Merchant Hotel
Merchant Hotel is a hotel within George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang. Located at Penang Road within the city's Central Business District, the 12-storey building was originally opened as Hotel Ambassador in 1966.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hotel
- Description: hotel in George Town, Penang, Malaysia
- Also known as: “Merchant Hotel, Penang”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion and Camera Museum.
Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion
Museum
Photo: Mahen Bala, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion is a government gazetted heritage building located on Leith Street in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. The mansion's external decorations and indigo-blue outer walls make it a very distinctive building, and it is sometimes referred to as The Blue Mansion. Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion is situated 140 metres east of Merchant Hotel.
Camera Museum
Museum
Photo: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Camera Museum is a museum in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. Camera Museum is situated 280 metres southeast of Merchant Hotel.
Old Protestant Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Bubbha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Old Protestant Cemetery, also known as Northam Road Cemetery, is a disused Protestant cemetery in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. After more than a century of neglect, it is now listed as a Class 1 Heritage Site and is maintained by the Penang Heritage Trust. Old Protestant Cemetery is situated 190 metres north of Merchant Hotel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include George Town and Sungai Pinang.
George Town
Photo: Gp song, CC BY-SA 3.0.
George Town is the capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang. It is Malaysia's sixth largest city, with a population of about 708,000, with 1.7 million in the metro area, as of 2020.
Sungai Pinang
Quarter
Photo: arches, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sungai Pinang is a residential neighbourhood within the downtown core of George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang. The neighbourhood lies along the southern bank of the Pinang River and is bounded by Jalan Sungai Pinang to the south.
Pulau Tikus
Quarter
Photo: Vnonymous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pulau Tikus is a neighbourhood within the downtown core of George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang. Named after a rock just off the coast of Penang Island, this upper class neighbourhood is home to Eurasian, Thai and Burmese communities. Pulau Tikus is situated 2½ km northwest of Merchant Hotel.
Merchant Hotel
- Categories: building, tourism, and accommodation
- Location: Daerah Timur Laut, Penang, West Coast, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
5.42107° or 5° 25′ 16″ northLongitude
100.33357° or 100° 20′ 1″ eastOpen location code
6PQ2C8CM+CCOpenStreetMap ID
way 268532004OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=hotelWikidata ID
Q111864876
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