Masada Backpacker hostel in Kota Kinabalu has both dorms and rooms. The dorms are approximately $8 per person which is pretty cheap while the Standard Twin room was $21 per person. We decided to take the Standard Twin room since we were going to be there for a while.

The hostel was larger than we expected. There were rooms on the ground floor as well as the floor above and there was a connection between two buildings which wasn’t apparent from outside. Our room was on the top floor and I was really happy with it. At least I was happy with the second room that they provided. At first we were given a room without a window since none of the rooms that had windows were available in the middle of the night. That was a bit sad because we had specifically booked a room with a window through booking.com. They did adjust our room rates and give us the room we wanted in the morning so I didn’t mind too much.