Destination: Penang, Malaysia
Duration: 2 Days 1 Night (Jun 22~Jun
23, 2018)
I’d been contemplating on getting
the Hard Rock Hotel Penang Stage Pass for a while and finally got it last November
mainly for the complimentary unlimited Pool Entry for 2 adults & 2 children
below 12 years old. Along with pool entry, the membership also came with 1
night free stay at Hillview Deluxe Room (with breakfast for 2 adults & 2
children), 30 minutes free massage at Rock Spa, RM50 food voucher in hotel and
some others discounts. New member application cost RM1,000 per annum whereas membership
renewal cost RM900 at the time of this blogpost. The bummer was the free stay was
blackout not only on public holiday but also on weekend as well.
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| Complimentary Pool Entry with Monthly Foam Party! |
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| In case someone is interested... |
In order to secure my booking in
school holiday period on a Friday night, I actually booked it through the Stagepass
contact (stagepass.penang@hardrockhotels.net)
back in March. Lo & behold, I got the room and they even threw in a
complimentary extra rollaway bed to be placed in the room! *happy*
After half day work in office, we
finally arrived at the hotel at 3pm for check-in. The receptionist seemed to be
new per the pin on her shirt and surprisingly lack of warmth & smile to be
expected in a 4-star hotel. However, we would totally overlooked this when we
got upgraded to Seaview Deluxe Room for FREE!!! Yay!!!!
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| A Room with a Balcony!!! |
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| Let's take a Selfie!!! |
The room was really spacious and
located at the other quieter side of the pool. A giant Madonna “greeted” us
from the wall with funky purple background lighting – clearly distinguish Hard Rock
from other generic hotel room design.
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| The Kids are enjoying the Bed!!! |
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| TV & Table... |
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| It's a spacious room... |
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| Bathroom - too bad no bathtub... |
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| A Sliding Door between Bathroom & Bedroom... |
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| Complimentary Rollaway Bed which was sent up later... The room service even provided us extra sets of toiletries.. |
I had an appointment to utilize my
free 30minutes ‘rub my back’ massage at 4pm thus I told hb to get the kids
downstairs to Lil Rock Kids Club for complimentary whole day kids activity
where adult was not allowed. Apparently he didn’t listen to me and regret it
later. =P
The massage was located at the Rock Spa
and I was given a choice of food massage or back massage with option to upgrade
it to 1 hour. I ended up taking the original back massage package without
upgrading. I was brought to an outdoor individual hut with serene greenery &
seaview. The therapist began the massage and it was kind of painful at times
when she was trying to loosen my knots at my back. I guess I’d been too stress
out!!! This was when I was secretly glad that I didn’t upgrade it to
an hour to endure main pains. LOL!!! After the massage, I was served
some ginger tea at courtyard beside the pool.
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| Rock Spa! |
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| Inside the Hut |
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| Too Excited until forgetting to take picture of the Hut's exterior.. LOL |
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| Their Theme Flower? Hibiscus! |
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| The view outside... You may choose to open the curtains when you are half naked! |
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| Even the tea looks nice.. LOL |
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| Enjoying the ginger tea after massage... |
Finally got back to the room and
found out the hb & kids were fully utilizing the free blockbuster feature
at the TV by watching minions for millions of times. *rolleyes* We finally went
to the pool at around 5pm+. The kids enjoyed the shallow sand pool as usual but
one thing I noticed was how rude Middle Eastern was – perhaps just this one
particular person but this really lower my perception of them.
This father brought his very young
daughter who could hardly walked and just threw her there and proceeded to
play with his phone. The daughter came over to us and started taking our kids’
sand play set which we allowed. After a while the father brought her away and
simply ignored the fact that the daughter has thrown the set around the places.
We collected it back and continued our fun before the father & daughter
came back again where the daughter proceeded to ransack the set yet again (the
father continued with his phone). We had to leave after a while and needed to
take back the set and the daughter won’t let us take it back. The father finally
noticed and told us we should’ve keep it hidden so that his daughter
would not see it then rudely carried his daughter away and ignored us. HELLO?!!!
Seriously!!! There was no ‘thank you’ and no helping in gather up the set after his daughter made a mess of it and now it seemed like we were the one to
blame for not hidden it? It was our kids’ set and they were playing with it so why should we hide it? Thank you for opening our eyes to Middle Eastern Manner!
*rolleyes*
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| The lil ones' Favourite Spot with limited Sand Play Set as most was taken by the Middle Eastern girl... |
We went to Pizzeria (the in-hotel
restaurant) for dinner to utilize my RM50 food voucher from the membership. We ordered
Bruschetta, Aglio Olio, Margarita Pizza & Pepperoni Pizza at this alfresco
setting. The food was mediocre and I actually thought even the pizza at Urban
Food Hall in Gurney Paragon triumphed this! We paid additional RM75 after 20%
member discount and RM50 voucher as the food here was definitely pricey. So if
you want to eat in hotel, perhaps Hard Rock Café was the better choice as the
food there seemed to be more delicious (but equally pricey though). =P
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| Bruschetta |
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| Pepperoni Pizza |
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| Margarita Pizza |
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| Aglio Olio |
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| Family Picture!!! |
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| The Family is sleeping! |
Btw, there was no toothbrush nor comb in the room but one would get it by calling the reception. They would deliver to your room promptly! Great Service!
Breakfast at Hard Rock was great
with lots of varieties but sometimes long queue at the egg station due to
school holiday season. This was where my 2nd encounter of RUDE
Middle Eastern came from – a man rudely cut in our egg station queue and
ordered directly to the chef. If I were the chef, I would’ve asked him to beat it and queue for his egg but that was not the case. I guess the chef was too
timid for that. Anyway we enjoyed our breakfast until 11am before sending the
kids to Lil Rock Kids Clubs for free activities so that we could pack for
checkout.
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| Love the Roti Canai!!! |
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| Some Nasi Lemak, Porridge & Croissant, totally forgotten to take pictures of the eggs.... |
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| The Family needs to take a breath at the balcony! |
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| When the kids are not around!!! |
We finally checked out just in time
and picked up the kids with Captain America Shield, hand painting and some
coloring! Wow! So many activities in 1 hour+. The 1 night stay was definitely
not enough but we could always console ourselves that we still had the
complimentary pool access whenever we wanted to come. =)
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| All-Day Schedule at Hard Rock Roxity Kids Club to throw your kids to.. =P |
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| Shield & Paint... |
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