stash of pool toys for the young ones to play with. More...
- Eco-friendly Bon Ton’s owner, Narelle, also runs the private animal shelter next-door; she uses profits from Bon Ton to fund work at the centre.
- Also Pets are welcome. Smoking is allowed throughout.
Food and drink at Bon Ton Restaurant & Resort
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Hotel restaurant
The renowned restaurant, Nam, blends Eastern and Western cuisine with a dose of spice to create an imaginative and inventive gourmet menu. Plump for Nyonya, the signature platter, which features nine Malay and Chinese dishes served on banana leaf.
- Dress code Laid-back loungewear.
- Top table To secure a front row seat for the sunset, nab Table 1, 2 or L6 and watch water buffalo cooling off in the lagoon while you eat.
- Last orders Nam offers lunch until 5pm, mezze until 7pm and dinner until 11pm. Drinks are available until half past midnight.
- Room service The Nam menu is available in-room until 11pm.
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Hotel bar
Chin Chin lounge bar is based beside Nam in a 60-year-old wooden Chinese shop house, filled with antiques and atmosphere. Liqueur-coffees and cocktails are specialities – grab a Short Island Iced Tea to enjoy on the sunset deck.
Also worth knowing
- Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...
Bon Ton Restaurant & Resort Pantai Cenang,, Langkawi, 07000
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Our favourite rooms
Each of the eight antique, timber houses is unique; five have open-air bathrooms with freestanding wooden tubs. Palm Villa tops our list with its ornate, carved windows and sumptuous decor in turquoise and green. All houses are beautifully furnished with traditional Malay fabrics, antiques and carefully picked decorative details, and have pool and lagoon views.
Packing tips
Pack your binoculars for lying back on the loungers and star-gazing.
Also
Set in a former coconut plantation fronting onto a lotus-strewn lagoon, Bon Ton is five minutes’ drive from Pantai Cenang beach if you fancy a dip.
From the Guestbook…
I would avoid the island-hopping tours as they are rather disappointing and very touristy – rent a kayak/canoe at Tanjung Rhu and paddle up the river through the mangroves or...
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