The hotel is situated at the southeast corner of the palace. In fact, you can see the east and south moats from in front of the hotel.
It is a typical business hotel with decent rooms (and bathrooms). Most of the rooms either face the swimming pool on the south side or the palace on the north side. The breakfast was very extensive and had the biggest variety of fruit (including pomelos and passionfruit), even better than the two higher end hotels that I stayed in Yangon during the trip. Breakfast starts at 5am so good for those who have to catch an early morning domestic flight. Granted the centre of town is southwest of the palace, so don't think about roaming around the town at night. However, for places to have dinner, A Little Bit of Mandalay and Green Elephant are both within 3 minutes by foot away. You just have to exit the hotel, turn right, and right again at the intersection and walk one block south, turn left. At the next intersection, you either continue ahead for Green Elephant, or turn right for A Little Bit of Mandalay. There is even an internet cafe on the way. If you have a laptop, there is free wifi at the hotel lobby. Connection is not fast (in Myanmar in general), but enough to send a quick email to home to let family know that you have arrived safely.
The swimming pool is relatively large and good for unwinding after a day of sightseeing. The water gets cool at sunset though.
Quite interesting that at least 30% of the space at the hotel has been let out to a couple of oil/gas companies as their offices and staff sleeping quarters, given that there are no real office buildings in the city.
- Mandalay Sedona Hotel
