Penang 🇮🇩 Trip Itinerary (Georgetown Area)

Hey Zestiess, here's another productive itinerary which me and my friends had covered in our 3d2n Penang trip!

🗓️Day 1: Check-in 🏠, Explore Hin Bus Depot 🚍, Night Market

• We boarded a one way trip via AirAsia to Penang in the morning and touched down in an hours time (really fast game)! Prior to checking-in, we had lunch first as the check-in time is 3pm. After settling down in our Airbnb (📍218 Tropicana Macalister Condominium - high rating ⭐ and guest's favourite🤩 in Airbnb app!), we then headed to Hin Bus Depot and start exploring the place. Almost the entire afternoon was spent exploring Georgetown - including the iconic white building (4th pic) as well as the umbrella street (4th pic as well) etc.

• When night falls, we had dinner at 📍Chulia Night Street Market) and ordered jus 3 local food (5th pic) as we r all so very full from all the snacks and drinks whilst exploring Georgetown😵‍💫 (Rating of the food: 3/5).

• EOD, we went for a quick massage 💆‍♂️ around our airbnb area and then bought sojus and chips on our way back.

🗓️Day 2: Local cuisine, Thrift Shopping🛍️, Water Sports🌊, Bar🍻🎯🎱

Morning:

We started off the day by indulging in some Assam Laksa 🍜 and popiah (spring rolls)it was sooo good 💯 as we all wanted to not get full so easily, all the food was being shared - save $$$ + increase effectiveness too, knowing we dont have to each order a main for ourselves jus to truly taste the flavour 🤠😌 we then went to the 📍Famous Cha Kuay Teow at Penang Rd, i mean ofc they serve other local food too HAHA we ate cha kuay teow (4⭐/5), oyster omelette (3⭐5) & chendol (5⭐/5)!

Afternoon:

We headed off to several thrift shops but this one (7th pic - 📍Ken'Yaku) really caught my eye as the clothes they sell were v different from the other thrift shops we went prior. They offer really good quality apparels 🧥👗 (both men and women) at super affordable prices! I bought a polo ralph lauren shirt at only $17 sgd! the material and the fit are amazing, a solid 💯 fr. However on the second floor (7th pic), prices are abit on the pricier side but if you rly want it, js get it - they had many nice apparels ranging from sweaters and shirts to cargo pants 👖 and beanies!

Once shopping is done, we headed off to 📍Chew Boat Jetty 🛶 to explore. Took a few pictures of the jetty and we headed off to📍Batu Ferringhi Beach 🏖️ for the long-awaited water sports! we played banana boat (10mins ish) & Jetski (a solid 20mins) if we had more time we would hv went for the parasailing 🪂 but next time it is!

Night:

Dinner was at this tiktok-inspired cafe called 📍Oceano Symphony. The vibes were immaculate AF with the sunset dawning, waves crashing and beautiful interior of this cafe, you wouldn't want to miss this cafe 😃 we ordered calamari, fish and squid-ink linguine. The linguine is a MUST-TRY the flavours were bursting in our mouth and it was a solid 10⭐/10. Fish and calamari were good too. Not feeling full enough, we went to eat (dinner round 2) at this oyster bar 🦪 and restaurant (pic was not included) we had the octopus, some pork pesto and vongole (clams) soup. All were pretty bombz 👍

EOD, we enjoyed our fullest at📍Stag Bar (second last pic). This was one hell of a bar that rly BLOWS MY MIND the interior was sophisticated (in a pretty way) and they had many games to play too! - pool, beer pong , basketball🏀, darts🎯 etc. WE PLAYED EVERY SINGLE GAME as each game only cost between 2&6RM how cheap is that! a good 2hrs was spent there jus drinking and playing all at the same time. Before heading back to our Airbnb, we ate Loklok (a stone's throw away from our airbnb) - 📍Loklok Plus, Rating: 3.5⭐/5)

🗓️ Day 3: Last day - more thrift shopping, seafood dinner

On our last day, we spent the morning sleeping as we all slept 5am+ the previous night (or shd I say morning oops) Afternoon was then spent touring around the other thrift shops. Fast-forwarding to evening, we ate kuay chap at a random roadside and then headed off for our last dinner in Penang - 📍Holy Crab. The crabs as well as the other seafood dishes we ordered (oyster, tiger prawns, seafood platter) were all pretty good! Rating: 4.8⭐/5) EOD, we headed to the airport and took Scoot en route back to SG.

In Summary:

We did follow our itinerary BUT we had a alot of improvisations throughout the entire trip and i hv zero regrets. Sometimes last-min plans are the best plans! Also, all food places were directly from Google Maps - reviews are important !! Having come to a unanimous decision was also crucial if you're traveling w a group of friends. Luckily for me, there's only 3 of us, hence making the planning easier. With that, to sum it all up, I'll give a 💰 price breakdown of the entirety of this trip.

✈️ Flight Tickets: $140/pax (round trip)

🏘️ Airbnb: $31/pax for 2 nights (what a steal)

😋 Food: $160

🚖 Grabs: $13+/pax

🎲 Activities: $113/pax

Total Expenditure: 💰$460 ish/pax (for me at least - as you need to take into account of your own spendings too e.g. shopping, snacks to bring home etc.)

If not, stay tuned for more traveling itineraries and happy traveling !!

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