Quote Originally Posted by thegent View Post
I honestly don't understand why any decent white man would want to stay in these hovels. The proper hotels are only about 160 ringgit a night and the best in Georgetown, the E & O, is 600 ringgit but very much a snip given the characterful luxury offered which anywhere else would cost twice as much.

Sure, backpackers slumming it on a shoestring might consider such sordid dumps although most I have encountered would simply use a credit card faced with that choice. I must confess I thought it was only W. African dross and other floating migrants en route to Australia who stayed in such squalor.
The Chulia Heritage is not a hovel. It is all new and clean. Anyone who saw it before would be surprised at the great remodel.