Manathai village is a new and really...
Manathai village is a new and really beautiful small lanna-style ressort in the centre of Chiang Mai. Nice rooms and a real calm oasis.
The only bad experience we had was with the service and the management. We have booked two nights via asiarooms.com. During our two nights stay we have asked for a private driver to get us to some places in the north for two days. Everything went fine and was organised by the ressort. We were supposed to stay one more night in the Manathai after our return from the tour, but on our way back, the hotel management informed us via mobile phone, that our room was no longer available (apparentyl they didn't know that we were supposed to stay one more night, although we have spoken to several employees about that topic), and they proposed us the suite for a rate 4 times higher than we have paid for our room during the first two nights.
After our denial of taking the suite for the 4 times higher rate, the staff managed to get us in another hotel for an appropriate room rate. But after we have arrived at the hotel, it turned out the the room rate the Manathai people had told us, didn't fit for us – only for Thai people. A real laugh, as if the ressort didn't know about our nationality!
So my advice is to make sure about room rates by reservations in advance with a clear reconfirmation by the hotel.