The room where is stayed is a de luxe room which is the average superior room iin most hotels. Water pressure in the shower is weak. Internet is free but unreliable. I stayed for two day without internet in the room.
The hotel lobby is infested with MOSQUITOES!
Food is ok for the price. Breakfast is not so bad.
Hotel staff are corteous and friendly.
Value for money is ok.
Would not recommend it to a friend but I guess this is the best hotel in the area.
it's hard to write a review of this hotel. along with some PROs there are really many CONs beginning with the worst possible location on the very outskirts of this strangely shaped long and thin town: to add further problems do carefully remember that in nakhon si thammarat no taxis or tuk-tuks exist, therefore do NOT rely of reception suggestion to take 2 connecting songtaews (shared jeepney "taxis") for many kilometers (at least 6 or 7 following my instinct) to get into town: we had an awful experience on the way back when at just 7PM (not midnight !) we couldn't find the second songtaew to be driven to the hotel and we were stranded for a long time without any idea about how to get back, with no one speaking english around until we decided for a risky hitch-hiking. for any city tour (and in town many interesting this can be seen) convince the reception to hire their minivan (quite expensive at THB1200 for just 4hrs, but the only way to safely being driven anywhere). throughout the whole hotel captions and panels are written almost exclusively in thai, this showing the hotel is almost totally geared at thai tourism and local conventions, weddings and banquets. common spaces are huge, too huge to feel comfortable and cozy. decoration and furniture, although luxurious look very 1980s, just recycled from Dinasty's sets and outdated. floor corridors are not A/C and don't smell good. our deluxe twin was large, comfortable, well appointed, with a good large bathroom and everything functional although 1980s too. the hotel's coffee shop is inconveniently located far away from the lobby, down some stairs and through non-sense long corridors, past a gloomy shut down disco and and outer patio. resident thai singers are everywhere and are loud: in the lobby café (way expensive!), in the beer garden and in the coffee shop itself. no way of escaping them for a nice intimate chat. apparently thai tourists love them. the hotel souvenir shop is so non-sense that becomes almost chic: they just sell ceramic turtles, hair pins, imitation bags and few postcards but not of nakhon si thammarat! the pool area is the dullest and gloomiest of all: a huge space is left almost derelict with just 10 wooden sunchairs, all of them without mattress and no trace of sun umbrella. lateral walls and floor are peeling off and badly needing repainting and renovation. our experience in the massage parlour was also non-sense. any kind of massage less than 2hrs was not conceived therefore we had to pay the same amount as we wanted just 1hr. massage in itself was ok, though the place was ugly, very much like a soviet public health center. at our uttermost surprise we noticed once leaving the place that many masseuses were watching tv behind a huge glass wall, all of them wearing different numbers on their t-shirts, very much like amsterdam red light district creatures. we assumed that such weird place was not just a massage parlour... as a final comment i would describe the place as luxurious but unintimate, too large to feel nice, extremely inconvenently located, with kind staff but lacking almost the most basic english, no internet facilities (two PCs available but none functioning), a good buffet breakfast and rather good food (but not cheap) in the coffee shop. be seriously warned for the distance from the hotel to the center! for the rest it's hard to tell whether i would recommend the twin lotus or not...
I arrived lunchtime and my room not ready the hotel was very busy with some sort of conference going on. I was given 2 welcome drinks and the newspaper to read and the staff were very good, Also good English spoken.
Room was big as was the bathroom and all very clean.
Breakfast was very busy and there was nowhere set out for me to eat and not a very good selection of Thai food.
Evening bar staff did not speak such good English and they got very confused when i ordered a beer.
Swimming pool very plain and uninviting.
it's hard to write a review of this hotel. along with some PROs there are really many CONs beginning with the worst possible location on the very outskirts of this strangely shaped long and thin town: to add further problems do carefully remember that in nakhon si thammarat no taxis or tuk-tuks exist, therefore do NOT rely of reception suggestion to take 2 connecting songtaews (shared jeepney "taxis") for many kilometers (at least 6 or 7 following my instinct) to get into town: we had an awful experience on the way back when at just 7PM (not midnight !) we couldn't find the second songtaew to be driven to the hotel and we were stranded for a long time without any idea about how to get back, with no one speaking english around until we decided for a risky hitch-hiking. for any city tour (and in town many interesting this can be seen) convince the reception to hire their minivan (quite expensive at THB1200 for just 4hrs, but the only way to safely being driven anywhere). throughout the whole hotel captions and panels are written almost exclusively in thai, this showing the hotel is almost totally geared at thai tourism and local conventions, weddings and banquets. common spaces are huge, too huge to feel comfortable and cozy. decoration and furniture, although luxurious look very 1980s, just recycled from Dinasty's sets and outdated. floor corridors are not A/C and don't smell good. our deluxe twin was large, comfortable, well appointed, with a good large bathroom and everything functional although 1980s too. the hotel's coffee shop is inconveniently located far away from the lobby, down some stairs and through non-sense long corridors, past a gloomy shut down disco and and outer patio. resident thai singers are everywhere and are loud: in the lobby café (way expensive!), in the beer garden and in the coffee shop itself. no way of escaping them for a nice intimate chat. apparently thai tourists love them. the hotel souvenir shop is so non-sense that becomes almost chic: they just sell ceramic turtles, hair pins, imitation bags and few postcards but not of nakhon si thammarat! the pool area is the dullest and gloomiest of all: a huge space is left almost derelict with just 10 wooden sunchairs, all of them without mattress and no trace of sun umbrella. lateral walls and floor are peeling off and badly needing repainting and renovation. our experience in the massage parlour was also non-sense. any kind of massage less than 2hrs was not conceived therefore we had to pay the same amount as we wanted just 1hr. massage in itself was ok, though the place was ugly, very much like a soviet public health center. at our uttermost surprise we noticed once leaving the place that many masseuses were watching tv behind a huge glass wall, all of them wearing different numbers on their t-shirts, very much like amsterdam red light district creatures. we assumed that such weird place was not just a massage parlour... as a final comment i would describe the place as luxurious but unintimate, too large to feel nice, extremely inconvenently located, with kind staff but lacking almost the most basic english, no internet facilities (two PCs available but none functioning), a good buffet breakfast and rather good food (but not cheap) in the coffee shop. be seriously warned for the distance from the hotel to the center! for the rest it's hard to tell whether i would recommend the twin lotus or not...
