friendly staff but poor quality rooms
We are budget travellers, and are used to budget accommodation. I'm mostly forgiving of basic amenities etc., but the Riviera resort was not nice.
1. To get to the hotel you have to walk down a dusty path, past loads of scraggy dogs, and a cafe with topless middle aged men sat outside gawping
2. Our room had lizards in it, and everything was shabby - there were stains on the sheets and on the mosquito-net
3. The bathroom had a scary vent under the sink that wouldn't close and was full of cobwebs. And the light was just hanging off the ceiling, and the tiles were stained, and the shower was pretty much just a hose, spurting water in random dribbles
4. WiFi doesn't reach the rooms
5. The air-con was the loudest thing EVER. We couldn't sleep over the rattling
6. We bought coffee in the morning, from the menu the waiter brought over. When we paid he said it was actually 50baht more because the menu had 'old prices' in it
7. This isn't so much the hotel's fault, but a lot of the other guests were unsavoury - i.e. the man who sat in his pants on his ground-floor balcony, leering at people walking past ALL DAY.
But the staff were very smiley and polite, and the gardens were nice. We didn't use the pool, but it looked clean, and the beach nearby, Naklua, was lovely.
คะแนน : 5 / 10
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