The Tanjung Rhu was a lovely & beautiful resort. We stayed at this resort at the end of March 2008 & with the help of Trip Advisor we were not disappointed with our choice. The resort has (in my opinion) the best beach on the island. The pictures posted both on Trip Advisor and the hotel website are exactly as they seem.

The resort itself is finely maintained from the rain forest gardens to the clear white sand of Tanjung Rhu. This is a place to recharge, rest & relax. We filled most of our days by the Sands pool and going to the spa. The staff at this resort is what makes it both lovely and attentive.

The Tanjung Rhu Resort itself is in need of minor maintance. The rooms, pool area, restaurants are not what you expect from a 5 star resort. This is the only reason I personally would not give it the highest rating. Our room was cleaned well daily.

We did choose the all inclusive option; which is not all inclusive american style (buffet). Meals were served restaurant style with the exception of breakfast which was buffet but with a good selection, catering to all nationalities. Please note there is a dress code for the Rhu restaurant & reservations must be made for all 3 dining rooms in the evenings.

We spent a few days away from the resort visting the famous Langkawi Cable Car (which is not to be missed) and a day cruise with Blue Water Star Sailing, which was magic!! We chose to go with this private yacht charter because of the fantastic reviews from Trip Advisor & we were not disappointed. Eva and her staff were exceptional hosts. The mouthwatering homemade food alone was worth the trip! Eva's knowledge of Langkawi & the islands are clearly apparent with the routes she personally chooses to suite each cruise.

Overall, we had a wonderful stay at the Tanjung Rhu. Would we go back? Yes. Throughout our stay we saw maintance being done; clearly the management are aware of customer feedback & are doing something about it. The Tanjung Rhu Resort has wonderful staff who are well trained with customer service and this alone will offset the slight criticism above.

I loved this hotel, it was very peaceful, only noise birds singing in the jungle. The hotel is very understated, very in keeping with the jungle, lots of wood used everywhere, rustic. Very relaxed feeling. Two great swimming pools where you can do lengths - hard to find these days, and no chlorine. Views are amazing. We were all inclusive and worried about it, but there are 3 restaurants and all served up great food, and I am a foodie, lots of variety. Staff just great, as you expect in Malaysia, young staff so friendly, chatty funny, intelligent, well presented. We left £60 in hotel safe and they called us at the ferry terminal to tell us and credited the money to our credit card. We will definately be back soon, next time for longer. It is good holiday splitting this with the Rasa Sayang in Penang, from one excellent hotel to another, that is how I want to spend the next 10 years.

My wife & I visited Tanjung Rhu for 5 nights from 8/3, leaving 13/3 having spent 9 nights at the Pelangi resort in the south of Langkawi. We had stayed at TR before in 2001 for our honeymoon and were delighted to go back and we found it a very good combination with Pelangi where we dined out of the hotel every night and TR where due to its remote location we didn't leave the hotel at all. The hotel and location are beautiful and having been there before didn't reduce the impact of the views across the Andaman Sea to Thailand. We spent our days around the new Sands pool which had been built after our last visit and is an excellent addition to the facilities- the pool is c45 metres long and there was no problem if you wanted a swim as opposed to just bobbing about in the water. It is also right on the beach to so you can combine the 2 if that suits you. Loungers were great and the service from the bar with our green flags was very good. We helped ourselves to towels also- 4 between us and had no need for the beach towels we had taken from home which we will remember for next time. We managed to go to the fitness centre each day which had weights (roughly half a dozen machines and numerous free weights), 2 adult treadmills, a child treadmill, 2 bikes, a cross trainer and a rowing machine. It wasn't busy and we didn't have any issues getting on machines, though there weren't many. We would then have the buffet breakfast which handily went on until 11am which helped us go to the gym, then get ready for breakfast- the selection of foods was the best we had seen from a buffet breakfast in terms of quantity and the quality was good too.

For dinner we would visit either Rhu (fine dining), Saffron (mediterranean) or Sands (Asian) and always had a bottle of their house white (one of 6 red & white house wines offered) which was roughly £17.50 for the bottle with glasses of wine coming in at c£4 each, beer at c£2 a glass, and cocktails are c£3 each. These prices were more expensive than Pelangi but as the board basis we were on covered all our food and non alcoholic beverages, we still felt it offered excellent value. This also enabled us to sample their lovely mocktails and plenty of water / soft drinks during the day which we probably would have been less inclined to do if we were paying for them by the glass.

The main bars were at the Reading Room opposite Rhu and at the Sands pool bar- the latter offered 2 happy hours per day between 6.30 and 7.30 and from 10-11 which we were able to make good use of.

Our room was well appointed with decent cupboard space, but a little less storage space overall than we had at Pelangi- we also were very near the natural seawater pool so we had a minimal view and our balcony was quite small. Fantastic bath & shower and a good room overall, though we did find a couple of cockroaches in a cupboard and were nibbled by mosquitoes a little, thouhg not enough for it to be an issue.

I also experienced a very relaxing visit to their spa where I had a jacuzzi/steam room/ sauna before having a rainshower massage (wonderful and very different) and then an aromatherapy massage and foot rub- extremely relaxing with the above costing £50 in total- not bad for 2 and a half hours of pampering I felt and this was discounted as I had the treatments prior to 3 pm.

Overall, a superb location with breathtaking views and we were delighted to have visited again 7 years after our 1st trip and will have to go back again...

We visited Tanjung Rhu at the beginning of March for just over a week and we had a fantastic time. The beach and scenery around the hotel is fantastic, lush and very beautiful. The staff are a major asset to the hotel and are very welcoming and helpful. We were picked up from the airport by the hotel (how they knew which flight we were on I have no idea) and taken straight to our bedroom to check in which is a lovely touch. We were lucky enough to have a room upgrade and so had a fantastic view of the beach and sea and the room was huge!

We fully intended to visit the waterfalls, the mangrove and go up the cable car, but in fact we never left the resort. It was so relaxing we never had the inclination, indeed we never made it to breakfast once!

After reading the reviews on here I was expecting the resort to be run down and although a few areas require a touch of paint I wouldn't say it was run down and if it was you can forgive it as its so lovely.

You must go all inclusive as the food is excellent and drink not too expensive for a hotel, the saffron was our favourite and the pool side lunches were great.