Well decorated and renovated boutique hotel. Great location within Georgetown. Very friendly and knowledgeable staff. Excellent service. Rooms quite big with high ceiling and furnished tastefully in Chinese style. Lot of art decoration around hotel. Rooms facing Jalan Hutton can be noisy from traffic. The breakfast was alright and included. They even have a small lap pool. Wireless internet worked well and is free. Penaga is a great hotel with very very friendly and helpful service and staff. It is a well converted row of old shop houses with spacious rooms individually furnished with comfortable large beds and very clean.

We stayed at the Transfer Suite (without balcony) and absolutely loved it. It is not a far walk to Penang Road where the famous Assam Laksa and Cendol stall are at. The breakfast was alright, and the pool is rather small. The room we stayed in is huge. It comes with four post bed and Chinese styled bathroom. The room also have a iPhone/iPod dock where you can charge your Apple products and safety deposit box. It comes with a living room where you can watch TV. (you can't watch TV when you are in your bedroom) However, the couch that is used to furnished the living room is not very comfy and cozy. The shower is a bit small but the bathroom is big. We had problems with the water heater but it didn't bother us that much. The bathroom has a jacuzzi but we didn't manage to use it because it wasn't dispersing hot water. Just a note, they do have good wifi connection in the room BUT not Apple friendly. My guess is because they don't have an AirPort to support Apple products to get wifi connectivity. We wanted to have the in-room massage service, unfortunately during the time of our stay, they didn't have that service.

This is a great hotel. The room was very nice, but a larger balcony would have been better. I'm not sure whether there is only one size balcony; it would be worth checking at booking whether this is the case.

The rain shower and spa bath are a welcome relief from the tropical heat.

Staff are friendly and service is good.

The included breakfast was of a high standard.

Loved the lap pool.

Charging RM5 for a 500ml bottle of water was ridiculous, and the staff member who told me the price agreed and was very embarrassed about it. I opted to get five litres from the 7Eleven nearby.

I will stay again.

This is an old style shop house--several joined together. Had our own veranda. Carved wood and details in our room. Old style charm, wood paneling. Jacuzi in room. Lovely pool in garden for swimming laps. Nice meals, Good breakfast choices--western and asian.