Just a short note to recommend the Mae Sai Guesthouse if you want to stay really river side. The Mae Sai Guesthouse is a very friendly, family run guest house with a bunch of wooden bungalows set around a small riverside garden and restaurant. The bungalows are cute and comfortable but with very simple amenities. From the small balcony over the river, you stare right across the river and into Burma. Mae Sai Guesthouse is right at the end of the riverside road and can be hard to find for a first time visitor. To get there take the laneway that runs behind Mae Sai Riverside Guesthouse - the last few hundred meters only have one lane, so you just have to hope no car is coming from the other direction as otherwise, there will be a discussion to decide who has to reverse.
Mae Sai Guesthouse really is the best place to stay in Mae Sai. I am staying there right now. Its great to be able to wake up in the morning and see the Burmese going about their daily lives on the other side of the river. It truly is a unique place, where else in the world can you stay in one country and see people in another country just 15 metres away.
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