I've shortlisted a few hotels in georgetown which is the grand continental,continental and bayview,which is the most convenient to the famous area?and should i hire a taxi driver for a permanent rate or rent a car?

i think cititel is a better place to live imho. there is nearer to most of the famous food area.

hire a taxi driver seems better choice, as even if you had GPS, it might be not up to date, as some road might be change to single lane and stuff

besides, penang is not as easy to drive as you think. motorcycles are here and there, zig zagging, and alot of place is hard to find parking too

so if taxi driver for a permanent rate does not cost that much if you can find one, then by all means go for it

Is there any recommended hired taxi driver?with a reasonable price?

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Added on December 29, 2009, 10:46 pmWhich website can i find a recommended hired taxi driver with a reasonbale rate?

This post has been edited by eujin: Dec 29 2009, 10:46 PM

Used to be RM$25/hr, minimum 4 hours. But now seems like the taxi drivers are asking for RM$30/hr.

You can find some contacts if you do a search at the Penang forum at TripAdvisor.

If you have a big group and need a van with driver, you can hire from Ocean Jupiter.

Is it advisiable to take a hired taxi drivers or we ourself rent a car?

cititel is not that good though...i only go to cititel for its japanese food...Kirishima..voted as the best japanese restaurant in northern region...

Just to let u guys know, cititel is used by "transvestite" to do earn money...

IMHO, better to hire a taxi, no need to get stress over the directions, the many one way streets and lack of parking space, especially in the town centre. I reckon it'd probably costs just a little bit extra if hire a taxi for the day when comparing hire a taxi and self drive (car rental + petrol + parking fee). Also, would be cheaper if you hire the taxi driver by the hour, rather than having to bargain for each individual trip to one location.

Self drive is ok if you are not driving into the town, for eg, if you are doing the round Penang Island trip.

May also consider hopping onto the FREE bus, called "CAT", aroound town area. Or try to take bus - Rapid Penang. If intend to take bus, can check on Rapid Penang's web site and look at the journey planner for route/service no etc.

Depends on how you see it. Cititel is good as a "tourist class" hotel, location wise it's quite convenient. Diagonally opposite is the Red Garden, a food centre, lots of nice hawker stalls.

U can even try sunway hotel, as u walk out so many food stalls (Near New lane) or even budget hotel like Red Rock (refurbished d ) - used to be Ming Court-I guess. Or even Tune Hotel in Penang (not very expensive) Just book thru AA website. Tune Hotel - u have to pay for aircond & bring yr toiletteries & towels or else u can pay for it. Rooms are very clean & new. Sometimes they offer quite cheap.do check it out. Tune hotel locations are quite good as it is near the Sow Tow lane food court (next door only) or u can even walk across the street to Abu Siti lane to eat the famous Char koay teow (Very pricey & u got to wait very long) and also the ice kacang there. And I think there should be buses near the hotel that can take u to Tanjung Bungah, Batu Ferringhi & Teluk Bahang (M not very sure but I remember they have it those days)

ehh really???? no wonder. last time i went there, few years back it was awesome! but mahal also la...never know it was the best....hmmmm

oh and yes, cititel area alot of transvestite. but that area is the best imo if u want to hunt food

so many good food around that area man....

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Added on December 31, 2009, 11:50 amsunway hotel not bad also la, but its abit far liao from some other best penang food near cititel, not in walking distance, but if drive its near


This post has been edited by samlee860407: Dec 31 2009, 11:50 AM

I remember there is a pasar malam.Is it near batu ferringhi or tanjung bungah area during the night?and near the pasar malam,there is a quite large of hawker stalls?

got this on the web... hope this could help....

http://701panduan.com/var/5/index.html

any nice seafood, hawker food, western food can share v me? if can better with GPS coordinates... thanks...

This post has been edited by weeloong81: Jan 4 2010, 11:23 PM

Batu Ferringhi. The hawker centre is called Long Beach.

Btw, this pasar malam is the "tourist" type of pasar malam, need to bargain kao kao...

hei there
i plan to go penang with my frens during CNY
any recommendation for hotel?im looking for nice n cheap hotel
thinking of staying 2 nights

It's CNY, there'll be surcharges...

Use this website for hotels in Penang:
http://www.penanghotels.com.my/

Try Tunes Hotel as mentioned, but I think it may be too late as most Hotel especially the reasonable ones will be fully booked for the CNY period.

Hello, i plan to go penang during CNY too, may i know the traffic situation during CNY?

u know the traffic on a friday evening in KL city centre during heavy rain?

more or less the same.

and virtuall everywhere no place to park.

TERRIBLE ! prepare for the jams and the rush for seating spaces when having meals.