I stayed at Hotel Petaling only one night, actually only about 7-8 hours. I came late in the evening by bus from Melaka, and left early in the morning to Taman Negara with Han Travel. Han's nearby starting point was my only reason for choosing a hotel at this position. This, fortunately very short experience, was probably the worst hotel experience I ever had. It's a mistery how this hellhole can be among the 30% best Kuala Lumpur hotels according to TA reviewers. I read back some of the reviews and found several examples of great forgiveness on the side of reviewers who, though noticing very serious flaws, for some reasons did not give this hotel the deserved low grades. When I came late in the night, the two receptionists (one older, mean-looking guy and much friendlier younger guy) were very obviously suprised, even though the room was booked and should have been waiting for me clean and ready. They exchanged few hasty sentences in Chinese, and the younger guy rushed up the stairs, obviously to tidy up the room for me. Seeing this, I lowered my expectations on cleanliness and, basically, everything else, so I wasn't very upset seeing a very shaby room with no window, and some strange kind of "door". The very loud AC, if I remember it correctly, I managed somehow to shut off, since I was recieving enough air through a crack under the door. But the main shock came after I shut off the light in the "room". There was a tiny layer of artificial light protruding in THROUGH A CRACK BETWEEN THE "WALL" AND THE CEILING!!! I touched the "wall" and realised that it is not a wall at all, but a cardboard, poorly attached to the ceiling. Yes, I was not in a room, but in a carboard box! I could hear every single, even the slightest noise, not from my first neighbors, but from at least from 5-6 different similar "rooms". The things dramatically worstened when a family with a small child who just couldn't stop crying for more than an hour returned from somewhere. Judging to some other sounds and noises I heard from that direction, they were not tourists, but, as one of the earlier reviewers noticed, lived there. Somehow I did catch few hours of sleep, before the same child woke me up much before my set alarm. On a bit brighter note, the morning guy at the front desk was very polite and friendly. Anyway, even though the price for this staying was very low, it wasn't worth it.…