Travel fun with Penang Hop-On Hop-Off

00:47 Jia Ying 2 Comments

The free-copy guidebook in the bus provides the map and attractions of city with its designated hop-on hop-off stops. To be honest, I found this guidebook quite useful throughout my whole Penang trip and the map inside the guidebook is quite easy to understand.





With the "Hop-on Hop-off" concept, the ticket holder can board on and get off the bus at their preferred stop.
The crew in the bus will introduce briefly about the attractions in Penang before every stop.
You may ask the crew for the help. The crew are friendly and suggested me on the nearest stop to some of the attractions that I would like to go.





I explored the city with 1 ticket and a guidebook.
Hop-on Hop off-Tour will start daily from 9 am to 8 pm, with around 20 to 30 minutes intervals
There are 2 types of tickets validity 24 hours and 48 hours with unlimited rides and competitive ticket price. ( Prices are vary for Malaysian and foreigner.)
Therefore, a good understanding about all the stops and some planning may need to make the 24 hours or 48 hours ticket worthwhile.
No time to make planning before the trip?? No worry!!! I would recommend you to take a round trip of the route to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Penang.



I took a round trip for both routes and I really enjoyed the nice views and the wind ( haha!!) .
Don't forget you are in open-top buses, you can capture a good scenery photo even in the bus.
Thinking about surfing the internet in the bus?  There is Wifi in the bus. You can upload your most epic photo, update your status to the social media in the bus.    
There are 2 interchange stops- Gurney Drive(1) and Chowrasta(9)  which you can switch between beach route and city route. There is mobile counter with English-literate crews in this 2 interchange stop. You can buy the Hop-on Hop-off tickets either at mobile counter or inside the bus.

Here is the map of Hop-on Hop-off


List of attractions :
City route:
stop 1 Gurney Plaza | Gurney Paragon | Gurney Hawker | stop 2 Tow Boo Kong (Taoist Temple) | stop 3 Youth Park | stop 4 Botanical Gardens | stop 5 Penang Hill | stop 6 Kek Lok Si Temple | stop 7 P. Ramlee's House | Town Museum | Penang Times Square | Huan Yan Temple | stop 8 KOMTAR | stop 9 1st Avenue Mall | Chowrasta Market | Georgetown UNESCO World Heritage City | Masjid Jamek Lebuh Chulia | Perangin Mall | stop 10 Armenian Street | Campbell Street Market | Kapitan Keling Mosque | Masjid Melayu Lebuh Acheh | Penang Islamic Museum | Sun Yet Sen Museum | The Goddess of Mercy (Kuan Yin) Temple | stop 11 Cheah Kongsi | Chinatown | Khoo Kongsi | Little India | Sri Mahamariaman Temple | Teochew Temple | Penang Malay Artist Gallery | stop 12 Clan Jetties | Church St. Pier | Penang Ferry Terminal | Tanjung City Marina | Swettenham Pier Cruise Terminal | stop 13 Victorial Memorial Clock Tower | stop 14 Penang Town Hall | Fort Cornwallis | Penang Art Gallery | Penang Museum & Art Gallery | stop 15 Goodness of Mercy Temple | St. George Church | stop 16 Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion | Church of the Assumption | stop 17 Dharmikarama Burmese Temple | Wat Chaya-mangkalaram |

Beach route:
stop 18 Straits Quay | stop 26 Batu Ferringhi Sidewalk Bazaar | Yahong Art Gallery | stop 27 Batu Ferringhi Beach | stop 28 Spice Garden | Tropical Spice Garden | stop 29 Teluk Bahang Fishing Village | Pantai Kerachut | Teluk Bahang | Penang National Park | stop 30 Batik Factory | stop 31 Escape | Toy Museum | stop 32 Butterfly Farm | stop 33 Teluk Bahang Dam | Taman Rimba



It's a unique travel experience for me with Penang Hop-on Hop-off. Try yourself and you will know the fun to "hop on" and "hop off" without the limit. Never try, never know~~~
Stay tune for my next post about the places I went by Penang Hop-on Hop-off

More information about Penang Hop-on Hop-off:
Website                                : http://myhoponhopoff.com/pg/index.php?pageid=1

Facebook page ( Mandarin) : https://www.facebook.com/penanghoponhopoff

Facebook page ( English)     : https://www.facebook.com/pghoponhopoff




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How to use Easybook to purchase your tickets of travel?

00:08 Jia Ying 10 Comments

Long time not updating my blog....
I had been working hard in past few months....
Therefore, I decided to take a short break

My destination this time is not overseas anymore... but in Penang for 5 Days 4 Nights.
Thanks you My Amazing Malaysia 玩疯马来西亚 for organizing the ‪#‎MyFascinatingPenang‬ Blogger Competition. I'm one of the blogger involved in the competition.

I tried Easybook to book my bus ticket to Penang.
It's convenient, like its name " easy"to"book"
Established since the year 2005, easybook.com have been providing online bus booking services of luxurious coaches and express buses tickets from Singapore to and fro Malaysia, within peninsular Malaysia, East Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.



Here is how I book my ticket:
Select your Origin, Destination, Departure Date, Departure Time

Choose your preferable type of coach and departure time, then choose the seat


Lastly, fill in your detail


 Select your desire payment option. You can pay by either credit card or internet banking

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After payment done, Order Summary will be sent to your email within 24 hours. Here is my printed ticket which I have to show to the bus driver while boarding .

* More information about booking the ticket from Easybook:
http://www.easybook.com/pages/how-to-book.aspx

Some tips to those who like to purchase ticket from Easybook

- Not all the journey is direct and non-stop, especially the long hours journey. Some coach companies will display the places they stop on Easybook website. Therefore you can estimate and expect a longer journey as the bus will have few stops before arrive your destination.

- The ticket price shown in the Easybook website is almost the same as the price bought from counter. Sometime with discount code, the price you get will be even lower than the counter price.

- One more benefits on booking the ticket from Easybook will be their transparent, fair ticket price. You can compare the price between the coach company . You can see the seat availability. Therefore, once you confirm and pay, you will get your seat, and no worry on not manage to buy the ticket in the last minute or during the peak season.

- You can book the ticket by using Easybook mobile app. With your smartphone, you can make the deal.... More info about mobile apps : http://www.easybook.com/apps



So, try to book your travel ticket from Easybook, and you will know that to plan a trip is not as difficult as you thought, even during the peak season.

http://www.easybook.com/



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