Seven Terraces

Seven Terraces provides a wonderful flavor, refined experience in a spectacularly renovated property. Our bedroom was full of elegant touches, each one an antique consistent with the historical period of this fine old mansion.|Perfect little swimming pool provided relief from the heat of Penang. |While Penang has many excellent restaurants, our best meals were at Kebaya, the hotels fine dining option. |Service was consistently attentive, although delightful Joyce was truly outstanding. ||Huge props to property developer, Chris Ong, for ensuring every detail is perfect.

A fantastic stay in wonderful Georgetown, the rooms are exquisite and spacious. Unfortunately there was a two day wedding during our stay so we couldn't use the bar or restaurant but that is all the more reason to visit again. The pool area and afternoon tea was great!

Had our wedding there with all our friends and family. Everyone was so impressed with the rooms and complimented the service, decor and food provided. Syahrul and Omar were exceptional. They had everything under control and gave us good local tips when asked. The housekeeping and restaurant staff were also amazing during the service times and friendly. Highly recommend this hotel.

A very unique old hotel with beautiful architecture and very fery beautiful old chinese furniture. Staying here is like walking into the past time. ||The location is great at the center of historical area of Georgetown. You can basically walk everywhere if walking is your thing. The rooms are large and comfortable and are in old chinese style. The arrangemt in the bathroom is a little bit strange (the shower is in the center of the bathroom). ||The staff here are always smiling and very friendly. They also have a lovely small pool and a wonderful Michelin restaurant with reasonable price. I think the hotel is a great choice for people who likes to stay in a unique boutique hotel..||Several small things to note:|1. Dont eat breakfast in the hotel. There are so so many delicious food out there in Penang and to explore different kinds of local food is so much fun.||2. The restaurant in the hotel serving nyonya cuisine is very good. The lamb is so delicious!||2. There are no electrical outlets near the bed. So it is quite inconvinent if you usually place the phone next to the bed.

Great Hotel. looks good on trip A… better in reality, lovely staff, feels intimate, within 2 nights you know everyone. We loved it. Prettiest pool in Malaysia. You are right in the middle of averything, walk everywhere then return home from the heat to a splash and aircon.

A hotel which has been lovingly restored from several run down terraces. This is not your run of the mill 'hotel review', you'd have to be someone who appreciates antiques, history, and the effort one takes to restore something 'old' or maybe 'broken' into a place which represents the past fairly. From the large wooden doors, floor tiles, mirrors, beds, even the swimming pool (old style), people who think it's not '5 star' enough didn't get what the owner wanted to create. To have a vision to create something like this from a few run down terraces, one must be truly creative and artistic.

We highly recommend this hotel. The unique accommodations are what we came to Penang for. The service and staff are fantastic. Afternoon tea by the pool was also delicious. This our new favourite hotel.

Overall, we were satisfied with the room, which featured a spacious living room and beautiful antique Peranakan furniture. However, our experience with the front desk staff was unpleasant. They lacked courtesy, conscientiousness, and professionalism. One Chinese lady was impolite when she opened the door for us upon entering the hotel, displaying terrible customer service with her unfriendly attitude. Additionally, a male staff member refused to let us park in front of the hotel, even though we were guests. He could have simply asked or clarified instead of waving his hand asked us to leave. We will never visit again.

Love Love LOVE this hotel! As soon as we stepped into the lobby, we were treated like royalties! The staff were awesome -- they even surprised us with a bouquet of RED roses in our room. Definitely take advantage of the 4-course meal at the restaurant. Yes -- you do need to make a reservation but the staff accommodated us since we just checked in that evening. We had stayed at various hotels in Penang but Seven Terraces had us at "Hello"!

Loved this hotel! The moment you step into the lobby and past the tall wooden doors. It was so amazing. Loved the loft-style rooms! It had personality, tastefully decorated with antiques. And the huge bathrooms with rain showers and the beautiful sink closet. Amazing service from all staff from the moment we stepped into the hotel to the last day waiting in the lobby for our flight. The local breakfast options were actually quite delicious and afternoon tea snacks were great. Location was great! Very central to everything. There were other hostels along the street so there were a lot of other travellers and it felt safe. I would definitely come back to this very same hotel. I wouldn't stay anywhere else! Abit difficult to locate at first because the main entrance is actually at the back alleyway, but there were no major issues getting picked up and getting dropped off. The pool was small but nice. The bed was a bit too firm but not bad at all.

Gorgeous boutique in the heart of the historical district, Seven Terraces exceeded our expectations in many ways. The rooms were quite spacious, with a loft where you can spend a lazy afternoon reading and relaxing to dinner at their award winning restaurant Kebaya and also the made to order breakfasts. Service is very professional and friendly. Even though George Town can be quite noisy and urban, Seven Terraces was like an urban oasis and definitely a great place to set up base while exploring the town.

Elegant, stunning decor. The restaurant and bar attached - the central courtyard makes it all really enchanting.

This place has the oriental feeling, cozy and very private. We did not stay here but made a reservation in the kebaya dinning room to try the Indo and Straits Chinese nyonya dishes. The restaurant only take diners who have made reservations in advance (so don't just show up or you will be turned away). They only serve dinner at 6 pm and 8 pm. We reserved the later slot since we are late diners. The atmosphere was very traditional with fancy porcelain plates, and cutleries clicking away amongst the hushed voices of the diners. Service was ok, but I felt that it could have been better given the fact that we paid RM 120+ tax per person. The servers were courteous but perhaps a little understaffed, with attention directed towards other tables? The fees did not cover for any drinks, only the set meal which included an appetizer, an entree (one of the entree was "out of stock") with a a vegetable dish and dessert (yes, they too ran out of a few of dessert options) for each person. We tried to order different items on the menu to avoid overlapping our dishes, but alas, some of the dishes were "out of stock". Which I found kind of annoying esp given the steep price we paid for food in Malaysia - with RM 120 per person, we should be able to eat like kings and queens ! When the dishes came about, their portion was very generous, delicious, but a little too overwhelming in volume, probably to make up for the steep price. We ended up taking home almost 1/3 rd of the dishes (oh, I suppose fancy people don't do takeaways- but we we had thick skins). Toilet was located exterior to the dinning area, small space but clean. Overall, I found this place a little too stuffy, a little too standoffish. Good food but I didn't think they were worth the price.

This is not my first time to Malaysia but it is my first time staying at Seven Terraces. If you have ever been to the area you know that this is one of a set of High End Boutique hotels owned by famed hotelier Chris Ong. I knew I had to stay here. We splurged for one of the 2 apartment style rooms. Gorgeous. The first thing that really got me was how big the room was, I mean it was a loft. Literally. And to turn all the power onyou simply stuck your key card in a slot on the wall and everything turned on. Talk about WOW factor! The room had the main bedroom upstairs in the loft, with a mosquito net to help keep those suckers at bay. The downstairs was a very open loft like space with a main sitting area, TV, comfy couches, desk area, tea area and so on. The best part? It was all in the Peranakan style! I am fairly certain all of the things in the room are real antiques or amazing recreations by local artisans. My actual favorite part of the room was the shower, the shower was huge, it took up the entire bathroom because it was the entire bathroom! There was a central drain and the shower was mounted on the ceiling like a rain shower and you just stand there in the center of this huge room showering. It feels amazing! The staff is one of the best trained staff I have ever seen, they are very attentive and very helpful making you feel very welcome. If you have the chance make sure to stop and have breakfast, there are some very traditional Malay and Chinese breakfast dishes as well and more English style fare. The real star of the food here is dinner time. The menu is very carefully put together by the restaurants chef, it is a collection of Malay and Peranakan Chinese dishes, some have a hint of fusion to them but they are mostly very traditional. Anyway, it doesn't matter what they are, because they are all so delicious. I honestly cannot pick a favorite because they were all SO GOOD! When you first check in at the front desk there are these some amazingly tall doors that make you wonder what is behind them. After the check in process you are taken through them to this amazingly huge courtyard. It is literally gorgeous and you can see how these seven shophouses were combined into this amazing jewel of Penang. I definitely recommend staying here. Also, if you are not staying here I also recommend going to the restaurant. This is a very special place, with very deep roots in the city. The owner grew up here, knows all of the local artisans and trades and it is a very authentic experience.