Name: Gumbie House
Address: 5 Moo 7, T.Pong Ron, Fang, Fang, Fang, 50110, Thailand
Rating: 10

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Stayed for three nights as part of a photography nature tour. The accommodation was lovely with many homely touches. Our host could not have been more helpful and accommodating, she went out of way to make our stay enjoyable. All in all a lovely little family run guest house.

Stay as part of a Thailand wildlife tour

At our motobike trip we had a stopover at Gumbie’s. The first we noticed was the garden that was absolutely beautiful with flowers and nice trees sorrounding the buildings. After check-in the owner pair came to us and told about the stay and the possibilities. We borrowed bikes and visited the nearby nationalpark with hot springs up to 20 meters. The dinner was served in the absolute tastefull decorated restaurant with fresh flowers and romantic atmosphere. The dinner and breakfast was exellent and we felt generally pampered through our stay. 
The place is totally quiet at night, whics is quite rare in Thailand

Pampering in top-class


We spent two nights at Gumbie House. Gumbie stands for dragonfly in one of the local languages. The hosts Roi and Soi (sorry if this is not the correct spelling) were super friendly and welcoming and we had nice interactions with them. The room was clean and comfortable. The food was very good (we had 2 breakfasts and 2 dinners there). The whole area surrounding this place is super beautiful and serene. There's a national park very close to Gumbie House and we got a good thai massage at the park's headquarters (there are also hot springs). Doi Ang Khang (an hour away from Gumbie) was amazing by the way!!

Very peaceful and friendly place

When I arrived at the property with my reservation from booking.com, the unfriendly staff told me to speak with the owner by phone whereby he confirmed that he has cancelled my reservation and given away my room to somebody else and his resort is full for the night. So I was standing there with my motorbike, thunderstorms arriving close before it got dark. This behavior in that expensive resort is absolutely unforgivable and a shame to kick people out with a valid reservation and to sell the room a second time! In all my more than 100 bookings with booking.com, this never happened to me. Stay away from that place ! 

Unreliable and unfriendly owners! 

Stayed 4 nights B&B through Booking.com. 3 hr drive from Chiang Mai airport, fairly straight forward but very bendy road. Rooms are in separate buildings, across 2 floors, one per floor with balconies overlooking rice fields & mountains, the whole thing set in beautiful gardens. We ate in every night as Soi’s cooking is amazing! Good selection of wines & local beers. There are also plenty of small restaurants in nearby Fang. Went birding at Kings Project (definitely worth a visit, restaurant was amazing) & Doi Lang for Giant Nuthatch, Mrs Humes Pheasant etc. Highly recommend whether you’re a birder or not!!

Beautiful place. Perfect base for birdwatching 

Excellent rooms, very well furnished with beautiful  details. Wonderful garden with great views and a peaceful atmosphere. The owners are very friendly and we have had excellent home made Thai dinner and breakfast. 

We stayed only one night in July but loved it so much.

Wonderful accommodation with a warm welcome

We have been lucky enough to travel widely over the years and stay in some pretty amazing places, and for us this amongst our very favourite locations. We were lucky enough to have five nights at Soi and Roy's wonderful hideaway in late February 2019 and cannot recommend it highly enough. 

Our hosts were superb, warmly welcoming us with fluent English, and our evening debates were an absolute pleasure. The location of Gumbie house is stunning, overlooking paddy fields with a mountainous backdrop. The rooms are spacious, with stylish decor and lavishly equipped. The landscaped gardens and dining areas make meal times even more special, and the food is out of this world.

We found the only problem that after Gumbie House, every other location on our trip seemed inferior! This location really is in the award winning category and should be included on any Thai itinerary. 

Soi and Roy, thank you, you really were the highlight of our holiday!

It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This!

My main reason for booking this accommodation was due to the close proximity to Doi Ang Khang. With a very positive recommendations from previous reviewers and desire for home cooked food, we booked via Bookings.com. As we have no transportation of our own,  so we made transportation arrangements through Roy a few months prior to our trip. However, we are asked to pay for half of the accommodation and driver/ vehicle one month before our arrival  as we are going during their peak season. There was no way of paying through credit card so we had to pay through PayPal and incurred the administrative charges. 

The driver picked us from the Chiang Mai Airport around 5:30 pm but refused to let us stop for dinner along the way. In desperation, we had to call Roy to ask him to communicate to the driver  in Thai language even though we had specifically instructed Roy to let the driver know earlier. That was the lowest point of the trip as we had 2 young hungry kids and elderly with us. We understand this is no fault of Roy as the original driver was sick and did not communicate well to his replacement.

We finally arrived at 11:30pm after a late dinner, both Roy and Soi was waiting for us at the gate. We were very grateful for the warm welcome and was allowed to quickly go to our rooms and rest for the night.

We had a very relaxing 3 nights stay in Gumbie House with very nice home cooking food for breakfast and dinner too. We highly recommend the bbq pork ribs and Tom yam soup. 

Although Gumbie House is located very near to Doi Ang Khang but we still had to make a big detour to go as we understand that the road that leads directly from Fang to Doi Ang Khang was closed.

Overall, we had a very good time as Gumbie House is clean, homely, beautiful and centrally located to the places we want to visit. Roy and Soi and their family was very friendly and accommodating. Highly recommended!

Wonderful!

We had great communication from the start (via email), and Gumbie House was super thoughtful and flexible about setting up transfers for us to get there and then get to our next destination in Northern Thailand.  We enjoyed exploring on foot the immediately adjacent government-run agricultural research station, though I’m not sure we were strictly supposed to go in there (the guard was asleep when we walked in).

Because we arrived in the late afternoon in the rain, and without our own transportation, for a one-night stay, we were limited in what we could do or see.  We were provided with a simple but good dinner (not included, of course, and not really involving choice of entrees), and there was a nice red wine by the glass that made the dinner feel more luxurious.  Breakfast was excellent and served in a beautiful setting with good views.

The room itself was large and pleasant, and had a great bathroom with a shower and a tub in a completely windowed alcove, so you could take in more views if you didn’t care about the possibility of someone seeing you from the fields or the pond on Gumbie House property. The price for our room was a bit high, but seemed OK as a splurge for one night.

In all, this was a comfortable one-night stay between Chiang Mai and Chiang Saen.  The advance communication was very helpful, especially for travelers booking everything independently.  The area itself is better set up for people driving themselves.

Lovely setting, and a good choice if you are driving

First of all I'd like to mention that the name Gumbie House has nothing to do with the old American cartoon series/character of the similar sounding name - it simply means "dragonfly," which fits very well with the setting of Gumbie House in a peaceful agricultural area near the foothills and within walking distance of the hot springs in Doi Pha Hom Pok National Park.

Roy and Soi, owners of the property, had not planned to build a guest house when they first purchased the property, according to them it sort of evolved as they built and expanded.  The result is fantastic, it feels more like you are  guests of the family rather than staying at a business, and they've managed to create a very welcoming and at the same time enchanting environment.  It's the kind of place you want to spend time at - relaxing and enjoying the ambiance,  yet there's also plenty to do in the area such as walk (about 20 minutes) to the hot springs where we spent the good part of a day wandering about, relaxing in the hot spring tubs/sauna, and getting traditional Thai massages at a small fraction of the cost in the cities.  Roy also arranged a guide/driver (need 4wd high clearance vehicle) for the early morning hike up to the Doi Pha Hom Pok peak to see the sunrise, cost maybe a bit more than one could find on their own but in this case our guide was a park ranger very experienced in managing the rough drive up and then the hike up prior to sunrise where without a guide one could get easily lost (many branching trails, most not marked).

Soi is a great cook and we chose to have all our meals at Gumbie House.  Really fun to eat out on the patio overlooking the rice fields framed by the nearby foothills,  but equally nice to eat in the common room (kind of open-air setup) and converse with other guests.  Meals aren't included in the lodging but the cost isn't great and Soi is happy to customize what's on the menu.

Both Roy and Soi speak good English and are fun to talk with.

Apparently most of their business is from Thais rather than foreign tourists like ourselves - probably because Fang is a couple hours drive from Chiang Mai so the logistics of getting there might seem daunting.  In our case we rented a car from Chiang Mai airport at a very reasonable cost and used the map app on my smart phone for navigation - not a problem at all. 

So if you want to bypass the crazy over-touristed scene around Chiang Mai and have a more peaceful genuine visit to the northern area of Thailand, this would be a great place to go.

Highly recommended!

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