Bayview Hotel Georgetown

... - the hotels don’t offer internet deals, but do walk in rates which are far more attractive. So we stayed two nights in the Bayview hotel and then we moved to the Continental, for half the price and a much better room - the girl on reception took a ...

... 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 people ...

... arranging out train tickets for our overnight bunker to KL the following evening, we had planned to visit the swish Bayview Hotel 16th floor revolving restaurant for dinner. The restaurant revolves every 45 minutes and apparently gives amazing views over ...

... food was sitting under the heat lamps. So, I'm in a foodie location and I don't want to eat one blasted thing.    The Bayview hotel is nice if pricey (by Asia standards) and it has a pool so at least I can sit there and read. We walk around ...

... I decided to go for a good Christmas dinner instead of eating on the street like we usually do. We found a buffet atop the Bayview Hotel in their rotating resturant for like 58 Malaysian Ringet (about $16) and preceeded to put on Tribianiesque eating ...

... in the day that today represented the 7th anniversary of us being together. To mark the occasion we set out to the BayView Hotel, which has a revolving restaurant on its top floor serving an all-you-can-eat buffet every night (including an unlimited ...

... and museum. It was a really interesting tour about a fascinating man. We wanted to go up Penang Hill, which looms behind Georgetown, but the furnicular railway up the hill is under repair and we aren't that energetic, so we settled for the ...

... island!), we decided to find one of the tourist attractions.   The Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion is a sight to see in Georgetown, Penang!  www.cheongfatttzemansion.com  It is a gorgeous, blue painted, Chinese-style house, built by a Chinese ...

... little disappointing in comparison to other parts of south east asia but it has well and truely redeemed itself in Penang. May sneak in for one last g'n't tonight at the E&O Hotel before we head to the Cameron Highlands tomorrow for a few days. We ...

... walking tour of Penang (oops) so we went and brought our ferry tickets for the next day (to Langkawi) and headed back to the hotel. Still couldn't check in so after a quick snooze in the front lobby, we went for breakfast and decided to catch a bus to ...

... got stuck on the idea that we needed a hotel with a pool so we asked around a bit and found a kick ass room in a kick ass hotel for the equivalent of about $30/person/night. After I took my big backpack off in our room we raced to the pool, cooled down a ...

... ended (I finished 5th) , I went to the Esplanade and took a brief tour of Fort Cornwallis, before hauling tail back to the hotel to catch the 3:00 guided tour of the Cheong Fatt Tze mansion across the street. Once owned by one of the richest men in ...

... plan was to spend the day on Gurney Drive, a local market place, to shop and have lunch.  Then, we'd come back to the hotel in the late afternoon and get ready for our evening flight to Sydney.  The front desk called us at 12:15pm asking us when ...

... 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 ...

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... the 2 buddha temples and the Toy museum. 3. Stay at Batu Ferringhi near the beach and night market. 4. DO NOT stay in Georgetown. Too much noise. 5. If time permits, see Fort Cornwallis and the fruit farm and try the Trishaw ride by night in Georgetown. ...

... the Crystal Guesthouse. Needless to say, a long day had bee had by ALL. We spent the following morning kicking around Georgetown and booked ourselves a bus to Koh Phan Ngan at Banana's Guesthouse. We wound up paying 100 Ringetts each for what was ...