Eastern & Oriental Hotel Georgetown

Travel Blogs from Georgetown

Royal Australian Airforce Ball

A travel blog entry by alexapril604

The Royal Australian Airforce (RAAF)has a base located in West Malaysia and many of the ExPats and their families are in our building and surrounding buildings. I know what you're thinking if you're in the US...they sure do treat the AirForce well in Australia. We are amazed at how high class and well treated the RAAFs are. We went along with our …

Tuesday30th july we arrived in hat yai at ...

A travel blog entry by ali_n_lou

Tuesday,30th July we arrived in Hat Yai at 6.30pm after quite a pleasant 7.5 hour journey involving a taxi, a ferry and a coach. On the coach we had met a very nice couple from Essex, Tom and Rachel, who were travelling for 6 months, as usual we compared notes and decided on a hotel together as then we could share the cost of a taxi and possibly …

Riding Around Pinang

A travel blog entry by alohatravels

So, with the roads so good, and the lack of chaos as seen in Indonesia, we decide to get a motorbike the first day in Pinang. We got one for only 15 Ringit/day for our entire stay, which was till the 8th. 15 Ringit is about $4.50 :D. And what a good decision it was! Even though you can pass each other any which way and that, Mathew drove us around …

Malaysian days

A travel blog entry by anandigor

ITALIANO A FONDO PAGINA: We are in Malaysia! Penang is hot and busy but sooo interesting. Founded at the end of the 18th century by the British (who else...) as an open trading post, as stopover on the silk & spice route in between China and India. Chinese traders flooded in, and Indians as well and the city today is fascinationg mix of three …

Back in Malaysia

A travel blog entry by andyandsue

After the lovely resort of Krabi we took a minibus to Khao Sok NP for a sleepover in the jungle. We shared a bamboo hut with 100's of creepy crawlies, load crikets and frogs (Andy lept out of his skin when he saw a giant millipeed). Our attempts at a night safari ended up being a washout and we returned to the bar we'd left 5 minutes earlier …