The Pinewoods Hotel

The room price is cheap including the morning breakfasts.Can see the Sunset at the top of the Veranda in my room . Very nice places and quiet.

Best looking hotel room I've stayed at so far in Myanmar. Modern conveniences such as USB charging ports and side table LED lights. If they only paid attention to the small details like grouting the washroom tiles, replacing the rusting waste bins and cleaning the washroom slippers which were pretty gross, then the hotel would be perfect. Staff are nice but English isn't that great. They can pick you up and drop you off in town. Around a 15 minute walk to town. Wi-Fi not working when I was there.

This is a small 2 star hotel with limited amount of rooms. The staff is very friendly, nice and helpful. If you stay at the 2nd or 3rd level of the hotel it have very nice and good view. During winter time it is cold and misty during night time and early morning. The ceiling of the room is make from pine wood

Management needs to work harder to make this a peaceful stay. Paper thin walls means that almost any sound came through the rooms. Pine cones falling onto the iron roof, noisy 3am check in guests, street so2gs barking and fighting right outside the rooms made sleeping impossible. No aircon or heating meant really cold nights. For the same price you should get better facilities. Don't recommend at all.

Good quiet place. Small rooms. Internet doesn't really work. Beside railway track so can do trainspotting if you're interested. Doesn't have great views though. And the room we stayed is not sound proof at all. You can hear not only outside sounds but also snoring from our opposite room. I think they forgot to add sound proof material in the ceiling.

Nice hotel inside the nature with Real pinewoods. Clean and like a wood cottage. Breakfast could be better but if you ask they can satisfy your simple request. The taxi service is little expansive also because the distance to the centre are very short (20 minutes walking and you reach main market). They have some bikes but in monsoon period not recommended. I hope the price very good around 24 $ will not change for one night.

They have kittens . Lovely place and good service

Had a lovely time here, after desperately needing a break from Yangon! Travelled during rainy season/Covid and SO worth it! I read a lot of reviews before booking here and this was reasonably priced and lovelier in person than on the photos. The staff are all lovely, very helpful and speak great English. They made me feel very welcome, love Myanmar hospitality! The room was perfect, a European ski lodge design, with slanted ceilings and pine walls that reminded me of fond memories of European vacations! And complete with bidet toilet. It is very welcome in the cool mountain weather to sit on warm seat!! The showers were hot, rooms were cleaned daily, and WiFi was surprisingly fast! I liked that it was away from the busy part of town, more in nature, the birds sang all day, could hear a small river flowing in the quiet evenings and only a 15 minute walk into town. Its also close to the trian which is fun to watch go by and take photos. Train noise didnt wake or bother me at all. Loved walking along the train tracks into town. Its my second time in Kalaw, I highly recommend not just arriving for one night before a trek!! Stay 2-3 days, hike the local viewpoints/mountains among the pine trees (which I personally prefer over the hike to Lake Inle) eat at the local restaurants (7 sisters and Pyae Pyae for local food) or Simple Life, Sprouting Seeds and Red House for more healthy or Western options. Take the 2 Heritage trails to look at colonial houses, so much to do!!! Since we can't travel overseas, come support local tourism!!! With the clean mountain air here it felt my lungs and immune system received a very welcome boost! Only downsides of this hotel were the staff were not very knowledgeable about local hikes without a guide, but that was OK as I found helpful info from locals in town and that the rooms are not soundproof if you have noisy neighbours so bring earplugs just in case. Otherwise I cannot fault this lovely hotel and will definitely stay here again.