Road trip SG→Penang: Need advise

[nala]

Hello everyone,

anybody tried driving your 3 pointed star from SG→Penang?

1. Are there anything to lookout for? Is there a need for car inspection prior to travel? Where to do that.
2. I'm still on a lookout for hotels to stay over. You know la.. can be quite scary to drive up north. Any recommendation for Malacca, KL and Penang? Need a trusted hotel to park moi car.

[leftfield]

 

Hello everyone,

anybody tried driving your 3 pointed star from SG→Penang?

1. Are there anything to lookout for? Is there a need for car inspection prior to travel? Where to do that.
2. I'm still on a lookout for hotels to stay over. You know la.. can be quite scary to drive up north. Any recommendation for Malacca, KL and Penang? Need a trusted hotel to park moi car.

 

 

If your car has not been serviced for a while, just do a regular car servicing. Watch out for the usual key stuff like the brakes and tyres condition.

 

For accommodation in Melaka, I recommend Holiday Inn or the new Hatten Hotel.  As for KL, it is huge and it literally depends on which part of KL u want to stay. U are literally spoilt for choice.  Has been a while since I went up to Penang so cant help there.

[Old-MAN]

Nala,

 

In Penang, there are many new boutique hotels, but they can be quite dear......I always stay in Traders, near to makan places so you need not drive out.....

 

When do you intend to drive there?

[Arshavin]

Can arrange a group drive to penang. Haha.

[nala]

Boutique hotels are very nice. The only issue for me is still car parking. Haiz... Want to have the freedom and comfort but still needa take care of our toy.

[mulderang]

Actually flying in and renting a car there might be a better idea. Did it for a numbers of time.

[hayato]

Most hotels in Malaysia have security guards at their carpark nowadays. What you can do is pay them some tips $$ to keep extra watch on your car especially at night.

[arkaneslayer]

Hatten Melaka is good.

[Sarah Jones]

 

Hello everyone,

anybody tried driving your 3 pointed star from SG→Penang?

1. Are there anything to lookout for? Is there a need for car inspection prior to travel? Where to do that.
2. I'm still on a lookout for hotels to stay over. You know la.. can be quite scary to drive up north. Any recommendation for Malacca, KL and Penang? Need a trusted hotel to park moi car.

 

 

hey.. In Penang you can book Parkloyal Hotel...its a affordable hotel, with parking space. 

 

Its in Batu Ferringhi.

 

Refer below travel map of Penang to see more travel destinations.

 

<a href="http://www.mapsofworld.com/malaysia/penang-map.html">http://www.mapsofworld.com/malaysia/penang-map.html

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[jak99]

Hi,

 

Yes I did a driveup to Penang during the school hols in June.

 

700 over km. Cleared Causeway at 5am and arrived at Georgetown at noon. Did couple of stops for fuel and bfast.

 

Stayed at Hard Rock at the beach. Lovely experience.

 

Check your battery. I didnt. It died on me when I reached there.

 

 

 

Hello everyone,

anybody tried driving your 3 pointed star from SG→Penang?

1. Are there anything to lookout for? Is there a need for car inspection prior to travel? Where to do that.
2. I'm still on a lookout for hotels to stay over. You know la.. can be quite scary to drive up north. Any recommendation for Malacca, KL and Penang? Need a trusted hotel to park moi car.

 

[nala]

Thanks guys. I've went there and came back! It's really quite fun.

Total driving distance. 1,800Km in 26hrs.

 

Just a tip. The road after ipoh wasn't that straight, needa be extra careful!

[thaiedwin]

Nice....Do u exceed speed limit and see the AES cam?

[Toffeeman]

Watch the AES speed trap locations

http://paultan.org/2012/10/08/aes-locations-the-full-list-of-831-camera-spots/

[tsktsk]

edit: ooops realized u already done your trip...  hahaha so remove invalid info except hotel / makan

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drove my c180k to ipoh and then penang (not in 1 day though) 

 

stayed at Lone Pine Hotel / G Hotel / Shangri-La's Rasa Sayang before and all OK. I also rank them in that order. G Hotel is at Gurney drive so hawker food is easy, next to it is a big mall too, so convenient wise this is best. Lone Pine and Rasa are at Batu Ferringhi so beach front, can drive to The Ship for some old fashion surf-n-turf type dish, otherwise some food places there too. Go Penang i would visit Lorong Selamat for their Penang Char Kway Teow, i usually eat at the 2-woman store, they wear some fancy hat...