Mothers Day @ Penang

We rarely went out for a weekend for outstation. This time we did by celebrating Mother's day in Penang. We stayed in Lone Pine Hotel. It is a low-rise hotel, number of rooms you can check at lonepinehotel.com. The ambiance is very relaxing. It is not too crowded as what a big and popular hotel nearby. The hotel visitors are mostly europeans and other asian foreigners like us. Not too much to do for the kids, only the pool and the beach. There are some sports activities along the beach though which my kids really enjoyed. My son, who is turning 9 this coming June tried the parasailing not with his Dad though, he was not even scared. There are a lot of things he wants to do, others he is not allowed yet because of his age. He is being adventurous now. He wants to try everything. They enjoyed the pool and for the first time, they had a time of their lives in the beach. My husband and I had our time of our lives here as well. One reason we do not often go out of town is because we cannot handle the kids, it is just useless as at the end of the day we are just so stressed out taking care of our 4 active kids. But here at lone pine, we were able to relax. We were just at side of the pool watching them, while reading or having snacks, talking. Best part of it, we were able to visit their bar at night as our room is just overlooking the hotel bar. After we had our drink, we leisurely walk at the hotel garden talking, laughing until very late at night. The kids are safely sleeping to our huge room, which by the way got it a very low rate @ cuti.com.my. At night you can visit the pasar malam just outside the hotel. it is a long stretch of different item at a very low price. If you don't want to eat at the hotel there are variety of choices of restaurant and even hawkers outside as well. We will definitely be coming back here, not too far, from ipoh to penang and very relaxing. I think that is what an idea of a great out-of-town weekend, to relax....