Hotel in Penang Georgetown Penang Malaysia Nightlife & Shopping

Georgetown

is the capital of the island, the entry point to a wealthy urban centre with high-rise buildings, colonial architecture with a international blend of Malay, Chinese, India, European and others. Streets of the city are fringed by swaying palm trees giving a

great tropical flair together with the architecture of Penang Chinatown and little India.

No journey would be complete without exploring the  streets to do some shopping and have a look for a beautiful temple. The only little problem is, the traffic density at downtown Georgetown is simply to much, the air is quite polluted from  the small motor bikes, cars and trucks.

Also plenty of small restaurants are around in this area. Plus a couple of bars of the type if you are below 18 years of age you cant enter.

Got the message ? Its nice and sexy business with great China girls Indian, Thai girls and some other girls. Where there are guys on vacation as in there is monkey business, the question here is only, who is the monkey ?

Penang travel is at best from around October to April, but actually its a all year round travel destination since in the tropical area it never gets cold and there are plenty of things

to do and to see, what about visiting a exotic Penang temple or do some Penang shopping.

Some luxury hotels

are in the city and along the northern coastline towards Batu Ferringhi. This part is characterized by its exotic beaches, night markets and restaurants plus other attractions like spice garden, botanical garden and the attractive Penang beaches, some having granite boulders around. The town has a relaxed atmosphere, simple and affordable place to live, Georgetown is actively promoted as a retirement haven. There are thousands of foreigners either living there permanently or owing a apartment or house for retirement of holiday. They come from all over Asia and other parts of the world enjoying their retirement at a very affordable living. They call  and Georgetown Penang Malaysia their new home and enjoy the exotic environ, a good climate, there are even some mountains, beaches and almost everything someone need.

A hotel in Penang

can easy be found at the center of Georgetown and on the way from Georgetown to Batu Ferringhi Beach plus the Bayan Lepas district. Bayan Lepas is close to the the Free Trade Zone of Penang and there are a couple of good hotels mainly for business travelers since this is the industrial park area of Penang. For instance the Vistana Hotel, Equatorial Hotel, Sri Malaysia Hotel and apartment hotels such as B-Suite and Krystal Suite. The airport and Snake Temple is also in this area. There are also other hotels or Apartments when you plan to stay longer.

Here is a Penang hotel list. Hotels are virtually around every third corner and many beach resorts dont have a road between the building and the beach means you could walk right form the hotel room to the beach.

Penang beaches

are some of the well-known and popular beaches in Malaysia. Within a 20 minutes drive range from Georgetown Malaysia some great Penang beaches are waiting. But when you are on vacation or beach holiday you better use one of the hotels  along the beach road towards Batu Ferringhi, there are all kind of accommodations and hotels available close to the beach. All beaches are light yellow sandy beaches and some have granite boulders as decoration, Penang shopping is always just a few meters away. A other version of to stay is buy Penang property, a foreigner can buy a house etc., in Thailand not, there it needs several strange constructions with Thai nominees to act on behalf of the foreigners and so on. Most people in the Malaysian government have some rational European education and are capable to transfer this into some good governance. Anyway, travel to the island and enjoy the multicultural and exotic atmosphere of streets, restaurants and this unique multiethnic flair of a great Asian island showing the heritage of colonial times. Even if you don't like all this colonial stuff, it has, undeniable something special. Enjoy the great photos, videos and pictures in our site, they tell more than "1000" words. Georgetown restaurants offer the whole Malaysian, Asian and European spectrum of food. Restaurants reflecting the different cultures of the island, a Penang temple is virtually around every corner at the city mosques, pagodas and Penang shopping . Probably the most interesting places are little India, Chinatown and the beaches.

Look at the photos and video in the video section. Great constructions are the bridges. There is the bridge and there is a other spectacular suspension bridge just behind the arrival pier of the Penang Ferry on the Butterworth side blending nicely together with the domes of the nearby mosques. Actually the whole
Penang Island could be seen as a big city since the distance between the urban cluster are rather small and wherever you are on Penang you are more or less in the city, even the Penang Beaches are only a couple of minutes away. This is continuously pushed by a Penang Real Estate boom where the Malaysian government actively supports the island and particular as retirement destination and they are very successful.

Stay at Georgetown Malaysia

for a longer period of time, have some unforgettable exotic vacations or simply relax under the sun of this part of the Indian Ocean, called the Andaman Sea. Also at the mainland side you will find a great view , all together a excellent Asian tourist and retirement destination with still old fashioned colonial flair. There are plenty of Penang real estate agents in Georgetown who are very eager to sell the apartment in the high rise buildings and elsewhere. But it already gets a little crowded.

Nightlife is one of the most lively in Malaysia,

only Kuala Lumpur nightlife can beat it. But the nightlife is still far away from the vibrant nightlife scene in Thailand and especially Phuket nightlife. Phuket nightlife is only about  800 km to the north. It looks that Malaysian and Singaporean people rather prefer Hat Yai which is just across the border. You could also do a little island hopping to Langkawi which is easily reachable by the ferry from Georgetown. Langkawi also has some small ferries to Satun and to Ko Tarutao. Actually from the Ko Tarutao Langkawi is visible on a clear day. There are also enough hotels and budget hotels.

What to do in Penang Georgetown?

One of the most pleasure things to do in Penang is eating, there are food courts and myriads of restaurants of various styles and food, Indian, Malay, Chinese, Continental and all other imaginable. There is also plenty of street food and hawker food available throughout day and night. There are great restaurants at the waterfront, especially at Batu Ferringhi. If someone wants to have it fashionable try the food outlets of the hotel indicated before or a restaurant in one of the high-rise buildings overlooking the city and the Andaman Sea until Butterworth on the mainland coast.

Visit the vibrant Chinatown and go shopping, Georgetown. named by the British after King George Ill but referred to by the Malaysians as Tanjong (or Headland), is a almost pure Chinese town, although there is "Little India" but that's only a very small part of the city, China is everywhere and Chinese characters are decorating the streets more.

At Penang City Chinese heritage can virtually be smelled, here some nicely renovated Chinese houses which made it from colonial times into today. It needs some dedication to be and show a certain consciousness about the past and preserve it. The opposite is Shanghai where they destroyed similar quarters like this one to make way for high ride buildings, actually there are also enough high ride buildings in Penang City but it looks as if they found a good mixture to combine past end present. This is very important for one of the major business which is tourism, a visitor wants to see something exiting and this is what he or she gets, read more.

Convict labor which was first imported in 1789 and put to work in the fort by Francis Light to renovate the brick construction. This was the first military and administrative base of the East India Company and the garrison of Fort Cornwallis consisted of a handful of Europeans, who resided within the fort and sepoys who dwelled in huts next to the fort.

The star shaped fort, enforced with cannons is the Seri Rambai which still is located at the northwest bastion of the fort. Previously surrounded with a 27-foot wide and 6 feet deep moat, it was filled in about a century ago since it functioned as breeding ground for mosquitoes infected with malaria. Today relics such as chapel, store, cell rooms and the gunpowder magazine are still in the fort. History galleries from the early 1700 and staff with colonial costume is now shown in the fort