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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 91 lodging
Best lodging in Kuala Lumpur
The 10 most notable lodging in Kuala Lumpur, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Atria Shopping Gallery
G47B, Jalan SS 22/23
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.525, percentile 100 of 91
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2
The Explorers Guesthouse
128, 130, Jalan Tun H S Lee
370 m from Sultan Street railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.499, percentile 98.89 of 91
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3
YMCA of Kuala Lumpur Hostel
95 Jalan Padang Belia
240 m from Tun Sambanthan Monorail station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.486, percentile 97.78 of 91
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4
The Travel Hub Guesthouse
15-1, Jalan Balai Polis, off, Jalan Petaling
248 m from Pasar Seni station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.442, percentile 96.67 of 91
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5
Mont Kiara Meridin
Jalan Duta Kiara, Taman Sri Hartamas
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.416, percentile 95.56 of 91
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6
PODs The Backpackers Home and Cafe
G-6, 30, Jalan Thambipillay
303 m from Tun Sambanthan Monorail station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.407, percentile 94.44 of 91
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7
Sunshine Bedz Hostel
63B, Jln Sultan Ismail
68 m from Bukit Bintang MRT station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.380, percentile 93.33 of 91
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8
Taragon Bintang suites
138 Jalan Changkat Thambi Dollah
315 m from Imbi Monorail station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.349, percentile 92.22 of 91
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9
Hartamas Regency 1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.326, percentile 91.11 of 91
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Atria SOFO
Jalan SS 22/23
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.310, percentile 90 of 91
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).