Ranks high on a Thailand scale
We were very impressed with this hotel. It is a bit more expensive, but with this comes a few perks.
1. Even the "regular" rooms are beautiful, spacious and feel very new.
2. The beds, compared to the rock-hard pseudo-beds found elsewhere in Thailand are very comfortable. Given that you're out most of the day and the main point of a hotel room is to sleep in, I rank this extremly high.
3. The staff were very friendly and quite attentive.
The beach outside the hotel is nice and more or less secluded. Rent a scooter to get around. As long as you're driving in to Thong Sala (west) and not into Haad Rin beach (east), the roads are straight, wide and safe. East to Haad Rin is gnarly, steep and twisty and is the reason there are so many scooter accidents in Phangan.
That said, Thong Sala is a bit dead in terms of night life. If you need a bit more bar fun, just grab a taxi into Haad Rin. At least the drives know the road well and are in larger vehicles--the better to shield you from drunken idiots on scooters.
คะแนน : 8.7 / 10
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