Don't Stay Here

Name: Don't Stay Here
Item: Phuket Heritage Hotel
Rating: 2
Author: AJ J

Review of Phuket Heritage Hotel

Reviewed February 1, 2012

Unfortunately, we were re-booked at this hotel after our original hotel cancelled our reservation due to facility issues. Luckily we only had to stay at the Phuket Heritage Hotel for 1 night. The Deluxe Spa room configurations were weird. The bed was in the middle of the rooom and bathroom sink was at the head of the bed. The bathroom was completely open to the room and the shower sprayed directly at the toilet. The "free" breakfast was sub-par unless you like toast with jam. All the signs in the hotel were in Thai and Russian. Seems like they accomodate to Russian tourists so if you are English speaking its not very friendly. I would never willingly select this hotel.More

Date of stay: February 2012

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Or4 wrote a review Nov 2011
18 contributions38 helpful votes
Reasonable basic hotel
Dated, basic hotel with no frills. Nice pool, good buffet style breakfast. Clean room, TV was old with very poor reception. 5 minute walk to the beach, many restaurants within walking distance.
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Thomkatsu wrote a review Nov 2011
5 contributions6 helpful votes
Worst hotel ever.
We stayed 2 nights there. The room was not clean (towels are filthy), facing to the busy road and it kept me awake all night. Tuk tuks kept going by playing loud music, mosquitos in the room. The swimming pool didn't look clean so we didn't use it. When we came back from dinner, the receptionist gave our room key to another guests by mistake, and it was a very bad security. There is no safe in each room. Then we asked them to change our room because of the noise, then the air con was broken in the second room, which kept us awake all night because of the heat. Also the other side of the room was noisy from the market anyways. Two sleepless nights, dirty towels and not great bathroom, never want to stay at this hotel again.
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MarkNorfolk1962 wrote a review Oct 2011
65 contributions39 helpful votes
Sadly another major disaster in Phuket !
After looking at the glossy pics and reading some reviews our eagerly awaited visit to Phuket and the Phuket Heritage arrived.
Our booking was for 12 nights in an " Executive Suite"
First impressions were not good, small feature less reception, with a poorly lit internet corner. It was all down hill from there !!

Before I continue I will tell you the good bits, Grace the beautiful Thai lady on reception, smiling helpfull and obviously inundated with complaints. MMMMMMM ????????? thats it one good point !

We booked in and parted with payment via credit card, we were led to our " executive suite". Up two flights of stairs( NO LIFTS HERE )across a wooden bridge over a fish pond, down a flight of stairs and we are there. Executive my backside ! a bed(not against a wall no headboard) in the middle of the room, a shower, bath, toilet and sink. Sounds great ? its not ! The room was damp, musty, grubby and left a lot to be desired. Bath was huge plenty of room for two, three, possibly four. Major drawback is the water is barely warm, runs about as fast as a 45 stone one legged man, by the time the water reaches the far side of the bath its cold !! Bath is a waste of space !! Toilet is hidden in an alcove behind the shower, need a wee ? someone in the shower? tough your gonna get wet !!. Shower base is two paving slabs on a selection of pebbles. Breeding ground for mozzy's . Want to wash your hands after using the loo? come out of the alcove walk around the room to the bed and behind there you will find the sink !!
After 30 minutes and the look on my wifes face , coupled with the 3 bites she had already received it was time for a room change, Grace agreed without any problem and we moved. Sadly it was exactly the same with the exception of two windows that did not open!.

After roughly an hour our decision was to move, not rooms but Hotels, after a phone call it was agreed that I would haved to pay for a night and would be refunded the remainder(not sure it that has happened will check tomorrow). We found an internet cafe and booked into the Andamann Beach suites , now thats what you call executive !
We stayed one night at the Heritage, I spent the night fighting to keep my pillows on the bed, and stopping myself getting strangled by the mozzy net, my wife just fought the mozzy's Final score Mozzy's won 7-0 .
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es786 wrote a review Oct 2011
149 contributions99 helpful votes
A charming, welcoming hotel
Spent 5 nights here. Rooms have been refurbished. Clean, big rooms, big bathroom, simple, very friendly staff, good location.
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petite_rainbow wrote a review Sep 2011
664 contributions19 helpful votes
A great relaxing getaway!
My 3 girlfriends and I made a short holiday to Phuket and stayed at Heritage Hotel Phuket. It was a lovely hotel with friendly staff. The room is clean and comfortable. The only drawback was that the hotel does not have multi plug as my charger is a 3-plug pin while theirs is a 2-plug pin. I ended up with no handphone service which could prove to be a blessing in disguise.
Though it rained from the time we arrived till the time we depart(!), this stay did not damper our mood and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. There were pockets of sunshine where we manage to have a quick walk to the beach to enjoy the waves and sun. When it was rained, we would spent our time lounging on one of the 4 cabanas located on the swimming pool at the 3rd floor of our hotel. It was just amazing as each cabana had a roof, to keep us dry where we enjoyed the breeze coming from the rain and hearing the pitter patter of the drizzle. We just put our towels on the large bean bags on the cabana, lie down with a good book and chat or snooze among ourselves. At one point, we even went down to pack fried rice from the nearest restaurant and order drinks from the pool bar and had a good picnic from our cabana.
Our hotel stay comes with breakfast which though has limited choice, but was delicious. If you don't feel like hotel food, some walking distance to the hotel's right, you will come to a restaurant serving authentic thai food. It was spicy and delicious! As for our dinner, just behind hotel was an array of shop houses with lots of restaurant pubs and massage centres. You need to pass by a bazaar of shops to get to these shoplots. We even manage to do daily massage at a reasonable price.
The taxi in front of our hotel were friendly people and we got one to take us to Patong on our first night, for our first cabaret show and we manage to have dinner at one of the shopping complex there.
As our main intention to go Phuket was just to relax, enjoy the sun (sometimes rain), sand and unwind, this was exactly what we had done. We love it.
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