Having read the reviews I booked here with some trepidation. The hotel was easy to get to by car (not taxi) from the airport for just 100 Baht. Check in was fine and the room and bathroom were of a good size with adequate toiletries. The outsides of the room doors certainly needed some repainting and the room walls needed repapering. The buffet breakfast was adequate...the hotel seems to cater mainly for Thais and other asians and therefore there was a lot of asian food ...the western food was not too palatable but do try the freshly cooked Vietnamese fried eggs...after that I filled up on corn flakes and toast. The staff struggled gamefully with limited English and tried to fob me off with a car and driver (presumably belonging to hotel) at an extortionate rate to visit Wat That Phanom, claiming the distance of 53km was too far for a "tuk tuk" to go - the first tuk tuk I asked outside took me at about 40% of what I would have paid for a car and driver. The room had no tea/coffee making facilities and, while there was a large balcony overlooking the Mekong, there were no tables and chairs on it, something asian guests would not want! Beware the bedside control panel to operate all the lights, except bathroom, as it is extremely difficult to see which buttons to push when the room is in almost complete...Having read the reviews I booked here with some trepidation. The hotel was easy to get to by car (not taxi) from the airport for just 100 Baht. Check in was fine and the room and bathroom were of a good size with adequate toiletries. The outsides of the room doors certainly needed some repainting and the room walls needed repapering. The buffet breakfast was adequate...the hotel seems to cater mainly for Thais and other asians and therefore there was a lot of asian food ...the western food was not too palatable but do try the freshly cooked Vietnamese fried eggs...after that I filled up on corn flakes and toast. The staff struggled gamefully with limited English and tried to fob me off with a car and driver (presumably belonging to hotel) at an extortionate rate to visit Wat That Phanom, claiming the distance of 53km was too far for a "tuk tuk" to go - the first tuk tuk I asked outside took me at about 40% of what I would have paid for a car and driver.
The room had no tea/coffee making facilities and, while there was a large balcony overlooking the Mekong, there were no tables and chairs on it, something asian guests would not want!
Beware the bedside control panel to operate all the lights, except bathroom, as it is extremely difficult to see which buttons to push when the room is in almost complete darkness...the lights which are on when the key card is removed to leave the room do not come back on when the key card is reinserted.
Loaction by the river is fine but it is a bit far from the centre of town...but just a 20 baht "tuk tuk" rideMore