We have just returned from 6 nights at the Bayview Georgetown in a Premier Grand Deluxe Room with Seaview. The view was fabulous looking out over some roofs to the Penang Bridge in the distance. Excellent view, especially at night, while having a drink with friends!
Our room had been recently renovated and was a large room with a King Size bed. The room service was excellent and anything we requested was happily supplied. The bed was firm but comfortable and a good nights sleep was had by all.
The seafood Buffet in the revolving restaurant was fabulous. You name it and I am sure it was on the buffet. Everything from smoked salmon, prawns, scallop and mussels on the cold buffet to baked fish in foil, crab, slipper lobsters, oysters in egg etc etc etc on the hot buffet.
To finish the meal there was a lovely selection of desserts.
The buffet breakfasts are also excellent with a large range of Western and Asian food. Beautiful Congee, Indian curries, Asian noodles and dim sums, eggs cooked to order, beautiful muesli and yoghurt, etc etc. I would be here all day if I tried to list everything on offer.
One big complaint that we had was that we had to leave the hotel at 5.30am. When I enquired as to what we could order for breakfast in lieu of the buffet which we had paid for I was told that all we could have was a take away pack which we would have to go down and pick up from the kitchen. You can imagine our excitement when we looked in our packs to find half a round of ham and cheese sandwich, a croisant (no butter or jam) and a green apple! They do have a room service menu which applies from 11pm to 6am but you could not oder a dish from that. Be wary - do not pay for the buffet on your last morning if you have an early departure. Do your own thing.
We generally ate out of the Hotel and had an excellent meal in Kapatains Restaurant , Little India. If you enjoy Indian food you will enjoy this. The four of us ate for RM50! Also the Food Mall on the fourth floor of 1st Avenue shopping centre has authentic Malaysian food at very good prices/ Very clean and enjoyable.

We stayed for 6 days. Our room was large and comfortable. Everything worked. Ideal location for us to explore old George Town. Staff were exceptional, friendly, courteous, helpful. Big smiles, lots of chats. Special thanks to Lawrence the hotel manager. Enjoyed their special value lunch menu. We recommend this hotel as a good value experience. We'll return to this hotel on our next trip. Greg and Bernardine Poyton, Brisbane, Australia.

Value for money. We got more than we bargained for. Was there for a friend's wedding reception and the room we got was huge and spacious. The view was quite awesome as we could peer right into the Cheong Fatt Tze mansion. Staff were happy to help and courteous and they catered for the foodie in me. They had maps of the best eats in town and knew how to direct us there.

We stayed here over Chinese New Year 2012. The hotel is excellent. The staff are polite and very very helpful. The service is great. We had a lovely room overlooking the harbour. It was clean and serviced every day. The hotel is in a great position with good views from both back and front, front being the harbour and back being a sea view. There are some good restaurants nearby. We really enjoyed our stay here so much so we extended it for a couple more days