A friend and I booked on line at the Kata Beach Center hotel.
The welcome was very friendly and the establishment was clean and comfortable.
We were delighted to find the hotel was very central, that is it is situated in a quiet area,only 10 minutes walk to the beach.
As we were on a tight budget the accomadation suited us perfectly.
Everything we needed was within walking distance.
Fresh produce market, 'flea market' the cooking school. and the night market made eating out great fun.

This unique hotel does exactly what it says on the tin. No frills, no nonsense. The location is ideal if you want to explore Phuket Island. It's out of the way 'ish' but a stones throw away from the fantastic beach at Kata. The lunacy of Patong is ten minutes by tuk tuk, and fifteen minutes to the idyllic Nai Harn beach. If lying by the pool in your all inclusive hotel is your thing then this hotel is not for you. If perfectly useable facilities, perfect location for exploring, and amazing value for money is your thing, then look no further. This is your hotel. My wife and I have spent the best part of two weeks bouncing around Phuket and this hotel is just the ticket. It's a great place to relax after nipping about on your scooter seeing all the fantastic sights Phuket has to offer. The staff are really friendly and only to happy to offer advice and useful contacts for travelling around the island and to the smaller islands which circle it. Stay here, you won't regret it.

We have booked for 3 days on the internet for the superior room, though I have a feeling based on the pictures that they have upgraded us to deluxe without saying a word, how nice. We ended up staying 5 nights due to various conditions:) The stuff was incredibly nice, all spoke very good English, which is unfortunately not quite the standard in Thailand. There was nothing I could say wrong about the hotel, maybe just that it is not on the beach, though we knew that, and on the beach the rates are 5 times higher, just for the view - i'd rather walk 5 minutes to go to the beach than spend all that money for 10 minutes when I'd watch the beach from my room. We just got a bit unlucky with the weather as some kind of a storm hit us there so we were in the room for a whole day, however at the time we appreciated the steam room and jacuzzi (all alone:) and relaxed in the room. The staff, I'm not too sure, how they did it, but always cleaned the room in a couple minutes just as we left, or they came and changed at least the towels when I refused the cleaning service. I also got sick during the stay and the whole hotel was on their feet to get me some medicaments, they even went and bought a thermometer as they did not have one, but in 5 minutes after we asked for it, they were at our door handing it to my wife as I felt really sick. Basically it was an excellent service, clean rooms, nice location, quite - that was very important to us and close to the "live" streets and the beach. It is not the biggest 7 star luxury you can think of but it is a very nice place to stay, and for the price we paid, it was exceptional value for money - the best we had in two weeks in Thailand. If we went back to Kata, would definitely stay there again.