Chulia Mansion

The location is ideal, in the middle of George Town and an easy walk to everything, not to mention in the center of the night food carts. Great WiFi. Decent selection of cable TV channels, including some in English. Loved the fact that they provided two bottles of water initially, and had water coolers on each floor for refills, which reduced the plastic waste. The room was clean, bed fairly comfortable. And they kindly upgraded me to a superior room. The staff was also very nice.

My room had only one tiny window, which looked out on a wall two feet away. Water pressure in the shower was so poor I had a hard time rinsing shampoo out of my hair. My first set of towels had holes in them and the second had what looked like dried blood stains on them, which was kind of disgusting. Also, I wasn’t impressed with their breakfast. No toaster available, some sort of yellow stuff that was supposedly butter but it wasn’t, and the buffet offered very little for a vegetarian.