Nara Sojourn Boutique Villas Siem Reap — Hotel in Siem Reap

The location of the villas is 3.5 km away from the city, it was in the middle of the village precisely.||||We were looking for a relaxing and quite hotel when without knowing, there was celebration going on in that village, so we could hear the music/praying from morning till evening. ||||To our surprise, the villas were not as good as in the website (room, pool, dining, spa).||So it was a little bit disappointing at the end. ||||The bedroom was spacious as well as the bathroom. There was also outdoor shower which was nice. ||||We were looking forward to spend time at the pool. Unfortunately the pool was not well maintained. ||||The Spa, the same thing, was not well maintained. The stains were found on top of the sheet to the t-shirt that we had to wear for the massage, not too mentioned many holes in the T-shirt, I ended up wearing my own t-shirt (since we had a Khmer traditional massage, they provided us with tshirt and pants). Also the massage room was full of mosquitos, I could not enjoy the massage since I was bitten by mosquitos and itchy every where :(||||For restaurant, they have lots of menu to choose from western to Cambodia. ||Breakfast was simple though.||||We enjoyed the cooking class very much. It was worth to experience it. ||||Overall, Sojourn is a nice boutique/hotel if it was maintained properly. The staff were nice and...

Staff are so friendly, all calling you by your name is a very personal touch. Some parts of the hotel i.e. The pool and brollies could be a bit tidier but can see how it would be hard to maintain with all the trees hanging over, also the fittings in the bathrooms could do with getting looked at.

The food is great, destination dining was lovely and the cooking class was a great three hours well spent.

Can't speak highly enough about one of the hotels tuk tuk drivers, Sim! An asset to the hotel, very kind and very knowledgeable. Took us at 4.45 to Angkor Wat to get tickets and see the sunrise, then around the other sites, waiting for us and telling us about the history of them all. Later on, took us to the market in the city where he waited a few hours for us to return. Top bloke and well worth asking for if you need to get out and about.

Unfortunately there was a two day wedding party happening at the end of our trip not far away. You can hear music from sunrise all the way through the day. The staff were apologetic about this at the start of our stay but their is nothing they can't do about it so don't think you can hold it against the hotel.

An in all, lovely stay and would highly recommend. Only 15 minutes from the city and if you are lucky not to have a wedding party on, it'll be a nice...

Booked for four days but stayed one night only and that was too long. We arrived at the hotel down a bumpy dirt red track in late afternoon to discover that we were the only guests there. A note in our villa (not during check in) advised that the hotel was cash only, no credit cards accepted. This is wholly unacceptable - I wouldn’t walk around London with $500 cash so why would I want to do that in a remote part of Siem Reap?||The reason for this inconvenience is that the hotel is under new management although you wouldn’t have thought so. The pool and villas were I guess once very nice indeed but look tired now, our bathroom could certainly do with a good spruce up. ||The staff and cook that were there were pleasant and friendly, my criticism isn’t directed at them and our evening meal from the limited menu was good. But none of this could overcome the frankly creepy sense that we were alone in a hotel some distance from the centre of town. The hotel is very near a village and a lament for a recently deceased villager was being blasted out by loud speaker in the evening and early morning. Sad but hardly made the atmosphere better.||Best avoided, new management hasn’t got its act together and my bet is that it never will. Far better...