Yep, went to Phuket for 8th anniversary - beautiful hotel, wonderful accommodation, private 12.5m pool, lovely view of the Andaman Sea, total privacy, excellent breakfasts served in your room, good food at their one and only restaurant - you should check out www.phuketpavilions.com. That was the good part. Outside of the hotel, everything in Phuket is expensive - they obviously cater to Americans and Europeans who find everything cheap - but from our perspective, coming from KL, everything was either the same price as in KL OR (worse still) the same price as in Singapore! Not cheap lah. Mind you, if you find your way to Central, to the Jim Thompson factory outlet, the prices are pretty good! More stuff for men than for women though.
Got back from Phuket on Wed 2nd May, Husband left for SG on Mon morning, and I flew to SG on Mon night (after work), for a meeting on Tuesday. Flew back to KL on Tuesday night, was in Cyberjaya on Thursday (met an OLD friend for lunch), then Husband and I flew to Penang on Thursday night - since I had a meeting on Friday in Penang, we figured we might as well make a weekend of it. Stayed at the Northam - nice hotel centrally located, nice suites, decent pool on 9th floor with a good view of the sea, food was so-so, staff were really very very nice, very helpful. Reasonably priced too! My meeting on Friday took from 9.30am to 2.30pm, inclusive of lunch with the customer. Got back to the hotel around 3.15pm, met up with Husband, who had just had a swim, then we walked down Gurney to Gurney Plaza.
On the way back, stopped at Brazil 68, on Jln Kelawei, not far from Gurney Plaza, for dinner. Really excellent - good food, good service, lovely people, 2 young ladies providing live music from 8.00pm (Darsha and Joyce). The food was Churascarria style - ie, a never-ending flow of various types of meats, and fish, cooked in various ways. Husband being a meat eater, he totally enjoyed it. Other than the meats they have a whole set of salads, rice, wedges, lasagna, etc, etc, etc. I stuck to those as I knew I wouldn't be able to do justice to the meats, and I did totally enjoy it.
Saturday, we went in the other direction - got the hotel limo to drop us off at Komtar (very unimpressive)... on the way out, we were accosted (in a nice way) by a Chinese gentleman who told us about the view from the top of the Komtar tower - and he took us all the way there too. You pay RM15 per head, and you get a total 360deg view of Penang. You also get 2 postcards free, and a drink too... and discounts on t-shirts, and pewter ware IF you buy any. We did take the postcards and the drink, but didn't bother with the rest. From Komtar, we walked to the E&O (LOVELY building), and then from there we walked back to the Northam. Got back totally drenched with sweat, so went for a swim to cool off. In the evening, walked out again, to Nagore Place for N. Indian food. The restaurant looked very "iffy" but it turned out OK in the end. Back to the hotel, a couple of drinks and then back to the room to flake out. We were totally, but nicely, exhausted.
It is now Sunday, and we are home again. Sorted out stuff for Husband, as he is off to SG again tomorrow... for 4 days this time.... and it is back to work again tomorrow.
Have a good life everyone... till next time.
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