Hotel Mandalay — Hotel in Mandalay District

We spent 5 nights in the hotel and we've been very happy.||The accommodation has everything you need (it has air conditioning, which is the most important) and it's cleaned. If, like us, you have a room on the street side that it will be very noisy during the day but bearable during the night.||The staff is lovely, polite and helpful.||The breakfast was more than I expected: noodles, eggs, fresh fruit, bread, coffee, tea...||We rented from the hotel both the bike and motorbike. The traffic could be scary at the beginning but, when you understand how it works, going around by motorbike is much better than taxi or bicycle. We visited U Bein's Bridge, Inwa and Sagaing by motorbike. If you decide to rent a motorbike consider wearing a mask for the pollution.||The only downside I can see about the hotel is the service phone (I think it was located in the staff room) ringing at any time, which woke me up more than once very early in the morning. That was very annoying.||Overall, I certainly...

Nice family homestay localized not far from the royal palace at the center of Mandalay. The rooms consist of bungalows. They are nice, clean and full of practical accommodations (except maybe for a mirror in the room itself bit it's merely a detail). The cleaning is done daily.|The breakfast, although not the best we had in Myanmar, is good: coffee/tea, eggs, toasts, fresh fruits, served on a small terrace next to the river so relatively calm.|We rented bikes (2000MMK/day) and a motorcycle (13000MMK/day, fuel included). Our host also booked.our bus tickets to Bagan for us without taking any profits for him.|But what we will always remember and what made the whole difference with other places, are all the attentions they have for their guests. They offered us water with the bikes or the motorcycle we rented as well as some wipes. They brought us some watermelon whenever we came back to the homestead. And when we left with the bus, they offered us 1L of water, a piece of cake and a banana each...

Hotel Mandalay is a fairly large hotel that is favored by tour operators and travel agents. The hotel is adequate for short stays and if you are traveling with a tour, but will most likely be inconvenient if you're traveling on your own. Its location on the main highway may be convenient for your tour operator, but your room will turn out to be noisy if your windows have a view of the busy street. Rooms in the back are better, not only because they are quieter but also because they are somewhat larger and better equipped. The whole hotel could use a renovation. One of its saving graces is an above average restaurant, not for the breakfast it serves, but for lunches...