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Nylon Hotel
BACKPACKER HOTEL $
( 02-33460; 25th St at 83rd St; s/d fan $12/15, air-con $20/25; )
Mandalay's long-
term backpacker standby is a no-frills five-floor tower (no lift, breakfast on the top
floor).
Better air-con doubles are fair sized with new ceiling moldings, but others can be
cramped and a little musty, albeit more likely to have windows than at the similarly
priced Garden Hotel next door. Solar-heated showers, and wi-fi in the dingy lobby.
Royal Guest House
BACKPACKER GUESTHOUSE $
( 02-65697, 02-31400; 25th St, 82/83; s/d $17/22, with shared bathroom $12/15; )
This compact warren of little rooms is enlivened by foliage frontage, multiple pastel col-
ours and little box-balcony windows in better rooms. However, bed quality can prove in-
consistent and the cheaper rooms can be windowless and seriously small.
Sabai Phyu Hotel
BACKPACKER HOTEL $
( 02-64506; 81st St, 25/26; s/d $16/20, shared bathroom $8/16; )
This last resort cheapy
has tiny 1st-floor rooms that are as glamorous as padlocked prison cells. The 3rd-floor
air-con rooms are more acceptable and owners are friendly. Cold showers.
Hotel Yadanarbon
HOTEL $$$
( 02-71058;
www.hotelyadanarbon.com
;
31st St at 76th St; r $45-80, ste $150; )
Brand
new in 2013, all 58 rooms have a Thai sense of style with fine linens, bed sashes, parquet
floors and a vague colonial style to the bathroom doors. Even the cheapest 'standard'
rooms (only four) are fair sized, with fridge, safe, small sitting space, flat-screen TV and
bathtub. The location is handy for the train station and there's a wealth of street food
right outside.
Royal City Hotel
HOTEL $$$
( 02-28299, 02-31805;
royalcity@winmaxmail.net.mm
;
27th St, 76/77; s $30-35, d $35-40, tr
$45; )
The best feature of this traveller-oriented lower-midrange hotel is the
lovely roof garden. Room decor and bathrooms are looking somewhat tired (tubs in su-
