Hotels
Ngapali is a beautiful white sand beach with perfect water
on the coast of the Bengal Gulf. Until 2005, you add only
a few only at Ngapali even if it starts to be a little more than few hotels (2009, it is around 15 smalls hotels). Ngapali is a real nice beach
to relax, very quiet, and the hotels are well dissimulated
under the coconut coast line.
Closing period: Hotels are closed during the rainy season (it rains really a lot in Ngapali).
The coming season looks very very busy but nevertheless Xmas New year and February is always fully booked long time in advance. Hotels often charge special "Peak seasons" prices for Xmas -10 january period. If you can avoid to come at that time, you will save a lot.
Prices are up, sometimes a lot (20 or 30% for some hotels) and even if they do not improve anything. So far (at May 2011), they seems right as the booking are still very high with already some difficulties to find rooms in November and December 2011.
Ngapali Beach hotel
Rank : 3 star
Same management and company than the Tharabar Gate in Bagan.
It is a relatively new hotel (opening after renovation in 2004) with 28 wood made
bedroom. Service is good, the hotel is not as impressive as
the Sandoway but the bedrooms are on the beach, the quality
of the rooms is good and it is very well located. All the rooms give directly on the beach, with a lot of shade from big trees, a very good choice for that category (standard rooms in the old colonial building are quite good and great value for the price).
Aureum hôtel
Rank : 4 stars
Excellent hôtel from Aureum group. The Aureum hotel is perfectly located on the Ngapali beach between the Sandoway and the Ngapali beach hotel. All services of a very good international 4**** hotel, big swimming pool, many restaurants, very very good room and room's finition. Overall atmosphere is very good also, price range is between Amazing hotel and the Sandoway. A very good choice at Ngapali.
Bay view hotel
Rank : 3 star
Very good hotel with a long established reputation. Good swimming pool, rooms are smaller than the Ngapali beach but the decoration is somehow better. A good
choice in Ngapali.
Sandoway hotel
Rank : 4 star+
Excellent and superb hotel. A must. The villa cottage and villa Beach front (the best) are
amazing. A very nice
luxury hotel. Restaurant is expensive
but very good also. The swimming pool is big, you have nice bar with books, music, very relaxing place (all rooms have no TV..)
If you can afford, do not hesitate.
Amazing hotel
Rank : 4 star
Hotel from the Amazing group which has also the excellent Amazing hotel at Nyaung Shwe (Inle Lake). The hotel is located on the north side of the beach, it is a very nice place but a little far from the other hotels (you need to take bike 20 minutes to reach the Sandoway and the other part of the beach). All rooms are really nice, well decorated, we especially like the studio suites which are directly on the beach. One of our favourite place to stay, very good quality price ratio (restaurant is average but you have plenty of good myanmar local restaurant everywhere). We have very good return from our customers on this hotel, and for the new 2009-2010 there is no peak price for Xmas, an other good reason to stay in this very good hotel.
Amata
Rank : 4 star New big complex openned in 2004 with a lot of activities.
The suite and bungalow are really nice, we do not like so
much the standard, superior room and deluxe rooms in the old building at the back of the hotel.
For the coming season, the hotel is opening a new wing (with sea view) for the deluxe rooms, and a renovated spa, along with no room surchage for the "peak seasons", it starts to be very interesting, especially for the new deluxe.
Thande beach hotel
Rank :3 start
This is an hotel we have learn to appreciate more and more. They have added a swimming pool in 2011, the garden is very green, the atmosphere very fresh and nice, rooms are big, well located, under the trees AND the hotel is maintaining a very reasonnable price policy for 2011-2012, it is a big difference with all hotels in Myanmar and especially in Ngapali which are increasing, sometimes really a lot, their prices.Thande beach hotel, now with the new swimming pool, has nothing less than other bigs hotels, it has a friendly staff, good price, good localization, very good room and we have positive feed back from our customers => we strongly recommend this hotel.
Linn Thar Oo
Rank :1 star...
This hotel was always cheap with very average room, with direct acces on the beach, and located below the shade of nice big trees. Rooms have the minimal acceptable level of cleaness and maintenance but still ok, the price remains not too high even if it is not so cheap.
Orchid rooms are far better, but the price is much more higher, still below other hotels of the beach, not far from being cheap (especially if you consider that the hotel have absolutely no other facility to offer).
Neverthless, if you are looking for a cheap hotel, if you do not mind average room, very small bathroom etc... you wil get a direct access to the beach, a pleasant place to relax but you have to know what you pay for.
Pleasant view
Rank :3 start
New hotel open in 2008 with a modern design. The garden needs to grow to get a more friendly feeling, after this coming monsoon, should be ok. Rooms seems to be confortable and ok for the price. Could be a good choice but you have to be carefull with the prices of the rooms, otherwise it could be better to take the standard room of the Ngapali beach hotel (better location).
Royal beach
Rank : 2 star - guest house?
Small nice charming building gather below coconut trees. The overall feeling is very charming and fresh. Rooms are average, will depend of the price you can negociated as the rooms are very simple anyway. If you can get a good price, and you do not need swimming pool, aircon etc... it is a nice hotel, more close to a guest house than a real hotel. Very good location on the beach.
