Sea Breeze Resort — Hotel in Khaet Preah Sihanouk

The good: the air conditioning works ||The bad: everything else ||||To be fair, there is probably not a single accommodation provider in Outres (and maybe most of the other beach areas in Sihanoukville) that would get a positive review. Sihanoukville is currently a very large scale building site. Roads are being relaid, beach shacks are being bulldozed and multiple mega hi-rise hotels (50+ floors) are under construction. ||||Sea Breeze has new hi-rise hotels being constructed immediately to the north and west. Construction starts at 7am when the entire area literally shakes like you are in an earthquake. This lasts about 5 minutes and it repeated at intervals throughout the day. There is constant noise from steel being hammered and welded plus construction trucks bringing cement and building materials. The road(?) is being rebuilt and is a sand trap. There is dust everywhere. A tuk-tuk to the town costs $8 each way. $20 taxi to airport.||||Outres Beach is scheduled for bull-dozing from 01/01/2020 so the remaining food and massage shacks will be gone. Who knows what the beach will be like then.||||So the location is awful. I was aware of major Chinese funded development before I arrived, but had not expected anything on this scale or with so great an impact on the existing resort and beaches. The hotel makes no mention of the adjacent development in its description. ||||And the hotel itself is just as bad. The room has an oversized bed. Unfortunately the room is only 1m longer and wider than the bed. So you have half a meter either side of the bed. No room for a suitcase or anything else. The bedhead is so wide it blocks access to the power sockets. There are no bedside lights and the room lights cannot be turned off from the bed. The room does have a fridge/minibar but you will even be expected to pay for water (unusual for Cambodia). ||The bathroom is slightly better with an electric shower that gets luke-warm. There is no heated water at the basin, although this is common for Cambodia. The toilet has got a replacement seat which is too small so you end up sitting on the toilet itself. ||There is a restaurant and the prices are not outrageous, but the menu has few Khmer options. You'll be ok if you like fried food. ||||I might overlook the hotel deficiencies if I was paying $25 / night as a backpacker, but I paid $100 (thankfully only one night) for this room. Compared with the sub $50 rooms in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh this was disgraceful value.||||Without doubt, this is my worst ever hotel experience. ||||But as I said, the a/c works. (Sadly it had not been turned on in anticipation of our arrival (hotel aware of our arrival time) so the room was like an oven when we checked in.) ||||The (European?) management really don't care. They seem to realise their days are numbered and are just cashing in while they can. I sent them this review prior to cecking out and this was their response:||||"Well noted, you can post your comments we do not mind, coz people knew about these situation of Sihanoukville city"||||||Please avoid Sihanoukville for the next few years. If you want to travel to the islands, plan to arrive at the port before the last ferry (approx 15:00) so you don't need to stay a night.||||[Since leaving we have learned that the builing works commenced approximately April 2019 and were initially scheduled to last 3 years. They are being funded by the Chinese who want to build a casino style resort location. Sadly the Cambodian government have just passed a law banning online casinos. Not sure why this affects bricks-and-mortar development but there are reports that several building projects have been mothballed as a result. A very sad situation for the...

The rooms look great. I would still come to this place again next time, it's at a perfect location; close to the beach. However, there was a dead cockroach in the bathroom, I believe this is a one time thing and room service took care of that already. Mini bar is a LITTLE expensive, it came with nuts, cup noodles, water bottles, and in the fridge there were sodas and drinks.

The bed is comfortable, neatly arranged.

In my opinion, this resort or hotel I'd consider is the best looking among other options, and is closest to the beach.

Considering parking spots, they can tend to be a little full as there's only about 8 spots or so, and I found myself trying to find parking spots after leaving in the afternoon...

This was my 2nd time stay in this resort. This time we requested for room with private pool with extra bed 119 which is enough big. Last time was 115 which was very conjusted. For breakfast all food was remain a bit like no chicken in the curry and was cold due to they have big group who ate earlier but the staff was very courteous and for to choose from menu but we request to add some chicken in the dishes and hot the food and we were also 2 families and as a vegetarian I requested for some croissants and cheese and and hot coffee with milk and they did everything with the smiling face with i like most. Keep it up guys just one suggestion , if you keep a buffet try to keep it same for last person as its...