Royal City Hotel Mandalay

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... a cab to a hotel and headed out. We had not booked a hotel in advance.  The one we thought would work out was Royal City but it was booked up, so they called around and found another one.   We didn't really remember that its the weekend ...

... a Yangon Airways AJR-72, to Mandalay International Airport. They will then take a taxi 40km into the former royal city itself. You'll notice on the map that Mandalay doesn't appear to be too far from Bagan, yet with bad roads and buses packed past the ...

... benches. There was just enough room for our bags, Bill, Tun Tun and I in the back. Bill liked the look of the room at Royal City Hotel and we checked in. The young lady at the desk provided us with some tea and was able to book our boat ride (15 hours ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... was difficult.  We found ourselves sleeping ten to twelve hours just waiting for the next icy shower.    Mandalay, the last royal capital of Burma, sounds so exotic that I probably expected too much.  The Palace is ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

I got to Mandalay in the afternoon. Royal GH, 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 ...

... hotel.  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 ...

... and visited the temple - great 360deg views of many stupas dotting the countryside. Long drive back in busy traffic back to Mandalay..... Day 3: After brek, we did a bit of internet catching up down the road, ably countering proposals of tours by rickshaw ...