MoMo's Kuala Lumpur is a new boutique property aimed at the millennial generation traveler drawn to a ?live, play and stay? mentality.

The Malaysian neighborhood of Chow Kit stands as a defiant holdout against the tide of gentrification and modernization sweeping across Kuala Lumpur. Host to the nation’s largest wet market, endless corridors of crowded stalls invite shoppers in this labyrinth neighborhood to peruse local produce and wares with an energy and authentic provinciality evaporating everywhere else across the Malaysian capital. MoMo’s Kuala Lumpur, a new boutique property leans into the “anything and everything goes” ethos of the neighborhood, operating as hotel, dive bar, gallery, and restaurant with a colorful personality befitting the city?s unofficial Red Light District.
Advertised as a “social hotel with micro rooms” with “major personality”, one can safely assume MoMo’s is envisioned to serve travelers who run toward, rather than away, from the action. The 99 micro rooms here are minimalist by design, featuring laminated wood platform and bunk beds for sleep, and mostly the bare minimum for everything else.

Space and storage is scant, but rooms offer spaces for shoes underneath each bed, a smart detail we wish we’d see in more hotels of even grander stature.
MoMo’s smallest rooms are perhaps their most fun, featuring bunk beds housed within approximately 120-130 sq ft. of space for ...