Hotels near Magical Elephant Training

Right in the heart of the city, surrounded by thai and western restaurants. I booked the royal suite for my family of four, which was spacious to us, and worth the money we spent. Kids had a blast with their own room and bathroom. However, it was quite annoying in early morning when you could hear the sound from the streets. They do need sound proof window for some directions. I think the hotel is too new that the staff are not familiar with tours' details. We joined an elephant tour recommended by staff but they never mentioned we had to sit in a open back pick-up truck with kids for almost two hours one way which was a very uncomfortable ride and most importantly not safe to kids. Also the hotel had an old brochure of the tour, we were supposed to be picked up an hour earlier according to the new schedule and we almost missed the pick up. Overall the hotel was worth the money and I will certainly book it again.

Arrived with my lady friend and greeted well by the staff who quickly checked us in and showed us to the room. The room was slightly smaller than I expected it to be, but it was very clean, had a massive modern TV with all the channels, and a great bathroom. The breakfast was included, but very limited in options, offered a kind of McDonalds style menu and asked to choose between the set options. Over the 5 days I tried most things and, whilst not being worthy of a Michelin Star, it was edible. The location is good for the market and the temples, which is literally a few minutes walk from the hotel. Loy Kroh is a bit further being a 10-15 minute walk and maybe a 20 minute walk to the night bizaar. Not a problem for me as I love walking in the evening, however, there are plenty of TukTuks and taxi's around and its all rather cheap. A TukTuk from Loy Kroh road back to the hotel cost just 100 baht. The bike hire place across the road was a very reasonable 250baht per day. The staff were always pleased to see us and were, in my view, quite professional. Would I stay here again? Yes!

I loved this hotel! I had to book at the last minute bc a hostel didnt work out. Booked an hour before going in the room. Reliable wifi. Close to great cafes and massage places. The wonderful woman downstairs helped me booked my tours to the elephants and Doi Suthep and a taxi to the airport. They helped print my boarding passes before i left. WONDERFUL HOTEL. Wish i couldve stayed in Chiang Mai longer. I highly recommend the cafe next door!

Do not hesitate to book this hotel! I have expensive five star taste but at the same time, love a great deal. We stayed at Thai Akara for six nights and could have easily stayed another six! It is located in a central part of Old Chiang Mai and was convenient to all sights. It is tucked away from the street so it’s quiet and peaceful. I can’t say enough about this hotel and the staff. They were extremely attentive and strived to make our stay a memorable one. The daily (free!) breakfast was excellent and full of variety. Love that we didn’t have to think about where we would eat; it saved us time and money! Book it now! You won’t regret it at all! Remember, I’ve got very expensive taste and high expectations and this place hit the nail on the head!

Best part of our trip in Thailand outbid a few others popular airbnb home and hotels. The room is spacious. Staffs are accommodating than any other hotels we have been. Overall ambience is chill and peaceful. Our favourite part is the breakfast buffet. They have a nice pleasant outdoor seating area that is sheltered, with BBQ and egg dishes live station next to it. The place is cozy, also fully booked, you would never feel it's over crowded. Love it. Definitely would recommend any other one to stay with them.

Though our driver needed his cell phone to find this cool spot in the Old City, we indeed did locate the Makka in a quiet alley within walking distance of many attractions and restaurants. We were both taken aback on passing through the gated entry by the modern design that pulled in traditional architectural elements for the lobby (dark wood, cathedral ceiling Thai house style) and lounge/library (mirroring the lobby but all white). Our room (101) was on the ground floor of the main building on a corner allowing for plenty of light and access to a private garden and sitting area. Breakfasts were very nice with choices of Western and Thai options. You also have a choice of eating off the garden or up a flight of stairs off the library in the morning light. The front desk was very helpful, whether setting up dinner reservations or a taxi to the train, (e.g. they wrote out the name and address of the restaurant in Thai for the driver.) The hotel does not provide a mosquito net for the bed so do not leave your screen door to the garden open or you may need to hunt down the occasional stray bug. And due to the lovely dark wood floors, the sound of heavy foot steps of those staying upstairs may be heard but this was a minor issue for us. Up in the open air lounge/library can be found shelves of self help/motivational books, so depending on your state of mind on arriving in Chiang Mai, this may a spot to curl up, breath deeply and seek a mental comfort zone...but then again you might just head out into the day and expose yourself to unique views of the world and new horizon lines.

An overall feel of calm hits you as you walk into this beautiful hotel. The staff are very friendly and helpful, rooms are large and beautiful, and the pool is the perfect place to relax after a busy day of sightseeing or traveling. The hotel staff helped us to book our elephant tour for the next day as soon as we arrived. They also helped to book our spa services at a local spa for later that evening. They even drove us to and from the spa - truly wonderful staff and service. The rooms are large, with a beautiful bathroom housing a separate tub and shower. Rooms are well appointed with classic yet modern Thai furnishings, flat screen TV and luxurious bath robes. We chose to eat at the hotel for our first meal arriving in Chiang Mai and were not disappointed. They have a large menu of both traditional Thai dishes, as well as North American favourites for those less adventurous. We had a few Thai dishes and fruity cocktails and they were absolutely delicious. There is an open air room a few feet from the pool with two computers set up with complimentary internet. It was great to take a short break from the sun/pool to check in on emails and the news, and it was nice that the internet room had the same open feel as the rest of the hotel. The pool is wonderful and with a few lounge chairs scattered around it. Because it was low season while we visited (July), we had no problem finding a place to sit. I would recommend this hotel to anyone traveling to Chiang Mai. It's a smaller, boutique hotel with a spa like feel from the moment you enter the large wooden doors. It was the perfect little retreat after leaving the hussle and bussle of Bangkok.

We came here because of the good Tripadvisor ratings and it was well worth it - anyway, do note that this hotel is not a 5 star hotel with all its services but is a five star experience in its own class. From the moment we arrived, we felt like we could ask the staff anything. They asked that what would we like to during our stay in Chiang Mai and gived us tips of good restaurants in the area (which turned out to be one of the best restaurants we went to in Thailand even though they were very reasonably priced). We were delighted that it was very clean everywhere in the hotel. There also wasn't any marks of aging of the hotel, I suppose it is pretty new building. It was as quiet in hotel in the evening/night as they promised!

The hotel is located at a good location where you can easily find a local market, convenience store, cheap massage parlours, cafes, bars, and food. Basically anything you'll need is nearby. Tourist attractions are also located at walkable distance or a short ride away. Rooms are not very big but good enough for 2. We booked 2 rooms for 4 adults. One of the room smelled bad, but the other room was fine. The room that smelled bad has a really slow draining system so i guess it could be the reason of the smell. One thing I'd like to highlight is the sides of the bed. All of us knocked and scratched our legs against the edges, and we thought it was quite dangerous. Maybe putting a silicon protector over it would be good. They have a decent breakfast and also very friendly service. I'd definitely recommend this hotel if you are looking for a cheap but decent stay.

Although I travel a lot, the Rachamankha is easily the best hotel I have stayed at in Thailand, and perhaps anywhere. I lived in Thailand for over a year so am familiar with Thai service and food, but the Rachamankha topped any experience yet. The owner is apparently a Thai architect who has restored the building carefully, and who uses the hotel and the gallery to house part of his collection of Nothern Thai antiques. The care and attention is clear in the details throughout the cloistered courtyards and in each room. As an aside, the hotel is very well situated next to Wat Phra Singh and inside Chiang Mai's old town. The food at the restaurant is excellent - the Pad Thai is a contradication, being a peasant dish that tastes like a Michelin starred chef prepared it. The service is excellent - attentive, but unobtrusive - and the best I have had in Thailand. Yet it very reasonably priced, compared both to restaurants in Bangkok and in Chiang Mai (approx THB 220 for a main dish). I chanced upon the Rachamankha while trying to book a decent but not too expensive hotel for a weekend in Chiang Mai for the girlfriend. Having stayed at the Rachamankha I will be back to Chiang Mai just for the hotel.

We stayed at three different hotels in Chiang Mai and this is the best hotel in terms of location, service and facilities. It is steps away from many attractions and restaurants in the old town, yet it is very serene and peaceful despite of its central location. Rooms are well equipped with excellent ACs and shower, not to mention its stunning swimming pool in the middle of the hotel. One of its uniqueness also comes from its top-notch customer service and the option to have breakfast wherever in the hotel and whenever you like as we'll as checking out at anytime suits. There are tons of cheap massage places just across the street and we love the local Thai place right next to the hotel, pad Thai is the best we have had!

This hotel was a perfect stay for us. First of all it located in Old City and you can walk to everything from the hotel. I love that the hotel is on a quiet street. There is a temple across the street. We also loved that you have to take your shoes off prior to entering the hotel and are given sandals to wear on the property! You are also given a storage area (see photos) to place your shoes in so you don't have to carry them up and down from your room. We stayed in room 301 which faced the back of the hotel. Loved our room! We were worried that our room was right next to the elevator and even looked at another room because we were worried about the noise from the elevator. The only other room they had was one with 2 queen beds and we wanted a king so we took the room by the elevator and had absolutely no issues with it at all. Once in the room you never hear the elevator-it is super quiet and quick to get up and down. My wife is extremely noise sensitive and this hotel and the elevator were super quiet! Breakfast was amazing! We loved breakfast every morning. They serve you a lot of food, included in your main entree they also serve fruit and bread, everything was delicious! The staff was helpful during our stay with directions and anything else we needed. The beds were hard which we prefer so we had good night sleeps! They didn't offer face towels which we are use to in the US so we asked for extra hand towels to wash our face. They also didn't offer lotion so we had to buy some to use while we were there. They do provide shampoo, conditioner, body wash, toothbrush and toothpaste as well as shower caps and cutips. It is good to know that only the rooms are air conditioned. The hotel lobby and area where you eat breakfast isn't air conditioned. We were there when it was over 100 everyday and didn't find this to be a problem. But, being use to air conditioning this was a surprise to us when we arrived-we adjusted fine-I would still stay here again.

The location is by far the most positive thing about this hotel but that’s not to say the rest is below standard. Our family room was clean and very spacious with a lovely balcony overlooking the pool. Breakfast was simple but with a good selection of eastern and western food- the fresh mangoes were the best I’ve had. Staff we’re friendly and helped us with directions, taxis and let us store our bags overnight when we went to the elephant sanctuary. A lovely, small hotel in the heart of the old city.

The location of the hotel for the purposes of a city break was excellent. The staff were incredibly helpful at all times. The breakfast was very good & the bacon particularly was delicious & cooked freshly upon request. It was a very nice touch to have free snacks and water throughout the day in the lobby area. The night market on a Sunday is literally two minutes around the corner. A big plus as I'm sure it could be difficult to navigate your way there due to how busy it gets. The Temple across the road is also another nice advantage. As I said earlier it's the perfect place for a city break – however if I was thinking of staying in Chiangmai for a longer period of time I wouldprobably select a hotel with a bigger pool area – as the one here is small and in the shade for most of the day. So if you want to sit by a pool it's probably not the hotel for you – however if you're travelling around seeing the elephants, going to cooking schools, having massages it an excellent base

after 3 months travelling all around SEA, i can confirm this is the best hotel we have stayed in. Look no further and book. Firstly its really cheap. Even though Breakfast isn't included, toast is 20baht for 2 slices evey day. We booked a double room, and it was fantastic for the price, memory foam topped comfy beds, free wifi which is strong, Air-Con, TV, free water, ensuite, hot good showers. The location is really good, Lots within walking distance. After searching around various shops we also found out that trips were cheapest from the hotel too. The pool is really nice and you could easy spend the day around it with the snack bar next to it. The only con is the cleaners knock on the door at 9am and if you are in, you don't get your room cleaned that day. We did 6 days total and really enjoyed it! Thank you.

The location of the hotel is great, a little side street so it is very nicely quiet, with very good restaurants and street food stalls within walking distance. Rooms were very clean and well decorated and furnished, not huge, but defenitely big enough. Bathroom was great, super modern with a huge shower, very good water pressure and water temperature. we really enjoyed the breakfast, you can choose between a western and an Asian selection. i had the frensh toast and a very nice muesli woth yoghurt and fresh fruits. And yes you are asked to choose the breakfast the day before, but it makes so much sense to have fresh products and reduce waste. Best part, free bikes for rent directly from the hotel (first come first serve). I highly recommend using them to explore the city. the hotel has a restaurant for snacks/dinner which we didn't try, but the cocktails from the bar were great at very fair prices. service was super friendly and helpful, they had a good recommendation for a cooking school, we're very quick and attentive and the atmosphere was super relaxed. all in all, I would definitely recommend to stay at the rodman

Couldn’t have liked this hotel more, room was small but for one person it was comfortable and just perfect, good bed and good air con slept like I was at home, Staff were amazing from the time I arrived front desk staff were super Ying,Aor, and Am were so nice and helpful, I only booked 2 nights as I was not sure about the hotel. Before going and when I found out it was so nice I wanted to stay as my trip to Chang mai was 5 nights, only problem was, they were sold out for the next night and I had to move, ahhhhhh how dumb of me, but this is a gem of a hotel. Only downside of this hotel is the breakfast is very basic and not super exciting, no Thai food for breakfast. Any thanks to the great staff and see you again someday

The hotel is new and breakfast is excellent. The bread is soft and salad fresh. It is very relaxing to enjoy the breakfast in their nicely decorated dinning room. The room is spacious and clean. Although the hotel is situation in a small lane but it is safe and serene. The location is close by the local market where you can get cheap food and some nice restaurants.

My husband and I stayed at the Wannamas hotel for 4 nights and had a wonderful time. The staff members were kind, thoughtful and considerate (gave us umbrellas when rain was approaching, helped us pick out some wonderful tours to Doi Inthanon and an elephant sanctuary and even booked us a ride to the airport when we had a 6am flight). The breakfasts were tasty, with both western and Thai food options. The room was nicely decorated, clean and the a/c worked great. Would highly recommend!

The stay at Kodchasri was simply amazing. It is at the heart of Chiang Mai city and is a mere walk from everything you need in the city. In particular, the Walking Street Markets and Weekend markets are a walk away. However the Bazaar Markets might require a tuktuk or, in our case, a scooter hire (a shop which was a 100m walk from the hotel's entrance). The Deluxe rooms are stylish, private and great value. They include high ceilings and all the usual extras you get including an entire wall-size window overlooking the outside square. THe only thing we could fault is the air-con which took a while to get down to 'Sydney' temperatures. The staff are amazing, attentive and very affable. If you're tavelling with children, ensure you make the little Thai elephant keychains at reception. They even provide a wake up call every morning. Other facilities include a buffet (which we heard wasn't too great), a sizeable pool, gym facilities. But the best was a free airport shuttle which was clean, A/C'ed and quick. Would definitely return here once we have children in future. Hopefully it'll be around by then.

I was here for 3 nights and thoroughly enjoyed my stay. For both days, I was away on early morning excursions and there is breakfast included but I would have missed it due to leaving too early but the wonderful reception staff prepared boxes with a sandwich, yogurt and a drink which is really nice of them to do. I would have not survived without that! Backing up a bit, during check in, they give you a nice cool towel and a cold drink which was great because it was quite warm in the lobby area as there is no air con there (learn to find out chiang mai is not as hot as other places so it was tolerable. Rooms are air conditioned so no concern.) The staff there are wonderful. They are fluent in English and are so so helpful. They gave us excellent recommendations to eat nearby, helped us contact some agents when there were issues with our booking and of course helped is book a massage session as well. On top of that, they always knew what room we are in which surprised me at first but then I found out they have a list of guests staying in the hotel with their pictures next to the room. Them knowing who we are and always having a very welcoming attitude really helped me feel at home and made the experience very personable. Also, I did get to try breakfast in house one morning and it was good. You get to choose from a few choices (ie. Thai style, western style) and there was also a little mini buffet area with pastries, cereal and salad. Excellent service! Only con would be some of the towels and blankets/sheets have some stains. I left facilities as 5 star but I don't think they actually had anything. I was not informed nor looked for them as I had such little time there.

Chinda is right in the heart of the tourist area in Old Town, within a short walk to some of the city's best restaurants and bars. (It's in a quite area, however, so no worries about street noise or noise from businesses in the area.) It's super clean and comfortable, with the hottest shower I've ever experienced in Thailand for a place that isn's a luxury hotel. Highly recommended!

This was a very pleasant small hotel in the night market area - just about a 5 minute walk from the Sunday night market. Because the facilities are limited (small pool, limited beverage availability at the pool, no gym), I would say it is more a 3 star than a 4-star hotel. Breakfast OK, but not with the selection of foods that I had at 3 star hotels in VietNam. (One annoyance for me was the cloyingly sweet orange juice in the morning and afternoon, when such beautiful fresh fruit juices are available). Other negative was their 200 baht fee for transfer to the airport, when the trip FROM the airport to the hotel was 160 baht. But got around that by having a massage at the wonderful FahLanna spa, which offered free hotel pickup, and free drop to the airport . . . .a wonderful way of using up a very hot midday between hotel checkout of noon, and flight at 5:30 pm! Also to note when in Chiang Mai - an excellent fusion band Lom Luang (check them out on Facebook) which plays on Monday nights at 8 pm at the Northgate Jazz Bar - well worth the visit - only a 10- 15 minute walk from the hotel. Also, nice little snack sweets offered in the afternoon

I stayed for 6 nights in March 2016 in Thapae Loft Hotel. The location lays perfectly in the old city. Not far to the zoo, only 20 minutes to the airport. Foot distance to many temples nearby, night market only some minutes to walk. Perfect. A great addon in the middle of the city is the pool. We enjoyed it every day. Cool, relaxing and a calm environment for hot afternoons. The room itself felt nice with its modern style. We booked the Family room arrangement. It was comfortable and room size was more than sufficient. All clean as expected. The staff is very sweet and always tries to support you and make your stay as comfortable as possible. Thai hospitality as its best. As breakfast was included the food was healthy and very tasty. We enjoyed our stay here very much and definitely come again to this gem if we visit Chiang Mai again...

My mom and I loved this place! The location was excellent: We could walk all around the Old Town easily or hop in a Tuk-Tuk to go to the markets if we didn't feel like walking. The room was a good size and overlooked the pool. A typical bathroom in SE Asia. The breakfast was delicious - one of the best of the trip, included eggs to order. The staff was friendly and helpful: Helped us to book last minute trip to Elephant Nature Park, called our friends outside of town to help us organize a taxi to see them (we overpaid, but oh well), helped as midnight when my mom dropped a glass and it shattered, were ready and waiting to make you eggs for breakfast, took selfies with my mom on Christmas in Santa hats. I would love to stay here again.