Jirung Health Village — Hotel in Chiang Mai Province

I was especially excited about staying at Jirung for a recent workshop I was participating in. The initial correspondences were very helpful and the staff seemed very capable of accommodating everything the group needed, including accomodations, dietary restrictions, and some of the delicate components of hosting a large group. ||||While my room was actually very comfortable and a pleasure to stay in, the astronomical cost of the room per night was a huge turnoff, (more than all the 5 star hotels in Chiang Mai for the dates of my stay.) Chiang Mai is so affordable, and paying almost $120 per night at a "discounted group rate" is just offensive for me given the complete non-existence of any form of concierge or star quality to the hospitality. I stayed in similar accomodations in Chiang mai for around 1/12th of the cost, don't get scammed by these prices.||||The restaurant on the property is a joke, absolutely ridiculous, as if all the employees were pulled off of the street and asked to work in an industry they don't understand and are downright terrible at, I have never experienced such disrepair in management and capacity from a restaurant before. They would consistently take 5 trips to bring the right bill with the right balances, constantly added things to the bill that weren't ordered, would include meat in vegetarian items, and when we pointed out that some individuals couldn't eat meat they would remove the chunks of meat from the dish and just bring it right back, pricing was different then what was listed on the menu and then they would refuse to honor the listed prices because these were "old menus", no concern for the health and wellness of their clients at a wellness center, absolutely laughable service, aweful awful awful! We stopped eating here after a few nights and elected to go to the 4 seasons next door to actually receive a meal from people who know what they are doing, and the pricing for the restaurant was higher than the #1 ranked restaurant on TripAdvisor, yet the only bad meals I had in thailand were while staying at Jirung.||||Numerous people, myself included, had numerous ant infestations in the "villas", and the workshop space smelled like cat urine because they have numerous cats on the grounds that wander freely. Supposedly the space was cleaned each day however a deep clean would be helpful to avoid the pungent aroma of cat urine, and this was workshop space on the first floor of the Thippamon Ashram, it just felt like the people working here had no respect for the customers or the job they were doing, and certainly weren't using the money we were spending to honor the space and care for the temple space.||||I would not recommend staying here, Everywhere else I have stayed in thailand was a...

The Jirung Health village couldn't be further from it's title than the name suggests, we fortunately only booked to stay for 2 nights and a half day was more than enough.||Whilst the 'resort' is situated in a quiet and natural environment, it also has 3 large bodies of standing water which means that there are countless numbers of mosquitoes. The fittings in the rooms do not help the situation, where the windows and doors have large gaps, so even when you are able to empty your room of mosquitoes, more and more will enter through these inlets. This is clearly an ongoing issue for other guests too considering that upon arrival the mosquito net, curtains, windows and mirror were all smeared with previous mosquito kills.||We booked the Mountain Villa on the basis that other reviews had recommended it, the room has AC, but was not clean upon arrival and we spent the first hour of our stay cleaning and massacring mosquitoes. We realised when locking up that this was fruitless because neither the window adjacent to the door, nor terrace, would lock and so the room is not secure. It is worth noting whilst there is internet here, it is very slow and the connection is extremely poor.||DO NOT EAT HERE! The food is awful and left me unwell, none of it is healthy - as the name might suggest and the staff and kitchen are incredibly slow, we waited for an hour only to be told our order was unavailable, this happened twice! Fool me once... If you are going to stay here, there is a small cafe/restaurant 20mins walk away called N THREE it is far better and far cheaper!||We complained to management and they admitted that they knew the restaurant was poor and offered to drive us to a nearby restaurant for dinner, however, this took a long time as the staff here are not English speaking. There is no desire for management to fix any of the issues described in previous reviews, this is apparent by their lack of response and by the fact that the feedback is being ignored.||There is no shuttle service here, as such you are very isolated and have to put up with slow service and poor food. Save your time and money,...

We stayed start Feb for 4 nights. We had booked the Mountain view villas. Not sure about the mountain view. We arrived in late evening and checked in. English was barely spoken. When we got to the room thought it looked quite ok. Then opened the toilet door - OMG sewage stink hit us. We thought if we kept the door shut and left the vent on it would be ok but I was almost physically sick the next morning. Went to breakfast and the eggs, bacon etc were cold like it came out of the fridge and there was barely anything there. learnt our lesson ordered the thai bfast every morning after that at least hot and plenty of it. Thought the cleaner would notice the smell so when we came back later the next evening NOPE it still stunk. Was exhausted so opened windows and hoped no one or anything would break in. Next morning complained to staff and again not much English spoken. When we got back next evening they asked if we had been to our room but I refused to go back to it so they moved us to another room. It was quite musty smelling but luckily no sewage smell. We ordered some snack items from restaurant to room and they were very nice. Organized a massage for the next night and this was the best part of the stay. The two ladies were fantastic. Though i was paying Australian prices for the massage $80 an hour thought it a little steep but needed a massage and didn't want to go into town. Organised Grabs when we went anywhere as Taxies double the price and also any cars they organised were double the price. I think the whole place needs a total overhaul. It is quaint and can see it was a beauty in its time. Some of the places we stayed you could see that the termites had set in and eaten the places (stumps holding up cabins etc). Septics maybe need to be cleaned a bit more regularly. Better speaking English from the employees...