Colonial KFC and Royale Hotel Penang

Continuing from my previous page, I went on a short trip from Kuala Lumpur to Penang Island and went to see what I could see.

But first upon arrival, we went to check into the hotel. After the 5 hour drive up from KL I thoroughly was done with sitting down and the slight slip disk injury earlier didnt help.

A month before the trip we decided to make a reservation as December was school holiday season in Malaysia and that means all the hotels would be filling up pretty quickly. So we hopped on over to Agoda and managed to secure a cheap enough hotel and pounced.

The hotel we finally decided on was called Royal Penang Hotel and while the name is all glitzy and glamoury, it was slightly on the ok side. Sorry for the pics of the unkept room, but I forgot to take pics of the room beforehand.

 The room itself was spacious enough and had all the normal necessary facilities like a tub and shower and amenities. It did not however make me feel like it was trying hard to please people to think it was a good hotel. But I guess they werent trying hard to promote themselves that way too. So maybe we just had high expectations. For me I had some issues trying to get 3G coverage in the room and there was no wifi in the hotel. So I had to make do with the sketchy connection. For those who brought a laptop, they did have a dedicated network cable that you can attach at the study table in the room. The tv in the room was a 21 inch CRT TV with very limited channels.

Anyhow the views from the room were quite ok. We managed to have a view of part city and part sea and after looking down, we managed to see that there was a funny looking KFC across the road.

Messy room

View of Room

KFC!

 The funny thing about this KFC is that its actually housed in an old colonial home. So in a sense, you can call it Colonel's Colonial Home.

It was interesting to see that they had actually gutted the whole building and replaced the rooms with a KFC inside.  We did try to ask for access to see how the kitchen was but they were a bit hesitant on granting us permission. But anyhow from what we could see, they did keep most of the original design in place.

Check out the place below :