First the good: Great area - Samsen has several streets that are basically tourist oriented with lots of restaurants, shops,etc... and it's an easy walk to Kaosan Rd and close to other attractions. The staff was friendly and helpful, the pool area was nice and it was clean and well maintained. Now for the not so good: very hard mattress on the bed, the A/C was either too cold or when off was too hot (no middle ground), the toilet didn't work well and there was pretty audible music until about 10pm or so which didn't bother me but kept my wife awake. So, all in all it was ok but not great.