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on all of my West Sumatra motorcycle road trips so far, i had never really visited the town of Padang, preferring to use the bypass road on my way to the southern side of this amazing west coast... towns are not my favourites, being usually hot & crowded... but this time i decided to bite the bullet, for the sake of checking the old town of Padang, with its rich history and exceptional heritage display... and for this, what better base camp to choose, but the town's oldest operating hotel: Hotel Padang! this hotel has the charmingly obsolete look of Indonesian accommodation dating from the colonial times,... it is well located, halfway between the old and the newer areas of town, a single storey goup of buildings on spacious and green grounds... i got room number 1, which has been tastefully renovated recently, with all modern amenities and nice veranda seating; the iron horse got a safe shelter too, a specific motorcycle parking area, under a roof... service staff are relaxed and friendly... breakfast is included in the reasonable room rate... bank atm, convenience store, laundry, cafés & warungs are all within walking distance... and to visit the touristy spots, nothing beats GoJek rides, which always ended up to be around Rp.10k... i would have been happy to give Hotel Padang a 5-dot rating, for the pleasant experience i had... but i still feel that the 4-dot should work better, as a motivation to make the small improvements that will lead this place to classical perfection...