Batu Ferringhi Hotels

signboard before enter the hotel

 Hydro Hotel Penang

Hydro Hotel Penang is located at Batu Ferringhi beach areas. This hotel is a modern and contemporary hotel. From the rooms, you can have fantastic views of the Batu Ferringhi beach where you can watch sunsets from your room with a perfect service and facilities. Situated between the historical city of Georgetown and the lively Batu Ferringhi, with the beach located just across the road and is link with a covered overhead bridge. You may make use of the many facilities on offer at Hydro Hotel including swimming pool, shops, function or meeting rooms and much more. Hydro Hotel Penang is truly Penang's warm and friendly hotel.

every main rooms in Hydro Hotel Penang

one of the rooms in this hotel

view from the below of hotel

Hydro Hotel Penang offers 322 guest rooms with well appointed full service and suites. There are three types of suites which are superior room, deluxe room, junior suite and family suite. The specialty of these 4 types of room is all rooms have their own private balcony and most of the rooms are facing toward the beach. Plus, they also provide coffee and tea making facilities where you can do it by your own. Every room also have air conditioned where the individual can setup the temperature control.

*The price range is around RM 250++ per night.

Address : Hydro Hotel Penang, Miami beach, Batu Ferringhi, 11100 Penang.
* The hotel is situated along the famed Batu Ferringhi beach. It is 25 minutes by car to Georgetown and 45 minutes to Banyan Lepas International Airport.

For more info : http://www.hydrohotelpenang.com/

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Bayview Beach Resort from the above

Bayview Beach Resort 

 

Bayview Beach Resort is a member of Bayview International Resorts and Resorts where the resort is located in front of the beach on the North West coast of Penang Island. People can looked out at the window and see the lovely and scenic beach of Batu Ferringhi. Bayview Beach Resort also offer 366 rooms and suites which are decorated with private balcony facing either the hills or the sea. he Bayview Beach Resort Penang is complete with entertainment and recreational amenities, including swimming pool, tennis court, kid's club, massage, spa, fitness centre and etc.

deluxe room

family suite

 There provide many types of room where you can choose whether you want to see hill view or sea view. There are 7 types of rooms which are standard room, superior hillview, deluxe hillview, deluxe side hillview, grand slide sea view, family room hillview, Family hillview suite and family sea view suite. Every room has complete facilities where each room has balcony, refrigerator, IDD telephone, kettle, television and others. For the Hill view, the resort offers a view of the tropical hills behind the resort.

*the price range is around RM150++

Address & Contact number
Batu Ferringhi Beach, 11100 Batu Ferringhi,

 Penang, Malaysia.
Telephone: +(604) 881 2123
Fax: +(604) 881 2140
E-mail: reservations.bbr@bayviewhotels.com
Website: www.bayviewhotels.com/beach

Georgetown Heritage Festival

Georgetown Festival banner

Penang today is a blend of old and new, a heritage city and an industrial centre. Because of this kind of specialty, Georgetown has been listed on the UNESCO World Heritage on 7th July 2008 and after that, there has a festival that people called it The Georgetown Heritage Festival. 

 

making music by playing with the traditional instruments during celebration

 

people interested by looking at the arts

This festival is a month-long festive celebration for Georgetown. The festival usually will be scheduled annually every year, is a feast of theatre, music, dance, film, art, opera, food, fashion, photography, and inspirational talks. Plus, this festival theme will focus more on multi-ethnic culture and architectural landscape as this is heritage celebration.

The celebration gives people a platform to promote arts and culture, and to give chance to all stakeholders to work in order to promote Penang as a selected destination for tourism. The festivals really help people and raise public interest in arts, culture and heritage education. Even though Penang embraces with modernity but it’s still retain the traditions and old charm of Penang.

Usually, people that participated in this celebration is public people, professionals and academic institutions to join its activities like hands-on workshops, talks, seminars, research activities and cultural initiatives. By doing this, it will attract more people and also tourists from all over the world to the festivals and showing Penang’s uniqueness, culture and heritage in George Town city. 

Penang Nasi Kandar

Nasi Kandar with curry dishes ^^

Penang is famous with the uniqueness of Nasi Kandar and for Muslims people, you should know that Nasi Kandar is HALAL food. So, no need to worry and just enjoy with the mouth watering food. 

special recipes is using to make "nasi briyani

spicy curry dishes with different ingredients

 Actually, Nasi Kandar comes from an Indian Muslim cuisine with the rice and with variety kind of spicy curry dishes. Rice and curry are practically is the main dishes for Nasi Kandar. Rice can cook plainly or cooked it with special recipes by using herbs like ‘nasi briyani’. The other dishes instead of rice, it can be eat with curry chicken, curry beef, fish and other food ingredients but not pork.

people line up to buy nasi kandar at the stalls

 It sounds very delicious right. In this milenium era, Nasi Kandar is not only liked by the Indians and Malays but also the Chinese as well and the tourist who come to Penang. Even though, nowadays many big restaurants try to develop this kind of food into franchise chains at every state in Malaysia but the taste is not the same and the originality is little bit different and not the same like in Penang. Visit one of the Nasi Kandar food restaurants and taste it by yourself to get a better idea about the taste. Plus, you can take a look at the preparation o the food while waiting for it after finishing orders them. 

Here some of the popular restaurants address that serve a great Nasi Kandar: 

view from line clear nasi kandar

 Line Clear

Address: Ally next to 177, Penang Road.
Open: 24 hours.
Close: Closed on alternate Tuesdays.

view from Nasi Kandar Beratur @ Restoran Liyaqat Ali

 Nasi Kandar Beratur

Address: 98 Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling (next to Kapitan Keling Mosque)

Open: 10 p.m - 9 a.m

Penang Dragon Boat Festival

dragon boat view from the above

Dragon boat racing is one of Penang State Signature Event. It is among the fastest growing water sports in this region and become a very popular corporate and charitable sport among the participants. 

There have a story behind this festival where this festivals actually associated with the Rice Dumpling Festival which falls on the 5th day of the 5th month in the Chinese lunar calendar. The story begin  when the poet named Qu Yuan had jumped into the river and make all the villagers rusher in order to save him but it is too late. So, they started to throw rice dumplings into the river to feed the fish instead of Qu Yuan’s body. Dragon Boat race commemorates with their rushed efforts to save him and the Chinese also made rice dumplings every year to eat and remember Qu Yuan's patriotism and loyalty toward the country.

every teams try harder to compete to win the race

the race view with Penang bridge at the back

 But Dragon Boat Race Festivals is not only for Chinese people to participate but people around the world. Today Dragon Boat race has become an international sport with participation from Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, India, Philippines, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and USA.  Many more countries are expected to join in the race participation.  The public is also are welcoming to witness the race at the beautiful Teluk Bahang Dam.