Hotel Mingood, Penang

Room is nice and clean,staff's very helpful when we check in late at midnight after the long trip.breakfast is fine,deffinitely be back again for sure.

All in all, my stay at Hotel Mingood was very pleasant. Simple breakfast fare of unlimited toast, butter, jam, peanut butter, syrup, marmite, fresh grapefruit and oranges, fruit juices, muesli and cereals and coffee and tea. Two fried eggs cost 3 ringgit and you have to pay at the restaurant (no room charge). Thanks to the lady at the reception [Emren, not sure if it's the right spelling] for her help and assistance. Also to Ms Yong [the lady that cleaned my room] for brief chats in the corridor. They made me feel, a solo traveler, quite at home. The room is big and very basic and needed new linens and towels but they're clean and are changed daily. There's no remote control for the airconditioning though. I like the rooftop breakfast area where you have a choice of either staying indoors or outside under the sun. And yes, I love the fact that they have such spacious fire exits and stairways.

I checked in, and the woman at the desk was friendly, but tried to push me to buy tours and bus tickets through her. Once in my room I found the bathroom to be dirty, and even had someones bikini still hanging up on the curtain rod. The Airconditioning unit only had and on/off button, and you could not control the tempurature. I found myself either too cold or too hot during the night. The blankets were thin, and had been well used as I saw my sheets had patches on them where there used to be holes. There were only 2 electrical outlets in the room, and the one beside the bed was broken and did not work, the other was across the room so I couldn't have my cell phone with alarm clock beside my bed charging. Very inconvenient for me. The only good thing was that the hotel is within walking distance of everything (unless you are lazy haha). Little India was a great place to walk through, and Chinatown as well.