Highly recommended property to stay on the beach area in Penang Malaysia, Holiday Inn Resort Penang boasts an excellent location and is suitable for families or honeymooners. The resort's recreational facilities include a fully equipped gymnasium, swimming pool, games room with pool table, video game machines, darts and football. A host of water sports activities such as para-sailing, jet ski, boat ride, catamaran, and banana boat ride. Daily activities are organised for guests such as beach volleyball, water polo, aerobics, water basketball, cooking class, village walk, adventure walk and many more. Guests are welcomed in the lobby in the Beach Wing, an open air concept and offers very much a 'resort' feeling. To ensure guests' satisfaction, the hotel is furnished with babysitting, business center, wireless internet access, conference room, money exchange facilities, car park, room and laundry services.
Rooms
This hotel features 358 spacious and well-appointed guest rooms include suites and kid suites. Rooms feature remote control TV with satellite channels, bathroom with shower and bath, smoke detector system throughout the hotel, coffee and tea making facilities, international direct dial telephone, in-room safe, hair dryer etc. Amenities may differ from one room category to another. Ferringhi Tower Hill view Room - offers view of lush green hills and are tastefully decorated with exotic rattan furniture and new carpet, and include a marble bathroom with separate shower cubicle, long bath and modern amenities. The room size, with twin or king-size beds, measures 30 to 35 square meters / 323 to 377 square feet. Complete with full range of amenities.
Restaurant & Food
The main restaurant in this tower provides guests with a cosy and quiet ambience amidst a charming environment and serves a wide selection of international buffet breakfasts daily. While this hotel also provides another outlet in the other wing with an open concept restaurant with ethnic furnishings and ceiling fans, serving an array of international and local cuisine all day and barbecue dinners on the patio. This restaurant overlooks the pool, gardens, and ocean.
Activities & Sport
The grounds feature a pool with children's pools. Leisure activities include a fully-equipped gym, a games room with a pool table, video games machines and darts. Further activities include beach volleyball, water polo, water aerobics, water basketball, cooking lessons, walks through the village and surroundings, video games and much more. Water sports are available on the beach for an added fee, including water skiing, windsurfing or canoeing. Entertainment for children is also available for an added fee. The nearest golf course lies in Bukit Jambil and is roughly a 50-minute drive.
Directions, How to get there
The hotel is located in the heart of Batu Ferringhi. It is easily accessible and only 18 km from the city centre of historical Georgetown and a 45-min drive from Bayan Lepas International Airport.