Ulan Bator Lodges - Reviews and Rates

Arriving to Mongolia there is a different feeling in the air. Whilst the capital is still quite soviet looking, dirty and very busy the people are friendlier, helpful and the atmosphere generally more relaxed. It's a bustling city with lots of traffic where the old nomadic life meets a new modern existence – its not uncommon to see a spots...

UB is a beautiful city. Not many guidebooks will say this; Lonely Planet insists that the city is a blight on an otherwise beautiful land. I disagree. It's true that UB was built largely by the Soviets during the days of annexation by the USSR, so ugly concrete boxes are pretty much par for the course. I have no love for these buildings. But the...

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8.00 am we were packed and ready to go on our nine day trip to yhe gobi, we were waiting for our 4x4 to turn up merlin was getting excited when these new land cruisers were turning up and taking tourists away, our driver turned up about 15mins late in a 4x4 not a nice new land cruiser but a 12 year old russian attempt of a 4x4 at least it had tw...

we caught the train at 8.15pm local time, in our carridge we were joined by two very exhausted austrailians who had the same kind of taxi treatment as we had, but they had the opposite done to them the taxi driver kicked out all the russian tourists including the aussies, the aussies then started to play charades to try to explain that there tra...

The 4* hotel was yet another welcome luxury. We checked in around midday, washed our clothes in the sink and hung them in the room to dry and then headed straight out with Steve, Sarah. UB, like Urkutsk, didn't really impress either of us. The monastery was interesting but we didn't pay to enter the Budhist temple (we've seen sooo many Budhist t...

So another few days on the train, we met a nice Mongolian family: a girl, her brother, his wife, their dad and their dad's friend, the girl, whose name was totally unpronouncable, we'll call her Doris spent a lot of time working abroad and so spoke fairly good English (and a lot of it), she almost chatted us to death. When we stopped at the Russ...

Happy birthday to Hels mum Margaret. Repack and get ready for trip back to Ub staying at Hotel Bangyol Day at leisure with others in our party. Plus bath and proper toilet...heaven. Went into UB to do some shopping - had already agreed to have a birthday party for Gemma on the train tomorrow - need to buy provisions and a pressie. In the evening...

Basically Mongolia was unbeleiveable and for me has stolen the show so far. Absoloutely everything I wanted it to be and then some. Had 2 nights in Ulan Bator and then 3 nights out in Ger huts in the Mongolian countryside. Went horse riding, visited Nomad families and of course had a couple o great sessions. This is the first time tryen to put p...

I was greeted into the 'office' with a cup of tea and a hot bath.