Pyinoolwin Hotel — Hotel in Pyin Oo Lwin District

Charming and rustic cottages close to the National Kandawgyi Gardens. Spacious cottage (with the fake fireplace and iron poker and logs that previous reviewers have mentioned). Toilet was separate from the shower and there was even a bathtub and a separate dressing area. They even provided iron and ironing board, and chess pieces. The mini bar also stocked wine from the Shan state. Wifi worked well in the room. FYI, I saw signs in the room indicating that (1) if you fill up the bath tub with hot water, you will have to wait about an hour for the water to be heated up again; and (2) electricity is switched off during certain hours of the night in the winter season. ||There is a small road within the property for their buggies or cars to ferry guests and their luggages as some of their cottages are located uphill. I could hear when cars were being driven on the small road outside my cottage as well as when a group of guests returned. Before I slept I also heard some noise on the roof, like some animal scrambling on the roof before jumping down and running to the back of my cottage. Saw a cat the next morning at breakfast so that could have been what made the noise. |Thankfully all was quiet once I slept although I could still hear many dogs barking from outside of the property.||Having read previous reviews, I ventured out for dinner. Pan Taw Win Cafe is a 10 minutes brisk walk from the hotel. Cafe had a good mix of local and western food as well as cakes and coffee. There is free wifi and I chanced upon an article about how the Pan Taw Win cafe was set up by the company behind Sithar Coffee, a Myanmar coffee company so the coffee should be good. I saw the locals coming in to buy their coffee beans when I was there. The Taj and Feel is about 15 minutes and 20 minutes brisk walk respectively from the hotel (fyi the walk is along side the road as there is no footpath. You will also pass quite a few stray dogs.) ||Breakfast had the usual bread and cereal. The cooked food station had fried vermicelli, sunny side up eggs, fried rice with beans and random fried food like tofu and fish ball. I was hungry and going on a long train ride so I shall not complain about the taste of the food. Staff were helpful and can...

Yes the hotel is large but one is better off staying in one of the smaller hotels that |has the amenities one expects from a hotel. We stayed in deluxe room. It was not very clean, just look at all the ledges they are full of dust and stuff. The floors were not very clean. The room is run down in particular the bathroom with rust and dirt and needs redoing. The worst thing is that it’s so cold at night and they have two units but one is not for heating and the heater is useless. We have a thermometer and the room was same temperature as outside all night with heater on. The other really bad thing was the hot water. It only lasted a few minutes in the morning which is really unpleasant when so cold. The bedding was insufficient so just spent whole night very cold. Then breakfast was served outside in the cold, it should be inside! The breakfast was of very poor quality. The location is not the best. To walk to some restaurants at night one has to go on poorly lit road with no path and full of dogs. The WiFi barely worked in evening and didn’t work at all in the morning, so you need to rely on your own SIM card. There is really nothing going for this hotel when it doesn’t address basic needs. Yes the bungalows look nice from the outside and garden is nice but that’s not the most important thing in a hotel. The staff are not particularly friendly either compared to elsewhere. There was a Pan Taw Win Cafe about 10 minutes walk from hotel with decent food and great...

Booked two suites with double beds for two nights. They had a promotion so as a foreigner, I paid 100$ for the suite and my local friends 100 000 kyats. |At first they gave us two rooms with twin beds put together and it looked ugly and was uncomfortable. The shower drain was disgusting and full of other customers hair. We complained so they gave us two other rooms with double beds and it was obvious that they cleaned in the bathroom right before we came with special attention to the drain. |What can I say? The rooms surely needed more care. The bathrooms are getting old and surely aren’t clean enough. The bed sheets were far from the immaculate white colour you’ll find in expensive hotels. But the worst was the appearance and smell of the towels. We took a shower after checking in and when we took the towels, they were so smelly that it was disgusting to use them. We asked for other towels. The smell was a little better but they were definitely more brown than white. They should be changed already. ||The breakfast was average with ONE glass of fresh juice for two! ||I won’t return to this hotel and wouldn’t recommend it. You can find better in Pyin Oo Lwin for the same price or less, maybe without a beautiful garden but a good hotel isn’t about gardens and wooden bungalows. It’s about cleanliness, comfort...