Территория впечатляет - все не обойдешь The territory is impressive - you can't get around everything

Recently returned, were in the first half of July 2009. The biggest plus of the hotel is a good, huge territory, very green, ponds with local toads, a small orchid garden, I especially liked it near the pools - coconut palms, blooming plumeria, dropping white flowers into the water, on the paths, on the sun loungers... like in a fairy tale . The entrance to the hotel from the second street through the green tunnel is impressive, the view of the landscaping in front of the lobby is also impressive. The architecture of the buildings is in the Portuguese style, everything is white, columns, endless passages, terraces, stone sculptures and sculptures. But although we lived in de luxe - everything is not new, you can live, but without enthusiasm. All buildings are touched by time, everything is slowly crumbling. Their husband read that the hotel was 70 of some year, I don’t remember exactly. I liked the big ones, not even the balconies in the rooms, but the whole terraces, we had two sunbeds and a table, and one more in length would have easily fit. Room on the 4th floor, sea view, and it seems they all have a view of the sea side, just because of the greenery it is not visible (just the pool area). We still gleamed through the crowns of palm trees pieces of the sea. You go out onto the terrace - beauty: the sea is noisy (the wave was not weak all the time, especially since it is Karon), the crowns of palm trees with coconuts in front of you, the birds sing - local starlings, myna, live there, begging at the tables for breakfast.
Breakfasts - at first it will still go for a few days, then it gets boring of course, it just might be the costs of the off-season, there seem to be a lot of people, but probably in the season it’s generally dark and they can cook more and better. The fruits were weak, pineapples were generally tasteless and hard, I decided that at that time they were not yet ripe, although the guide said that there were 80 types of pineapples in Phuket, watermelons were not better than ours, sometimes they were given small bananas or papayas (tasteless). I saved myself with a tropical salad, everything is the same, but halves of grapes, agave still floated in the cut. So, in juice, it will be tastier. There are almost no pastries, there are no salads as such - on separate dishes in sliced ​ ​ u200bu200b- tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, cabbage, bell peppers. And three fills to them. Two types of yogurt - vanilla and strawberry, 2-3 types of muesli. Drinks - as usual Yuppies from vending machines. Tea, coffee carried the battle, you don’t always wait, and the additive is generally like manna from heaven. They fried an omelette in the form of sausages, with optional filling of tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, cheese and two types of ham. Just fried eggs, boiled eggs and pancakes (none). And of course, the type of main dishes (breakfast, after all! ) - some kind of sprouted stewed cereals, Thai noodles with spices (a lot of butter! ), sometimes stewed potatoes, as if in sour cream, pork or chicken with vegetables. There is enough to eat, of course, but the taste quickly becomes boring, everything is somehow fresh.
The room was usually cleaned, at first there were two orchids near the washbasin, the next day there was one left, and then she went into the trash. Although there are a lot of them on the island, even in simple cafes they will definitely stick in a shake or a cocktail, and they will throw their fingers into the water to wash. There are a lot of ants, without any bait in the form of delicious thrown food, they just run around like that, but it's normal there. There were no towels at all. They were changed at first every day, then once they didn’t change at all, they said - the maid brought it. About the bed, I did not understand until the end, when you come - everything seems to be filled. And once, at the end of the rest, the duvet cover got dirty, I was firmly convinced that the linen was changed daily, and I was very surprised when I straightened the bed and saw that the linen had not been replaced, but simply tucked in - the duvet cover was the same. Although I left her 20 baht every day. Maybe a little? But so the guide said that this is a normal fee. Although the hotel is generally very expensive, and in Phuket as a whole. We bought fruit at the bazaar, asked for a knife at the reception, they told me - you are not allowed! (? ) They offered to send staff from the room-service. Just returned to the room, a guy and a girl came and said to peel and cut the fruit - 100 baht! Too lazy to go somewhere, buy a knife, agreed. And that's for half a small watermelon, 2 agaves, 2 mangoes and that's it! Mangosteens and longcostas cleaned themselves during meals. The director of the travel agency that sent us was then shocked, she spoke insolently.

Yes, we also rented a motorbike at the hotel, the price is the same as on the street - 200 baht per day. The only thing is that the husband pledged his passport on the first day, and the next day he replaced it with a copy, but I had to pay another 1000 baht of the deposit. True, they gave me a new Honda, red and beautiful. And on the street people took it, so they arranged a copy right away. And they give something with smiles, and when it's time to take it, they will look at it from all sides, and if there is nothing to complain about, they say it's dirty. The husband was indignant, there was no rain, he got it a little spattered, well, then he moved out.
And for me personally, a big minus of the hotel is that it seems to be on its own, all the infrastructure is at a decent distance around the corner. You leave its walls, and go left along them, almost along the roadway, stomp to the intersection, it makes no sense to cross to the sidewalk on the opposite side, because. everything is on the side of the hotel, and the roadway is not weak, rushing and rushing, sometimes a policeman was on duty at our hotel, transferring those going to the beach across the road. When it's cloudy - this voyage is nothing but under the scorching sun! It's stressful many times a day. And everything is somehow miserable, in general I didn’t really like Karon, and cafes, shops, salons and the beach. Here is Kata - super, but my husband wanted to get closer to Patong, explained on his own head that the whole engine was there. Were with a sortie once as a result, and then in JangCeylon! Simon Show does not count as a visit to Patong. Kata - the beach itself is more comfortable, a lot of sunbeds, life is in full swing, merchants are all wearing, just landed in sunbeds - they immediately bought a silk bedspread for a 2-bed bed with an elephant and tassels for 1200 baht (the original price was 2800), immediately after 5 minutes a dress for themselves took white cotton for 450 baht. On Karon, there is complete peace, no one, and not in the best sense. There is nowhere to put even things and clothes except on the sand. And it is 3 km long and smooth, uninteresting. Yes, even after the tsunami, Karon opposite Tavorn is generally bald. There are baby palm trees and then a little. And Kata is like on advertising brochures - sunbeds are the first row under the trees. And the island of Crab saves her from strong waves, he extinguishes them. The length is about 1.5 km and it is strongly concave, very cozy! We went to the hotel that I wanted, we went to Thavorn because of my husband, he is afraid of the tsunami, he said that he should be on the 2nd line. And it's just across the street from the beach. And I wanted to go to Kata Beach Resort, it is smaller, with its own beach at the southern end of Kata, all so cheerful and cozy. They walked, they looked, they sighed. We decided that if we come to Phuket again, we will stay there. More importantly, he has access to the street and immediately shops, cafes, exchangers, etc. , and much better than the collective farm style on Karon (he reminded me of Beldibi, Goynuk in Turkey), the streets themselves are cleaner, everything is more civilized, livelier. Cafes in bulk, there are few and not very many on Karon, when we took a bike at the hotel, they asked us where you were going, we said that to Kata, so he immediately showed us the movement of his hand to his mouth and said - yum-yum? Yep, yum yum. They themselves are of the same opinion as we are.
In general, our summary is this - in Tavorna it’s good to lie under palm trees near the pools, as in the picture for sure. Space, scope, no one interferes with each other. And we will go another time to Katu Beach. I tried to describe as truthfully as possible what happened and my feelings, and I’ll immediately make a reservation - how many people, so many opinions, so I don’t pretend to be the truth, but I hope my description will be useful to someone. Have a good rest!