Swiss-Inn Johor Bahru is a Good Place for Both Business and Pleasure

As a fan of Swiss-Garden, I have stayed at some of their hotels and resorts in KL, Melaka, Kuantan and Sungai Petani since I often travel for both business and pleasure.

Earlier this year, I found out the Swiss-Garden has opened their new branch in Johor Bahru. Then, a few months ago, I was coincidentally having a business meeting with my Singaporean client at Johor Bahru. So, naturally, I told my client to meet up at Swiss-Inn Johor Bahru since I’m planning to utilise my SGI Vacation Club to book a room for one night.

True to their world-class reputation, Swiss-Inn Johor Bahru provides more than just a room stay. For a business person like myself, this inn has it all since they offer essential services and various types of meeting venues. So, I end up taking the half-day meeting package and booked a spot called “The Little Small Space” meeting room. I took a classroom since it able to fit a capacity up to 30 peoples comfortably. With white screen and flip chart readily available inside the boardroom, I was able to showcase my business presentation to my Singapore client alongside his other co-partners with relative ease. Everything went as smooth as I wanted it to be.

Now, you might be asking, what’s in the half-day meeting package? Well, the package was inclusive of coffee, snack and lunch. But that’s not all as it also comes with things like complimentary drinking bottles, mints, writing pads and even microphone with PA system.

After a half day’s worth of business meeting with my client, I spend the rest of my day chilling out at the inn. Yeah, I’m just too lazy to hang around outside the inn since it was awfully jammed at the Johor Bahru city centre. I took a short nap back in my room before I decided to make way to fill up my stomach at Rilek the Cafe during dinnertime. The cafe is located at the Level 1 and I understand it opens until late at night (11pm, if I’m not mistaken) during the weekdays. I know they provide 12-hour room service as well where I could call for that instead. But since I need to stretch my legs as well, why not going down to the cafe itself?

So, here’s what I thought about the cafe. They definitely weren’t kidding about using the word “rilek” within the name of their cafe. For the uninitiated, “rilek” literally means “relax” in English. Not only the cafe is spacious (I read it from somewhere it can fit up to 170 peoples!), but I’m particularly impressed with the open-kitchen concept as well as the dining area that feels like home sweet home.

Price-wise, it was reasonable enough for a hotel or an inn like this one in Johor Bahru. That evening I happen to call one of my JB friends for dinner. So, we end up ordering a “Super Deal” set dinner for two persons totalled at RM48 nett. Not bad, I would say. The set comes with rice, grilled fish, oxtail soup, mixed vegetables, fried omelettes and fruits platter. For a price like that, the set is sufficient enough for the both of us. Not to mention the food tastes good and delicious. Best of all, with my SGI Vacation Club, I was entitled to get 20% discount on F&B. Talk about value for money.