Must-see hotels in Myanmar (Burma)

  • Akariz Resort

    Myanmar (Burma)

    This beachfront resort offers 67 attractive, spacious rooms with high ceilings, wood floors and excellent beds. The seafront rooms are particularly good,…

  • Jade Marina Resort

    Ngapali Beach

    This place has 56 rooms, 20 of them substantial two-storey affairs, but all sizeable and set around a very pleasant garden that sits behind a good strip…

  • Sky Lake

    Inle Lake Region

    There's nothing very fancy about the 45 dark-wood bungalows at this longstanding resort – bathrooms are a little plain – but they are spacious,…

  • Nich Hotel

    Eastern Myanmar

    The best of the hotels that cluster close to the border – this is where visiting Thais stay – the Nich has large, modern rooms with OK beds and clean…

  • Botahtaung Hotel

    Yangon

    This 56-room hotel occupies a modern eight-storey block, with its large rooftop terrace offering great views of the area and out towards the river…

  • Htike Myat San Hotel

    Myanmar (Burma)

    Rooms here are reasonably modern, spacious and well equipped, with the cheapest ones sharing (clean) bathrooms. If you want your own bathroom and hot…

  • Gold Hotel

    Eastern Myanmar

    Opposite the airport, the Gold is one of Loikaw's new crop of midrange hotels. Rooms aren't huge but come with wood floors, pine fittings and smart…

  • La Pyae Wun Hotel

    Myanmar (Burma)

    Friendly hotel whose imposing white exterior shrouds plain but comfortable enough white-tiled twin rooms, with plainer bathrooms (and cold-water showers)…

  • Yuzana Aung Motel

    Rakhine State

    This four-storey contemporary-style hotel has compact, light-filled, clean and well-equipped rooms with comfortable beds. Staff are conscientious and…

  • Golden Hill Hotel

    Northern Shan State

    One of the better hotels in town is indeed perched on a hill very close to the golden Mahamyatmuni Paya. Soulless but spotless and brightly lit rooms are…

  • Rose Garden Hotel

    Yangon

    The mammoth Rose Garden offers decent standard rooms and facilities on a rather grand scale. Rooms include big walk-in showers and teak floors with…

  • Panda Hotel

    Yangon

    This 13-storey high-rise west of the city centre offers bright, old-fashioned yet enticing rooms with decent bathrooms. It’s in a peaceful residential…

  • Hotel United

    Northern Myanmar

    A reliable old-timer, United has 36 well-kept rooms, some with balconies and views. Doubles and twins include a shower, while family rooms have a bathtub…

  • Meliá Yangon

    Yangon

    Wood and pale-grey stone set the natural colour palate for the appealing and larger-than-average rooms at the Meliá. Some offer good views of Inya Lake…

  • Vision Hotel

    Taunggyi

    A solid midrange option, the Vision has large, modern and comfortable wood-floored rooms with decent beds. Staff are efficient and the breakfast buffet is…

  • Bawga Theiddhi Hotel

    Mon State

    This is the most comfortable option in Kinpun itself, with modern and well-equipped rooms. Only the most expensive have private bathrooms (the shared…

  • Rung Guest House 2

    Chin State

    Pricey for Hakha, with nine spic-and-span rooms, small TVs, queen-sized beds and hot water. Across from the stadium and, more importantly, the closest…

  • Parkroyal Yangon

    Yangon

    This well-run, centrally located business hotel offers rooms featuring a full range of amenities. It also has a good pool, tennis courts and gym including…

  • Hotel Myitkyina

    Northern Myanmar

    One of the newer hotels in town, this smart business block offers clean, crisp rooms with flat-screen TV, minibar and hot-water shower. It's about 500m…

  • Sedona Hotel

    Yangon

    The Sedona provides peace, quiet and professional service at very affordable rates. The newer Inya wing offers the spiffiest rooms, some with great views…

  • Hotel Best House

    Tanintharyi Region

    This newish hotel on a quiet, residential street has a range of plain-but-comfortable rooms with good-sized bathrooms. There's a decent breakfast and…

  • Myanma Koe Hotel

    Myanmar (Burma)

    This relatively modern hotel has big and bright rooms, decent beds and sizeable bathrooms, all with satellite TV and fridge. There are English-speaking…

  • Amitta Hotel

    Eastern Myanmar

    This four-storey tower, built in 2017, features fresh-but-plain rooms with comfy beds and up-to-date bathrooms. Some English is spoken. There's no…

  • The Home Hotel

    Mandalay

    One of downtown's group-tour-oriented high-rises, the Home Hotel offers comfortable and spacious rooms with touches of local style.

  • Over Hill Guesthouse

    Chin State

    Four brightly coloured aluminium cabins are perched above the cliffside village of Thaing Nyin, just west of the junction where the road splits in three…

  • Kumudara Hotel

    Bagan

    No hotel boasts better balcony views of the mighty sprawl of red-brick temples than Kumudara. Rooms here channel a bit of old-fashioned woodsy charm – the…

  • Bagan Thande Hotel

    Bagan

    Opened for King Edward VIII in 1922, this riverside hotel carries some dated formality and the cheaper rooms are unquestionably past their sell-by date,…

  • Ayarwaddy River View Hotel

    Mandalay

    On a map, the location looks promising. However, it overlooks a riverside shanty town and fairly seedy street where drugs are sold at night. It's a large,…

  • Floral Breeze Hotel

    Chin State

    Fraying around the edges, with both bungalows and concrete hotel-style accommodation, Floral Breeze is one of the larger complexes around. The thin…

  • Bago Star Hotel

    Myanmar (Burma)

    This self-styled ‘country-style, bungalow-type hotel' has a vague summer-camp feel. Located just off the highway, it offers A-frame cabin-like rooms (a…

  • View

    Pyin Oo Lwin

    This resort has a dramatic setting overlooking the Dat Taw Gyaik Falls at Anisakan, and you get to-die-for views from the room terraces, but otherwise the…

  • Hotel Moe

    Chin State

    Moe's most appealing assets are its proximity to the airport, only a short walk away, and the elevator, especially welcome when lugging heavy bags in the…

  • Ciimnuai Guest House

    Chin State

    Ciimnuai has great views of Kennedy Peak from its terrace and homey, carpeted communal area. Rooms, barely large enough to fit a bed, share a grungy…

  • Amara Mountain Resort

    Kalaw

    Accommodation is based in two attractive mock-Tudor buildings in a hilltop garden, one built in 2002 and another a century previously, in 1909. The 11…

  • Shwe Taung Tang Guesthouse

    Chin State

    One of the few places to stay in Kanpetlet itself, Shwe Taung comes with three options: tiny, dismal rooms in the front-facing orange building; nicer ones…

  • Thande Beach Hotel

    Ngapali Beach

    The least stylish of Ngapali's upmarket resorts, the Thande is nevertheless a pleasant place to bunk, offering duplex bungalows and rooms in a two-storey…

  • Gold Yadanar

    Mandalay

    We won't bury the lede. The Gold Yadanar has two 'speciality' suites that will forever haunt our dreams: one is fully decked out in Hello Kitty…

  • Family Guesthouse

    Chin State

    The town's newest hotel also has the nicest room, making it worth the 15-minute trudge uphill from the KBZ Bank in the centre of town. It's the 2nd-floor…

  • Beautyland Guest House

    Chin State

    It's a stiff, 15-minute walk uphill from the centre of town, but the rewards are great views over Falam and the hills. Two downstairs rooms have private…

  • Golden Lake Hotel

    Myanmar (Burma)

    One of the few cheapies in the hotel zone, Golden Lake has standard rooms with bathroom outside the room or superior en suite rooms – the best are…

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