I just left Kandawgyi and it is the first time I was happy to leave a place I had chosen to vacation at. To start - our first room had black mold on the shower curtain and tiles missing from the shower ceiling- when asked to change rooms the hotel agreed and then moved all our stuff while we were out touring including taking everything out of our safe - minus 100$! Our next room was next to two rooms undergoing construction with loud noise and paint fumes and no hot water at all. To top the experience off the hotel resturant gave some of our group food poisioning which we later found out many other hotel guests had as well. I would highly suggest looking into another hotel - possibly Traders - until they can get it together. While the grounds look great most staff are new and poorly trained

We checked into this hotel as part of our first night in Yangon, at the start of our trip.

The reception/check in was smooth, fast & relatively efficient.

The room was good. Clean, large with a good TV to watch.

The hotel is placed in large grounds, including a dinosaur sculpture in the garden! You get a great view of the lake & the royal barge from the garden too.

We tried the cappuccino in the lounge & it was pretty good. Decent coffee is not common in Myanmar, as we found out.

Breakfast was good in that it started from 4 am (Many flights to up-country Myanmar leave at 6am)! That is real customer service! While breakfast was adequate; it was pretty basic for such a good hotel. The selection and quality was dissappointing.

Overall, a good place to stay we would recommend.

We agree with other reviewers that the rooms are a bit disappointing especially on the third floor and without lake views. We also agree that there is a problem ( not huge) with noise from the corridor. And our room had a definite smell of drains which was bad on one of the two nights we spent in the hotel.

On the other hand, the gardens are lovely as is the area for sitting out behind the lobby where we passed a couple of very agreeable hours as we recovered from jet lag. The breakfast buffet is very ample. The staff are agreeable and good at sourcing taxis. And the location is as good as any in Yangon with the additional plush of the park around the lake outside ( cost $2 but well worth it for a nice sunset walk. We had a comparator hotel as we stayed in the Savoy on our return nights in Yangon and found that hotel very noisy indeed. So, in spite of some reservations, we would probably stay in the Kandawgy Palace on our next visit to Yangon.

This hotel is located on Kandawgyi lake with its beautiful views of lotus covered waters. The hotel is set in a lush garden with three pools nestled in among the trees (two under renovation until March 2012).
The lobby is marble and wood carvings with a pleasant bar area. The desk staff spoke good English and were welcoming and professional. I would advise you request an upstairs room with a view of the lake as some rooms can be dark and uninviting.
The rooms were spacious and pleasant with a traditional hotel room set out. Beds were comfortable and the pillows reasonable. Sound insulation was a problem with people in the corridor easily heard even when not being too raucous. Perhaps the biggest problem in our room was that the corridor muzac seemed to leak through the air conditioner duct to be audibly annoying.

We experienced an issue similar to other guests, when you stay one night the management tend to place you in noisy rooms without a lake view.

A modern TV was in the room with cable. The shower over the bath was strong and the plumbing worked well.
Breakfast was a large spread of average food, at times not the freshest, even early in the morning.

Remember this place DOES NOT TAKE CREDIT CARDS. The Strand and the Parkroyal do take credit cards in the bars and restaurants for non hotel guests if you need it.