Name: Mingalar Garden Hotel
Address: Pyay, Myanmar (Burma), Prome, Prome, Prome, 08151, Myanmar
Rating: 7

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Mingalar Garden Hotel

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Quirky cabins set around and on water with odd platforms as a beds. Comfortable enough but the bathroom was dark and very tired. The food however was very good served on waterside decks and the service was also very good. As always in Myanmar the staff are helpful and full of smiles.

Water haven

Quiet and Fresh
You can feel the nature: everything is green.
Fresh air flowing over the lake
Bangalows are immersed in trees and surrounded by lake, both natural and man-made.
Rooms are well renovated, neat and tidy although it has been built many years ago.
The view from our room is excellent.
Mini private garden is amazing that can be seen through glass from bed.
Wifi is not good, but we got more time to feel the nature.
It would be better to have a swimming pool.
Breakfast is excellent, many famous myanmar traditional snacks and meal(Pyay Hta Min Thote).

Excellent place for writers

This is a review of the restaurant at this resort and not of the hotel itself.I dined here just once last September-2019.To be positive,the food was good-freshly prepared and delivered piping hot to the table...The staff were friendly too and service was prompt...However the table cloth was dirty and in need of being changed...I found this offputting....Nevertheless,I would be happy to return to this restaurant...I believe the dining experience is worth 8 out of 10.

Good food...friendly staff...could have been cleaner

This was our second visit to Pyay and the second time we stayed in the Mingalar Garden Resort. This time for 3 nights. It is a little way out of town on the way to Sri Ksetra. The setting is lovely with the  rooms set in a garden around a lake. It was lovely to eat breakfast by the lakeside; the food was nice, but as can be the case with a buffet style breakfast the 'hot' food can be rather cold. We ate there twice in the evening, the second time very much through choice. My wife and I both felt that the food was better than it had been the last time we had been there (2015). As is noted in other reviews there is no kettle in the room, but when you rang for a thermos of hot water, it arrived quickly.

nice hotel in lovely surroundings

The hotel is an oasis of calm and beauty in this incredible country. The bungalows are set amongst beautiful water gardens. Staff are very friendly and efficient.
A couple of downsides are, why no kettle, and who thought that style of bed was a good idea?! 
To make tea and coffee you have a flask that someone will happily come and fill with hot water, or you could walk across to the kitchens and get it filled instead. It would have been so much easier to plug a kettle in. 
The beds were on a raised platforms.and very comfortable to lie in, but very difficult to get out of! 
We did like the down lighting that meant when you did manage to get out of bed at night, you could find your way to the bathroom easily.
We wished we could have stayed for at least a second night.

Lovely staff, wonderful hotel

I stayed at Mingalar Gardens for a week and enjoyed it immensely. The rooms are quiet and cool, they are upkept daily and very clean. The setting of the resort is so tranquil surrounded by water, lush gardens and greenery. The service is beyond reproach, I went for a walk into the surrounding area and met the gardener, who was excited to show me the dam where they used to gerate power and his gardens, then showed me a tree, several hundreds of years old, that we climbed. It’s the unexpected experiences that make visiting a new country memorable. The food was also excellent, grown organically on the grounds (thanks to the gardener). This resort isn’t a place to be pampered (I don’t think Myanmar is set up for the Bali/Thaiand style pampering in any regard, however it is simple and relaxing. I enjoyed this accommodation above all others in my Myanmar stay.

Very tranquil, clean, quiet and convenient

It’s a nice hotel but your room depends on luck. I went there with 40 other friends as a school trip. My room had a 80s TV one of my friend got lucky and got a curved TV and my lights were dim his ones were mordern. My bathroom also flooded when I shower but at least I was lucky enough to have a dirty bathtub because most of my friends didn’t. And if you are thinking about swimming on the lakeside pool. The pool and lake barrier is broken so the pool is full of mud and the water is black the railings are rusty so enjoy.

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We have stayed at this hotel many times in the past during our travels in Myanmar and have never been disappointed. Our last stay was for three nights.
The hotel grounds are very beautiful, a large well kept garden with a nice variety of trees and plants, surrounding a small lake full of oversized carp. It is a very quiet and restful place, off the main road, perfect for a good sleep. Notwithstanding the lake, but thanks to the carps, there are no mosquitoes and the staff set up coils if required.
Accomodation is composed of bungalows divided into two, certain by the lake and others set back. The rooms on the lake are spacious, simple but well equipped, with very comfortable bedding, and a good sized ensuite bathroom. Very good housekeeping. Also a good and relatively cheap laundry service.
Staff has always been young, maybe hesitant in languages other than Myanma, although some during our recent stay had very good English. They are always available and agreeably helpful.
The hotel has a restaurant, with tables in verandas by the lake. The quality of food has improved much over the years and during our last stay we ate very well, with a good choice of traditional dishes (Chinese style). Breakfast (good variety) is quite passable compared to other places and now offers very good soup.
A nice place to rest for a while.

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