Bayview Hotel Georgetown Penang

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The Bang Was In Penang.

A travel blog entry by heatheravan

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Welcoming the Year of the Tiger...
A walk to the monorail station with packs on our backs, then a walk to the bus station for the airport bus, then a short Air Asia flight, followed by a taxi ride and here we are at the Bayview in Georgetown. Had to chose Bayview since it is the namesake of our work place. An orientation walk proved that most …

Penang

A travel blog entry by joandhughpalmer

After leaving KL feeling repulsive, we made things far worst by sitting on a train (53 ringet for both of us) for 8 hours to Penang, an island to the north west of KL. I was dreadful company for mum and at one stage while stumbling to the toilet to be sick, some boys from the Malaysian Navy thought I would be fun to hit on. When I looked up at them …

Chinese New Year, Colds and other pains in the ***

A travel blog entry by joelandsonia

We are NOT catching a break here.

I (Joel) wake up the morning we are heading to Penang with a pretty decent case of food poisoning from the chain restaurant we ate at the night before. And here I'd been hoping going to a chain place instead of street vendors might prevent that; we've been told to stay to the vendors for cooked food -- you …

Trains, Butterworth, Penang

A travel blog entry by katd

We caught the 8pm train out of Kuala Lumpur on a Saturday night (80RM each to do first class - this is approx $30 Australian.) Regardless, sleeping was tough. I have a very clear memory of sometime in the middle of the night, brakes coming on the train very, very hard. I was very glad to hear that they finally worked... We were abruptly woken at …

Strawberry Daiquiris

A travel blog entry by matt_hayley09

Hi All

whilst my wife is still half cut on cocktails i thought i would send a quick update.
Now in Penang - which is Malaysia again, in a big hotel right on the beach which is a bit like a hotel that could be found in Benidorm but you all know that I do love doing the Macarena with Shirley and Deidre from Wigan!!!!

nice and …