Rupar Mandalar

Sitting on the eastern outskirts of Mandalay, about fifteen minutes drive from the city centre, this pleasant low-rise boutique hotel of just twenty rooms has an impressive set of facilities and a super team of staff.

The rooms, and indeed most of hotel, is decorated with the typical and heavy use of teakwood with vibrant splashes of colour and ornate Burmese artefacts and furnishings. Alongside the traditional you have the modern, in the form of Wi-Fi, air conditioning, satellite TV, gym, sauna, spa and outdoor swimming pool.

For a boutique hotel of this size there is an admirable three restaurants that each specialise in Burmese, Thai and European food for a very spoiling choice of daily dining options.