“Far from town but nice room and good service”

Great service. Very nice room. Far from civilization. Also far from any shops, convenience stores and restaurants. A taxi dive into the city will set you back 700 bath (single trip). The hotel restaurant is your only choice food wise but it's not bad at all and the staff is very friendly. 5 days ... Mais

Great service. Very nice room. Far from civilization. Also far from any shops, convenience stores and restaurants. A taxi dive into the city will set you back 700 bath (single trip). The hotel restaurant is your only choice food wise but it's not bad at all and the staff is very friendly. 5 days was too long,a weekend would have sufficed. Trips from Krabi town are easy and convenient and the hotel staff can give you tips. The beach is like any beach on the mainland, murky and not pristine by far. If you want white sandy beaches and clear water you have to take a Boat out to the islands. Also the water recedes very far out during low tide every day. Walks only the beach are nice though

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“Far from civilization.”

The title of my review is as honest as it will get! That said, it's not meant to be taken as a negative, rather, if you're reading this and you've only time to graze through the title and the few lines that Tripadvisor will display, I hope this helps :-) Yes, it's far from where "it's at". If t... Mais

The title of my review is as honest as it will get! That said, it's not meant to be taken as a negative, rather, if you're reading this and you've only time to graze through the title and the few lines that Tripadvisor will display, I hope this helps :-) Yes, it's far from where "it's at". If this is your first trip to Krabi, understand that Krabi itself is the name of the province and its city, therefore Krabi Town, which I'll can best describe as a little hamlet. Worth visiting as day trip but itself is not why people go to "Krabi". People go there for the beaches, and the beach most people go to is where I was at last year: the coast and town of Ao Nang. Now, this place isn't in Ao Nang. It's in Nuea (sic) Kchlong, which is over 50 km from Ao Nang and you can pinpoint Krabi Town and Krabi Airport as the centre of both. It's located on a strip of coast called Had Yao (Long Beach). Note there is another place named Haad Yao in Surat Thani, so don't go booking the wrong hotel! Arriving at the hotel is typical of Thai hospitality. Staff are friendly and we got to our rooms without any hassle. Rooms are sizable. They are all individuals chalets (or "bungalows". as the ad likes to refer to as) and I booked the normal one. There is an upgradeable option to what really is just a slightly bigger room. But still, queen size bed, fridge, huge bathroom with a shower and long bath, I don't really see how a much more room one really needs unless you've got a lot of kids. Bed is comfy. A/C works well. Toilet is good. There's a fridge with two bottles of water provided daily. There's a mini mart nearby to stock up on chocs, sodas and what's not. No flask, so no coffee or tea provided but I've long accepted this is a Thai thing. The overall area of this "resort" is very small. You enter through the entrance, walk past chalets 1-5, come to the reception area where the "executive" suites are the two rooms above. Another couple more chalets, the dining/cafe area, pool and then the beach itself. Pool is small and water heavily chlorinated in my opinion; really sting the eyes. The cafe is only passable. I'm a burger person and the burger served here is mini mart quality (probably came from there anyway). The beach here is best described as lonely. My wife and I are probably the only two couples who swim daily. I believe it's the black-ish sand on this beach. Whereas most of Krabi is white sand so the water appears blue and clear as day, this one is a little different. That is not to say it's dirty. It really isn't! The water is clear and wonderful but the black sand gives the impression it's not. I could dive and have no problems spotting corals and other undersea dwellers. Now, honestly I don't like to highlight negatives too negatively unless I have no choice, but I feel there are two big flaws here that, since this is a public forum and that unless the proprietor really looks into them, I think it will cause most people to reconsider their stay here. They first: the rooms rank. As in stinks! Something to do with the sewage I guess. The place is very clean overall, I must say. I guess every reviewer here noted this. I can't say I blame the proprietor. I mean, another couple complained and they were upgraded to the executive room where the smell is mitigated but not completely unnoticeable. It bothered me. My line of work takes me to places smelt first before they are seen, so I thought I would be quite tolerant and yet, I'm bothered by it. Maybe I'm on vacation. Maybe I'm on vacation where I "let go" and feast on great seafood and come back to the room to be greeted by this assault on the senses. Make sure you keep your bathroom door closed. Truly, I think in the five days I stayed, I've seen people check in and check out quickly. Next big minus is the isolation of the place. It's about 30 km to town and 50 to Ao Nang. There aren't really any "life" here. It's a village, a small village where people wake up, go to school / work and life is happy and some business people built a few hotels around here. Not gonna eat (or pay) for hotel food (and hotel prices), we looked around and there are really only three places I would recommend. North or turn left out of the hotel, 3km and you would come to a foreigner owned place called Mar Song or something but I didn't eat there (didn't want a burger in Thailand ha ha). Drive all the way, about 5km up the coast, take a left at the T-junction to reach the last drivable shore and you'll come to Had Yao Resort. Excellent Thai food! Or turn right (South) out of the hotel and a brisk 5 minute walk would take you to Laam Chaeng (I think that's how it's spelt) seafood. Good cooking but the wife (a Thai) didn't like that half the menu is unavailable (no crabs, no prawns, no shell fish) but still, reasonably good cooking. Anywhere else, you'll need to get a taxi. Because it's that far away from everything, you'll either need to pay more (work out a return arrangement or something) or make friends with driver if he/she is friendly and see if they could help you out. We chatted up a local fisherman and made arrangements to go to Phi Phi and the surrounding islands. He waited right by our beach. Nearby, there really isn't anything much. There's a cashew nut factory nearby. Take the road out (the one you came in) and there will be a prominent sign to your left. Overall, I enjoyed the isolation of this place because that's what I was looking for. I took a day trip to Ao Nang; souvenirs for the nosy people I call my colleagues. So, come here if you want to be away from life. Or don't come if your ideal vacation is partying. Staff are friendly. Helps that my wife is Thai and I speak passable Thai. But there's the stench...... I hope management is reading this.

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