A licensed Malaysian operator, not a booking page
Batu Caves Tours is a brand of Exotic Asia Holidays Travel & Tours Sdn Bhd. One limestone hill, four caves, covered properly, by the company that runs the vehicle and employs the guide.
Reviews are for the parent operator Exotic Asia Holidays Travel & Tours.
Who runs this site
Exotic Asia Holidays Travel & Tours Sdn Bhd has operated out of Kuala Lumpur since 2010. We hold company registration 898289M, we are a MATTA member under MA3643, and we run under Ministry of Tourism licence KPL/LN/6245. Our registered address is 10-1-1 Queens Avenue, Jalan Bayam, 55100 Cheras.
That block sits in the footer of every page here, unchanged, exactly as it appears on our business profile and directory listings. None of the other Batu Caves microsites currently ranking name a company or publish a licence number, and several are affiliates reselling somebody else's tour.
Our sister site, mytravellane.com, covers wider Kuala Lumpur destination planning. This site does one attraction.
Why we publish the free option
Batu Caves is free to enter and a 30 to 40 minute train ride from KL Sentral for RM 2.60. Most visitors can get there perfectly well on their own, and this site says so plainly.
Then we serve the people that does not apply to: travellers on a tight schedule, families who would rather not work out the KTM with luggage and small children, and anyone who wants the temple explained rather than photographed.
The scope here is narrow on purpose. One limestone hill and its caves, with the current facts, including the ones other sites get wrong. The Dark Cave has been closed since 2019, whatever an RM 35 listing tells you.
Meet our team
Gana
Tour Operations Lead
Gana leads tour operations at Batu Caves Tours, a brand of Exotic Asia Holidays Travel & Tours in Kuala Lumpur. With the licensed operator's 16 years of experience, Gana focuses on giving visitors the honest facts about Batu Caves, from the 272 steps to which caves are actually open, before they book.
Our licences and registration
- Legal name
- Exotic Asia Holidays Travel & Tours Sdn Bhd
- Company registration (ROC)
- 898289M
- MATTA membership
- MA3643
- Ministry of Tourism licence
- KPL/LN/6245
- Registered address
- 10-1-1 Queens Avenue, Jalan Bayam, 55100 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Trading since
- 2010
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Book with the operator, not a middle layer
One WhatsApp thread from your first question to the drop-off, with the people who run the tour.
- Licensed operator, 16 years trading
- Full refund when you cancel 2+ days ahead
- Immediate email voucher on booking