# Malacca Night Tour: River Cruise, Trishaw & Drive Home > Guided Malacca night tour, from MYR 243.60: the river cruise after the lights come on, a trishaw through the Melaka old town, and the drive back to KL handled. URL: https://malaccatour.com/night-tour/ ![A trishaw strung with lights and flowers parked at night outside the A Famosa gate](/images/tours/lit-trishaw-at-night-outside-a-famosa.webp) verified Most booked evening # Malacca night tour: cruise, trishaw and the drive back handled The Malacca evening done properly — illuminated river cruise, trishaw ride, and the drive back to KL handled. - check\_circle Illuminated Malacca River Cruise, with your slot booked before you travel - check\_circle Decorated trishaw (Beca Melaka) ride through Dutch Square and the old town - check\_circle The evening ordered around the light, so the cruise lands after the bridges come on calendar\_month See booking options [#booking →](#booking) Not sure yet? Ask us [/contact/ →](/contact/) before you book. Last updated: 1 September 2026 star star star star star\_half 4.8 from 311 reviews policy MOTAC licensed operator history\_edu 16 years operating schedule 9 AM–11 PM daily Rating is the parent operator's Google profile, Exotic Asia Holidays Travel & Tours. Reviews were not collected on this site. Read them on Google [https://search.google.com/local/reviews?placeid=ChIJCbpUEhY2zDERvIasAOuS59s →](https://search.google.com/local/reviews?placeid=ChIJCbpUEhY2zDERvIasAOuS59s) . Book direct ## Night tour booking options Booked with the company that runs the vehicle and employs the guide, not an affiliate reselling a listing. Private vehicle, your group only ### Private Malacca Evening Tour with River Cruise & Trishaw Ride Your own vehicle and driver-guide for the evening. The group is only ever the people you booked with. group **Suits:** Families with children, couples who want the pace to themselves, anyone travelling with older parents. Adult 12–80 MYR 334.95 Child 3–11 MYR 223.30 Infant 0–2 Confirmed at checkout Priced per person Minimum party 2 adults Duration 8 hours Departs 14:00 Book by 1 day ahead Booking reference Exp 868345 Confirmation Instant e-voucher Booking for one? Message us before you pay and we will tell you what is possible. Included - Driver Guided Tour - Full Air-Conditioned Vehicle - Trishaw Ride - River Cruise Ticket - Air-Conditioned vehicle Not included - Tip or gratuity - Personal expenses - Travel insurance **Pickup:** Complimentary pick-up and drop-off from hotels or residences within a 5-kilometre radius of the Petronas Twin Towers. Outside KL city centre, take a cab or Grab to Corus Hotel Kuala Lumpur; outskirt pick-up charges are agreed with the local operator and paid on pick-up. **Waiting time:** Be at the lobby 5 minutes before the start time. Standard waiting time is 5 minutes, after which it is treated as a no-show. **Cancellation:** Refund if cancelled at least 2 days before the event. Figures read from the live booking page on 1 September 2026. The booking page is always the authority for your date. Check dates & prices [#book-868345 →](#book-868345) Shared departure, seat basis ### Malacca Evening Tour with River Cruise & Trishaw Ride (SIC) The same evening on a shared departure. You travel with other guests, and the per-adult rate is lower than the private option. group **Suits:** Solo travellers, couples, and anyone happy to work around a fixed pickup window. Adult 12–80 MYR 243.60 Child 3–11 MYR 203.00 Infant 0–2 Confirmed at checkout Priced per person Minimum party 2 adults Duration 8 hours Departs 14:00 Book by 2 days ahead Booking reference Exp 868352 Confirmation Instant e-voucher Booking for one? Message us before you pay and we will tell you what is possible. Included - Driver Guided Tour - Full Air-Conditioned Vehicle - Trishaw Ride - River Cruise Ticket Not included - Tip or gratuity - Personal expenses - Travel insurance **Pickup:** Complimentary pick-up from hotels or residences within a 3-kilometre radius of the Twin Towers. Outside KL city centre, take a cab and wait at Corus Hotel Kuala Lumpur. As this is a shared transfer, early or late pick-up is possible. Drop-off is at the Petronas Twin Towers. **Waiting time:** Be at the lobby 5 minutes before the start time. Standard waiting time is 5 minutes, after which it is treated as a no-show. **Cancellation:** A cancellation fee of 100% applies if the booking is cancelled 1 day or less before the event. Figures read from the live booking page on 1 September 2026. The booking page is always the authority for your date. Check dates & prices [#book-868352 →](#book-868352) **Which dates run:** Friday, Saturday and Sunday dates are greyed out in the calendars below — the evening tour is not currently sold on those days. If your only free night is a weekend, message us before you plan around it. ### Check dates for Private Malacca Evening Tour with River Cruise & Trishaw Ride MYR 334.95 per adult · MYR 223.30 per child aged 3–11 · minimum 2 adults · departs 14:00, 8 hours · refund if cancelled at least 2 days before the event The figure in each date square is the total for two adults, which is the minimum party. Per-person rates are on the card above. Pick a date above and your total appears in the summary. Checkout stays greyed out until a date is chosen. Trouble with the panel? Open the booking page in a new tab [https://widgets.bokun.io/online-sales/01b12545-2180-41ae-ac64-aeda3f18e8f8/experience/868345 →](https://widgets.bokun.io/online-sales/01b12545-2180-41ae-ac64-aeda3f18e8f8/experience/868345) or message us and we will take the booking with you. ### Check dates for Malacca Evening Tour with River Cruise & Trishaw Ride (SIC) MYR 243.60 per adult · MYR 203.00 per child aged 3–11 · minimum 2 adults · departs 14:00, 8 hours · a cancellation fee of 100% applies if the booking is cancelled 1 day or less before the event This departure is sold through a second Bokun account, so its calendar opens on its own booking page rather than inside this one. Every figure above is read from that page, and it is where you pick your date and pay. calendar\_month Check dates on the secure booking page [https://widgets.bokun.io/online-sales/bbb0fa6f-02b9-41f9-bb4f-b6a78e289c04/experience/868352 →](https://widgets.bokun.io/online-sales/bbb0fa6f-02b9-41f9-bb4f-b6a78e289c04/experience/868352) The figure in each date square on that page is the total for two adults, which is the minimum party. Per-person rates are on the card above. Prices are per person in ringgit, read off the live booking pages on 1 September 2026. A minimum of two adults applies to both options, and both depart at 14:00 and run 8 hours. The booking page is the authority for your date. Pickup outside the free radius, a group of one adult, a group bigger than one vehicle, or a date the calendar will not take: get in touch [/contact/ →](/contact/) and we will sort it before you pay. No maximum party size is stated on any booking page, so larger groups need a word first. Live prices, inclusions and the cancellation window are confirmed in the booking panel for the date you pick, so what you check out with is always what applies. Prefer to ask first? Send us an enquiry [/contact/ →](/contact/) — we answer 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM MYT daily. Tripadvisor · Nine consecutive years, 2017 to 2025 - ![Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2025](/images/badges/tripadvisor-travellers-choice-2025-ink.webp) - ![Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2024](/images/badges/tripadvisor-travellers-choice-2024-ink.webp) - ![Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice 2023](/images/badges/tripadvisor-travellers-choice-2023-ink.webp) Awarded to our parent operator, Exotic Asia Holidays Travel & Tours. ## What the Malacca night tour actually is Malacca after dark is a different city from the one in the guidebook photographs. The bridges come on, the shophouse facades along the river light up, and the water carries all of it back at you. The Malacca River Cruise runs its 45-minute, roughly 9 km route until 11 PM last boarding, and the evening sailings are the ones people queue for. That is the whole problem this tour solves. On weekends and public holidays those evening slots sell out for walk-ups, and the cruise operator’s online tickets are date-specific and non-refundable, so buying ahead on spec is its own gamble. We book the slot as part of the evening, put a decorated trishaw ride through Dutch Square and the old town around it, and drive you home. You arrive, you are handed the evening, and someone else watches the clock. It is the busiest of the guided Malacca tours [/ →](/) we run, and the one we built this operation around. ![A row of decorated trishaws parked outside the red Stadthuys buildings in Melaka](/images/tours/row-of-decorated-trishaws-outside-the-stadthuys.webp) ### What the booking includes Copied from the booking page’s own inclusion list, read on 1 September 2026: - A seat on the illuminated Malacca River Cruise, booked for you in advance - A decorated trishaw (Beca Melaka) ride through the Dutch Square area and the old town streets - Round-trip transport from Kuala Lumpur in a full air-conditioned vehicle, driver-guide included - An English-speaking driver-guide employed by the operator, not a subcontracted stranger Meals are not on that list. Malacca eats well and cheaply, so your driver-guide points you at the places worth eating at and you pay for what you order. Tell us before you book if you would rather we arranged it. ### What is not included, and what you could do yourself We would rather say this plainly than have you find out later. Entry to most of Malacca’s old town is free. You can walk Jonker Street, climb St Paul’s Hill and stand in front of the Stadthuys without paying anyone, and the cruise sells tickets at the jetty counter to anyone who turns up. We publish those fares in full on our river cruise ticket page [/river-cruise/ →](/river-cruise/) . If they make you want to drive down and buy at the jetty, that is a reasonable plan, and our tour or DIY comparison [/tour-or-diy/ →](/tour-or-diy/) sets out how it works. What you are paying us for is the transport, the pre-booked slot, the guiding, and the fact that on the drive back you are a passenger. For a lot of people, especially with children or older parents in the group, that is the difference between a good night and an exhausting one. Weekend and public-holiday evening cruise slots are the first to go, which is why we book yours ahead. Note the shape of our own calendar too: Friday, Saturday and Sunday dates are not currently offered on this tour. ## How the evening runs Pickup is from your Kuala Lumpur hotel within the standard radius, or from the Corus Hotel meeting point. It is about 150 km and roughly two hours each way, so the day starts in the afternoon rather than at dawn. Your driver-guide WhatsApps the day before to confirm where and when. In Malacca the order is set by light. The trishaw and the old-town walking happen while there is still some of it; the cruise is timed for after the lights come on, when the bridges and the painted shophouses are the point. Eating fits either side of the cruise depending on your slot. Then the drive back, and you sleep through the second half of it. Both the private and shared versions run the same evening. The difference is the vehicle and the timing flexibility, not the content. ### Private or shared, side by side | | Private | Shared | | --- | --- | --- | | Vehicle | Your group only, full air-conditioned vehicle | Shared departure, seat basis | | Pickup timing | Flexes around your hotel and your pace | Fixed pickup window | | Cruise and trishaw | Included, pre-booked | Included, pre-booked | | Suits | Families, older parents, anyone wanting the pace to themselves | Solo travellers and couples happy with a set schedule | | Price basis | Per person, MYR 334.95 per adult | Per person, MYR 243.60 per adult | ## What this tour covers - check\_circle Illuminated Malacca River Cruise, with your slot booked before you travel - check\_circle Decorated trishaw (Beca Melaka) ride through Dutch Square and the old town - check\_circle The evening ordered around the light, so the cruise lands after the bridges come on - check\_circle Round-trip transport in a full air-conditioned vehicle, including the drive back to KL after dark - check\_circle Private and shared options set out side by side - check\_circle English-speaking driver-guide who works for us, not a subcontracted stranger The booking page's own inclusion and exclusion lists are printed in full on each booking card above. They cover transport, the driver-guide and any tickets, and they do not itemise individual stops. ## Not sure which tour fits your trip? Tell us your dates and who is travelling. We will say which evening works, or tell you honestly to do it yourself. forum Tell us your dates [/contact/ →](/contact/) Day tour or night tour? [/day-or-night/ →](/day-or-night/) The specialist edge ## Why book the night tour with us - confirmation\_number ### The cruise slot is already yours Weekend and holiday evening slots sell out for walk-ups, and the operator's own online tickets are date-specific and non-refundable. We book the slot before you travel, which is the main reason this tour exists. - airline\_seat\_recline\_extra ### You are not the one driving back Malacca is a two-hour drive from KL and the evening ends late. Round-trip transport is included, so the last hour of your night is a nap, not a motorway. - policy ### Licensed operator, not a reseller Booked direct with Exotic Asia Holidays: MATTA MA3643, Tourism Ministry Licence KPL/LN/6245, trading since 2010. The vehicle is ours and the guide is on our payroll. - handshake ### Honest about what you could do yourself The old town is free to walk and the cruise sells tickets at the jetty. We publish the fares on our own site, then let you decide whether the evening is worth handing over. From booking to drop-off ## How the night tour works 1. 1 shopping\_cart\_checkout ### Book online Pick private or shared, choose your date, and pay through the booking page. Your e-voucher arrives by email straight away. 2. 2 chat ### Driver messages you Your driver WhatsApps the day before to confirm the pickup point and time. Anything you forgot to ask, ask then. 3. 3 directions\_car ### Pickup and drive down Departure is 14:00. Be in the lobby 5 minutes early. It is about 150 km and two hours to Malacca, and you are not the one driving. 4. 4 nightlight ### The evening, then home Trishaw, the cruise at its best illuminated hours, and the drive back to KL. Late finish, but not your problem. Good to know ## Night tour questions Do I need to book the evening cruise in advance? expand\_more For weekends and public holidays, yes. Evening slots sell out for walk-ups and the operator's online tickets are date-specific and non-refundable. The night tour pre-books the slot for you, which is the point of taking it. What time does the Melaka night tour start and finish? expand\_more Both options depart at 14:00 and run 8 hours, so the drive back to Kuala Lumpur lands late evening. Exact timings for your date are on the booking page. Is the trishaw ride included? expand\_more Yes. The decorated trishaw ride is included and routed within the evening, so there is no walk-up haggling over the fare or the route. Private or shared night tour — which should I book? expand\_more Private is MYR 334.95 per adult and suits families, older travellers and anyone who wants the pace to themselves. Shared is MYR 243.60 per adult on a fixed departure, and suits couples and solo travellers. What if it rains? expand\_more Tropical showers are usually short and the cruise runs in light rain. Bring a thin poncho or umbrella. If the cruise operator suspends boarding for weather, your driver-guide reworks the evening's order on the spot. Which jetty does the cruise leave from? expand\_more The cruise runs from two jetties, Taman Rempah and Muara. Your driver-guide confirms which one applies to your booking when they message you the day before, so you are never guessing on the night. Gallery ## On the night tour The places this tour goes. Click any photo to enlarge. ## Related guides ### Melaka River Cruise ticket price Published Malacca River Cruise fares by tier, the 45-minute route, both jetties, and why weekend evening slots sell out for walk-ups. [Melaka River Cruise ticket price →](/river-cruise/) ### Melaka trishaw ride price How the Malacca trishaw ride price is agreed, the Dutch Square route, and how the ride is included in the guided night tour. [Melaka trishaw ride price →](/trishaw/) ### Jonker Street night market Jonker Walk night market: Friday to Sunday evening street food and atmosphere, when it runs, and how it pairs with a guided Malacca night tour. [Jonker Street night market →](/jonker-street/) ## Related tours ![The A Famosa gate, Porta de Santiago, with visitors and an old cannon in front of it](/images/tours/a-famosa-porta-de-santiago-gate-with-visitors.webp) ### Malacca historical day tour The UNESCO old town explained by a licensed guide on a private 10-hour day from Kuala Lumpur. See the tour arrow\_forward [Malacca historical day tour →](/day-tour/) ![Putra Mosque and Perdana Putra beside the lake in Putrajaya, seen from the air](/images/tours/putra-mosque-and-perdana-putra-from-the-air.webp) ### Malacca combo tours Malacca paired with Putrajaya's Pink Mosque, or a Malacca day with a KL evening — two destinations, one planned day. See the tour arrow\_forward [Malacca combo tours →](/combo-tours/) ![](/images/tours/melaka-mural-lane-with-painted-shophouse-walls.webp) We book your river cruise slot before you travel. Friday to Sunday dates are not currently offered ## Ready to book the night tour? The Malacca evening done properly — illuminated river cruise, trishaw ride, and the drive back to KL handled. calendar\_month See booking options [/night-tour/#booking →](/night-tour/#booking) forum Ask us first [/contact/ →](/contact/) verified MATTA MA3643 · MOTAC KPL/LN/6245 schedule 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM MYT daily handshake Booked direct with the operator Per adult MYR 243.60 shared, MYR 334.95 private calendar\_month Check dates [#booking →](#booking)