Hotel Bond — Hotel in Yangon

At first it looks like a very good deal, a whole apartment with 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms for a low price.  When you see how dirty it is then the price makes sense.

But, you are given 2 doorlocks for the two bedroons, there is no doorlock to the main living room.  At firsr it seemed like just a strange inconvenience because they are "changing locks" but in hindsight I think this is just a socially acceptable excuse but in hindsight I believe it to be deception (based on their behavior of just entering the room when they feel like it.

The first time my wife was surprised and they were blessed by getting to see to much of her.  After that they kept coming back again and again under the guise of being extra helpful.

Their behavior was polite but I found it completely unacceptable.  At night I  dragged the couch in front of the door and put another chair on top of it and leaned against the door so that if someone tried to push the door opened then the chair should fall off and make a loud noise and alert me that someone was trying to enter the room at night.  At 11am exactly I heard the staff in the room.  They had come in to clean the room (without calling first) an hour before checkout time.

When I went out I saw how he had quietly and carefully wedge the door open already expecting that there was such a trap; showing that he had developed this skill over time and that he was aware that he was sneaking in instead of calling.

I was enraged!  I come from Texas where the law says that if someone did this at either my home OR A HOTEL that I would have the legal right to kill them.

I know that Myanmar law does not allow that and I respect Myanmar law; however they need to realize that they are authorized for foreign customers and they should try to give reasonable respect that when we are paying to sleep in a place that we have a right to privacy.

I cannot consider this hotel to be safe as you are not entitled to security of a safe space.

I have talked to Myanmar friends and this behavior is also not acceptable by their...

Coming from Siem Reap it took my brain a little bit to adjust to a new economy! The first hotel I booked at $20 per night was an absolute dive. I got out of there as quickly as I could! Walked into Hotel Bond having checked it out online, yes it was a higher price, but worth every penny. The staff were so welcoming when I turned up at 8 in the morning, got me settled into a room and even invited me to have breakfast. The staff carried my suitcase up the stairs and even with the shared bathroom, i never saw the other guest sharing the bathroom so there was no conflict there. The bathroom was excellent with a rainforest shower and a smaller shower head. My suggestions here would be to get some bigger shampoo and shower gel bottles, the tiny individual ones are a waste of plastic and in this case space given that it is a shared bathroom. Putting some floor mats for the bathroom would also be a good idea, 2-3 so each room can have their own.||The room was small but very comfortable and clean.||The breakfast was decent and the daily noodle dish was always vegetable only which is just perfect!||My only other recommendation would be large water refills. Whilst having large water bottles as well as small is a big step above most hotels, I would prefer to use no plastic at all. When I asked the guy at the desk where I might refill my bottle, he said he didn't know and to maybe try a pagoda, when I walked out the door it was less than 30 seconds before I saw that there are water tanks on the street all over the place and these are for anyone to use! Hurrah! Still it would be great if the hotel included water refills in their...

I didn't have high hopes for this hotel, but the photos and rating seemed good. I should have been more cautious and read the reviews more carefully. First, there is no elevator. My fault for not checking that, so no negative rating for this. The hotel has 8 floors so you may have to climb 8 stories to your room. The biggest shock factor was how old and beat up the rooms were. The website pictures look nice but are either photoshopped or so old that they no longer are accurate. The walls are dirty and covered in the blood of many dead mosquitoes. The bathrooms used to have white grout, but now are black with mildew. -2 rating for horribly accurate pictures. Second, the hotel does nothing for mosquito control. I stayed in multiple hotels throughout Myanmar and every hotel was proactive at controlling the mosquitoes. This place does nothing and the rooms were filled with them. We got bit multiple times during the night. -1 rating for mosquito control. We got the entire floor (two rooms), and one of the rooms smelled of cigarette smoke. -1 rating for that. +1 rating as the staff seemed nice, the breakfast was decent, and location was good. That adds up to a +2 rating. I would not recommend this...