Mandalay City Hotel

... were home. I can highly recommend our driver who can probably be contacted through a guy named Bhamo who frequents the outside of the Royal City Hotel. We went back and arranged a share taxi (7000 each) to Pyin U Lwin for 9 the next morning, checked the ...

 I tried the Royal Guest House which looked very good and decent prices but they were full so I went to the Royal City Hotel (Phone 02-31805 -  130, 27th Street between 76/77) which was slightly away from the tourist area but the room they ...

... 3 ancient cities. We normally don't do this, but, time was not on our side, and this was the quickest way to get around. Mandalay City was great. Little tea shops everywhere and the only place to eat food was off of the street. US0.45c for 2 people. This ...

... but the author never went there. While Yangon has no motorbikes (by law), Mandalay has many. With all the bikes Mandalay appeared much busier then Yangon. Our hotel was in the busy area of electrical goods and hidden away in the centre of a block is a ...

... ground move at a different pace here.  Even at that pace, I only had the rest of the day and the next morning to see Mandalay, a city of 1 million people. So I set off.  As I left the hotel, I was approached by a man on his bicycle.  Well, ...

... great view of all the payas on the hill. We went to a Paya at the top the view was great. Then back to town and to Mandalay Hill. The taxi drove us up to the half way mark, then we were going to take the escalator by the taxi driver said it ...

Ran into the same girl who had been the housekeeper for my room in my previous trip to Mandalay. She still had the note I had left for her last year safely stored in her little locker at the hotel and remembered me right away. Ended up spending some ...

... . If you find one yourself it should be 20$ or less!). We were both interested in visiting the ancient cities around Mandalay as well as the longest teak footbridge (UBein's bridge) in the world.  This was another amazing day visiting Amarapura, ...

Today was a day to just enjoy Mandalay. Walked in different neighborhoods and discovered more of Myanmar culture. Went to see the famous Moustache Brothers (8$)  nightly performance.  Price seems steep but they explain that part of the fee is to ...

... got the most out of Mr. Moe I had him take me to the two sites in Mandalay that weren’t near Mandalay Hill and my hotel. The first of which was the beautiful teak monastery Shwe In Bin followed by Mahamuni Pagoda, the second holiest Buddhist site ...

... far outnumbering cars and trucks. Rush hour is a massive stream of two wheeled social scene. Our most excellent hotel, Hotel by the Red Canal Mandalay was on a quaint back street next to a canal that became filled with semi-naked and fully naked ...

... off at our top pick sometime after 8 pm.  It was full.  Runners-up were a few blocks away, but Mandalay suffers chronic electrical blackouts which, coupled with the crowds, traffic and pavement ranging from poor to dangerous, made evening ...

... which seems to be far the best, was fully booked (better to book in advance), so I stayed at nearby Nylon hotel. My first impression of the city was a bit mixed. It is bigger than I expected and not at all relaxing as some resources claim. Motorcycles and ...

... things along and prioritise. The main tourist sights in Mandalay are the Hill and the Kings Palace. The Kings Palace dominates central Mandalay and from the exterior it resembles a huge fortress with walls which must be over a kilometer long on each of ...

Batman & Joker Today's motorbike trip out of Mandalay included these ancient cities Amarapura, Sagaing and Inwa. I had the pleasure of having Joker from ET hotel as my driver and guide. I thought he was joking about his name but it turned out that his ...

... but it was worth it, the food was very good.  After dinner it was dark and we had to walk towards the Mandalay Marionette troupe.  We eventually made it after wondering if we were lost and asking some questions of some nice people along the ...

... I was going to explore the countryside for the first time, excluding my brief exposure to it during the taxi ride from Mandalay airport to the city centre.  I love the countryside (yes I know, I live in one of the biggest cities in the world, ...

... . Attached to this word, for me, are images of Raj glory, Burmese royalty and literary heavyweights. In reality, Mandalay is both a modern and an ancient city. The palace no longer stands, having been blown to Smithereens and back by the British and the ...

... I have to be honest – I didn't have high expectations about today.  I was planning to see the sights of Mandalay and sightseeing in a city has never been my favourite thing to do.  I felt it was going to be a day of 'ticking ...

... nbsp; Mandalay Royal Palace Shwenandaw (Golden Palace) Monastery, noted for its exquisite wood carving and Mandalay Hill , a vantage point for panoramic view of the city. ...