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2.5 of 5
17/B 66th Street | Between 26x27 Streets, Chan Aye Tha Zan Township, Mandalay 952, Myanmar
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Mandalay View Inn
Ranked #5 of 9 Mandalay B&B and Inns
3.5 of 5 stars 32 Reviews
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Geneva, Switzerland
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4 reviews 4 reviews
Reviews in 4 cities Reviews in 4 cities
1 helpful vote 1 helpful vote
“Average hotel with unprepared staff”
3 of 5 stars Reviewed 19 February 2011

We booked for 3 nights, but when we arrived they messed-up our reservation. The first night we had to sleep in two different single rooms and we were charged more than the agreed rate.
The hotel is clean, with old furniture and not charming. Rooms are quite noisy. Breakfast was standard. For the location, the hotel is quite close to Mandalay hill (anyhow not walking distance), but quite far from the rest of the city.

  • Stayed February 2011, travelled as a couple
    • 3 of 5 stars Value
    • 2 of 5 stars Location
    • 1 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 4 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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Saskatchewan
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27 reviews 27 reviews
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22 helpful votes 22 helpful votes
“Guest house style accommodations”
3 of 5 stars Reviewed 11 February 2011
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This is a small hotel with about 12 rooms, none of which appears to have larger than twin beds. The furniture is quite ornately carved, giving a sort of Asian-rustic sense. Our room had a private balcomy facing the street, which was nice, but there's about 1/3" gap under the door that allows the odd mosquito to get in. They're little fellers by Canadian standards, however, and they SAY there's no malaria in the cities. The building is a bit thin and thus a little noisy, although hearing songbirds in the morning was pleasant enough. No free water in the room. The TV has maybe 5 channels, the only English one being Al-Jazeera. The breakfast was minimal - an egg made for you, toast and cold cereal. They made us a breakfast box for our last day's early departure.
There's no internet in the hotel. It's a bit of a walk to the allied Inn by the Red Canal property, and we could not make their internet work for us either, so we were off the comms grid for our stay in Mandalay. The posted rates are a bit misleading, since there is a 20% "tax and service" charge, and another compound 10% (plus quite a lot of paperwork) for using a credit card. This took our room from $53 to $70 dollars. For better food and services you might check the internet rate on the Red Canal, and the quite-fancy Sedona business hotel is just around the corner.
There is a good Chinese-style restaurant, the Paradise, just to the north of the hotel which is very reasonably priced with excellent service, and an honest-to-goodness sit-down bar serving cold draft, the Myanmar Beer Station, just beyond that. Strong beers have become a thing in Myanmar, and while they're not great they beat the pants off of the usual light lagers in Asia.
It's 45-60 minutes to/from the airport into Mandalay on mostly bad roads (although only 12,000 kyat or about $15 each way) and the air quality, particularly in the morning when the factories start up, is quite abysmal. Mandalay has lots of tourist sites nearby, and you can rent a blue taxi with driver providing light guiding for about 20,000 kyat a day to go sightseeing. You likely will get hit for a $10 "all-events" local temple pass. There are supermarkets but no evident concentration of tourist shopping as in Yangon that we could find.

  • Stayed January 2011, travelled as a couple
    • 3 of 5 stars Value
    • 3 of 5 stars Location
    • 2 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 3 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 2 of 5 stars Service
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Taipei, Taiwan
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36 reviews 36 reviews
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39 helpful votes 39 helpful votes
“Not a good one but not many choices in Mandalay either”
3 of 5 stars Reviewed 27 January 2011

I found other views about this hotel are correct - nice staff but lousy rooms. I also found this hotel is over-priced. With US$50 a night, it is as bad as what you can expect from a hotel in Europe.

The other hotel - The Hotel at Red Canal owned by the same owner is much better but it costs at least US$130 a night.

  • Stayed January 2011, travelled solo
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 3 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 2 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 4 of 5 stars Service
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Wellington, New Zealand
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22 reviews 22 reviews
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20 helpful votes 20 helpful votes
“Good staff, adequate rooms”
3 of 5 stars Reviewed 19 January 2011

We ended up here when our reservation fell through, and after one night at another property. The rooms are OK (we ended up in one of the more expensive rooms as there was nothing else), breakfast quite average but the front desk staff were very helpful with advice and assistance.

Overall quite OK for resting your head for a night or two.

  • Stayed January 2011, travelled as a couple
    • 3 of 5 stars Value
    • 3 of 5 stars Location
    • 3 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 3 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 3 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 4 of 5 stars Service
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Scotland
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61 reviews 61 reviews
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55 helpful votes 55 helpful votes
“Mosquitos, barking dogs, pubic hairs”
2 of 5 stars Reviewed 6 January 2011

3 big problems with this hotel:
a) Mosquito infested but no mosquito nets
b) They had not changed the bed sheets after the last guests. The sheets looked suspiciously grubby when we checked in and on pulling them back we found plenty of positive pubic proof that they had not been changed. We got them to change everything including the pillow cases.
c) Insane barking dog from 10pm to 4am in the yard the first night meant no sleep at all. Maybe someone shot it as it was quiet the next two nights.

The first 2, at least, of these problems are easily fixable and would get them an extra 2 stars.

The hotel actually looks decent enough and there are nice wooden floors. Staff, as everywhere in Myanmar, happy to reconfirm flights, get taxis, etc.

  • Stayed December 2010, travelled as a couple
    • 3 of 5 stars Value
    • 3 of 5 stars Location
    • 1 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 3 of 5 stars Service
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17/B 66th Street | Between 26x27 Streets, Chan Aye Tha Zan Township, Mandalay 952, Myanmar
Price range (per night):* INR1,672 - 2,508

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