We spent 5 nights prior to this in jungle lodges and 5 nights after Tabin on ***a Island. All were amazing and we really enjoyed our time at the other places we stayed. We liked Borneo in general. However, sadly we wish we’d never visited Tabin Wildlife Resort. We thought Tabin was going to be a highlight of our trip as it is the largest wildlife reserve in Borneo. Unfortunately, it was a massive disappoin**ent from start to finish and we couldn’t wait to leave. The reserve is approximately 1.5 hours from Lahad Datu with most of the journey through palm oil plantations. The road is a little bumpy but it’s not that bad. The resort itself is just inside the reserve and surrounded by palm oil plantations. The resort is in a beautiful setting along the river. There are river lodges and hill lodges. The hill lodges have a lot of steps! We were in Hill Lodge 2 which is only the second one up the hill and we had 62 steps! The weather is extremely humid and uncomfortable. ROOM Very, very tired and in need of complete refurbishment. Door was difficult to open, the bathroom was filthy, broken blinds that don’t fully close, no hairdryer, damp and smelly. Does have air con but it cuts out when they need to re-fuel the power generators. You need to press the button on the wall to restart it. If you are out or it happens through the night, the room gets very warm quickly! No WiFi in room. THEFT It seemed everyone was having issues with their safes. On first use, our belongings got locked in. We informed our guide but because the program was quite busy for that day he suggested we sort it out the following day. We agreed as we had everything we needed. The safe was eventually opened after about 2 hours of different staff coming and going with various keys. It was my husband who got it open in the end. It appeared that the safe was that old, the mechanisms/springs weren’t operating properly. We ended up carrying our belongings around with us as no alternative was offered. When we counted our money, we found we were 250RM missing. I had counted the money before it went in the safe so I knew exactly how much we had. However, I doubted myself because the safe was inaccessible. I thought surely if we can’t access it then nobody else can. I couldn’t account for where we had spent that money though. We had no proof, so there was nothing we could do about it. However, during our transfer out of the resort we got chatting to another family who said they had also had money going missing from their safe. A few days later, when on ***a island, we bumped in to another couple who had been in our group at Tabin. They also had an issue with their safe and 2000RM was missing! It seems there is a coordinated operation, as staff know when guests will be away from their rooms for long periods of time. GUIDE We had Aslan as our guide the whole time we were there. We found him very unprofessional. He had an attitude, was very abrupt and lazy. His English was qui
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