Pulau Penang Inns - Reviews and Rates

The minivan from Thailand to Georgetown took a lot longer than it should have done. It took about two and a half hours just to leave Hat Yai, a city whose only redeeming feature is the road out. When I arrived on the ferry from Butterworth to Georgetown on the north eastern island of Penang in Malaysia, I was worried about arriving in another un...

After waking up at 7:30am, for some un-godly reason, I got some breakfast and moved into the new place. It is filled with old artefacts and Chinese trinkets and the owner is a bit mad (in a nice way). I hang about in the cafe waiting for the others towake up and at 1pm, we decide to get some breakfast/lunch. After pooling our ideas, we all decid...

Arrived in Penang after a long bus journey, finishing with a drive across the "longest road bridge in south-east asia", which was over 15km so quite impressive. It is so much hotter down here after being up in the hills for so long. It hit us like a blast, when we got off the air conditioned bus! We are staying in Georgetown which is the capital...

After a very easy journey from Krabi across the Malaysian border (guarding the ticket with our lives this time!), we crossed the small channel to Penang Island and arrived in Georgetown at around 4ish and set about finding a hostel. This was harder than we'd thought it would be as several were already full and several of the "hotels" seemed more...

When I awoke I wandered the streets and got a new book to read- Wonderland Avenue. I also discovered that Penang is an island off the west coast of malaysia. I had been asleep when we crossed over the bridge the night before. Penang has a long colonial history. I think it was around the 1600's that the East India company tricked the Malays into ...

HE SAID: We decided to fly from Langkawi to Penang to avoid another ferry ride especially with this one being 90 minutes longer than the one hour ferry from Kuala Keta to Langkawi. Of course, our flight cost doubled with our heavy luggage fees so we decided that we would ship some of our luggage home. 15 kilos for luggage is difficult when trave...

Our first task of the day was to find a new place to stay - the one working toilet had finally given up and we were woken up by bells and horns again. Luckily we chanced upon I 2 Inn, a lovely guesthouse above a hairdressers with super helpful staff. Once checked in we took the monorail down to the train station to buy our tickets to Butterworth...