I am also late in writing this review, and normally I do not write. But after reading some of the reviews about this hotel I will do now. It sems to me that I stayed really not the same place some people stayed the same time. Since 2006 we spent there every year 2 weeks for Christmas and New Year, last two years together with our little son. We enjoyed and we are happy to go there end of year again.
Beach: Nai Harn is a perfect beach to relax. Of course in peak season there are many people who want to enjoy too, but you will never have problems to find a place to swimm and to dine in one of the small restaurants at the beachway (and all of them are good). But if you are looking for bars and nightlife, Nai Harn is not the area which fullfill your wishes
The hotel is only a few steps away from the beach. Rooms: clean and since the refurnishing 2007 you find everything you need. Normally you will not stay whole day in your room, so it is big enough. Try to avoid the rooms near the street. But if you look for 50 squaremeters and flatscreen with 50 international channels you better move to another place.
Pool: the new big one is excellent, the old small one could be renewed once,
Staff: even in peak season you will find a friendly staff who try to make your stage comfortable.Of course sometimes you have to queue for breakfast, which is btw ok, but In 6 years I could not complain about one person. Obviously the management does a good job.
May be the staff become more friendly if people not try to teach them how to do their job, also words like please or thank you can help a lot.
We really recommend all seasons for an uncomplicate and relaxing holiday.

Thomas, Panita and Felix

We stayed here for 2 weeks in January 2011. I'm late in writing this review obviously!

So, overall our experience was positive. If there were more options the same distance from the beach I'd probably look around. But remember that in this area there are VERY few choices for accommodation within a 30sec walk to this beach. From what we could tell it was this place, the Royal Yacht Club (whatever it's called, its ridiculously expensive), or any of the hotels up in the Naiharn town area which are a decent walk to the beach and not recommended under the scorching sun.

All we were looking for was a comfortable, clean, quiet room. This place ticked those boxes. Yes, it is far from the 'action', but on our day trips to areas such as Patong (which we found to be extremely dirty, loud, and annoying) we found ourselves very glad that we stayed in Naiharn. This area is so beautiful. We took a day trip to Coral Island and while it was beautiful, the beach at Naiharn is just as good. And anyway the hotel has a free shuttle service to the main drags which we did a few times. Make sure you book a few days in advance. They will also take you up to Promthep Cape for sunset - don't miss this. There are some lovely shops up there and the shop keepers just give you the best price straight up unlike Patong etc.

We loved the 100THB cocktails at happy hour by the pool. Fitness room not great but nice beach and flat paths around for jogging in the mornings. Breakfast was good enough. At peak times i.e. 9am it was hard to get a table and staff struggled to keep up. There was one short-lived power outage during our stay (boohoo get over it and go to the beach) In my opinion minor inconveniences are worth it to stay at this location. There are a bunch of restaurants across the road which were magical at night time. All the tables are in the sand and the food is amazing (Food Mama is the best) and cheap.

So basically, my point is this: if you travel overseas to spend all your time sitting in a luxury hotel room, you will not like this place. If you want a decent (decent, not 5 star) and safe place to crash after getting out and about, you'll be fine.

The beach by this hotel is amazing. It is right across the street, and has perfect sand and waves. That all being said, our hotel room smelled like sewage when we walked in. Called the front desk and they came up and basically just ran the A/C on blast until it went away. Throughout our stay, whenever we would leave the A/C off for a while... same thing would happen. Also, I accidentally broke a glass bottle of water on the floor and they came up to sweep up the pieces of glass. That was very nice of them, however they charged me 60 baht for doing that on my bill. Interesting... The included buffet breakfast was decent, we figured out that the cook will make omelettes for you if you ask, otherwise you'll just get eggs by themselves. All in all, I would stay here again because of the location and hopefully the sewage issue was just a fluke in our wing of the hotel...