We had a 4 night 5 days vacation at Penang from 28/9 to 2/10/2023. I thought I would be a boring vacation because before this our trip was a bit boring.
Surprisingly, this holiday was really fun especially activities at Escape Penang & National Park.
Our Activities in Penang
Thursday 28/9/2023
Arrived in Penang around 5pM.
Check in at our Airbnb at Sunrise Gurney condominium.
We had our dinner at Fried Chicken Master. The chicken was not well cooked so I wouldn’t go here again.
fried garden master
Then we had a simple dessert at a Starbucks nearby.
Friday 29/9
We had our breakfast at Gemas Road Brothers. The queue was really long. I think the roti canai is overrated. I don’t really like it. The kuah taste sour and really spicy.
After breakfast, we went to Design Outlet – similar concept like premium outlet in Genting & Johor Bahru. We bought track suit for our next day activities at National Park.
design outlet mall – premium outlet penang
We had our lunch at Coffee Bean in Design Outlet Mall.
We took our dinner at Lotus food court in Seri Tanjung.
delicious kebab and nasi goreng tomyan at Lotus Seri Tanjung food court
After then we went to Medan Renong to eat pasembur at Ghani Pasembur.
medan renong penang
Saturday 30/9
For breakfast, we ate bread history breads that we bought at Lotus. Then we went for Penang National Park and arrived around 1030am.
penang national park maptaman negara penangtaman negara penang – jetty to monkey beachposing at the jetty going to monkey beach
We went to Monkey beach by boat. We had our lunch at the stall in Monkey beach. The maggi goreng was delicious.
boarding boat to monkey beach penangriding the boat to monkey beach penangstall at monkey beachmonkey at monkey beach penangmaggi goreng at monkey beach stall
After lunch we went up to Muka Light house. It took us 1 hour to go up and 40 mn to go down. It was really tiring, we stopped few times to reach at the top. For a fit person that can climb up in 20 minutes.
muka light house at penang national parkpath to light house taman negara penanglight house at taman negara penang
Then the kids swam at the beach and played sands.
swiming and playing at the monkey beach
We had our dinner around 5pm at McDonalds because we were so hungry after the activities.
Then at night, we went for supper at Pasembur Gurney road.
Sunday 1/10
We had our breakfast at Ascott Hotel. Then we went to Escape Penang and arrive around 1000am.
breakfast at ascott hotelbreakfast at ascott hotel penang soup
We rode the longest waterslide, zip coaster, flying lemur and many more. It was really fun and tiring at same time.
escape penang mapslingshot at escape penangriding boat at escape penangcable car at escape penangcable car at escape penangwater park at escape penanggladiator challenge at escape penang
For lunch we at A&W inside the park and dinner we just eat at the shopping mall near Gurney some of us ate Subway and some Coffee bean.
We fall asleep early with muscle pains around the body.
Monday 2/10
We had our breakfast at a nasi lemak restaurant nearby the Sunrise Gurney condominium. The nasi lemak was delicious.
breakfast nasi lemak near sunrise gurney condo
Then we went back to Shah Alam and reached Shah Alam around 430pm.
We visited Entopia on 13th December 2022 around 230PM.
The place was quite big, I didn’t know it was that big.
Itinerary of Entopia
You will find butterflies flying around and seeing Koi fishes.
The you will discover frogs, spider and scorpion at first
Along the way more butterflies and can try to touch and put them on your hand
At same time you can see few iguanas and tortoise.
At the end, you will discover more on insects like ants, worms, and bugs
Finally you will reach to souvenirs shops and Entopia’s founding history.
For this visit, I didn’t go to level 2.
entopia – frog like a leafentopia spiderentopia – tarantulaentopia – iguanaentopia – touching the butterflyentopia – butterfly with liesha for more than 20 mnentopia – insectsentopia – worms
Visiting Hours
9:00AM to 6:00PMĀ daily with last entry by 5:00PM.
Ticket Price
For Malaysian
Adults (13 to 59 years old): RM49
Kids (4 to 12 years old): RM29
Senior citizen (60 years old and above): RM29
We have a long holiday to multiple places this December 2022.
Places we visited:
Genting Highlands
Legoland Johor
Taiping, Perak
Penang
holiday december 2022 – itinerary
2nd & 3rd December 2022 – Going to Genting
We picked up my nieces at KLIA2 around 10PM++ . Then we went straight to Genting Highlands. We arrived around 1AM++.
The next day, we went up to Genting Highlands by cable car and let the kids played at Zombie Outbreak.
Before going to the cable car, I installed towels hanger at my Airbnb unit in Genting Permai.
By 4PM, we went back to Shah Alam.
my nieces arrived at KLIA2installed towel hangerfoggy at gentingposing near the genting cable cargenting mall at genting highlandszombie outbreak game at gentinggenting mall lamp showarrive at Genting airbnb
3rd December 2022 – back to Shah Alam
We arrived at Shah Alam by 7PM then we ate at Dominoes Pizza Bukit Jelutong. It was tiring traveling day.
dinner at dominoes pizza bukit jelutong
4th December 2022 – Go to Legoland – Theme Park
We had our breakfast at Restoran Mak Uda and we reached Legoland Theme Park around 12PM.
Then we checked in into our Airbnb around 352PM. By 5PM we went back to the theme park. We played till 8PM when the theme park was closed.
breakfast at restoran mak uda before going to johorarrive at legoland johortruck play at medinilegoland seaworldour homestay at johor legolandposing in front of lego elephantlego boat tower
For dinner, we ate at McD near EduCity and it was full house.
5th December – 2nd day at Legoland Theme Park
It was heavy raining we could ride only few rides. Then we stop by 1PM. We had our lunch at 7 spices.
Then went back to our Airbnb unit and took a good rest.
For dinner we ate at Mana Cafe and had ice cream as dessert. After dinner we went to JPO
7 spice for lunchmana cafe at iskandar puteri for our dinnerice cream at mana cafeJPO posing while waiting for our ride to come
6th December – 3rd day at Legoland Theme Park
We did till 2PM the theme park because the kids were fully enjoyed all the rides by this day.
For lunch we had Subway.
We had our dinner at TKR a mamak restaurant at Iskandar Puteri. Then went to JPO but this time Deef and me stayed at our homestay because Deef was not feeling well.
legoland theme parksubway for lunch at medinidinner at TKR restaurant at iskandar puteriJPO at Johor
7th December – 4th day at Legoland Water Park
For breakfast we ate at Mana Cafe and lunch at Chicken Rice Shop at Medini. For dinner we had Dominoes pizzas and did our laundry.
ride at legoland water parkdominoes pizza for dinnerdoing our laundry next to dominoes pizza restaurant
8th December – Going back to Shah Alam
We had our brunch at McD.
For dinner, we just ordered food from Restoran Mak Uda Denai Alam. Then we visited an auctioned double terrace house at Denai Alam.
breakfast at mcd before going back to shah alam from johorvisit auctioned house at denai alam
9th December -Rest and Play Badminton
We rest most of the time in the morning but around 3PM we played badminton for 2 hours and we ate Nasi cincang for lunch and dinner.
playing badminton
10th December – Arrived at Taiping after 1o hours of traveling
We had our breakfast at house where we ate bread, scrambled eggs and hotdogs.
We went to Taiping at 1030AM and arrived only at 7PM. 10 hours of traveling! It was really jam due to school holiday.
For lunch we had Dunkin Donuts sandwiches because all the other restaurants at the RNR were full. Only Dunkin Donuts less crowded.
We ordered for Mcd Delivery for our dinner. We stayed at Hermitage Boutique House for our 2 nights stay at Taiping.
11th December – Off Road ATV & Night Safari
We had our breakfast at Mcd Taiping. Then we did cycling and riding boat at Lake Garden.
After that we did off road ATV for 2 hours. After the ATV activity, we had our lunch at Nasi Kandar Beratur. After lunch, we had CU sundae and I had my favorite Gula Melaka Coconut at ZUS Coffee.
The kids went for swimming at the Hermitage Boutique house swimming.
We separated with my nieces as they stayed at Taiping while we were going to Penang by tomorrow.
riding bicycle at lake garden taipingriding boat at lake garden taipingATV adventure at taipingplaying at river after atv ridenasi kandar beratur at taipingswimming at hermitage boutique housenight safari waiting for tramposing after night safari
12th December – Eat Passembur & Penang Batik Factory
We had our breakfast at McD Taiping. It took 1 hour to reach Penang.
For lunch we ate Taco Bell and bought Chateraise bread at the City Junction.
Then we check in to our room at Mercure Hotel. After then went to visit Penang Batik Factory. After Penang Batik Factory had our dinner at Jalan Gurney eating Passembur and laksa Penang.
our room at hotel mercurepenang batik factory shoppenang passembur
13th December – Visit Bukit Bendera & Entopia
We had our breakfast at Naina’s Roti Bakar but before that we ate bread that we bought from Chateraise. Then we went to Penang 3D Trick Museum but at the end decided not to go because hard to get parking.
We went to Bukit Bendera, but we had to wait for 3 hours before could go up then decided no to buy the ticket. Immediately we went to Entopia, Butterfly Farm.
We had our lunch at Fried Chicken Master. After Entopia, we had drinks at Starbucks. When reached hotel the kids played at the beach.
Our dinner we had at Lotus food court nearby Mercure hotel.
eclair from chateraisenaina roti kosongbukit bendera counterfried chicken master – indomeentopia butterfly farm penanglog cake at starbucksplaying sand at beach in front of mercure hotel
14th December – Going back to Shah Alam – end of vacation
Checked out at Hotel around 1030AM then we had our lunch at IKEA Batu Kawan. Moving back to Shah Alam around 1230PM then arrived in Shah Alam around 6PM.
We had our dinner at Marry Brown Denai Alam.
It was a great holiday going to different places. A first in our holiday.
We had our holiday in Penang from 12th December till 14th December 2022. We booked 2 connecting rooms with one king bed size room and two queen bed size room.
Hotel Mercure is a 4 stars hotel.
The Rooms
Rooms were really comfortable with good air conditioning and really clean.
What I don’t like only the shower water pressure not that strong.
room with king bed size hotel mercure penangbig screen tv at mercure hoteldouble queen bed at mercure hotelbathroom at mercure hotel
The Mercure Hotel
hotel mercure penang tanjung bungahlobby area hotel mercurehotel mercure penang swimming poolhotel mercure penang beach viewbeach view hotel mercure penangwaiting area for lift hotel mercure penanghotel mercure penang corridor to the room
Amenities
Mercure Hotel provided toothbrush, toothpaste, shaver, tea etc.
Besides you could easily find F&B within 20-30 minutes drive from the hotel.
In term of parking a bit hard to get parking nearby the hotel. You had to go to basement park next to the hotel.
Mercure Hotel also provides drinking water using 3M filter.
drinking water tap at mercure hotel penangdrinking water using 3M filter
Price
We booked our hotel rooms at booking.com. We got it at RM350 per night per room.
We went to Penang Batik Factory so my kids could learn how to do batik. Unfortunately we went late around 4PM and they said it was already closed.
Even for next day they were fully booked and it requires 2 days to do the batik. One day to do the coloring by your own and another day for them to die the batik cloth and dry it.
Fortunately the person in charge was really friendly and showed us the factory and brief us on the making of batik without any fee.
The Factory
The factory is situated just behind the batik shop.
penang batik factory in the makingpenang batik factorypenang batik factory floral pattern
The Shop & Souvenir
They sell their made batik at the shop and you can buy souvenir to the adjacent shop.
penang batik factory shoppenang batik factory souvenir shoppenang batik factory souvernir shop
Price
Penang Batik Factory charges RM35 to make your own handkerchief batik.
We bumped into a Japan Patisserie called Chateraise in Penang. It made us remember of our trip to Japan. Japan breads are delicious and nicely decorated or packed.
The Patisserie Shop
Most of the delicious breads on display is actually a fake but it looks really real. After you order, the waiter will take out the bread from a fridge.