Heritage Hotels

Penang has an awesome blend of heritage of colonial and eastern designs in its architecture. Hence, it would be good to try out some of the heritage hotels especially in the historical city of George Town.

Here is the author’s list of Top 4 Heritage Hotels in Penang.

1. Eastern & Oriental Hotel
10, Lebuh Farquhar, 10200 Penang.
+(6) 04 222 2000
www.e-o-hotel.com

The Eastern & Oriental Hotel is the embodiment of both a special time and a special place. For well over a century, this remarkable hotel – known simply as `The E&O’ to generations of travellers – has stood as a testament to the grand elegance of the British colonial era.
In many ways, it has also come to represent Penang itself; its story inextricably woven into the island’s history, its traditions an indelible part of many a traveller’s treasured memory, its name synonymous with the magical island once known as The Pearl Of the Orient.

2. Hotel Penaga
Corner of Jalan Hutton & Lebuh Clarke, 10050 George Town, Penang.
+(6) 04 261 1891
www.hotelpenaga.com

Hotel Penaga, in the heart of GeorgeTown, Penang, Malaysia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The hotel was converted from a cluster of 15 pre-war terraces and shophouses, facing Hutton Lane, Transfer Road and Clarke Street, into a heritage boutique hotel that maintains the character of the heritage zone while meeting the highest modern expectations.

3. Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
14 Lebuh Leith, 10200 Penang
+(6) 04 262 0006
www.cheongfatttzemansion.com

Though the lavish doors to the venerable Blue Mansion were first thrown open in as early as the 19th Century, the tradition of architecture and craftsmanship applied to the building’s construction dates much further back – a precipitous 3000 years to the Su Chow dynasty, to be exact. Built in the Hakka – Teochew style on sturdy foundations of Southern Chinese building typologies and materials, the Blue Mansion commissioned by Cheong Fatt Tze in the face of a trend in the construction of modern Anglo-indian abodes – stands today as a model of the traditional paradigm Chinese courtyard house.

4. 1926 Heritage Hotel
227 Jalan Burma, 10050 Penang.
+(6) 04 228 1926
www.1926heritagehotel.com

Built in 1926, 1926 Heritage Hotel once served as a home to the British colonial immigration officers and local administrators of Penang. The sense of nostalgia can be felt throughout the whole property as you enjoy spacious rooms, wooden interior, long corridors, balmy balconies, beautiful Victorian windows accompanied with pictures and photos of old Penang, luxurious comfort and the colonial charm of the staff in 1926 hotel. Surrounded by the Hotel, is the old city of Georgetown that was founded in 1786 by Captain Francis Light which is now listed under UNESCO heritage cities.

References:

1. http://www.tourismpenang.net.my/accomodations_heritage_hotels.html

2. http://www.1926heritagehotel.com/Room_standard.html

3. http://www.eohotels.com/thehotel.php

4. http://www.cheongfatttzemansion.com/reservation.htm

5. http://www.hotelpenaga.com/index.php