Everything about Rimping Village hotel is beautiful, peaceful and makes you feel so relaxed even though you are only a 10-15 min walk to the city. The employees and the service are 5 star and loved the breakfast and the incense burners in the hallways at night that smelled so wonderful. Very clean and great customer service. Highly recommend this little piece of heaven.
We stayed at Rimping Village a second time this month and absolutely loved our stay. It's such a peaceful hotel with great amenities. It's not in the heart of the Night Market, so that keeps it a little quieter and a little more restful. That said, the Night Market is about a 10 minute walk away across the iron bridge, so there's plenty of fun to be had nearby.
The hotel is fantastically clean. There was nothing (except the mosquitoes that plague all of Chiang Mai) that we didn't love.
We booked this hotel after reading its reviews and are very glad we did!! The service in this hotel was five star. The staff couldn't help you enough and remembered who you were when you wanted your room key back!
They had information about trips you could do in the area and phoned and booked them for you if you wanted them to. The rooms were nice size, clean and good value for money with provided plug in mosquito repellent, and also spray on the outside tables at breakfast and dinner. The food was good - we have no complaints at all!
It was also quite central and only took max 10 mins to get to the market and restuarants were closer. Staff were again very helpful with directions! Thank you for our stay!
The staff are just so courteous and helpful with no attempt at commercialism. Couldn't ask for more.
The rooms and grounds are lovely as well. We had a Rimping De Luxe room which was large and airy. It was our wedding anniversary and the bed was beatifully decorated with rose petals in a heart shape and the towels made up as swans - just so lovely, made my wife cry!. The incense burner outside the room which is lit at dusk just so adds to the ambience.
The location is great for the night market and if you want to go to the old town it's only a short tuk tuk ride away which the hotel will arange for you and they'll agree the price with the driver for you beforehand.
The Sunday walking market from Tai phai gate is fantastic.
The hotel has free bikes to borrow which we rode into town during the day which is a great way to sightsee and to get a feel for the backstreets - where there are lovely cheap places to eat and drink.
We'd been down south before coming north and the climate is less humid and very pleasant - the pool was salt water and a bit chilly compared to the south but very reffreshing once you were in and got used to it.
Breakfast was self serve and you have to ask for cooked eggs which are then cooked to order. We've had better breakfasts with greater variety elsewhere but this is really the only aspect of this lovely boutique hotel that falls below excellent.
It remains a benchmark for us and we'd agree it is probably the place to stay in hiang Mai..
The location of Rimping Village is great and the rooms and grounds are very relaxing. The most outstanding feature of Rimping Village is the staff. The staff are outstanding. They go to lengths that I have never seen before even at a five star resort to make sure that you are taken care of. Just a couple of examples: we needed bus tickets to go to a spot in northern Thailand that the buses do not stop at, so the staff went to the bus station, explained what we needed, wrote out the specific directions in Thai for the driver, bought the tickets and delivered them to us the next morning; we also needed to check in at our next hotel early, so they called ahead, got us in early, and took us to the hotel in their own shuttle. We were just simply dumbfounded at how awesome (not a word I use often) the staff are. We wish we could have stayed our whole time in Chiang Mai at Rimping Village but they were fully booked for the rest of our time.
The only criticism I would have about Rimping Village is that they could try a little harder with the breakfast. More Thai food would be great and better coffee would be appreciated. However the above and beyond attitude of the staff more than makes up for this minor shortcoming.
