Dong Talay Lipe Beach Resort — Hotel in Ko Lipe

I booked this resort after walking past the year before. It has a lovely pool over looking the beach with various types of villas. We booked a beachfront room which had a nice view overlooking the pool through to the beach/ocean. ||The beach front villas are individual except for one duplex style. The duplex style suited us as we had friends stay beside us which was great to share a long balcony. Excellent in this situation, however if we went back on our own we’d prefer a single villa so it’s more private.||The staff were lovely and a special thank you to Lee who was the contact through email prior and lovely on the island. Works extremely hard and always with a smile. ||Don is a fantastic manager overseeing everything is running smoothly. Very friendly and helpful.||We loved Apple (and her very cute doggy) the resort owner. She is extremely friendly and we loved her bubbly personality.||This is not a flash resort. It did have everything we needed. The only thing I would recommend is if they can update the bathrooms. The water was Luke warm for most showers and sometimes cold. I don’t think it would take much to spruce the shower area up. The rest of the room was great and had a great working air conditioner.||We found the breakfast more than adequate. I did hear other people complaining about it. For us there was more than enough choice as we are happy to enjoy fried rice and eggs. There was watermelon and pineapple. Toast and cereal also available. A few other choices. More than adequate for my family. If they weren’t too busy they would also cook you a fresh omelet. Eating breakfast outside on the deck has such a beautiful view. ||We booked our day trip with the resort and our long tail driver was excellent. We did both the inner and outer snorkeling. We particularly enjoyed the inner one as the second location had amazing snorkeling that we stopped at and the beach we stopped at was beautiful. ||We definitely will look at coming back to this resort if we return to Koh Lipe. It is on a busy part of the island but we liked this as it was close to Walking street to walk to for supplies and dinner out.||We also got to witness (which we think the best placed resort ) to see an amazing half an hour display of fireworks on New Year’s Eve.||If you seek quietness then choosing a resort on either sunrise or sunset beach might be a better option. For us we really enjoyed the vibe of this beach. ||Also after staying on sunrise beach the year before and finding it windy we decided Pattaya beach was a better option this time of year as likely not windy. Apparently it is the opposite mid year. We also had perfect sunshine for our whole week. So even though it’s high season and rates are higher it’s a good time of year to stay. ||We loved our stay. Koh Lipe is very beautiful. Beautiful white sand and aqua water . Dong Talay is a beautiful little gem to stay at and the staff...

Had my stay here for 3days around August. I booked the superior bronze studio at dong talay. For the price, it was amazing! I paid around RM200/night for the rooms so it was quite cheap considering the included breakfast and spacious room. Their receptionist and staffs are very accommodating and kind! They let you checkin around 1.30pm right after u arrived at koh lipe and check out late at around 12pm if you're staying at another resort after that. They will send a staff to pick you up at the pier holding dong talay lipe resort sign, and they will help u to carry all the luggages to the resort, it was just a walking distance about 100m from the pier to the resort. Some of the staffs can speak english and are very helpful. Their breakfast are halal, they used halal certified chicken and no pork are served. For the price paid, the breakfast served are quite good and satisfying. They also offer a free ride to another resort which warms my heart! The beach infront of the resort are not busy with boats, so u can swim freely! The resorts are right on the beach and u can go to the beach whenever you want which is a bonus point! However, the facilities was quite old and run down, the bed sheet got some tear, the toilet sliding door wiggle, and the holder for head shower kept coming off. For the price wise, i could not complaint a lot since it was quite cheap. FYI, they are currently renovating most of their rooms so it might be a bit noisy but no works are done during night so it was okay for me. Overall, i love my stay here because of the friendly and loveable staffs, and breakfast which i lovee! Would definitely come back if they are done with...

I kind of feel bad writing this review because the staff here were so friendly and helpful but we had a many things go wrong since day 1. We don't expect much from a hotel. A clean room, WiFi, aircon and we are happy but there always seemed to be something wrong during our entire stay here. The first 2 nights were spent in a room where the aircon didn't work. The toilet clogged and the water pressure fluctuated between high and low. We were staying towards the back of the resort which meant that the WiFi was always unstable. On the 3rd day they moved us to a different room as they conceded the aircon was broken but for the final 2 days there was zero wifi connection. They tried to fix it and they did for about an hour before it got disconnected again. They said they would call in someone to fix it but we never had wifi for our last 2 days there. However, I will say the room they changed us to was definitely upgrade in every other aspect.

Like I mentioned at the start, the staff are really nice and are eager to help and it's a great location but the hotel is a bit worn (at least from the rooms we stayed in). I think a little bit of investment in some of basics is what's really needed here. If I had my time again I'd spend a little bit more to stay somewhere else that could deliver on simple promises such as a working aircon and WiFi. Or at least a place that has the resources to fix any...