I like to do a visa run to Penang, can anyone recommend a good hotel in Penang to spend 3 or 4 days ?

Stayed at this place before, no complaints...........round about 1000 baht night inc. breakfast.

There are a couple of bars within 100m that are worth a look in for a quiet drink on the night.

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Cititel was fine by me.Nice clean rm with great view and massage with H.ending downstairs

I usually stay at the Continental. It has (for me) the huge advantage of a swimming pool. They also have a resident fixer (Patrick) who will handle your visa application efficiently.

i always stay at the the Cititel and mel2surf is right about the health centre in the hotel, very nice..............

I stayed at the Evergreen Hotel, which I think is more like a 4 star, but reasonably priced... it had a nice room and nice buffet breakfast... they have free wireless internet in the room, if you bring your own computer. It's a slightly odd location, a bit far to walk to anywhere, yet central to both downtown, beaches, etc. They have a nice indoor gym, where there are lots of naked Chinese guys walking around, who like to show off how "big" they are. The outdoor pool was quite big and nice.

I took the train/funicular that goes up to the top of some mountain, which was kind of nice, but you have to make sure you don't let anyone cut in front of you. I got a free lapel pin from some broad at the airport, from the Tourist Department, who I answered a few questions for. An hour later, the pin broke. Those are my impressions of Penang.