The Trip Advisor reviews for Liam's Suan Dok Mai were so convincing, that we decided we had to try it. Oh, I am so glad. Daphne, the owner, is the mother of Liam, age 5, for whom the guest house is named. Suan Dok Mai, by the way, means "beautiful garden" in Thai, and it is. Just the right place to relax, get personal attention (as much as you want, but never invasive)...Clean, quiet. A tuk-tuk ride out of the city (and well worth if for the peace and quiet). The breakfast menu includes choice of "pancake...." DO IT. Daphne is Belgian .... need I say more? Daphne has lots of ideas for how to enjoy this wonderful area without being a part of the tourist hordes.

After 5 weeks of traveling in Thailand and Laos we ended up in Chiang Mai, where we intended on staying 3 nights... We stayed 5 nights partly because we just loved the guesthouse and we needed some time to sit back and relax which is perfectly possible here. Daphne -the owner- made us feel at home from the moment we got there and she's very helpful. She can give you advice on trips and she also has contacts if you want to rent a bike or motorcycle. By motorcycle it takes 5 minutes to the old city centre. For us this was also one of the advantages: because it's a little outside of the centre it's very quiet and peaceful at night, and even at daytime if you decide to relax at the the pool it's very calm.
The rooms are spacious and very clean and all have private balconies in the back.
We were in Chiang Mai to celebrate the New Year which was amazing but there are a lot of other things to see and visit. Next time we will try the cooking classes!

lovely, quiet location (only 10 minutes away from the center), nice swimmingpool, comfortable and clean rooms, warm crew, superb (Belgian) food especially the pancakes at breakfast, host Daphné is very helpfull arranging trips, taxis, renting motorbikes, recommending restaurants, etc, it was very hard to leave after 7 days but we will go back (soon)

We vonden het heerlijk om vijf dagen bij Daphne te logeren. Het was onze eerste trip in Thailand en zij kon ons heel wat vertellen over het land en de gewoontes. Ook info over mogelijkheden in de buurt heeft ze. Na een dagtrip is het heerlijk om aan het zwembad tot rust te komen. Daphne staat ook voortdurend klaar. We vonden het ook fijn dat we vanuit onze grote, propere kamer het gewone leven in de rustige wijk konden bekijken.