We arrived in Malaysia in Georgetown, on the island of Penang. Yeah, that's a pretty odd first picture. The first hotel we stayed in, Cathay Hotel, advertised in our guidebook as an "old romantic colonial" was a dive, complete with a brothel in the back, and a note handscrawled beside the mirror by some long-since departed guest: "Do not leave anything of value in this room, it <b>will</b> be stolen by the staff". Nice. So we moved on to the next highest rated hotel in our guidebook, the Olive Spring Hotel, where we got this photo of the floorboard. There was holes everywhere that went right through to the lower floors. The walls in our room didn't go all the way to the top, it was more like a "cubicle". At night, some unseen animal ate a chocolate bar that we had left (unopened) on the bedside table. In most countries, this building would have been condemned. Anyways... enough whining, the sights must make up for it, right?

We arrived in Malaysia in Georgetown, on the island of Penang. Yeah, that's a pretty odd first picture. The first hotel we stayed in, Cathay Hotel, advertised in our guidebook as an "old romantic colonial" was a dive, complete with a brothel in the back, and a note handscrawled beside the mirror by some long-since departed guest: "Do not leave anything of value in this room, it <b>will</b> be stolen by the staff". Nice. So we moved on to the next highest rated hotel in our guidebook, the Olive Spring Hotel, where we got this photo of the floorboard. There was holes everywhere that went right through to the lower floors. The walls in our room didn't go all the way to the top, it was more like a "cubicle". At night, some unseen animal ate a chocolate bar that we had left (unopened) on the bedside table. In most countries, this building would have been condemned. Anyways... enough whining, the sights must make up for it, right?
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