Wayfarer's Rest - Chinatown

friendly staffs and location

Overall we stayed here for 12 night. First visit was before and during the Thingyan (Water) Festival and second visit was 2 weeks after the Festival. When we first arrived it was very quite, everything is clean and didn’t have problem. During the festival, since they were become extremely busy because most travellers were stuck in Yangon as there was no transport out of town available. Their cleanliness everywhere in the property especially bathroom and toilet wasn't the best but it was understandable. During the second stayed, we found the place was not super busy but not too quite either. Which we though the cleanliness would be back as what we found on our first visit. However, we found the place wasn’t as clean as our very first visit. But there was some improvement with their wifi connection in the room. They have staffs but somehow the management wasn’t strict enough to tell their workers to work. As the staffs are just sitting there doing nothing most of the day. If they keep doing that the cleanliness in the property won’t be good in the next few months. Major concern is the POWER SHORTAGE. It is very common in the whole Myanmar, however most businesses have their own generator to keep having electricity during the shortage. Wayfarer’s Rest doesn’t have one, which is frustrating because power shortage happens almost everyday and can be more than 10 times in a day. So room temperature is a big problem, we found it hard to sleep for a few nights because of the electricity problem. Sometimes they can't even toast a bread. All staffs are very friendly, even with their not so good English they will try their best to help you. Only the manager speaks better English but the others need to speak English more. We were happy to stayed there just because of the staffs and fairly clean compare to some of Myanmar’s hostels. But cleanliness seriously need to improved in a long run.