Advice on Penang
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augustin0001
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Did you sprint from Tune hotel to Komtar??
How did you manage to walk in 12 mins!??I was desperately looking for a money changer (because the moneychanger at tune is gone) and I remembered i walked for 20 mins and gave up. Ended up taking a cab
I still can't figure out how to take the bus. I've got afew routes that I constantly use:
1) Sungai Nibong bus terminal to Burma Rd ( Tune Hotel)
2) Airport to Burma Rd
3) Airport to Sungai Nibong
4) Gurney plazs to burma rd
5) Gurney plaza to Sungai Nibong.
Anyone can help? Otherwise I have to keep paying $20-25 for every trip on taxi
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up to individual I bought it anyway as I foreseen that I would be utilized it
Got it the Pier bus terminal
I remember I took me ard 20-25 minutes to walk along Jln Burma before turning to Jln Penang and then KOMTAR for my bus ride to Airport.Did you sprint from Tune hotel to Komtar??
I was desperately looking for a money changer (because the moneychanger at tune is gone) and I remembered i walked for 20 mins and gave up. Ended up taking a cab
I still can't figure out how to take the bus. I've got afew routes that I constantly use:
1) Sungai Nibong bus terminal to Burma Rd ( Tune Hotel)
2) Airport to Burma Rd
3) Airport to Sungai Nibong
4) Gurney plazs to burma rd
5) Gurney plaza to Sungai Nibong.
Anyone can help? Otherwise I have to keep paying $20-25 for every trip on taxi
U may log on to their website at - http://www.rapidpg.com.my/, Rapid Penang even have their own FB and twitter account to keep communters updates on their frequency,schedule, etc.
I believe there are some $$ changers around KOMTAR area
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heard from friends living there about 3 months ago, there is like nothing to walk around there. not sure whether it has changed already or not.
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Did you sprint from Tune hotel to Komtar??
Tune Hotel is around 600m from Komtar. It really shouldn't take any average person that long to walk there.
which hotels?
Hi Hi...
any kind soul to advice on the below hotels? in terms of location? rate? convinience?
1. berjaya penang hotel
2. sunway georgetown hotel
3. G hotel
would like to go penang more for the food and shopping and abit of sightseeing...
thanks in advance for the advice!
Hi Hi...
any kind soul to advice on the below hotels? in terms of location? rate? convinience?
1. berjaya penang hotel
2. sunway georgetown hotel
3. G hotel
would like to go penang more for the food and shopping and abit of sightseeing...
thanks in advance for the advice!
takuyazzz
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tune hotel is very near komtar, say if u're standing outside georgetown white coffee at komtar, u'd be able to see the hotel, its red and white exterior kinda outstanding, once u spot the hotel, noone should have any problems reaching there by foot
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not bad, i rented one from e airport when i was there in march. rather easy to go around. if scare just rent a gps as well. Parking are rather plentiful but travel out early. if u drive often in singapore you shld be fine, driver there are more relax i guess. but watch out for e bikes, they are crazy.
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a little bit of rant here...
just came back from penang on a 3d/2n trip over the weekend. my group of 6 stayed at tune hotel which basically cost less than S$30 per room. however the service wasn't so good on the 1st day.
even though i booked 3 rooms more than a month ago, they somehow allocated one of my rooms to be at another corner of the hotel which was quite far from the other two rooms.
i went back to the check-in counter to request for a room to be nearer to the other two rooms. however the lady who attended to me rejected me outright by saying all the rooms not available. to me she is just plain lazy as shown below.
luckily my wife caught a glimpse of their room list and saw that there are a couple of available rooms which are near to my other two rooms. i told the lady this and she conjured another crap excuse saying the room hasn't been cleaned yet.
i told her i dun mind waiting and asked her how long will it takes. all she said is she dunno.
by now i'm getting a little pissed off and i told her that you are working for the hotel and you dunno how long you need for cleaning the room?
she replied she dun clean the rooms personally! the housekeeping people are the guys cleaning the rooms.
at this point my volcano is going to erupt anytime. how long is this simple request going to drag on?
i told her to please go and check and she went to her colleague and mumbled something. i told my wife 'what rubbish' in a rather loud manner (got a nudge from my wife for this) and i think they got the hint. they eventually retreated to a room behind the counter and came out in about a minute and told me they will change the room for me and it will be ready in 30 min.
i went back to the counter after 30 min but the room still wasn't ready yet. it's ok though as we are going out our exploration.
eventually i got the room that night.
for the rest of the two days, their service is not too bad.
by the way for the benefit of those who needs the info,
from the airport, go to level 2 (departure hall) and take bus 401E which can bring you to komtar bus interchange. from there you can walk to tune hotel.
tune hotel to komtar bus interchange is about 10-15min walk.
from the hotel, turn left and walk all the way until jln penang (there is a multi-way pedestrian bridge at the jln penang junction). then turn right and walk further down until you see komtar. cross the road and walk for another 3 min and you will see the bus interchange.
penang hill is closed for the next 6 months. i made a wasted trip there. but kek lok si is nearby.
happy holiday!
just came back from penang on a 3d/2n trip over the weekend. my group of 6 stayed at tune hotel which basically cost less than S$30 per room. however the service wasn't so good on the 1st day.
even though i booked 3 rooms more than a month ago, they somehow allocated one of my rooms to be at another corner of the hotel which was quite far from the other two rooms.
i went back to the check-in counter to request for a room to be nearer to the other two rooms. however the lady who attended to me rejected me outright by saying all the rooms not available. to me she is just plain lazy as shown below.
luckily my wife caught a glimpse of their room list and saw that there are a couple of available rooms which are near to my other two rooms. i told the lady this and she conjured another crap excuse saying the room hasn't been cleaned yet.
i told her i dun mind waiting and asked her how long will it takes. all she said is she dunno.
by now i'm getting a little pissed off and i told her that you are working for the hotel and you dunno how long you need for cleaning the room?
she replied she dun clean the rooms personally! the housekeeping people are the guys cleaning the rooms.
at this point my volcano is going to erupt anytime. how long is this simple request going to drag on?
i told her to please go and check and she went to her colleague and mumbled something. i told my wife 'what rubbish' in a rather loud manner (got a nudge from my wife for this) and i think they got the hint. they eventually retreated to a room behind the counter and came out in about a minute and told me they will change the room for me and it will be ready in 30 min.
i went back to the counter after 30 min but the room still wasn't ready yet. it's ok though as we are going out our exploration.
eventually i got the room that night.
for the rest of the two days, their service is not too bad.
by the way for the benefit of those who needs the info,
from the airport, go to level 2 (departure hall) and take bus 401E which can bring you to komtar bus interchange. from there you can walk to tune hotel.
tune hotel to komtar bus interchange is about 10-15min walk.
from the hotel, turn left and walk all the way until jln penang (there is a multi-way pedestrian bridge at the jln penang junction). then turn right and walk further down until you see komtar. cross the road and walk for another 3 min and you will see the bus interchange.
penang hill is closed for the next 6 months. i made a wasted trip there. but kek lok si is nearby.
happy holiday!
not far from komtar bus station, can walk there
PG drivers and motorcyclists are the craziest.
Pg Hill is not closed lah, its only their cable car which is closed for upgrading works. Pg Hill is still accessible by taking the 4X4 car at the entrance of Botanical Gardens, with a price of RM15 per person per trip. Cheers!
http://penang-tourist.blogspot.com/search/label/Penang Hill
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PG drivers and motorcyclists are the craziest.
Pg Hill is not closed lah, its only their cable car which is closed for upgrading works. Pg Hill is still accessible by taking the 4X4 car at the entrance of Botanical Gardens, with a price of RM15 per person per trip. Cheers!
http://penang-tourist.blogspot.com/search/label/Penang Hill
oh yes, u r right... sorry for the wrong info.
the hill is still accessible by car. we went there wanting to experience the cable car but was disappointed and also we found the price of the car abit steep so we gave it a miss...
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seriously i think it wld take more than 2 hrs....tried coming down...took us almost 2.5 hrs... some stretch are quite steep
yes, coming down is more difficult
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