Hotel United — Hotel in Hpa-An District

We stayed 2 nights and unfortunately had a room facing the road and it was noisy even by Myanmar standards. |The room wasn't particularly clean and if you look at someone's review from early December you'll see they posted a photo of a used tissue on top of the wardrobe, well, if you want to gauge the level of cleanliness from that then I can report that it was still there on December 30th!!!|Bed was comfortable but the pillows were the size of Spacehoppers. If you don't want to spend the next week with your neck in traction I suggest using the cushions instead. ||Breakfast; they have an 'egg station ' and the omelette was very good, toasters that will actually toast the bread rather than just dry it and juice and coffee. Rice, noodles, "sausages' and potatoes all in chaffing dishes with no heat beneath them so it's all stone cold!!|The 2nd day one of the chaffing dishes had prawns in which looked like they were there just to test out just how much bacterial resistance your stomach has gained since being in Asia! I've been here 3 months and I wasn't going anywhere near them!!||The staff, pleasant as all Myanmar people are but unfortunately only the woman on the front desk speaks English which can make things difficult at times. The ineptitude comes from the fact that when a customer asks if the hotel can arrange a rental scooter or a motorbike taxi, they shouldn't just get any old scooter but rather a safe, reliable one that's got a more than 20% chance of conveying their clients back to the hotel in one piece! The scooter had NO working rear brake so on gravelly roads would have been lethal, no working headlights and a front tyre with less tread than the bottom of one of Gandhi's flip flops. They seemed quite surprised when I said I didn't want it. |Next day I asked if they could arrange for a Thoun-bein (motorbike trishaw taxi) to take us to the Sadan caves which is a 40km round trip on mainly dusty, potholed tracks. Some of the taxis you find around the clock tower have nice padding on the benches and are in a good condition, not the beauty they procured for us, the term "clapped out bag of old sh#te" would go some way to describe this thing, it was a rattling, grinding shambles of a machine and I kid you not when I say that cyclists were overtaking us on the hills. It took an hour and forty minutes EACH WAY on that mechanical donkey which felt like 100 minutes of having someone kicking you up the hoop! ||We found a great taxi at the clock tower to take us to the Bat cave and it was fast, nice padded seats and the driver was a really nice guy with great English, what a shame we only met him on the last evening, we even took him for a couple of beers afterwards. His name was Daw Nan Aung and I'd highly recommend him as a guide/driver. ||The hotel did organise a share taxi to Myawaddy at 8am and at 8.50 we're still sat in reception but they assured us it was booked, then they started frantically calling people but eventually a car turned up and drove us to Myawaddy. It was a surreal journey as we didn't stop to pick anyone else up, he drove like a lunatic and he also had a card on his dashboard which seemed to enable him to avoid paying any of the numerous road tolls. I thought he was going to try and hit us up for more money but when we got to the border I handed over 20,000 for the two of us and that was that! How he made a profit on that I do not know?|Jesus, this had turned into a right ramble ( lying in bed New Year's Day with a hangover🙃)||To sum up the United, it's too far from the centre of town, rooms could be cleaner, breakfast ok and only get them to book a taxi into town and sort your own arrangements from there....

This was a functional hotel that did the trick for the one night we stayed. Compared to other places we've stayed in Myanmar this was basic, functional and could have done with a few easy touches to make it really nice. ||||Our room was huge and very light, but only superficially clean, a bit more elbow grease would have made the room much nicer to stay in. ||||The breakfast was a huge range of choices and it was lovely to have someone rustle up eggs of all variety in front of you. But the sandwiches we ordered in the day were not nice.||||The hotel has potential...If you put some comfy sofas on the veranda at the front this would make a wonderful place to chill in the evening and watch the bustle of the road in front. As it is, this is a wasted space and the hotel really lacks a place to sit and...

The rooms are clean and price is good for what you pay for. ||There are 2 or 3 staff members that have good English skills other staff members have limited English skills so be patient. ||Spring rolls and green curry from here are really good! ||The breakfast is okay if only staying a few days anymore and you might get bored. Toast, eggs, fruit, coffee and Myanmar style breakfast available. ||It is about 5-10 minute drive from down town and most places. You can can ask for a motorbike taxi or tuk tuk at reception and they arrive always within 5 minutes. A good thing about this hotel is that it is well known so if you do need to get a taxi back here the taxi/tuk tuk driver shouldn't have too much...