Leave the city behind for a tropical getaway to the Golden Sands Resort by Shangri-La on ... more
Penangs Batu Feringgi beach, offering luxurious rooms with a picturesque view.Rooms are bright and airy, and decorated with a Malaysian touch. With furnishings cra...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: Proper brand name Coke and large bottle servings - I'm easily pleased, y'see Disadvantages: The busy areas are even busier at night
There's a song that features on the soundtrack of many of my favourite films that goes:
"No matter where we go,
London, Paris, Rome,
It feels like Anywhere, USA"
It's never something I really understood, since to me those three capitals are all very different from each other, and to anywhere in the USA that I've been, but I figured it was written by someone who'd never actually left the States, and who based their assumptions on the Hollywood version of Europe that comes across in films. But, then I went to Bulgaria, and a week on my overriding thought is that GoldenSands could have been anywhere, really, or at least any package holiday destination - it has bits of Greece, bits of Spain, bits of Malta and bits of lots of other places if you take the time to look
Though people who (a) live there or (b) stayed a small distance ...
Advantages: New, Spacious Disadvantages: Out of the way, expensive, no facilities
Just come back from a week in the Radisson GoldenSands Hotel (October 2007). The Hotel and Rooms are clean and spacious, however beds especially the sofa beds are every uncomfortable. The food is very expensive and unfortunately is nothing special. Good view overlooking the small beach, and good outdoor swimming pools. Bring your walking boots as the hotel is miles from anywhere. There are no shopping facilities apart from a small gift store, a jewellery store, and a poorly stocked excuse for a food store. Overall comments and experience, overrated, overpriced, not a 5*, out of the way, and no facilities. NB: Beware the timeshare reps as they are out to get you. We also experience very bad weather for the week, cold, wet, and very windy and this might have also tainted our view. ...
