Penang trip

This time we stayed at Holiday Inn Resort, Batu Feringghi. OH wanted to collect points he said.. I have no idea what it's all about. something like loyalty card i suppose. Anyways… had no qualms with the place. No bad experience whatsoever. However can't review much coz most of the time we just stayed in our room and didn't exactly make full use of the facilities. Room was spacious with 2 double beds, a verandah. Has both shower and a bathtub. Somehow I feel like the loo was designed for orang utan.. can u see the distance between the loo and the toilet roll? LOL

In the late afternoon, it looked like it was gonna rain. So we went to the kids' room instead of frolicking the beach. There's babysitter service here for kids 4y.o. and up. The kids' room was quite impressive but not as huge as the one in laurel green. Good enough to keep the LO busy. Suddenly the sky cleared so we strolled the beach. We had Iftar in the room since we didn wanna rush. OH heard somewhere that the waffles are good. He must have been mistaken coz they are kinda disappointing. Nothing special with the beef burger too.

For dinner we drove to this seafood restaurant (still trying to recall the name). We have wanted to try out this place since… forever but never got the chance. Came across quite a lot of good reviews. But……. in the end it's just another disappointment. Fresh food but the hokkien style of cooking didn't really appeal to us. The first and the last. I do love the mantis prawn in black pepper dish though. That one is really hot and juicy. Complements the fleshy bits of it rather perfectly. Checkout the lobsters.. and that's actually not the biggest one there.

tomato soup, rolls, fruit platter, fruit juice fortwo

One thing about sahur in the hotel. First, I wasn't aware that there were set meals for sahur. Second, because of all the oily and rich food we had for dinner, I can only have hot soup if I dun wanna have to see what I had for dinner again.. hehe. The room service fellow was like.. seriously? only tomato soup? iced water only? and I's like yeah.. yeah.. that's all I want.. send them at 5 a.m. and look at what they sent instead. AAAND… the whole thing on the tray.. complementary. That's a pleasant surprise…

The next day.. after checking out at 12noon (extended summore haha) we went to Gurney Drive and bought Afya and Ipanema. I think because of the in-between-toes thingie, she kinda hates it. She'll only wear it for 10mins or so b4 trying to take it off. Just like me.. I can't wear flip flops either. Although I did buy myself a white pair for another beach vacation this month.. hehe.

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