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This was a beautiful hotel and we were upgraded by Manathai to a Deluxe Garden View room, much bigger and better than the room we had booked but without a pool view. Being a garden view though it meant you had your own little yard space which was nice. The bed however was terrible, it was hard, lumpy and most likely old. Buffet breakfast was a big highlight for us, very nicely cooked food every day, it some changes in the hot food each day made it interesting. The staff at the hotel were all very friendly and accommodating, good service.

The edging around the pools is very rough and sharp. My son had bad abrasions on his knees from these sharp edges, especially underwater between the main and kids pool.

The actual hotel looks very nice and classy, would honestly rate the look to be 5 star. The pictures are definitely accurate. The location is a short motor bike ride from lamai and crystal bay. However, the actual location of the hotel is not walking distance from any nice beaches. The hotel has a pool and spa right along the beach (across the street from the actual hotel) and the location WOULD have been good if this beach was nice at all. I REPEAT it is not nice AT ALL. Very ugly beach with view of bad looking docks that may or may not ever be used. The view and sand is terrible and dirty. I wish this wasn’t the case as the actual hotel is beautiful.

The resort itself was very nice and we thoroughly enjoyed our stay. The breakfast, pool, rooms, and staff were all amazing. The only potential negatives would be the cost of food at the restaurants/pool bar when it's not happy hour, and the location isn't exactly ideal (a 15-20 minute walk into the main part of town/main Lamai beach, and a taxi ride away from other main beaches like Chaweng or Bophut). Sometimes the wifi was also spotty when we used our phones (laptop worked fine oddly enough). Overall though, I really enjoyed the stay and the staff were very accommodating and kind. Would recommend!

Hotel was lovely. Breakfast first class. The 2 things that let the resort down were the high prices at the pub, beach bar and restaurant. And the state of the beach which was full of sea weed so unable to swim in it. It was a shame because the pub was empty all the time even when it poured of rain. I feel they have missed a great opportunity with the pub as we would have used it most days and especially nights for a drink before bed. It was also too expensive to drink at the beach bar so we did what most others did and went to another bar with a pool where the food and drink was half price.