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A trip up to Batu Ferringhi will tell you why you have to go there for a holiday. The track up here is a breezy trip, but the results are amazing. A line of expensive hotels front the sea and across the road is a horizon of bars, restaurants and souvenir shops waiting to be visited.

Given you have cash to lavish, spend in a few days at the Rasa Sayang, Park Royal, Holiday Inn, Bayview Beach Resort, or the Golden Sands. They not only face the sea, they are located directly on the beach and have the best quality available here. The employees are mannered and amiable, and some even arrange daycare, childcare and baby-sitting assistance.

For those who are on a tight budget, hotels across the road are available for a comfy stay too, and you can walk across to the beaches for beach fun activities. Try not to get a hotel which is too far away from the beach, so its best to stick to those that line the roadsides as it’s easy to cross the roads here.

Eating selection are plenty as you can be  pampered in tasty seafood at the restaurants adjacent the road. There is a hawker court which we stopped at which had satisfying hawker meal. The centre is near the night market which you should check out. Its a shopping haven for many. I didn’t buy many things as I was mainly sightseeing.

Batu Ferringhi is definitely a tourist location, everything they have there is convenient for tourist and it’s manageable to get about the place. Only difficulty is getting to and from Georgetown, not that there isn’t any transport , its just slightly distant and the moving in and out if Batu Ferringhi.

There are Tanjung Bungah and Gurney Drive to think of. But majority of tourist will say Batu Ferringhi is the most popular Penang beach.