Неплохой отель за свою цену. Good hotel for its price.

Recently returned from vacation. Stayed at this hotel. We are staying there for the second time. The first time we were in the Marina Tower building, now we decided to try the Ocean Wing. I will not describe the hotel in detail. I completely agree with the reviews below, they described well both the infrastructure around and inside. I just want to share my impressions of the room. The body itself is rectangular in shape. First we got number 5071 on the short side of this rectangle overlooking Sukhumvit, not the ocean. We found it terrible. First, the air conditioner was broken. He either blew or didn't bleed. Blowing very cold air. We turned it off. But it was still cold in the room, and the next morning I woke up hoarse, and my husband was coughing. Opening the balcony was not an option. At the bottom is some kind of huge coil-turntable. In general, a huge fan in a metal case. It makes such a noise that you can hear it even with the doors closed.
Plus, there was no hot water in the room. It was necessary to drain for 15 minutes so that it went barely warm. In such a cold room with such water it is even difficult to wash, let alone wash. But we were so tired after the flight that when we all found out we didn’t have the strength to change the room and decided to spend the night as is. The next morning they changed our room. They only asked the reason. She said about the noise, broken air conditioner (even the photo showed a broken adjustment block) and the lack of hot water. I got an odd number again, but on the long side. There was running water, the air conditioner was working, and the giant spinning machine didn't make any noise, so we were happy to say the least. In general, of course, the rooms are tired. There was a door to the next room in the wall. Through this door, of course, the audibility is excellent. If you're not lucky with the neighbors - consider everything is lost. We were lucky.
Then they left and others settled in, who began to drink, yell obscenities and everything that is supposed to be in such cases. Turned on the TV to somehow drown it all out. But by the time they had to go to bed, they were quiet. Toli fell asleep, roofing felts went for a walk. Don't know. True, at four in the morning I woke up from drunken screams behind the wall. But they quickly subsided again. Then at seven o'clock in the morning, apparently the wife, presumably read lectures to her husband about yesterday's behavior. I learned a lot about him: with whom he drank, how much he drank, how often this is repeated. Well, I think everything. The rest of the nights promise to be fun. But no. In the evening there was a child. I don't know them or who they changed with. But everything was calm.

Not very comfortable beds. They are on wheels and move easily. Sometimes, from a careless movement, the headboard drove away from the wall. And very uncomfortable pillows. They were too high for us.
Of the inconveniences, there was also a base with electricity control in the room. I don't know how to properly name it. It was built into the bedside table and buzzed. In principle, it is not audible, but at night it interfered, so I had to move on the bed closer to another bedside table.
From convenient - a fishing line is stretched over the bathtub on which you can dry wet swimwear. Lots of towels. Cleaned up every day. They came to us around lunchtime.
I would also like to say separately about tour operators. Since the hotel is now mainly occupied by the big three - Pegasus, Sanmar / Coral (aka Odeon) and Anex, then most likely you will get to the hotel with them. This time we were from Sanmar, the meeting side of the Odeon. It has already been said below, but I want to repeat it again. They don't need us!! ! Just to buy tours.
To begin with, on the bus, the guide devoted several minutes to the story that all operators switched to notifying tourists about departures not by a general announcement in the hotel lobby, but by personal calls. That everyone will be called personally, and for this you just need to come to the information meeting and leave your phone number. Direct emphasis was on this, that it is necessary to leave a phone number for personal notification. As a result, no one called us, although for us it was very important. But it doesn't matter. We sorted out the flight ourselves and called the hotline. On the hotline, by the way, the girl spoke to me as if I had interrupted her from something very important. At first they simply did not pick up the phone several times, then they dropped it several times. But most of all I was struck by the discovery that in fact no one is responsible for us there and no one is interested in whether we get on the flight on time or not.

I called the hotel guide to warn that we would get to the airport ourselves so that they would not look for us. To which the guide replied that no one would look for us, they would wait five minutes and leave. I say: "You still mark us just in case. " "Yes, yes! I marked you" and is going to hang up. How did he mark us? I did not name the room number, not the hotel, nor the last name, nor the number of the voucher? That's how people won't come to the bus and no one cares. And what if they, God forbid, drowned in the sea, ended up in a Thai prison, but just overslept corny? ? Well, or at least to be honest, they immediately warned: so and so, we are not responsible for you, take care of yourself. And then at a meeting there are always such beautiful songs that we are responsible for you, just be with us. But in practice, after buying excursions, interest in you disappears. Yes, and excursions can not sell properly. Signed up for one. The check was said to be issued later. In the evening they found a check in an envelope under the door of the room.
It turned out that the tour was postponed to another date, and we found out about it only when they didn’t come for us on the day we signed up for. And all this silently, without warning, without apology. This is not the first time we have been in Thailand, we have heard about all this, and we ourselves have repeatedly seen it. Usually they took excursions from Cocos Travel or some other local agency, I don’t remember the name. This time we decided to try with the operator. We occasionally do this for comparison. So. You need to go to the information meeting only to shake out money from you for excursions. Our guide's name was Baga. Guy from Makhachkala. He took the information meeting with shock. Free comedy club. If you want to laugh - go to his performance. But every year we are convinced that the operators come up with more and more horror stories and lure for a meeting, but in reality nothing is confirmed. We took the Exotik Pattaya tour. I don't even know if it was worth it or not. The price is only $30. It doesn't seem like much.
We paid in baht and they charged us even less. But the tour itself. The emphasis is on visiting the beautiful palace of the Sukhawadi Chicken King. Well, plus a visit to the golden buddha on the rock - a gift from the king's son to his father for the anniversary of the reign, a snake farm and show, a gem center, a leather and outerwear center, and some other kind of store. The girl who led the tour - well done! Did a great job, explained everything perfectly. Unfortunately I forgot her name. She also goes to surveys. True, Baga proudly declared at the meeting that they had removed the overviews. Now it's Amayzing Pattaya. In fact, everything is the same. So, about our tour. Of the interesting things, you can only look at the Buddha and the small park broken around. Then snakes. The show was fun. And that's it! After the show, snake preparations are sold at exorbitant prices. The same ones can be bought at other pharmacies cheaper. There, of course, the emphasis is on "no one but us. " Then you will be taken to see not high-quality, but expensive leather.
Then stonework. Which are also more expensive than around the corner. Well, at the end of the whole palace with a buffet. Hooray! Finally a palace! Yeah. No matter how. On the spot, it turns out that you will not get into the palace itself, as well as into other buildings on the territory. Only Buddhists can go there. You will be asked to leave when you try to log in. So you are content with a walk around the territory and lunch with a transvestite show. Lunch I will tell you right away. And the organization is worse than in the Soviet canteen. So we almost regretted that we went. But if we didn't go, we wouldn't know.