Country Info
- Kuala Lumpur
- Capital
- Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
- Currency
- 22,229,040
- Population
- MY
- Country Code
Malaysia Slideshow
Top Hotels in Penang
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Swiss Garden Hotel Kuala Lumpur
585 reviews -
City Bayview Georgetown
300 reviews
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The Regent Kuala Lumpur
488 reviews -
Novotel Century Kuala Lumpur
367 reviews
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The Westin Kuala Lumpur
638 reviews
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Parkroyal Penang, Malaysia Batu Ferringhi
578 reviews
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Legend Hotel - Kuala Lumpur
221 reviews
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Hilton Petaling Jaya
171 reviews
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Traders Kuala Lumpur
2540 reviews -
Sutera Harbour Resort Kota Kinabalu
539 reviews
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Impiana Klcc Hotel And Spa Kuala Lumpur
689 reviews
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Federal Hotel Kuala Lumpur
235 reviews -
Concorde Kuala Lumpur
368 reviews
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PARKROYAL Kuala Lumpur
674 reviews
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Hyatt Regency Kinabalu Kota Kinabalu
230 reviews
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Boulevard Kuala Lumpur
197 reviews
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Bayview Hotel Langkawi
242 reviews
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Eastin Petaling Jaya
116 reviews
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Brisdale Kuala Lumpur
181 reviews -
Pan Pacific Kuala Lumpur International Airport Sepang
701 reviews
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Cititel Mid Valley Kuala Lumpur
235 reviews
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Mandarin Oriental, Kuala Lumpur
1108 reviews
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Hilton Kuala Lumpur
697 reviews
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Holiday Inn Resort Georgetown
427 reviews
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Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur
531 reviews
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Sunway Hotel Georgetown
387 reviews
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Sheraton Penang Hotel Georgetown
215 reviews
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Hyatt Regency Kuantan Resort
207 reviews
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Hotel Grand Continental Kuala Lumpur
110 reviews
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Melia Hotel Kuala Lumpur
427 reviews
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Dorsett Regency Hotel Kuala Lumpur
433 reviews
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Holiday Inn Melaka
426 reviews
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Nexus Kota Kinabalu
552 reviews
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Four Points Sheraton Kuching
180 reviews
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Hotel Istana Kuala Lumpur
895 reviews
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Hotel Equatorial Melaka
361 reviews
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Copthorne Orchid Hotel Penang Pulau Penang
216 reviews
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Shangri-La Golden Sands Resort Pulau Penang
511 reviews
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Grand Seasons Hotel Kuala Lumpur
242 reviews
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Prince Hotel & Residence Kuala Lumpur
454 reviews
Penang
Travel Blogs from Penang, Malaysia
We are wanderers...
This is a top pick! ... see a tourist info place on the way so we stopped into the air-con building and grabbed some maps of town and other parts of Malaysia and just did a bit of research for a bit; then we went out to brave the heat on foot again. Fort Cornwallis is basically ...
Penang - Bye bye beach
This is a top pick! ... the bus (public transport in Malaysia is flawless) to Kek Lok Si Temple in Air Itam, it's the biggest buddhist temple in Malaysia. Luckily that day there was very few people around and this gave the place a really eerie, peaceful feeling. The architecture ...
Penang
This is a top pick! ... routards je suppose! Nous avons renvoyé deux boites de plus (avec nos cadeaux de Noël) afin d'essayer d'être plus légers .... Penang est un site du patrimoine mondial, et pourtant, si pauvre et si sale encore. Nous sommes allés au parc national ...
Day 63: A Taste of Penang
This is a top pick! ... by now. I arrived in Penang just after dark and found my desired guesthouse without much navigation trouble. Penang is an island in North Malaysia famous for its cheap and amazing cuisine and colonial architecture, and was in fact being awarded UNESCO ...
Cultural (con)fusion
This is a top pick! ... of near disillusionment with the religious text of the backpacker- the South-East Asia Lonely Planet guidebook. Its exultant descriptions of Penang had left me breathless with anticipation: The 'party town' (where beers cost the same as Sydney and spirits ...
Penang - Part 2
This is a top pick! On Sunday 12th September 2004 I went to Palace Payar Marine park, this is near Langkawi Island. From Georgetown we took a ferry to the park, it took about 1 ½ hours to get there, but sitting on the top deck of the ferry in the sun made it a very nice ...
Away from Thailand we sprint!
This is a top pick! ... got to e-mail them to get there secret spicy secret sauce, which the name deserts me on, simple creature, big tummy. Malaysia, good, good first impressions, really multicultural, majority Muslim country, but many Chinese, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian, we ...
Pilau Penang (sic) - days 33 to 38
This is a top pick! ... ever needed advice. (Two hours later and he had emailed a load of interesting resources!) The last task before we left Penang, and indeed Malaysia, was for Ross to dispose of the beard he had been trying to grow as an experiment / for a ...
happy birthday to me!!
This is a top pick! July 1 As I write this we are on the 'high speed ferry' (and that's debatable) heading to Penang, Malaysia. Our Indonesian visas expire tomorrow...US citizens get one month to be here...which is hardly enough to fully explore this extensive chain ...
Borneo bound!
This is a top pick! Having decided to stay in Malaysia for more than my original month long tour, I am now going to make the jump from Peninsular Malaysia to Borneo Malaysia this Sunday. This is possibly going to be the most memorable part of the Malaysian leg of this trip ...
Leaving Malaysia...in a minivan
This is a top pick! ... Phil's sandals smelling like burnt popcorn). So, we started walking the 3 miles back to Ipoh; it got dark and the sidewalks in Malaysia are...inconsistent, which made walking on them a guessing game of "is that a piece of cement or a hole through which I ...
Back in Penang... and we can't leave!!
This is a top pick! ... flights and just wanted to go as we wished, even if it meant going back on ourselves... a lot! We found ourselves back in Penang en route to North Sumatra, a place we really enjoyed during our 24-hour flying visit a couple of months before, which gave ...
Butterfly farm and night market
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Dec 31st, Butterfly farm and night market The butterfly farm is quite small, yet holds beautiful plants with lots of flowers for the butterflies to feed off them... lots of kids too who try to catch the butterflies, which is too ...
High Tea High Up!
This is a top pick! ... the gunpowder rooms. The Fort was on the top Northern corner of Penang so we could see for miles across to mainland Malaysia and up the Andaman Sea. Although Penang is an island it is only 2km from the mainland and is joined by a bridge so doesn't feel ...
Penang - my first Malaysian island
This is a top pick! ... have heard of people in Thailand paying double for tours/tickets when not buying from the company/station directly. Penang is the first island that I have visited in Malaysia, and it is vast. Here in the middle of Chinatown there is no way of telling ...
Malaysia - Penang
This is a top pick! ... accommodation just north of Georgetown, the islands capital. You may wonder why we took this route as any map of Malaysia will show that Kota Bharu and Penang are both in the very north of the country, whereas KL is towards the south. The simple answer ...
Ferringhi Beach
This is a top pick! Last night was the first heavy downpour since arriving in Malaysia. Unfortunately I had left some clothes out to dry on the roof of my hotel and by morning they were predictably wet again. Never mind, usually it only takes a couple of hours for clothes ...
Penang Part 1-11sep 2004
This is a top pick! I arrived in Penang or "the pearl of the Orient" on the 10th September 2004. Penang lies off of the northwest cost of Peninsual Malaysia and it is beautiful. I arrived in the afternoon at my hotel the casuarina which is in Batu Ferringhi, I have stayed ...
Another Time Another Place
This is a top pick! ... 9.30 - Bus to Surat Thani 12.00 - Board minivan to Hat Yai 4.00 - New minivan, to Malaysia 10.00 - Ferry to Penang 10.15 - Minivan to Georgetown Just to help things along, in both Surat Thani, and Hat ...
Day 120
This is a top pick! ... in to Georgetown and tried some Roti Canai - like a miniature curry and naan bread. Then I found the night market and had some noodle soup from a Chinese vendor. I'm beginning to enjoy Malaysia's ethnic simply for the food options! ...
Finally in Malaysia
This is a top pick! ... that we had booked a ferry and busses through one company to take us all the way to a place called Khota Bahru, in the north of Malaysia, right next to the most southerly part of Thailand. It was to be a boat, a bus to a town in Thailand called Hat Yai, ...
Penang
This is a top pick! ... and places of worship. We visited the House of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. He organised the Chinese revolution from that very house in Penang. Our tour guide produced a movie about him a few years ago and sat us down to watch 15 minute snippets from it. She was a ...
Wandering in the Rain - Then Drying Out
This is a top pick! ... about $150 each round trip from Bangkok. Counting the cab ride to the airport in BKK, the flight, and the cab to Georgetown in Penang, it’s about a 5-hour trip. But it wasn’t unpleasant, and we made it in time to watch the sunset from our pimp ...
Funicular Fun
This is a top pick! ... well more listening, to a Moroccan guy who had been here a few years ago and seemed to know a heck of a lot about Penang and Malaysia. For all I knew though he could have been making most of it up, spewing endless tales of imaginative waffle but at least ...
"George Town"
This is a top pick! ... was shown in great detail at the Penang Museum, which we visited on our first full day in town. Because of this Penang's historic architecture is centered mainly in George Town. Its rows of 100 year-old chophouses and colonial villas give George Town ...
Temples and Funiculars
This is a top pick! ... itself was very impressive, especially with the green hills as a back drop. Following a lengthy tour of the grounds it was onto Penang Hill for a view of Georgetown. To ascend this hill we had to ride a funicular (a first for me) which was quite novel ...
Food Heaven
This is a top pick! ... clean everything is and how polite the people are. And no one has tried to sell us a single thing since we arrived in Malaysia. Anyway, tomorrow we are off to the beach via a two-hour ferry ride to Langkawi. We are looking forward seeing Malaysia's ...
Malaysia - Location Summary
This is a top pick! LOCATION SUMMARY - Malaysia Location: Kuala Lumpur, Borneo, Kota Bharu, Penang Duration: 17 days Sights 5 People 5 Food 4 ...
...we roam around, around, around.
This is a top pick! ... were all the way back at the beginning we stopped somewhere finally. We are really having trouble with this ordering of food in Malaysia and usually don't understand what exactly we're getting till it comes out. We ended up with a small plate of noodles ...
city by city
This is a top pick! ... although famed for its cuisine we didnt find anything spectacular, infact most of what we ate was very average and bloody expensive. Penang is not for the backpackers budget, but i'm sure if you were here with a fat wallet then things would be ...