Penang Great Bang for the Buck

Penang is a great value. World heritage city. Great food and one of the best hotel stays. Very nice room with an awesome shower. The included breakfast buffet is more like brunch with local lunch items and made to order eggs, omelettes and coffee.

Each evening they include two glasses of wine at the rooftop bar and they have 4 flavors of serve yourself ice cream and cookies from 6pm to midnight. There is also have a small movie theater (on the rooftop) that you can watch 2 different movies showings in the evening each day with free popcorn. Oh and up to 4 free sodas coke and sprite and bottled water is included in the room fridge per day. Filtered water in the lobby to fill water bottles. This all for 3 nights was a total (not per night) with tax $142 with all taxes and fees!!! $47 per night!

We had lunch in a locally “famous” place for chicken rice. We both had a chicken rice plate with soup and shared a large (quart) beer and the total bill was between $5 and $6 dollars. They have the equivalent of Uber called Grab (it started as Uber and sold). Most of our rides 10-15 minutes are ~$1.50. Took one to the other side of the island about 45 min drive and it was $8.

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