Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle
If you can fit it into your schedule (and budget), this safari-inspired 'tented camp' resort is among the most truly unique accommodation experiences in Thailand...
Anantara Resort Golden Triangle
Imperial Golden Triangle Resort
Peacock Lodge
One of Myanmar’s great homestay-style inns, the Peacock’s charming retired hosts treat many guests like part of the family, maybe showing you their fascinating old photos (‘granddad’ was a British-era mayor of Mandalay)...
New Park Hotel
Perhaps the best of the bunch on the leafy backstreets off Restaurant Row, the 24-room New Park has three classes...
Hotel@Tharabar Gate
If you can live without river views, this 86-room hotel is a fine option (particularly when you beat those rack rates by booking on the internet or via agents, some of whom can offer good deals)...
Hotel By The Red Canal
This intimate 25-room faux palace has more character than most other Mandalay hotels put together and comes complete with neo-traditional roof gables and a trickling ‘stream’...
Mother Land Inn 2
Take a pinch of backpacker bohemia, a dollop of professional service, a massive portion of cleanliness, mix well with a generous helping of travel advice and services, leave to marinate with enviously attired and proportioned rooms and, voila, it’s ...
Kumudara Hotel
No hotel boasts better balcony views of the mighty sprawl of red-brick temples than Kumudara. Opt for the chic junior suites and suites in a green geometrical building that fits well with the arid, desert-like setting...
Teakwood Guest House
Straddling the divide between budget and midrange, this attractive guesthouse is popular with older independent travellers. The best rooms are in the new block – big windows let in lots of light and the bathrooms are finished with small pebbles...
Ayarwaddy River View Hotel
Brand new in March 2011, this hotel has 56 tasteful and restrained rooms. They’re partly panelled in wood and all are sizeable with good, if fashion-neutral, bathrooms. Price (four categories) depends on size and view...
Friendship Hotel
This large, comfortable Chinese-style hotel is truly excellent value for money with plenty of little extras including in-room coffee, free water fill-ups, satellite TV and a basket of complimentary toiletries...
Pleasant View Resort
Ngapali’s best balance of price and style, the Pleasant View lives up to its name with a brilliant location at the far southern end of the beach, close to the fishing village...
Hotel Amazing Nyaung Shwe
A league apart from the other hotels in Nyaungshwe, this immaculate boutique hotel has gorgeous rooms decorated with murals and cultural artefacts. There’s also an open-air breakfast pavilion on a bridge over the canal.
Pine Hill Resort
Set around an original colonial bungalow, this sophisticated modern hotel has rooms in wooden cottages sprawling through immaculate gardens...
Mr Charles Guest House
This well-run travellers’ magnet covers all bases from simple, hard-bedded backpacker basics to relatively snazzy new-block rooms where every extra Kyat you pay gets something slightly nicer. For air-conditioning and balcony reckon K22,000...
Cinderella Hotel
Where else could you afford to stay in the nicest place in town? This shockingly purple structure has numerous and capable staff who look after huge rooms with heaps of amenities: 24-hour electricity, TV, air-con, wi-fi and a huge fridge stuffed wit...
Shwe Thazin Hotel
This new complex offers the best balance of price, comfort and location. There’s a small but welcome amount of artistic design in its chalet-style rooms, all of which are en-suite with a satellite TV and a fridge.
Pindaya Inle Inn
Located at the entrance to town, across the lake from Shwe Oo Min Pagoda, this is a surprisingly sophisticated place to stay – for a small town like Pindaya...
Lucky Dragon
Leaving all other town centre hotels standing, this enclave of modern, bungalow-style, wood-floored rooms across from the river is reasonably priced and has pleasant, helpful staff...
Soe Brothers Guesthouse
This is an excellent backpackers’ choice and though the basic rooms here don’t have much space in which to stretch, they are clean and cool and the communal bathrooms are kept ship-shape...
Golden Island Cottages
Nampan; Thale U Owned by a cooperative of Pa-O tribal people, the Golden Island Cottages resorts provide some of the best accommodation on the lake...
Golden Sunrise Hotel
A few minutes’ walk outside the centre of Kinpun village in the direction of the highway, the Golden Sunrise is one of the best value hotels in southeastern Myanmar. There are eight bamboo-heavy bungalows with a touch of class...
Shwe Thazin Hotel
A bit more polished than Noble, the Shwe Thazin is proud of a 5th-floor restaurant, and (higher up) a lookout deck, good for glimpses of those fruit bats at dusk. Rooms are clean and modern (with mini-balconies), if not overly stylish.
Myanmar Beauty Guest House Ii, Iii & Iv
This three-part, 20-room rural complex at the edge of town is reason enough to stop in Taungoo. The Beauty has a grab-bag of rustic, all-wood, bungalow-style rooms. Don’t get confused by the numbers – the higher the number, the nicer the room...