Airbnb Genting Highlands - My Awesome Moments

Managing Airbnb Unit

Managing Airbnb unit will consume lots of your time vs renting it out outright. If you want to command higher rental, you must maintain good reviews. To maintain good review, you must ensure everything is tip top.

Even myself nearly every month, I will do deep cleaning personally to ensure sparkling cleanliness. You can’t depend on your cleaner. They only clean on the surface only.

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Competitions

As you can see, most competitors put price at RM100++ while I’m putting at RM250++. To ensure I can put higher price, I put better amenities and ensure cleanliness is sparkling clean.

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There more condominiums coming up at Genting Highlands so it will be tough for everyone.

Conclusion

If the sales person saying that the rental is very good for Airbnb, please don’t trust them. Even current operators not doing that well.

If you plan to have high return, you should reconsider your investment but if you plan as your vacation home by all means you can buy a property in Genting Highlands.

Again we went to Genting Highlands for our short relaxing vacation together with my parents. My parents for quite some time didn’t go to Genting Highlands.

This time we stayed at Vista Residence near to Petron petrol station and Starbucks.

The condo looks luxurious from outside. Even the unit itself feel luxurious. Internet YES was provided at the unit I stayed but it was quite slow. I think generally in Genting Permai, the internet it not that good.

Bedrooms

I stayed in 3 bedrooms unit with 2 queen beds and one single bed. It is suitable for guests of 4 adults and 3 kids. The bedrooms doesn’t provide night lamps so it was really dark hard to go to the toilet in the night. So I had to switch on the toilet light and opened a bit the toilet door.

The third bedroom the aircond remote was not working.

The floor is parquet so your feet are not cold due to the coolness of Genting Highlands weather.

Living Room & Veranda

The ceiling fan at the living room was a bit dusty.

It didn’t have shoes rack, so when 7 guests in the unit, the floor looked messy due to the shoes.

It had big veranda but it was a bit dirty because got few cigarettes buds drop from unit above me and the view is not that nice as it was looking towards the highway. You could hear the noise of the highway if you opened the sliding door at the veranda so at the end you can’t get the cool breeze going into the unit.

Bathrooms

For the bathroom, it is not that clean especially on the toilet bowl and the water pressure was quite low for my liking. Beside glass to put your toothbrushes were not provided.

No bidet provided some more!

Anyway the host was responsive when we wanted additional soap because the soap were a little bit only when we checked in.

I went to the gym every morning to have my light exercise. I like the gym because easy to go from the unit.

Swimming Pool

It has lap swimming pool and kids swimming pool with jacuzzi.

The swimming pool was not heated though. It was really cold. But my kids went to the swimming pool anyway.

Parking

Parking was hard to find at first because host just give the parking number. Hard to find it.

When it is raining, you will get wet just to touch the access card to open the parking barrier.

Recommendation

In short, I won’t stay again at Vista Residence due to amenities at the unit is not well thought and water pressure is low.

Besides the swimming pool is not heated.

Location

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