Holiday Inn Penang

... the island and then pass straight through the capital Georgetown on our way to the north coast. Here we book in to the Holiday Inn, a tower block of a hotel overlooking the beach. The coastline looks just like that of Spain, only much hotter. We ...

... then braved the elements to travel by bus to Ferringhi........where all the resorts are on the Island........Shangri La......Holiday Inn......etc etc. There was a landslide en route.........half of the narrow winding road had completely disappeared and ...

... we went in search of cheaper accommodation for a further five nights.  Good old Youseff the taxi driver who loiters outside the Holiday Inn recommended Ali's Guest House which is no more than 100 metres from the beach.  They had a room available ...

... Batu Feringghi is a popular tourist attractions in Penang. Beautiful and clean beaches, there are also hotels from 5 star hotels like Holiday Inn and the Hard Rock Cafe to the backpacker hostel on the beach. The road to Batu Feringghi very comfortable ...

... in Penang. It was OK. I didn't have my swimming trunks ready, so didn't go in. This is the high end of the island. It has the Holiday Inn, Hard Rock and other hotels for the upper class. I was finally on my way, with a stop at a mall to see a movie, but ...

... stopover in KL and took the hour long taxi ride to our hotel in Batu Ferringhi. It was about 10.30 when we arrived at The Holiday Inn and we could easily see it was a great hotel. Everybody in Malaysia is so friendly and they speak great English (even the ...

... Arlene; Dad and Linda; or Tricia or April G; whom are all scheduled for trips here in 2005. We still have many openings at the Penang Inn;-) Well, it's not really an Inn; just ask Mom or Craig Signer, whom both have made the trip to the other side of the ...

... , horrid smelling shrimp paste..ugh…) the Penang Asam Laksa sure earned its title as Penang’s signature dish. Chowing down on Penang Asam Laksa. BUT… It isn’t better than Pho. It’s a bit unfair comparing the two, since they ...

... dawn to catch the first morning flight to Penang. The flight was quick n’ easy, and we met with our friend Azhar, a Penang native who’d volunteered to guide us around his home state. Penang was the place we’d spent the most time reading ...

Spent two days and three nights in Penang. Weather is soooooo HOT out here!!! We stayed in penang on the little main strip with night markets, lots of restaurants, lots of locals, quite a few tourists, lots of stray cats and an ok beach. Relaxed here, ...

... away from the night markets at Batu Ferringhi. Hunger was setting in and I was ready for another round of Malaysian food delights – Penang stylez. The place we ate at was called Cafe Long Beach – imagine a Kopi Tiam, but A LOT bigger… ...

... visit to Penang i was quite shocked at the amount of development and I have to say, with high rise complexes everywhere, i am not sure it is a place that I would like to go for for a beach holiday again. next stop - the jungle - Cameroon ...

... in the darkened hollowed out pit of a large boat, this time with the insufferable sounds of Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday and Rasputin by the lyrical genius that is Boney M, skipping repeatedly for three hours. Good times. Arrived ...

... lazing on the beach. We checked into our hotel, one of many that open directly onto the beachfront. The ground floor of the Holiday Inn merged seamlessly into the trees and sand, with bars and deckchairs scattered out to the water. We didn’t have ...

... and we all had done this before so yep no problem for us pseudo-locals.   Obviously Tan had borrowed the minibus from 'Holiday Inn' as the stickers on the doors were a dead giveaway. That worked in our favour on one occasion as C.Ga decided ...

... back and we actually had to shout at him to turn the car around when we passed a line of hotels. We took the first holiday inn we could find and went straight to bed. Thankfully our time in Penang got a lot better after the nightmare start. We just ...

... armoire and the painting on the wall of a field full of yellow tulips with a Carlsberg factory on the horizon. This ain't no Holiday Inn. This is the Blue Diamond Hotel in the thick of the seedy, wild chinatown district of Georgetown, Penang Island. The ...

... prayer from the Mosque will - at 5am! Useful Information To find budget guest houses, make sure you stay on the bus till you pass The Holiday Inn and The Park Royal. Get off at the post office - if you get to Hard Rock Hotel you've gone too far. Facing ...

... on the map that the mosque appeared to be just about opposite a hotel called and not long after the Hard Rock Hotel and Holiday Inn. When I spotted the Hard Rock Hotel, I informed Alan and suggested we get off. He wasn't sure but for whatever reason we ...

... on route and we explain we need accomodation.  Hotel? No, looking for guesthouse.  Hotel?  No, small guesthouse.  Holiday Inn? No. Yes? No. Yes?  Bloodywell NO!    We got the only person in Malaysia who speaks no ...