Campbell House in Penang

We arrived in Penang around 4pm yesterday.  I wanted to stay at a hotel with character so I chose Campbell House which was really highly rated on Trip and was somewhat reasonably priced.  According to the Lonely Planet, this building used to be a hotel.  A three story building with no lift, they use a pulley system to transport luggage to the rooms.  Pretty unique!  The guy at the desk gave us a very long introduction to George Town and other parts of Penang Island, and marked everything out on the map.  Lingonberry liked that but the Mushroom is a bit more independent and prefers finding out things on her own (unless she expressly asks for help or discovers something that she otherwise wouldn't have) so she was overall bored, but overall a great service for travelers!  They offered us welcome drinks and we both got like juice which was more like lime water and was not very good.  Then our guy brought us to our room and showed us around.  Something that I loved about this place was the no-shoes concept a since we do live in an Asian household with no shoes in the house.  Felt very clean.  The rooms were very well done.  We chose a deluxe superior room to get more space and were given the Songkek room on the top/third floor.  I suppose we could use the exercise.  The room had very nice touches.  The decor was very artistic and traditional and my favourite was the bathroom floor which had these beautiful Peranakan (I think) tiles.  The fridge had water, lemon honey tea/juice and milk.  The room also had a Nespresso machine.  We were told that we would be given some kind of cake/biscuit every evening.  Gotta love turndown service!  The staff have been very pleasant and are very knowledgeable.  I highly recommend Campbell House!

This morning we had out first breakfast.  It was ang moh style: fresh fruit, bread basket filled with amazing croissants and toast, blackberry and orange jam and kaya, yoghurt, and our choice of a hot entree - I got a mushroom, onion and chili omelette which was good and Lingonberry got a smoked salmon benedict which he didn't really like.  Drinks were free flow - Lingonberry got 2 lattes and I got a green tea and OJ.  I exercised caution and did not eat much since I had other food plans for the day, but food was good!

Can't wait to see what our breakfast will be like tomorrow!