Choosing a place to stay in Penang

Choosing a place to stay in Penang (22 September 2017)


This article is written specially for the benefit of people who are planning to move to Penang, and are considering different neighbourhoods before selecting a property. The scope of this article is presently Penang Island, but I will expand it to include Penang Mainland in the future.

Coming from a different state or country, you might not be very familiar with the neighbourhoods in Penang. So, on this page, I show you the location of the various neighbourhoods, in order that you may immediately understand their distance from the town centre . The main roads and provide you information about each of them, so that you can make an informed decision when you wish to buy a property or rent one.

In addition to giving you an idea about the neighbourhood, I will also share with use details such as traffic situation in the area, geography, and practical matters such as location of the nearest market and shopping mall.

When choosing a property, it is worth to determine its distance from your place of work, particularly if you are going to stay there. If your plan is to collect rental, then its distance from the city centre or centres of industry (such as the Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone) should be taken into consideration, on top of other considerations, such as availability of amenities in the area. So properties should not be consider as stand alone, but rather impacted by its surroundings.

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About this website

Dear visitor, thank you so much for reading this page. My name is Timothy Tye and my hobby is to find out about places, write about them and share the information with you on this website. I have been writing this site since 5 January 2003. Originally (from 2003 until 2009, the site was called AsiaExplorers. I changed the name to Penang Travel Tips in 2009, even though I describe more than just Penang but everywhere I go (I often need to tell people that "Penang Travel Tips" is not just information about Penang, but information written in Penang), especially places in Malaysia and Singapore, and in all the years since 2003, I have described over 20,000 places.

While I try my best to provide you information as accurate as I can get it to be, I do apologize for any errors and for outdated information which I am unaware. Nevertheless, I hope that what I have described here will be useful to you.