Mandalay Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Arribar a Mandalay en autocar nocturn no esta fet per a persones febles d'esperit. El trajecte de 14 hores es fa del tot insuportable per dues raons: la primera es que mantenen la temperatura interior proxima al punt de congelacio i jo vaig vestit com si tornes de la platja, i la segona es que, encara que haguessis pogut dormir, l'autocar para c...

The train from Taungoo to Mandalay was a lot more brutal than the first leg. On this edition of the ride, we took ordinary class. This meant wooden seats. Even with a number of folded up pieces of clothing, my ass took days to recover. In the row ahead of us, a group of riders spent their time drinking whiskey and spent their time staring at us....

next port of call was mandalay, home to nelly the elephant according to the cartoon, but to be honest i think that ficticious ******** cos i never saw one elephant during my stay. mandalay is burmas second alrgest city and its apparent drawcard are the four ancient citys that surround it. so the plan was to visit all four of these enchanting cit...

Day two of Mandalay proved to be about as entertaining as the first. In the morning I met a guy from Malaysia, and we decided to climb mandalay hill and see a few of the surrounding sights. Mandalay Hill is essentially a temple built on a mountain, and as you climb up there are different buddha statues and viewpoint balconies terraced up the cli...

I arrived in Mandalay by boat. It was a 12 hour ride upstream on the Irrawaddy from Bagan to Mandalay. Unfortunately, I was on the tourist boat, so the only people on it were a few Americans and Germans. The local boat has...locals! and it also stops often to load up on interesting goods and people along the way. Anyways, the boatride was a nice...

Shoes in hand we trudged up the path leading to the peak of Mandalay hill. The climb up the stairs was sheltered and was reached with relative ease but the path however did not receive the same amount of care as did the various stupas and Buddha statues that we passed on the way. The summit provided a 360 degree view of the surrounding area wher...

Finally out of Thailand! Good riddance. We spent too many days in a country too heavily touristed to be properly enjoyed. Appropriately, we were slapped with a stiff 5,000 baht fine for overstaying our visas. I'll spare our loyal readers the laborious details. In order to leave Thailand as soon as possible, and fearing the road conditions in Mya...

Mandalay is 645km north of Yangon, an overnight (actually comfortable) bus took us there. On arrival the first thing you notice about this 1+million populated city is that it's hot - stinking hot 42+oC. Killer when the there's not enough electricity to even run a fan during the day and we were lucky when the fan lasted through the night. Never b...

Arrived at Mandalay and boy!!! The scenery is simply breath-taking! I kept on taking pictures on the way from airport to city. But of course, when we reach the city...things became different. Noise and air pollution everywhere....it reminded me of the haze we used to have in Singapore at one time. We checked into Pxxxxxx Hotel but we didn't real...

Rudyard Kipling wrote a famous work called the Road to Mandalay, which is slightly ironic as he apparently never came here, limiting himself in Yangon and nearby Moulmein instead. Maybe Lonely Planet got that wrong (they have been known to get a few things wrong when it comes to Myanmar) but you must admit, the name certainly has a ring to it, w...