Mango Home Riverside

We were one night on the boat and two nights at the hotel and it was all terrific for the price. The side trips they organized were excellent also (making rice crackers over open fire, tasting rice wines, bike ride through charming small village [the bikes were clunkers, but it was completely flat so okay] and very warm and caring staff. Only complaint is that the beds are a bit hard, so mattress pads would be a welcome addition.

Nice hotel, right on Mekong River. Beautiful landscape. Quiet, peaceful and relaxing place. Quiet room, comfortable bed. Good breakfast. Friendly and helpful staff. Nice swimming pool. No TV and safe box in room. Nothing around the hotel like restaurants, shopping, massage spas. Great place to relax if you have hectic traveling and busy life.

From the start there was confusion about rooms, our friend was allocated an older room that was damp with paint peeling off the walls. She was then given our room and our luggage was dumped outside a room further up the path, Our room when we finally moved in was clean and quite large. There were 2 beds, both mattresses were very hard to be honest I've never slept on a harder bed then this . There was no mosquito nets at all. It would have been nice to have one over the bed. The bathroom was clean with new tiles and a good shower, but what was totally ridiculous was the ceiling as this was partially uncovered, allowing small insects like mosquito to come in. We constantly had to spray the bathroom and bedroom with insect killer, also when it rained the floor in the bathroom became soaked and very slippery They did supply a large can of insect killer which was left in the room. The staff are extremely helpful The 2 main problems for me staying at this resort was the food, and the unevenness of the pathes I'm sure it's very difficult to cater to everyone's taste The breakfast was good on the whole but I had to ask repeatedly to have hot a omelette not one that had been cooked earlier and was being kept warm The portion they gave us were stupidly big meaning we left more then half, we had to ask for smaller portions The food was bland with no real spices being used in the process of cooking, not even salt and pepper sometimes The meals like chicken soup had tomato and pineapple and yellow pepper. Combination was Yuk. One meal that got a massive thumbs down was a large fish that was deep fried so that the scales were falling off it, but it looked like it had maggots crawling over it. I have eaten in all sorts of restaurants good and bad and this was no at all good. I went to bed twice feeling hungry as I had hardly eaten anything as the flavours were too awful for my pallet Other guest were equally surprised with the food, one family chose to only have chips because the meal they were offered was so awful The second reason I didn't find this resort particularly good was that I have Parkinsons and found the place difficult to get around with many trip hazards, the tiles in the bathroom became slippery when wet the dining area outside was so slippery when it rained I had to be super careful. I'm uncertain if anyone in a wheelchair would be to use thus resort as the paths are all gravel or stone chips

Wanting to escape the noise of HCMC we took a 2.5 hrs taxi ride on a rather boring drive to the Mango Home Riverside. on arrival we opted for a late lunch to the noise of a coconut factory across the river. The only available soup was utterly tasteless and the fish dish totally over salted. We subsequently had ‘’dinners’’ in the lounge consisting of Springrolls and Banana Fritters, hardly what we wanted but better safe than sorry . The so called Sunset Cruise was an expensive rip-off and included a plate of chips with the Coconut Juice to be paid for extra. The river is sadly over polluted and the riverbanks lined with noisy, smoke belching factories. No romance to the ‘cruise’ but a 4% surcharge on our payment by CC - better carry tons of cash….. Let’s not talk about ‘breakfast’ but the staff with only some friendly and welcoming. Given the small number of guests more effort could have been made apart from the obvious lack of training One final note of caution. The water from the shower is not only hot but BOILING hot, a waste of energy and so was our trip to the NO Mangos ‘home’ which lacked any homely feeling and management

A rural area on the river. Quiet. Very clean. Very nice and helpful staff. Would stay here again. Best mango ever for breakfast every day.

A hidden gem of tranquility We loved our stay here, so calming and restful! Just what we needed after HCMC! Excellent service, great food, clean spacious rooms with good beds and a lovely chilled pool area. Wasn’t bitten to death by mozzies although was expecting to be. What makes the place so special are the staff! A huge thanks to Ben (he really was so helpful) good English and very helpful with local information and transportation to onward destinations. Can recommend the local white wine really not bad! and goes well with soda as a spritzer. Highly recommend this place, the sunset cruise was good. Borrowed their bikes FOC and had a good ride around the quieter lanes, nice to see local village life. Good value!