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Hotels In The News

Hotels In The News is an archive of hotels featured in news posted to MyCen Hotels Facebook Page.

http://www.mycen.my/hotels-in-the-news/

Searching for the hotels cited in news can be frustrating and perplexing. For example, the Viagra Hotel in Blackpool is still using its former name Vidella Hotel.

On the page, you can find a booking link to each of the hotels mentioned. Clicking on the booking link will get you the latest room tariff and pictures of the hotel’s exterior/interior and street address.

Keep in mind, some news links may expire over time. The link can also be found on the sidebar at MyCen Hotels http://www.mycen.my/

Check out Hotels In The News.

Image from Agoda

Dear Friends From Around The World

Dear Friends From Around The World,

Calling Instagram friends or followers/followees from around the world. You may be in North America, Central America or South America. Be in Europe, The Middle East, Africa, Europe or in Asia such as The Indian Subcontinent, Indo China, The Far East such as China, Japan,Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan, The Philippines or South Korea. You can also be in Australia or New Zealand or in one of the Pacific/Oceania Islands. Apologies, if I missed out your region or continent.

May I invite or respectfully urge you to use MyCen Hotels when booking rooms for both your domestic or foreign travels, be it for business or leisure. While I am getting much appreciated support from a few local friends who made regular bookings to hotels at exotic places such as Thailand, Myanmar. China and Japan, I still need more users from other parts of the world. A larger user profile will allow me to properly test the system and understand and troubleshoot issues specific to one country, should there be any. Touch wood, there are none so far. The satisfied users in the testimonials attest to that.

Go to http://www.mycen.my/ and you will see testimonials from some very experienced and savvy travelers. There is a hotel available in any of the continent or region mentioned. The link is clickable from my Instagram profile. While I won’t know who made the bookings, it’ll be nice if you let me know you did so, but is is optional and non-obligatory.

Contact me by PM too, if you need help. Do your usual research or look at recommended hotels. Follow my Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/mycenhotels/ for daily updates on new hotels and related travel news.

Happy travel and thank you for your support, friends from around the world. If you don’t travel, please tell or share with a friend who do.

Pic of the earth from Google Map in terrain mode.

Lotus Villa Hua Hin

They say give priority to your friends, first. I have a another interesting hotel following me on Instagram. That is the Villa Lotus Hotel Hua Hin @villalotus on IG. It is also known as Lotus Villas & Resort Hua Hin. Before this, I know little of Hua Hin. Like many Malaysians, I only know Bangkok, Chengmai, Phuket, Pattaya and Hat Yai or those places frequently visited by Malaysians. Regular travelers will know you don’t want to go on a holiday to a town full of people from your own country.

Hua Hin seems like a nice, little known destination. So far, I have only seen my FB friend Lingli Tan posting from this resort town.

From Wikipedia: Hua Hin is a seaside resort on the Gulf of Thailand, in the southern Thai province of Prachuap Khiri Khan. Once a quiet fishing village, it grew into a fashionable escape for residents of Bangkok after the 1920s, when the Thai royal family built summer palaces here. Hua Hin Beach, popular for kitesurfing and other water sports, is the main stretch of sand, lined with high-end hotels and seafood shacks.

Lotus Villas & Resort HuaHin features a 40 m long and 1.7 m deep outdoor pool and a fitness centre. It offers guest rooms and private villas with modern facilities with either a spa bath or a private pool. Free WiFi is available throughout the resort. The property provides free scheduled shuttle service to Hua Hin Centre, Hua Hin Beach and the Clock Tower. Hua Hin Night Market is within a 15-minute drive from Lotus Villas & Resort. It is a 20-minute drive from Floating Market and Black Mountain Water Park. Bangkok City is a 3-hours’ ride away.

Book the Villa Lotus here by Agoda or Booking.com.

Or book the Villa Lotus at the special page at MyCen Hotels: http://www.mycen.my/villa-lotus-hua-hin/

Hotels In Singapore

If you ask the average Malaysian which hotel he or she remembers, it”ll probably be the iconic Tang’s Hotel at the corner of shopping haven Orchard Road. It is now known as the Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel. Of course many will also know the landmark Marina Bay Sands.

While compiling the list for Budget Hotels In Singapore, I saw many new and exciting hotels. Singapore is a popular tourist destination and an international convention and exhibition center.

Doing this list for all hotels, brought back many memories as I have stayed at places such as the Holiday Inn, RELC, the Robertson Quay Hotel, the Copthorne Orchid, Sentosa Island resort, East Coast Park chalets, the Marina Mandarin, which once a coveted luxury hotel, now overshadowed by many newer rivals such as the Marina Bay Sands. There were many others I can no longer remember but it is nice to see so many still in operation.

During one year while attending Broadcast Asia and CommunicAsia or maybe one of the air shows, I couldn’t find a single available room. It was scary to be stranded in a modern city state. Yes indeed, Singapore has many hotels but the shows attract many visitors and trade people.

I wish things were more organised online in those years and I intend to make it easier to find a hotel on the island. According to the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), there were 413 hotels with 63,850 rooms as of 31 December 2016.

Here is a non exhaustive list but it should set you off on a good footing. These are hotels costing above RM250. For smaller and cheaper hotels, see also Budget Hotels In Singapore.

Here we go: http://www.mycen.my/hotels-in-singapore/

Memories Of Busy Hong Kong

Memories Of Busy Hong Kong.

In Hong Kong, we went to a McDonald’s because we had Malay media crew members from Bernama and NTV 7 with us. One of the guys wanted to eat fillet o fish which was a safer bet than many porky places around Hong Kong.

I believe it is much easier finding halal restaurants in Hong Kong these days. Anyway, I was chomping on a burger and a Hong Konger or Hong Kie seated opposite me kept looking at me or the bottom of my seat.

I looked carefully on the floor and realized my comb fell out from my pocket. After dinner, I walked to the harbour area and was scouting for a good angle to shoot the dusk skyline. A man on a park chair started staring at me again. Shit! I instinctively checked to see if I have dropped something. True enough, I dropped a piece of paper that was my printed itinerary.

WTF? At least we Malaysians are more civic minded and helpful. In Malaysia, someone will quickly call out unless you dropped money. Haha. What’s wrong with helping a stranger in Hong Kong? Maybe people are always in a hurry or too busy. I hate to think what happens when your fly is open in public in Hong Kong. Haha.

Will have to tag you again Sam Chan and Hong Kongress Fanny Chan. What is the name of the busy thoroughfare in the pic again?

Find a hotel in Hong Kong through my page at:
http://www.mycen.my/agoda/

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