This is not a 'boutique hotel' and on their own rating is only two star. Its decor is basic but the room size was good. The pillows were poor quality as was the duvet. The bathroom was basic with a shower over the floor and a stand alone sink with nowhere to put anything. The three maids who came in to make up the room every morning were cheerful and friendly. Left to their own devices, the sheets woulkd not have been changed daily. The TV had some international channels including CNN but some of the others, particularly movie channels, were less consistent. WiFi was free and surprisingly good. There were no side lights in the room and the overhead or wall lights gave a rather sterile feel combined with no pictures on the wall and the cheap look 'wooden' flooring.

Although I had booked a double room, I was given one with two single beds. This was changed to a double bedded room without fuss.

There is only one slow lift at the hotel and busy times there could be annoying delays.

Breakfast was included but was pretty bleak. Toast, oddly flavoured butter and the brightest red jam I have ever seen. Bananas and water melon and various dubious looking hot dishes. They were happy to make poached eggs to order rather than taking the overcooked and cold ones laid out.

Breakfast and dinner are served in the 7th floor restaurant which overlooks the golden (Shwedagon) pagoda. The decor is bleak with lights hanging from the high ceiling which gives it an anti-septic feel but will large windows. The food at dinner was surprisingly good (Sweet and sour chicken, in particular). Beer was available but there was no wine. They were happy that we brought our own wine (available at off licenses for about US$7-10 per bottle for australian red). No corkage was charged and they brought wine glasses.

The people on reception were helpful and they lent out copies of the Lonely Planet guide although some editions were 10 years old which could be unreliable. Although my international roaming worked in Yangon and at the hotel it did not allow out going text messages.

This hotel has no credit card facilities at all. They will change money (US$) at a bad rate (8200 Kyat to US$1) but there are no cash advances and all incidentals have to be settled in cash.

There are no leaisure facilities at all and no garden. Its not a great place to walk from.

Wingabar Road seemed to be known by most taxi drivers and it is 10-15 mins to central Rangoon. The non metered taxis would mainly accept US$2 ( or 1,500-2000 . Some were in a dreadful state and pretty unsafe with dodgy doors and windows which didn't work (not helpful in the monsoon in July/August) and no aircon. The new brightly coloured and tiny Tata taxis were a great improvement but still without meters.

For the price, i think it was good value compared to other hotels in Yangon. Its not a luxury hotel but it provides a perfectly reasonable place to stay especially if you do not intend to spend too much time in the hotel. As there is no bar it is worth bringing duty free with you - there are mixers in the minibar fridge but note that it is turned off together with the aircon and lights unless you put a credit card in the entrance slot to keep it on.

We had booked our stay at the Summit Parkview for the first night of our Myanmar holiday, but very shortly before departure the travel agent eMailed to say that it had been cancelled by the hotel as they had accepted a booking from a large group (this seems to be a common occurrence in Myanmar). They had booked us instead into the Clover which they assured us was of a comparable standard. We were hugely disappointed by the hotel, which was far from the same standard as the Summit Parkview and does not meet the 'boutique' description accorded by our travel agent. The room was bare, the beds poor and the bathroom very basic. The view from the room was very bleak. Incidentally the Myanmar travel agency tried to pocket the difference between the cost of the hotel we had originally booked and the Clover and only refunded part of the difference after prolonged correspondence.

The hotel "forgot" to pick us up so we took a taxi organised by the information place at the airport - she rang them but either couldn't get them or got the bums rush - @ a cost of $10 but she told us the hotel shoud re-emburse us. The room is on the 6th floor via very slow lift and huge - plastic wood on the floor, 2 single beds too short for my 6ft 4 husband, very small TV on a table, electric jug screwed to another table, ugly blind covering a smallish window with a view which is quite interesting but the blind is not meant to be drawn & is re-drawn when we leave the room. It is summer so very hot & therefore the fact that the hot water is not on until the evening isn't really an issue - the breakfast is Chinese or cold fried eggs, sugar sweet bread for toast & sugar sweet milk if you use it in coffee/tea and fruit. At night there are more waiters than we 2 lonely diners - only did it once! Although cheap by western standards, it is not good food by any standards. I remember this hotel - it is the one I often stayed in while working in China in the 80s so it comes as no surprise to find it is run by Chinese! On the plus side they are very helpful - three young men entered our room without knocking 5 minutes after we arrived bearing a plate f sliced watermelon & apple (still with core attached) because they were very sorry we had "wasted our time" at the airport. Very near the Shwedagon Pagoda & park/lake & if like us, you like a challange, you can walk into town. Excellent street stall Maw Haw Mogoda opposite where we got much better food for half the price.