We stayed at the Koh Kood Beach Resort in December for 4 days and found the place to be acceptable. The first thing that I should mention is that the hotel is located on a fantastic island that is not overly commercialized yet. See it while you can before they turn it into a circus like Koh Chang. Most hotels on the island are incredibly rustic and the beach resort is better than most of them. As another reviewer wrote, please be warned that this is not a luxury hotel, but something far more rustic. The location had a campground feel to it that I still cannot explain. Weigh your choices when deciding on this hotel:
Pros:
1. Laundry Service - they charge about $2 per kilo to wash clothes for guests. They actually did a fast, quality job with our clothes.
2. Bacon for breakfast - let's be real honest. I would have given this place 3 stars instead of 4, but they served bacon for breakfast. Mmmmm, bacon.
3. The beach - the hotel has a very nice small beach that is easy for the little ones to enter. The sea is quite calm there and there are some fish to see with the provided snorkels. On that note...
4. Free snorkels, kayaks, mountain bikes. Leave a deposit, borrow their equipment.
5. The pool - the hotel pool delighted my children for days.
The cons:
1. Attack of the ants! Our first night, our room was nearly over run with ants. They were on the walls, the bed and the floor. However, after we brushed them aside and sprayed some insect repellent at their point of entry (the ceiling), they never returned.
2. Stray dogs. Watch out for the stray dogs that roam the hotel grounds. At one point they surrounded me and started to growl, but I happened to get the attention of one of the staff members. He knew the dogs well and they backed off of me, but I was still very concerned that they would attack at another point.
3. Expensive massage. The hotel offers massage, but it was easily twice as much as anywhere else we saw on our vacation. However, I should note that we did not get the massage there and it might have been worth it.
4. Nescafe for breakfast. OK, so I am a little bit of a coffee snob, but I believe that if you are paying for a resort with breakfast included, then it should have a decent cup of coffee.
In the end, we would probably stay here again, but would plan ahead to avoid some of the pitfalls that we encountered on the first trip.
