Two sen a night at Tune hotels

AirAsia affiliate Tune Hotels.com is offering rooms from as low as two sen per night at its hotels in Penang, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Kuala Lumpur and the KLIA-LCCT Airport.

The promotional rates are for stays between Feb 1 and April 30 next year for bookings made between now and May 18.

“The promotion is to extend our appreciation to guests for supporting the Tune Hotels.com brand since it was launched in Kuala Lumpur two years ago,” CEO Mark Lankester said in a statement yesterday.

He said that Tune Hotels.com would be expanding domestically to Johor Baru, Langkawi, Miri and Sandakan; and regionally via franchising and joint venture partnerships to Indonesia, India and China.

“Two regional properties will be opening in the fourth quarter of this year in Kuta and Legian in Bali, Indonesia, with 139 and 170 rooms respectively,” Lankester said.

For further information and bookings, visit http://www.tunehotels.com/ or call 03-7962 5888 from 9am to 9pm on Mondays to Fridays.

Source: The Star

Free WIFI on Penang Rapib buses

Rapid Penang begin a 3 month trial using 2 buses to provide free WIFI access to its pasengers and making it the first public bus company in Malaysia to do so. The service enables passengers to surf the Internet in the bus before arriving at their destinations.

After the three months trial, if response from passengers is good, the facility installed in stages in all of our 180 buses, and also the additional 200 buses which will be delivered by the end of the year

Its chief executive officer Azhar Ahmad said the company was installing the facility in two buses: The first plies the route between Balik Pulau and the Bayan Lepas International Airport, and the second on the Teluk Bahang-Batu Feringgi-Weld Key route.

He said use of the WiFi facility would be free and that the buses would have special stickers for easy identification by passengers.

Source: The Star