Yesterday we went exploring and found a new hotel. the place we were in, Central Hotel, was nice, once. Its now a rundown dirty dive of a place but it was somewhere to start. it was only RM80 / night, about $34. The second floor is or possibly was a snooker centre and “massage parlour”, the ground floor at one stage had a nice shopping arcade and probably restaurants, now its abandoned and smells a little of cat urine. The room had a damp floor in one corner and the bathroom wall near the shower was 1/2 mouldy, at least where the paint wasn’t peeling off anyway. Yesterday night when we got back the lift had broken so we had to walk up 6 floors of stairs. Its kind of sad really as you can see it was once a very nice place that just hasn’t been maintained. On the up side the staff were friendly, it was cheap, had air conditioning and hot and cold water.
The new hotel. We are waiting to check in. It is nice, its new, i think less than 2 years old, the rooms are small but the beds are supposed to be 5 star quality. we booked it yesterday and ended up paying about RM49 / night. that’s about $21. If we had of booked it earlier then it would have been cheaper. down as low as RM9.99 / night but we would have had to have done it 9 months ago to get that rate. It fluctuates depending on how many people are already booked in for the date you want to stay.
Photos.
Malaysia mainland in background
North Georgetown
Can you imagine burnt pine looking like this?
This ones for you Scully, it looks brand new. not even dusty.
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