We'll be back :)

Written: 8 february 2013
Travel time: 3 — 14 december 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 7.0
The hotel is located at the beginning of Beach Road, where it is more or less quieter. The sea is really close (but to be honest we swam at the hotel only 1 time - dirty). We went to the islands to swim, but nevertheless there were always vacationers on the beach near the hotel. By tuk tuk you can get to Volkin Street in 5-7 minutes, travel 10 baht per person, walk about 20 minutes. Relatively close (15 minutes on foot) is a large store - Lotus (like Auchan in Moscow), but there you can buy food and inexpensive clothes . The Festival Center is also nearby (there are all kinds of events and there are a lot of shops, including BIG C - also not bad, and fruits and drinks and sweets and clothes. A 10-minute walk from the hotel is the Alcazar and Tiffany show. You can go there yourself. Nearby a bunch of cafes (both with seafood, and fast foods and pizzerias). In general, we really liked the location of the hotel, especially when we traveled and looked at other hotels.
Nutrition:
We really liked the breakfasts! In the restaurant at the hotel (it's called Red Step), we often ate dinner - it was also very tasty and not at all expensive (for two, dinner with drinks is 400-600 baht (this is 300-450 rubles))

Service:
The restaurant and reception are very good! Sometimes the cleaning lady messed up. Moreover, tips do not affect this _)) but we still left.
Rooms:
The furniture is in perfect order, the condos work perfectly, the linen and towels are also good (some comrades living in 4-5 stars complained about the dilapidation of linen - we were completely in order with this). We didn’t notice insects (the main thing is not to leave any food on the tables, otherwise the ants will run, it was enough for me once (they attacked the cookie), then everything was put in the refrigerator _))) Standard rooms are rather small, but it suited us.
Territory:
Small but quite comfortable. The hotel itself is small and during our stay was occupied by 60 percent, so it is very quiet and peaceful. The pool is 1.5 m deep, not very big, but enough (again, maybe because there were few people). By the way, you can swim in the pool at least until 11-12 at night - I also really liked it, because. refreshing in the evening is nice, and in many hotels it is forbidden to swim in the pool after sunset (this is around 18.30-19.00). The pool has a jacuzzi.

I would also like to recommend a sightseeing trip to Cambodia. There are two options - for two or three days. We chose for two days, we already decided when we were still in Russia, as we contacted the representative of the tour desk (named Maxim) - I recommend this guy, he tells the truth, and does not sell just to sell. For a trip to Cambodia, it was only necessary to take a picture for a visa at the nearest photo workshop and pay for the tour : ). In the morning we were picked up from the hotel, put into a minibus and taken to the border. Drive to the border of 3-3.5 hours. We were 12 people - a small compact group. We were met at the border, handed out all the necessary and already completed paperwork. We just had to go to the local border guards, put stamps in our passports in the window and... WELCOME! Everything is simple. Then they put me on a bus and took me to the city of Seamriep. The ride is about 2.5 hours. The hotel, I can tell you, exceeded all our even very bold expectations: cleanliness, service, maintenance - everything is at a very high level. Staff in Russian at all. But this is not a problem - we remember everything that we know from English and go ahead. On the first day after lunch, a sightseeing tour of this town was taken to some kind of reservoir dug 900 years ago. In the evening we were taken to a Buddhist temple to watch the sunset from there - very beautiful! Then a visit to a factory for the processing of semi-precious stones, where it was naturally offered to buy these stones. They also offer local coffee beans, though I'm not sure that coffee grows in Cambodia, but in any case, the coffee is delicious). Then there was a delicious dinner and a night market.
And in the morning we were taken to the temple complex of Angkor Wat - that, in fact, for which tourists are brought to Cambodia. This complex consists of several temples located close to each other - one more interesting than the other. In one of these temples, a scene from the film about Lara Croft, who is a tomb raider, was filmed. Very picturesque places. Whoever was not there is a good reason to get together there, see everything for yourself and get unforgettable impressions, and at the same time visit one more country. Cambodia makes a very good impression, especially since all conditions have been created for tourists. Our guide also tried very hard to create the most comfortable stay for us in this country - he showed everything, told everything.
In general, the trip to Cambodia turned out just fine: the country, the guide, the hotel, the temple of Angkor Wat - I liked everything very much and made the most pleasant impressions + a good group of tourists crept up : ).
Let's go back to Pattaya. From the hotel on the sea went to the city beach. Even before the trip, we were scared that the beaches there suck, the water is dirty, the sand is black. Yes, the beach is like a beach. No worse than Turkey. The water is certainly not like in Egypt, and the sand is not white quartz, but you can swim and sunbathe without any problems. For sun loungers, however, you need to pay 100 baht for two, but umbrellas are attached to them for free : ). In general, impressions for the whole year! : )
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