Pandora Resort Koh Samet — Hotel in Ko Samet

Booked our stay with Pandora for a nice Christmas getaway and I’m so glad we did!

Location : 10/10 It’s located at a quiet end of the island. It’s so peaceful— and even though it was a little bit out of the way, as long as you ride a bike or don’t mind eating at their restaurant (they serve delicious and affordable foods!), you’ll be okay :) The island is small any way, so nothing is really too far away.

Rooms : 9/10 Very basic rooms, however, the beds were super comfortable (on the harder side but we loved it), the room and toilet were clean, equipped with a nice, cold and big fridge. Also nice that they had a small towel drying area outside (to dry your swim suits after a beach day!) and a little patio. Only thing I would add would maybe have a microwave and some utensils in the room ? would be nice if we could store leftovers/food from 7-11 in the nice big fridge and reheat them in the room :) just a suggestion, definitely not a complaint. The plugs in the room are the 3 pin kind, so if your adapter is 2 pined, it doesn’t stay plugged in too well but just be mindful of it and you won’t have too big of a problem.

Staff : 10/10 Every staff we encountered was just friendly and welcoming. Everyone served with a smile. Even the owner (or we think he is) was super friendly!

Amenities: 10/10 There are 2 nice pools that are clean and well maintained and the whole ground feels like one big garden that’s nice to relax and catch some sun. There are also dogs (not wild) in the area and they’re so cute and friendly to play with ❤️ The area is currently going some minor renovations but nothing that will disrupt your stay. It seems (please correct me if i’m wrong) like they have a new management and are in the process of upgrading the resort— can’t wait to stay again and see the progress!

Overall, I would highly recommend this place and can’t wait...

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We were couple travelling in Thailand, of course, we wanted to save money and we didn't take expensive hotels, but this is was too much for us. we arrived afternoon, (tip: if you only have backpacks take a scooter on the pier, it will be much cheaper) at the entrance of the hotel there is construction on the side of the road (There is another one inside of the hotel), there is no real reception in the hotel, it

s a pool bar with (kind of reception), so we got our key to the room and this are the condition of the room: There is no closet, only kind of wall outlet (see pictures), the sofa was dirty, there were only 2 big towels in the room and when we asked for more the staff was not friendly at all and said we only supply 2 towels, nevertheless, they gave us more towels and said it just to keep us satisfied Some of the walls were crumbling you can't lock the door from the inside so room service can come in anytime the sign on the door is made out of the paper and it can turn easily on the door outside from the wind(so stupid) The showers, well I can

t even call it a shower, hard to explain. The staff is rude, we tried to find out something in the reception and the person didn't understand us and just barked at us something and turned away (So rude) when we tried to eat lunch at the hotel they tried to overcharge us, I showed the mistake and it was fixed when we did check out they blamed us for taking from the mini bar 2 נeers, after I confronted with the staff they said ok. you can go pools are salt water I won't recommend it to anyone The only good thing is that ist pretty quite and its kinda inside...

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Disappointed with this hotel, pictures are a lot nicer on here than what the rooms really look like inside. ||The room had a strong smell of damp. There was about 3 days of heavy rainfall in which our room's ceiling was leaking we had to have towels on the floor to prevent slipping. ||One day the whole island had no electricity from 8am until 5pm - out of courtesy you would have thought that the hotel would pre-warn you especially with us having a 2 yr old toddler we could have been prepared had we had been told in advance. ||The main pool is far to deep, I couldn't use it whilst trying to hold my daughter at the same time as I couldn't touch the bottom. ||Location is very out of the way - there are a couple of nice restaurants and beautiful beach about 5 minutes walk however staying up this end for 11 nights like we did became very boring and felt isolated and ending up spending a lot of money on taxi's. ||if your putting this on your room bill make sure you make note of what you are getting as they tried to charge us an extra £50 worth of food and drinks we either didn't order or sent back as it was something we hadn't ordered. ||The staff can barely speak English so trying to explain these sorts of things became impossible apart from one guy (don't know his name) he was fantastic. ||There was a lady that sat behind her laptop all the time didn't see her doing a great deal but she was getting the bar staff to fill her mug up with spirits and happily drinking away the stock (maybe this is where the extra charges ended up on our bill - covering...

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