Georgetown Hotels - Reviews and Rates

SO, back to Penang! Man, this place is really starting to feel like home. We received a lovely welcome from Mr Low and Tommy, dumped our bags and headed staright for the fabulous Tandoori chicken place.
In the few days we spent here we went to the beach - where we discovered everything has been demolished in the 6 weeks since i was last here...

Penang is known as the Pearl of the Orient and is one of Malaysia's most visited sites. It's well known for it's lively chinese culture (the majority of the island is chinese rather than malay-islam), its colonial architecture, and it's diverse food - especially its street food. Georgetown was the initial settlement on this island (it was basica...

Our bus from Hat Yai took us through an easy peasy border crossing into Malaysia to Butterworth where we hopped on a ferry to the island of Penang. Georgetown is the biggest town on Penang and is diversely populated with Malay, Chinese, Indian, Baba Nonya - so many nationalities live here than it's hard to keep up! The town is a colourful bustli...

A quaint, colonial town with a hint of charm, that's Georgetown, a.k.a. Penang, Malaysia. I don't know why I really wanted to make a stop here on our way to KL, but I really did. My motive was the Heritage Trail, for which I was mocked mercilessly by my dear husband. I discovered later, while reading The Lonely Planet Story, that Georgetown was ...

My time in Malaysia was spent on a 3 day homestay and then with my 2 new friends Sofiah and Fairus. One of the trips I went on was called a 'night safari' (or walk) at the zoo. Unfortunately I didn't have the best camera and it was raining really hard. It actually made for a majestic experience. Check out the pictures for details. Remember the o...

Saturday 1st September: Flying into Penang we landed, our final leg of this Malaysia tour that as added so many wonderful stamps into our wee passports. According to our trusty Rough Guide! (not so good so far!!, oh we miss the lonely planet!) there should be a bus to take us straight to Georgetown, from outside the Arrivals gate. Dutifully, we ...

The next day, we boarded a bus to Penang, an island in the Straits of Malacca on the north-west coast of peninsular Malaysia. More specifically, we went to Georgetown, the capital of Penang. After getting off the bus we again had the customary battle with taxi drivers over the fare and decided to catch the bus instead. Twenty minutes later (I th...

Day 1 I didn't plan on comming here at all. I was on a bus for Satun in Thailand. When I was supposed to change buses half way I got talked into(by the dude selling tickets) going to Butterworth Maylasia - near Penang. It was on that bus that I learned we were going to Georgetown instead, so here I am. I slept like **** itchy as hell, thinking I...

After our stay of two hours in Singapore we got stamped into Malaysia in the border town of Johore Bahru and enquired half jokingly if there was any buses still going to Penang. The bus conductor told us to get on the bus and we would be dropped off at Larkin bus station were there would definitely be a bus going to Penang . We got off the bus a...

From the historical sea town of Melaka, I bussed 3 hours into the interior of the Malaysian pennisula to Jerentut, the gateway city to Taman Negara National Park. The next morning, I took a half hour bus ride and 3 hour ride in a big motorized wooden canoe up the river to TNNP. On the boat ride, I saw several monkeys and lots of wild cows (calle...