Calm, green hotel with a gentle sea

Written: 4 march 2014
Travel time: 28 march — 9 april 2013
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
We rested in Sanving with two families of 2 adults + 2 children in each family, the youngest at that time was 1 year old. 10 months, the oldest is 11 years old. Later, literally two days later, another family of two adults joined us, but since they purchased their ticket much later than us, a few days before departure, Sunwing was already closed for sales, they bought a tour to the neighboring hotel, Amora, but We spent almost all of our vacation time. To be honest, it seems that not only they did this, but also those who rested in the neighboring Dollar)))) In general, we liked the hotel, we were in Thailand for the first time, it was not much annoying that it was not all inclusive, but in general - no complaints.
I'll start from the beginning: The flight with the coral, everything went without problems. Arrived. Not a big queue at the airport at customs, where, by the way, small children with their parents were literally caught from the queue and escorted to a free window, where there was no queue, as I understand it, specifically to let passengers with small children go (There is a lot to learn from Russian customs... ) We got to the hotel not noticeably quickly. We were greeted at the hotel with welcome cocktails. They settled right away, BUT there were not big misunderstandings here, namely: They settled us in the main building, where the reception is located, on the third floor, but the truth is, we occupied two neighboring rooms with two families. We went into the room and did not understand where our children will sleep? There was only a double bed in the room. The balcony overlooked immediately above the entrance, i. e. overlooking the parking lot, where buses and taxis endlessly drive up. I had to go down to the reception, where a girl seemed to be waiting for us, her name seemed to be Anya, as soon as I approached her, she immediately told me: “You probably would like to change the number, doesn’t suit you? Sorry, but there are no places yet As soon as they appear, we will immediately relocate you. " All this was said with a smile. And I, in general, went to say that we do not have beds for children... Well, we also did not refuse to change the room and said, we'll wait. We were quickly brought children's beds, which turned out to be simply two high mattresses laid on top of each other, it turned out that the child slept on two mattresses, which, in general, were like an ordinary bed in height. And by the way, in this room there were red little goosebumps that appear from fruits if they are left just lying, and not in the refrigerator. But on the other hand, I caught free Wi-Fi reception in the room, the level of reception is quite good. Three days later we were moved to another room, in the building, pool view, the children have normal beds, the stairs are much smaller to go up / down from the room. I noticed that for some reason only Russians and Kazakhs lived in the main building (probably).
In general, the territory of the hotel is well thought out, there are many pools, a lot of shade, which is not unimportant in such a sunny day. The breakfasts are ordinary, of course, the choice is not like in Turkey or Egypt, where everything is inclusive, but there was enough food. Everything is fresh, tasty, the kids didn’t catch anything, everything went smoothly. I was pleased with the fact that for dinner, if the parents ordered something for themselves, the children ate from the children's table for free. For some reason, at the entrance to breakfast, we were almost never noted, it happened that our friends from Amora had breakfast at our hotel, like guests of Sunving....There was also a funny incident at dinner, it was late, and the children, as usual, wanted to go to bed yes, I had to take them alone to dinner at the hotel, my husband didn’t go, but the children eat for free, if the parents eat / order something, I ordered some two dishes (I don’t remember which ones) And I thought, why are the waiters they smile so sweetly when they take my order. In general, while I was waiting for my order, the children made the table with their children's food, which of course I also tried. And now they carry two of my dishes, on which there is just a huge amount of food that you can eat if there are at least two hungry men nearby, which is why the waiters smiled, they probably anticipated my reaction when my order was brought. As a result, the whole dinner was wrapped up and taken to the room. Tip: Before rushing to order several dishes, wait and see how much food is on the first one))))

The beach is excellent, clean sand, calm sea at the beginning of our holiday and a bit of waves at the end. Of the excursions were on the Similans, Khao Lak and about. Tachai. After Similan Tachai somehow looked poorer or something according to impressions.
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