Hotel Review: Le Metrotel of Ipoh, Malaysia

Staying in stylish, chic and trendy boutique hotel has always been part of my travel wishlist, provided still within my budget. Initially before going to Ipoh, I plan to stay in M Boutique Hotel Ipoh but unfortunately it couldn't fit in three of us. And after looked into few factors, we finally chosen to stay in Le Metrotel of Ipoh Town.

#1: Beautifully decorated in the lobby of Le Metrotel

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Art of Old Town, Ipoh

I may sucks at arts and don't even understand at the sophisticated art but that doesn't stop me from loving arts especially the art street. I have to admit that I admired the beautifully painted art street by London-trained Lithuanian artist, Ernest Zacharevic which I found they are exceptionally meaningful and interesting, especially across the heritage area of George Town city of Penang. You can't imagine how much fun and trilled I was for hunting down all these colourful art street and wall paintings within the inner city two years ago right after I attended my best friend's wedding in Penang (click here for Penang's Art Street, Wall Paintings & Steel Sculpture)

So when I was in Kampar, Perak last month for another best friend's wedding of mine, besides hunting for the best food in Ipoh town, the first thing to do in my mind was scouting for another art street collection by Ernest Zacharevic himself in Old Town of Ipoh. 

Collaboration together with OldTown White Coffee which is the leading white coffee manufacturer in Malaysia, currently there are 8 unique murals within Old Town of Ipoh:

#1: An Old Uncle Drinking Coffee

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Ipoh for Formal Function

For those who follow my twitter, you might know that I was away to Ipoh for 5 days to participate in a very formal function which has been almost 10 years I had never attended since ever I received the highest award in the non-governmental organisation when I was in secondary school. 

And this time around, I was being assigned to join as the newly appointed Girl Guides Sabah State Honoury Treasurer to participate in this National Conference and Annual General Meeting for the very first time with all over 300 representatives from all states including Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya.

This year host for the event was Perak Branch and so coincidentally, 2012 is the year to visit Perak. 

The national event was held in this newly opened hotel which operated less than 6 months and it's located in the city centre. 

Comfort and spacious hotel room was given to us. We enjoyed the stay but the time we spent in our room is so limited.

Lots of activities were being held during these 4 days national event including visiting and plant a tree in mangrove sea forest of Taiping, singing competition with our special host, Datuk AC Mizan and more.

Proudly to say that Sabah beats the other 16 representation and won the singing competition. Our tagline "Buli Bah Kalau Kau"; I guess all Sabahan should know this.

One of the most prominent event was this National Conference and Annual General Meeting was officially launched by Seri Paduka Baginda Raja Permaisuri Agong Tuanku Hajah Haminah.

 
I did tweet that there was an honoury speech given by our Prime Minister's wife, Datin Seri Paduka Rosmah and someone requested for the photo. So hereby I proudly present you the photo I took of Malaysia "First Lady".

So, that's summarised my 5 days visit to Ipoh and I will blog in more details in future post. By the way, this is my third visit to the city of Ipoh but I never got the chance to fully explored of this historical beautiful city. Hopefully someday. *cross fingers*

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