Palm Rating 

In order to estimate and compare the many resorts in Tioman in a better way, we award palm trees for the categories planting, peacefulness, location, ambience and comfort. Between one and five palms can be achieved for each category. 

We try to be as objective as possible with this explanation, but a ranking of categories like planting and ambience is of course subjective, but this is in the nature of the things. Not everybody has the same taste. In addition we want to point out, that our ranking has nothing in common with the official Malaysian ranking. If a resort has the official Malaysian grade, we will mention that too.

The overall rating is our entire impression of the resort, most of the time it results out of the different categories whereby we weight all categories equally. Therefore it is also possible that a small uncomfortable resort with an amazing ambience in quite spectacular location gets as many palms as a 4 star hotel.

It is not always the huge and comfortable but noisy and impersonal hotel chunk where one want to spend the best weeks of the year. But if any category is for someone less or more important than another, you just weight according to your own preferences.

Since the category comfort is most important for many people, we want to explain the ranking in this category a bit more: We appraise here in the first place the cleanness and equipment of the bathroom. The equipment of the room itself goes generally hand in hand with this of the bathroom and is therefore not more precise measured. Regarding the equipment of the room we refer to our statements in the text, the tables and the images.

	dirty, very simple, poss. no washbasin, poss. no mirror, non-tiled bathroom, only cold water
	relative clean, simple but acceptable, poss. no washbasin, poss. non-tiled bathroom, only cold water
	clean, orderly but no luxury, tiled bathroom, cold or hot shower, washbasin
	very clean, well equipped, tiled bathroom, hot shower, washbasin, poss. bathtub
	very clean, very well equipped, tiled bathroom, hot shower, wash basin, bathtub, poss. Jacuzzi, poss. several bathrooms

We hope our rating will help you a little bit with the selection of your dream-resort. Of course you can also contact us personally, if you need more information about a resort.