The rooms at the Panda Guesthouse are small cabins with comfy beds, lined with wicker panels. Nothing extravagant but clean and comfy - exactly to suit backpacking needs. It's a family run place, with a small restaurant serving cheap and tasty food - standard Thai/western dishes and the usual yummy breakfasts of fresh fruit, banana pancakes and so on. In the evening after the restaurant has closed and the family have gone home for the night they leave the lights on in the seating area so guests can stay up to read and talk as long as they like. Its also right inside the walls of the old town, where everybody wants to stay in Chiang Mai.
After a few days stay we went on a rafting tour. At the end of the tour I realised I was missing a pouch in which I had been keeping my cash and tickets. At some point I had left the pouch in my room, when we returned to Panda hostel the manager returned the pouch to me, unopened. Typical of this lovely, honest and friendly guesthouse.
130/1 Rachamanka Rd, Chiang Mai
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