Stayed here with friends for our first week. lovely apartment but not quiet as we expected in a few areas of online descriptions .
Firstly , it’s Quiet a distance from main areas a taxi ride each night at a cost of 400 baht each way if you are wanting to venture out to visit /see local areas with restaurants/ bar/ massage etc . there are two restaurants down the ‘steep’ hill from apartment, We tried one, was ok. you can order food in , which we did on arrival which was lovely and manager Jum was excellent at organising for us . However we hadn’t planned on staying in each night.
Secondly, not quiet as the online pictures show the apartments outside area , whilst having lovely views of the small beach below leads you to believe that you have privacy , this is not so as you are actually over looked by at least 3 other apartments to the side and above you . Apartment being mainly glass you felt like you were being observed most of the time whilst eating inside or relaxing on the patio area. A big disappointment for us all was apparently at this time of the year the patio area only gets the sun for around 2/3 hours a day, the rest of the time it’s in the shade.
The pool is really only a cooling off pool,, so we headed down to the beach This is smaller than depicted in the photos and mostly set out for the villas and hotel behind it. There are no sun beds for the public to hire and only a small stretch of beach for you to use as when we required if we could hire sunbeds we were told only for hotel guests . This area of the beach was kept lovely and clean but the other end was quiet dirty with rubbish.
Finally , although the information regarding the apartment informs you that electricity is an ‘extra’ fee, we strongly felt that it should have been included in rental price initially, as after being informed by manager on arrival that we should keep use to a minimum otherwise we could expect a large fee at the end of our stay , we were slightly paranoid about our usage , not putting air con on when really we could have done with it etc.
Maybe this is a ‘clever’ way of the owner’s highlighting people’s usage , but I think that if they were to have included their ‘ concerns ‘ in the welcome folder most people whom rent the apartment would be mindful in their use of the electricity. It certainly left us all ‘daily ‘ worrying that we’d Possibly over used It . ( not at all relaxing )
Final Mutual agreement was nice but not for us.
