Love for Thailand - diagnosis

Written: 21 february 2007
Travel time: 21 — 28 february 2007
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 7.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 9.0
we read a review on turpravda, laughed about free water - there is nothing free, looked at the pictures and decided to go to Koh Samui again - it became impossible to swim in the sea in Pattaya - very sewer water (there were last year) by the way, if you go to Pattaya, then the best hotels in my opinion - Aisavan and Royal hotels (3-5 stars) there the air is cleaner and the sea is a little cleaner and there are no such low tides as in the center.

It used to be good on Koh Samui (we rested on Chaweng). took the hotel Jasmine resort. they gave it to us as 4 stars, but it doesn’t pull. Very small, cozy area with 1 building on 3 floors, and two rows of bungalows, in one bungalow 2 rooms. The area is very green and beautiful. There is no lift in the 3 storey building. when we checked in, there were no male porters and a fragile taika girl grabbed our suitcases and began to shove them upstairs - of course we couldn’t stand it and my husband with a sore spine and I carried my suitcases to the 3rd floor. We thought we were going to die.

Breakfast is very monotonous and there is no choice. cruel economy - sweets are not always eaten, vegetables quickly run out, sweets and you have to DEMAND that they bring MORE. soups are disgusting, not even mashed potatoes, but cream soup, every other day tomato and milk with mushrooms. fruit, more or less.

there are enough sun loungers, you have to borrow early, if impudent Germans come, they take places near the pool and on the beach and run to take them at 7-8 in the morning, and come to sunbathe at 10-11 o'clock. but it was 3 days. beach workers need to be shoved in order to do something, not to sniff themselves.

The room has a tea set (we have a teapot all the time, there was a puddle on the table to change for 12 days could not be interrogated). often the maids "forget" to put tea or coffee, or both, but after contacting the reception, they bring it. sometimes they turn off the light during the day from 10 to 16, i. e. the air conditioner does not work. the deluxe room itself is ok.
not very big, but there is a shower and a bathroom, and there is a large window from the bathroom to the room and lying in the bathroom you can look at the sea with an open balcony (through the balcony grill). or lying on the bed to watch someone do something in the bathroom, though the curtain on the window can be pushed back.

on the balcony there are lattices on neighboring balconies, that is, when you sit and do something on your balcony, the neighbors look at you, the door to the bathroom is glass. and in general, the impression that the hotel's slogan is "nothing personal, everything is public. "

the room has a safe, mini-bar, hairdryer, slippers, bathrobe. there are no Russian-language TV channels and generally few news channels - (good rest), the most unpleasant thing is that we were unlucky - the sea was very dirty for 10 days. in general, the sea on Koh Samui is heavily polluted. (we were last there 2 years ago). Near the hotel and neighboring hotels, the currents are opposite. and all the garbage is nailed to the beach of the hotel, but you can swim through 3 hotels in any direction (if not too lazy to walk).

yes, about the Lamai area - if you want a lot of noise, din and a lot of people, then you should go to Chaweng. Lamai is a quiet area. you can eat in a bunch of zucchini without waiting for empty seats and a little cheaper and souvenirs are also cheaper, there is no pandemonium, the same boxing fights as in Chaweng, crocodile farms, monkey farms, a butterfly garden, an aquarium, "grandmother and grandfather" closer. although shops are closer from Chaweng, in particular TESCO - "lotus" (We buy boiled shrimp there).

in general, an ambiguous impression of the hotel - an interesting room, a beautiful area, a dirty sea, food for 2 stars, the staff must be forced to work all the time, they themselves are lazy. but this is specific to Thailand and the islands.

but in general, rest is always super and you need to remember the good, not the bad.
nearby was the Pavilon resort hotel and something with boutiques there is still in the name - we looked there - the hotel is good, it seems to be pulling for 4. , but in general Thailand has risen in price both food and taxis and in general their standard of living has risen.
Soon it will be more profitable to travel to the Dominican Republic, although Thailand is a diagnosis.
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