The Banyan Villa was without doubt the worst hotel on Phi Phi, If you can class this place as a hotel, rather than a building site.
There is continuous building work taking place from 8 till 5, however this isn't always accurate as we were informed and the building work can take place later into the night.
Needless to say, we did not stick around for long and it was upon deciding to leave that we were treated in a manner that can only be described as absolutely disgusting by the rude and incompetent staff on the reception desk.
There are no words that can describe how badly we were treated by the reception staff when we chose to leave the resort, they refused to acknowledge that the building work was in fact their problem and not ours and refused to even deal with us, during a conversation with the head receptionist she picked up her handbag and walked out the resort, mid conversation.
When they finally agreed to let us move to one of the other resorts on the island, The Palm Tree we were charged an extra 500 bart a night (10 pounds per night) which is ridiculous considering we had already payed the phi phi hotel group and this was their problem, and not ours. Upon asking to see a manager in both the Banyan Villa and the Palm tree we were told there was no manager and there was no one to help us, we simply had to either lose the money we had already paid to the phi phi hotel group or pay more in order to stay somewhere that wasn't a building site.
understandably we were very angry about having to pay an extra ten pounds a night and whilst discussing whether we should opt for a refund from our booking agent or pay the extra money the receptionist looked up at us and said look, u want to stay here or not, you waste my time.
This is simply unacceptable and not the way to treat customers, who have been inconvenienced by matters that are out of their control.
The Banyan Villa should not be open to customers, the hotel is a building site, and the staff are incompetent, rude and and unpleasant.
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