I can't honestly understand all the good reviews on here for Had Farang as we had an awful experience. I can only assume they all stayed in the nicer looking and more expensive AC bungalows.

We stayed in the cheaper fan bamboo bungalow with private bathroom. The price was good but that's about all that was. It was poorly built with gaps and holes all over the place. (I do realise the style of bamboo huts and have stayed in many budget accommodations). There was a 2 inch gap between the top of the door and the door frame as well as numerous gaping holes in the floor as walls. This is a problem as there we hundreds of Mosquitos every night. My boyfriend managed to hang his mosquito net over the door to stop so many going in. I saw one review which said mosquito nets are provided - they weren't in ours so bring your own.

The room was covered in sand when we arrived - fine it is near the beach but I would have thought they could clean it slightly better. The bathroom looked as though it had never been cleaned, sqaushed Mosquitos everywhere and that was before we started killing them!

The day we arrived there was a tsunami warning telling us to get to high ground. We didn't know where to go so obviously went to the staff for advice but they were just running around like headless chickens. We had to rely on English speaking locals to advise us.

I could forgive all of the above but the very worst part of our stay was arriving back to our bungalow late one evening to find animal poo (possibly from one of the stray cats on the island) laying on the step to our bathroom! I know I said there were holes in our room but not big enough for a cat! The only way it could have got in was when one of the staff came in to replace to toilet roll (not cleaning the bathroom at all) and they must have just let it happen or not seen. We went to the staff who struggled to understand what we were saying. One begrudgingly came so we could show him. All he did was pick it up with tissue and put it in the bin in the bathroom, no cleaning the area or anything! Truly revolting. We didn't leave the bin in our room for flies and ants to get in.

Just a few minutes from the beach. Nice and friendly place. The larger air conditioned rooms are very nice the smaller with fan are much simpler but still a good value. We stayed there with three children.