Perhentian Island Resort

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Take advantage of a coffee shop/cafe, dry cleaning/laundry services and a bar at Perhentian Island Resort. The on-site restaurant, Pinang Seribu Restaurant, offers breakfast, lunch, dinner and a beachfront location. Guests can connect to free WiFi in public areas.

Reviews

7.6 out of 10
Good

Popular amenities

  • Pool
  • Breakfast available
  • Business services
  • Bar
  • Laundry room

Room options

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A modern bedroom with a large bed, bedside lamps, and a view of the outdoors through a window.

Superior Classic Twin Room

8.8 out of 10
Excellent
(6 reviews)
  • Garden view
  • 215 sq ft
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed

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A hotel room with a large bed, a desk with a kettle, a nightstand with a lamp, a window with curtains, and a painting on the wall.

Deluxe Heaven Twin Room

  • Garden view
  • 215 sq ft
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 2 Single Beds

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Premier Beachfront Twin Room

  • Sea view
  • 258 sq ft
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 2 Single Beds

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A hotel room with two beds, a ceiling fan, an air conditioning unit, and a view of the outdoors through a large window.

Premier Garden Twin Room

  • Garden view
  • 258 sq ft
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 2 Single Beds

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A modern bedroom with a large bed, built-in shelving, a ceiling fan, and a view of the outdoor patio.

Premier Garden Double Room

  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed

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A modern bathroom with a shower, toilet, and sink.

Premier Beachfront Double Room

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(1 review)
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed

Superior Classic Double Room

  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed

Deluxe Heaven Double Room

  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed

Basic Cabin

  • 161 sq ft
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed OR 1 Queen Bed

A-Frame (Shared bathroom)

  • 97 sq ft
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Single Bed
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About the area

Located in Pulau Perhentian Besar, Perhentian Island Resort is near the beach. Bubbles Dive Resort and Turtle Sanctuary is a local attraction and the area's natural beauty can be seen at Long Beach and Keranji Beach. Looking to get your feet wet? Kayaking, scuba diving and snorkelling adventures can be found near the property. Visit our Pulau Perhentian Besar travel guide
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Pulau Perhentian Besar, Pulau Perhentian Besar, Terengganu, 22200

What's nearby

  • A person lying on a sandy beach with a clear blue sky and calm sea in the background.
    Perhentian Beach
    7 min walk - 0.4 miles
  • A sea anemone with a fish inside.
    Tuna Bay
    19 min walk - 1.0 mile
  • PIR Beach
    2 min walk - 0.1 miles

Restaurants

  • Z&Z Kitchen
  • Awatif Cafe
  • Abdul's Chalets
  • Abdul Café
  • Sekoci

About this property

Perhentian Island Resort

  • Resort by the sea
  • A coffee shop/cafe, dry cleaning/laundry services and a bar are just a few of the amenities provided at Perhentian Island Resort. The on-site restaurant, Pinang Seribu Restaurant, offers breakfast, lunch, dinner and a beachfront location. Stay connected with free WiFi in public areas.
  • You'll also find perks such as:
    • An outdoor pool
    • Buffet breakfast (surcharge), an outdoor tennis court and a round-trip airport shuttle (surcharge)
    • Tour/ticket information, a computer station and a front desk safe
    • Beach towels, a billiards/pool table and concierge services
  • Room features
  • All 106 rooms offer amenities such as free bottled water.
  • More amenities include:
    • Bathrooms with showers and bidets
    • Wardrobes/cupboards, balconies and mini fridges

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Frequently asked questions

Does Perhentian Island Resort have a pool?

Yes, this property has an outdoor pool.

Is Perhentian Island Resort pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

What time is check-in at Perhentian Island Resort?

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; check-in end time: 11:00 PM. After-hours check-in is not available.

What time is check-out at Perhentian Island Resort?

Checkout is at noon.

Does Perhentian Island Resort provide a shuttle to the airport?

Yes, there's an airport shuttle that runs on request. A per person, return fee applies.

Where is Perhentian Island Resort located?

Situated by the sea, this resort is steps away from Tuna Bay, PIR Beach and Flora Bay beach. Perhentian Beach and Keranji Beach are also within 3 miles (5 km).

Can I cancel my reservation for free and receive a full refund?

Yes, this property offers free cancellation on selected room rates because flexibility matters! Please refer to the property cancellation policy on our site for more details about any exclusions or requirements.

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Reviews

Perhentian Island Resort Reviews

7.6

Good

6.6

Cleanliness

8.8

Location

7.4

Staff & service

6.4

Property conditions & facilities
Rating 10 - Excellent. 88 out of 371 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 148 out of 371 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 87 out of 371 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 32 out of 371 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 16 out of 371 reviews

Reviews

Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Beautiful beach
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Perhentian Island Resort has one of the most beautiful (and visited...) beaches of the Islands.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2024
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Beach is lovely, food and food service is ok, no alcohol at this resort, diverse people
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Superb location in one of the best, of not the best, beach in Perhentian Besar. Very good facilities. Cleanliness to be improved.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness
Unbelievable beach and the water was incredible! You can snorkel right from the beautiful white sand beach. Buy (or bring) a good mask and you are all set. Head to Long Beach for some better food if you wish. Book the beachfront rooms if you can...it is worth the few.extra bucks. Pool is nice. You will not be disappointed as long as you don't mind a taxi ride from one of the close cities and a 35-45 minute boat shuttle! Worth the travel there 100%! Enjoy!
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2025
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness
The beach where hotel is situated is the best beach on the island, and overal the hotel is better than I expected from reviews. Where things got really bad for me is: 1. No wifi and no reception (4G / 5G) coverage from my sim card in the room. I could not do anything in my room, had to go to the reception / restaurant area every time I needed to check anything. 2. Food in the restaurant was just horrible. I could not understand how a location in Malaysia could possibly make things like fried rice or noodles completely uneadible. It wouldn't even require extra costs to improve the food, just the bare minimal amount of effort and care
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Excellent location. Moderate food quality. Helpful staff and services.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent staff, everything was great. The resort is situated in an amazing spot. Really loved it.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2020
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is a magical island with beautiful clean and clear waters. The resort staff are friendly and warm and facilities are clean. It is also not that far from kota bahru airport. Very accessible island paradise.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Well maintained resort n there are still some ongoing maintenance work.
Stayed 1 night in May 2019
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Stay at paradise

The location is excellent. It is so relaxing. The beach is just few meters away. It is a paradise. The only downside is the food. There are other hotels around with much better food.
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2020
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The location is paradise and great for a few days but the property is tired and needs a lot of work. The food at the restaurant was so average we went to the big island for dinner. If this resort was tidied up it would be a truely magical place to go as the beach is stunning with turtles straight out front .
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2022
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

3 night stay.

Warm welcome at reception and was allowed to checkin an hour before the official tine. Decent sized room. Could have been a little cleaner (hairs in bathroom on arrival). Towels provided. Little fridge although internet only available in restaurant area. Beach towel service and beach chair was excellent. Would stay again for sure.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2020
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Fantastic resort with nice beach

it's the hotel with the best Beach around 2 islands, good food you can have diving and country walk. But you can hear people from next room so try not making too many funny noise. :P And there are some sand on the bed since day one.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2019
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Staff & service, amenities
The resort and surroundings could be a bit cleaner. Food is average but there are a couple of other dining options a few minutes away. Land and boat transfer were poorly arranged by the reservation office but we managed to transfer by ourselves (very easy, lots of taxis and boats available at/from airport to jetty). The best part is the gorgeous beach with crystal clear waters…a dream come true!
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2023
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
id been this hotel 7th times.in front of there that beach has much many kind of fishes and turtle! therefore named turtle beach.but this time we couldnt c leaf monky nothing there.7years ago many leaf monkey there.very cute. missing.near beach tour feeding too much.made water to dirty.not national park already.im very sorry.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
PIR is probably the best hotel on the perhentians, considering the wonderful beach closeby populated by the most beautiful wildlife and the nice location of the bungalows themselves. There are many activities available. The room is well-equipped and beautiful, very-well cleaned, although not perfectly. The only defect of the structure is the restaurant: the prices are quite high compared to the rest of the island and the food is average
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Staff & service, amenities
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Great location. Super friendly staff. The room was just not good at all. Black stains on the walls, windows, bathroom was dirty. It should not be like this when you pay a lot. Otherwise the beach was very beautiful and not crowdy.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Acceptable Accommodations Amazing Location

Stayed in renovated room. Nothing exciting about the rooms. Drab bathrooms. Food not worth talking unfortunately (even the local food is boring) about but plentiful. No alcohol allowed on premises but smoking is allowed everywhere. Wifi only at reception area. Pool seems to have under repairs for sometime.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Overall wonderful experience. My daughter picked going here again over other vacation in SE Asia. Just after booking the trip, my wife broke her ankle. The paths are not scooter friendly, but that was not a top priority when we were picking a vacation spot. She healed enough before we left that she was able to swim, and see her favorite animal, the sea turtles. Which was our top priority. Excellent local wildlife on land and in water. Very convenient snorkeling out your front door.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2023
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Disliked: Cleanliness
Our view was fabulous! The restaurant was not great, we ordered prawns and they dipped snd fried small shrimp with the shell still on and served those. Awful! Most of the time we walked to somewhere else to eat. Our room was full of red ants we complained they did nothing. The beach was stunning!
Stayed 6 nights in Feb 2020
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort

Would definitely stay again

So, I loved this place. It was definitely worth splashing out for the ocean view room. The beach in high season was not busy at all. Best beach I’ve ever seen. Snorkling right on your own beach. Food was barely passable. Take a water taxi across to Long Beach to eat. They could improve this and it would make it much better. The rooms were a bit broken down but we didn’t mind at all. AC worked fine and we didn’t have any bugs and the beds were good enough. We were very happy here. They even have a tennis court (or what was once a tennis court). Staff were very sweet. Especially the male porters. Smiling and happy.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2025
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Amenities
The environment is so beautiful, staff is friendly and helpful. Wifi was not strong in our room, we had to go near to the reception for use internet. And safe box was not working but cleaning staff is trustworthy. If you need to do scuba diving book a slot a day before. I went in the last hour and they were occupied.(for licensed divers have no problem I guess)
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2019
Verified review

2/10 Terrible

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Burning plastic toxic smell permeated most of resort including inside units We were forced to leave early after waking up both days with bad headaches Status of refund unclear This seems to be standard operating procedure on the island Also smells of sewage and gas
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2022
Verified review

2/10 Terrible

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Room was a garden view room (Superior Double Queen room). Lots of insects like spiders, roaches (in bed), ants, etc. It’s adjacent to the jungle hence understand the amount of insects there, BUT they came in as the condition of the room was below acceptable standard: The bathroom was a catastrophe as the door frame was rotten away and allowed the insects to enter the apartment from the bottom. Also big gaps between front door and door frame. Same applies to patio doors. In general, the room required a significant amount of maintenance. Not worth the price we paid for it. There is lots of potential for this resort to be the best on the island but it is just not managed well enough. Staff were lovely though, at all times, always smiling and welcoming. Breakfast was okayish. Beach of course is one of the best we have seen so far, but it did not compensate for the bad condition of the room. We later changed to a Beachfront View room (we booked 2 separate rooms due to availability) and this changed the picture as the room was in a much better state than the Superior room we had.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2019