Better organized we would have flown back to KK then direct to Penang but we already had flights back to KL from KK. So I got tripped up by the impossibly complicated Air Asia internet site and had to pay big penalties to change our flight times from KL to Penang to fit our return flights from Kota Kimbalu. We overnighted in KK at that 15 dollar hotel which was pretty good till the Karaoke Club underneath started at 10 pm and went till 2am!! shit its not as if they could even sing.
Early getaway form the hotel from hell and our flight back to KL where we had to wait about 3 hours before our flight to Penang and we arrived there about 3pm. Ferringhi Beach is at the other end of the island and taxi would have been about $30 so we caught the bus to Georgetown and changed to the other bus to Ferringhi and it was OK and only total of $3.50 !!! for us both.