Royal Guesthouse

I'll go with the pros first: really great location in the city. Can easily walk to many different temples and great restaurants and markets. The view from our balcony was great, especially during New Year's Eve. The lounge/lobby area is also nice, with cheap beers and water. And that's it. Cons: Well... This place is perfect if you hate to be acknowledged by the staff. I actually counted the number of times we were acknowledged during our 4 night stay: 3 times. That is with going up to our room multiple times per day. We even said hi to the people working, with no response. We've stayed in cheaper hotels/hostels in Thailand and the staff did everything they could to make us feel welcome. We felt like a burden at Royal Guesthouse. The rooms look nothing like the pictures online. Extremely dirty floors and walls. There's a reason the bathrooms aren't featured on the site, they are dilapidated and dirty. The room only features one outlet, and for backpackers or even a couple traveling together, it's nearly impossible to charge your electronics on one outlet. The door to the balcony didn't extend down to the floor, therefore bugs are easily able to get into the room. We had put a sign on the door to clean our room, and 13 hours later, it still wasn't cleaned. I had to go down the five flights of stairs to request it to be cleaned and to receive new towels. I understand this was a cheap, budget hotel, however Royal Guesthouse needs to seriously give the place a deep clean and upgrade the amenities. They have far too many rooms to adequately give guests the respect and service they deserve. There are plenty of similarly priced places around the area, and it would be beneficial to your sanity to go there instead.

The environment is awesome. The staff is amazing. The bed is hard and the covers don't keep you too warm. There is no party at this hotel although the marketing seems as they do. The tour organizing desk is awesome. The washroom is not so desirable. Overall, I would go back again consodering the location is nice.

We stayed here for 4 nights, mostly sightseeing so we didn't stay in the room much. |The guesthouse has a pool and nice common area. |The included breakfast is toast with butter/jam and tea. |The sheets and towels weren't very clean. |We were also told that they wouldn't get our laundry done on the next day even though the sign said it took only a couple of hours. |The rest was OK.

The guesthouse is a lovely old building with lots of charm. The rooms can do with some TLC. The staff was extremely friendly and super helpful booking out daily outings. The guesthouse is perfectly situated. We would most definitely visit this guesthouse again. Well worth the money spent. The breakfast was only coffee, tea and toast, a little variety for the toast would be great and two slices per guest is a bit shabby. But we none the less enjoyed our stay. The pool and pool area was fantastic.

Cheap but adequate for budget travelers or backpackers. No air con, tv or elevator and we had to schlep our bags up 4 floors. Room wasn't ready until after 2pm. Pool was more like a fountain and breakfast they tell me is 2 slices of white bread and free use of a communal toaster. I haven't been overnight yet so we'll see about that in the morning. Not anything except a place to sleep and clean up well worth $12 US but for $5 more you can probably do a lot better around here and skip the free breakfast and pool. Lots of cheap food.

Nice and cheap hotel. It cost 450 baht a night if you pay at the desk. The staff is friendly. The lobby is very nice. There is a pool. You can book trips over the desk and hire a moped for 300 baht a day (1000baht deposit or passport). We tried the white water rafting trip with A PEAK Adventure and it was so much fun. I really recommend. There is no elevator so keep that in mind. Nice fresh room with the neccessary. Beds are a bit hard but I kind of liked it. It is very close to night market which is another real nice experience. Also close to old city square.

I was a little skeptical when the address wouldn't show up on google maps but we figured out how to get here pretty easily.The building is big and red/white so easy to find to get back to. Rooms were clean, a/c worked amazing (almost too well for me) 😂 the pool was relaxing and the coffee they sell at the hotel is amazing! Super friendly and helpful staff! P.s be careful jumping into the bottom of the pool it has sharp tiles.

The staff is very nice and the place shows very well on the website. Beds are the worst I have encountered so far and the rooms and pool are in bad need of an upgrade. The free breakfast is tea/coffee and white bread toast or you could purchase other breakfast. I was most disappointed with the elephant tour (Johney Boy Elephant park) I booked through the hotel. I had rented a motorbike and went out on my own which gave me some time to spend with the elephants before the regular tour guests showed up. The elephants were being kept in an area where they also kept all of their garbage and one of the elephants was away because it had eaten a plastic bag. None of the others guests would have seen any of this so had no idea. I suggested to the hotel not to deal with this company any more until they knew things had improved. For the price I would not recommend this hotel as Chiang Mai has 1000 other great options .