Seven Terraces

I booked 7 nights in Seven Terraces as a last minute short escape from winter. I had previously stayed here for a few nights about 8 years ago and had very fond memories. The restoration by Chris Ong of seven dilapidated terraces into a beautiful boutique hotel is a masterpiece in itself. ||The rooms are stunningly decorated with Peranakan furniture, ceramics and artworks, as is the entire property. The hotel reception area is exquisite. My stay was greatly enhanced by the wonderful staff, who were so friendly and helpful, something I remembered clearly from my previous stay. ||I stayed in Argus 3, a room which backs onto Lorong Argus, and has a large living room and huge bathroom downstairs plus a sizeable bedroom, balcony and toilet upstairs. My room 8 years ago had the bedroom and bathroom downstairs with a mezzanine living area. The stairs are a bit steep and people with mobility issues may struggle. ||Seven Terraces has a smallish pool, but consistent with the number of rooms. Breakfast is available daily, with a choice of 4 dishes (2 local specialities and 2 western) plus fruit, juice, muesli and tea or coffee. There are innumerable places to eat nearby if you want more variety. Evening dining is covered by the highly regarded in house restaurant, Kebaya, which I also recommend. Afternoon tea with Nyonya kuey is served in the communal lounge adjacent to the pool. Otherwise, Georgetown is a food lovers heaven, and Seven Terraces is well located to explore the huge variety of cuisines and street food for which Georgetown is renowned.||Seven Terraces really epitomises a sense of place. The hotel is a gem, made more so by the wonderful staff. I won’t wait 8 years before I’m back again!

This hotel's public areas are beautifully designed like in a movie set. The large bedrooms are very well appointed despite certain minor impracticalities in the facilities, such as the shower nob being outside the shower and the electric switches are hard to find. The restaurant served excellent food for our wedding party. The hotel staff was extremely efficient. The reception staff was particularly friendly and helpful, which made the stay really very enjoyable.

We absolutely loved everything about Seven Terraces and it exceeded all expectations! The entire team/family went above and beyond to make our stay a very memorable one.|I would highly recommend booking your stay around the monthly At Home with Baba Chris; a true insight into Peranakan style and cuisine - we left in awe and were so grateful to spend time with Baba Chris and be enlightened by his wealth of knowledge and kindness.|We will definitely be returning...

Great ancient atmosphere. Kind staff and very quiet and relaxing place associated with a very good restaurant. Ideally located close to the Indian quarter, we never had to take our car to discover George Town. The parking places (5) might been seen as too few but the staff always managed to allow us to park. Great place for a travel back in the past.

We spent 3 nights in this hotel/ everything was super. The room was a duplex and very spacious. breakfast was excellent and the pool area was a haven of peace to relax. |The hotel is situated at an iDeal location in Town, near the héritage sites and still in a call area. |But the very best thing about this hotel is the staff: Jocelyn and her colleagues were so helpful and friendly. Joyce helped us with the loss of our phone, she arranged guises tours and massages for us. We certainly recommend!

This stay was a delight. We booked the Stewart Apartment for 4 nights, travelling with our two teenagers. The location allowed us to explore the historical parts of Georgetown each day, which are just beautiful. The pool and lounge area are so relaxing and we enjoyed the complimentary afternoon tea each day. The room is so spacious, allowing us to really relax. The kids had their own mezzanine level with a lounge suite but with a tight spiral staircase, so we needed to take extra care. Appreciated the coffee machine in the room. All staff extremely friendly. Made the stay feel very special.

We spent 4 days at Seven Terraces, such a luxurious and intimate space, beautifully restored with great respect for history. We felt welcome from the moment we stepped in thanks to the friendly and caring staff. Breakfast and afternoon tea was a true pleasure. I would recommend to friends and family and will definitely be back.

We had such a great stay with Chris and his team at Seven Terraces. It’s such a beautiful residence located in the heart of George Town. The rooms are spacious and luxurious and the staff is so friendly and helpful. We truly enjoyed our stay here and felt welcome from the moment we stepped in. We’ll be back and can only recommend staying here.

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.