Category: Reviews
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Review: Angsana Laguna Phuket Hotel
Last November, I received a message on Viber from my brother: “Agoda is offering a pool villa in Angsana Laguna Phuket for only $10 more than the apartment, so I went ahead and booked it. Do you want to join us in June?” If you’ve been reading my blog long enough, you know that I…
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Review: Bayview Hotel Georgetown
A visit to Penang is not complete without staying and exploring the historic city of Georgetown. For this leg of our Penang trip, Bayview Hotel Georgetown has kindly offered us two night’s stay, and a special rate for my third night through Agoda.com. Location The hotel is located on Lebuh Farquhar, right in between the…
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Golden Sands Resort by Shangri-La, Penang
While we didn’t stay at Shangri-La’s Rasa Sayang Resort’s next door neighbor, we had the opportunity to tour the hotel. On our first night, we also dropped by to have dinner at Sigi’s to try out their Durian Cheeseburger. The Golden Sands Resort is a four-star property, and is geared more towards families on holiday.…
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Review: Shangri-La’s Rasa Sayang Resort Penang
Continuing on from my review of our Garden Wing Deluxe Seaview Room at Shangri-La’s Rasa Sayang Resort in Penang, Malaysia, here’s where you can eat and what you can do within the resort.
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Review: Shangri-La’s Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa, Penang
Since my last visit to Penang was way back in 2009, I decided it was high time I visit again, when a couple of seat sales came up last January. I remember telling myself that the next time I come back to Pulau Pinang, I’ll stay in Batu Ferringhi. Thanks to the lovely people at…
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A new travel companion: the Asus Zenfone 2
My Nexus 4 started sputtering the Saturday before Mother’s day, and finally gave up on the 11th. I was phone-less, and while I prefer to have it repaired and keep on using it, I know I may have to look into buying a new phone. But which one to buy? With a limited budget (I’ll…
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Indie Singapore: Free walking tours of the Lion City
My brother has been living in Singapore since 1996, and I have been visiting him and his family since 2000. During that first visit, we made rounds of the tourist attractions every weekend. The next time I went there was in 2006, when I started traveling. Singapore has changed a lot since then, and in…
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Review: Harolds Hotel in Cebu City
In our family Viber group chat, my brother expressed his interest in joining the Cebu Marathon in January 2015. He’s excited by the lechon-shaped medal, but he laments that the rates for the good hotels are all too high. I told him to look for Harolds Hotel. He searched for the hotel on Agoda, and…
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A birthday treat at Edsa Shangri-La Hotel
I love getting e-mails from Hong Kong, because that meant good things were coming. And I was right — with it came a question: am I traveling sometime soon, and can Shangri-La assist with my accommodations? My travel plans at the time were non-existent, but I knew I wanted to have a special treat for…