Bella Vista Oceanfront Terrace Restaurant — Restaurant in Karon

We took a chance on staying at Villa Elisabeth, but are loving every minute of it. We are steps from a quaint shopping and restaurant area and even closer to the southern edge of Kata beach. Each morning, we have a fresh made breakfast from the deck overlooking the water. Then we literally walk down the steps to the sand below us. ||The manager and staff are excellent. They arranged for a day, boat trip and also handled a greedy scooter rental person for us (see below).||We loved our room (VILLA #3) with an absolutely private patio and and our own cool spa - our favorite late at night when it was raining. ||The main pool is small, but cool and clean! ||This is a great place for couples or small families. ||Only concern we had was one morning after we left the windows open all night in the rain, our villa had a few bugs in it (normal for tropical Thailand). Before we could say anything, the cleaners sprayed the place with Eco-bug spray and cleaned the place thoroughly. Wow! Great service. ||||Okay, now for a warning. We rented a scooter as we have in the past. I highly recommend renting a scooter and exploring the island on your our time - it is one or our favorite things to do. ||This time, we rented a scooter from across the road for $600 Baht/day. When we returned the scooter, the owner almost immediately (too quickly) challenged us with a damage charge of 1,500 Baht. He showed 'before' pictures that showed a remarkably perfect paint job on one side, then pointed to an old scratch in the same area. ||His scam is well-known and I was very aware that this is done many times in Phuket. But, I was lazy, and didn't take a bunch of pictures before I left his lot. ||We did, however take several photos just minutes after leaving when we stopped at a bluff near Kata Noi beach. Our pictures showed the same scratch mark already on the scooter. ||His photoshop work was used to leverage a penalty payment from us. ||Instead of buckling to the charge, we contacted the local Tourist Police who arrived within thirty minutes. We showed our pictures to the police and had the police examine the 'old' scratch on the scooter. They immediately scolded the scooter owner, but still allowed him to save face with a much reduced charge of 400 Baht - most likely because we didn't have photo's at the time of rental.||Lesson learned. Document everything with photos and let the rental person see you...

We took a chance on staying at Villa Elisabeth, but are loving every minute of it. We are steps from a quaint shopping and restaurant area and even closer to the southern edge of Kata beach. Each morning, we have a fresh made breakfast from the deck overlooking the water. Then we literally walk down the steps to the sand below us. ||The manager and staff are excellent. They arranged for a day, boat trip and also handled a greedy scooter rental person for us (see below).||We loved our room (VILLA #3) with an absolutely private patio and and our own cool spa - our favorite late at night when it was raining. ||The main pool is small, but cool and clean! ||This is a great place for couples or small families. ||Only concern we had was one morning after we left the windows open all night in the rain, our villa had a few bugs in it (normal for tropical Thailand). Before we could say anything, the cleaners sprayed the place with Eco-bug spray and cleaned the place thoroughly. Wow! Great service. ||||Okay, now for a warning. We rented a scooter as we have in the past. I highly recommend renting a scooter and exploring the island on your our time - it is one or our favorite things to do. ||This time, we rented a scooter from across the road for $600 Baht/day. When we returned the scooter, the owner almost immediately (too quickly) challenged us with a damage charge of 1,500 Baht. He showed 'before' pictures that showed a remarkably perfect paint job on one side, then pointed to an old scratch in the same area. ||His scam is well-known and I was very aware that this is done many times in Phuket. But, I was lazy, and didn't take a bunch of pictures before I left his lot. ||We did, however take several photos just minutes after leaving when we stopped at a bluff near Kata Noi beach. Our pictures showed the same scratch mark already on the scooter. ||His photoshop work was used to leverage a penalty payment from us. ||Instead of buckling to the charge, we contacted the local Tourist Police who arrived within thirty minutes. We showed our pictures to the police and had the police examine the 'old' scratch on the scooter. They immediately scolded the scooter owner, but still allowed him to save face with a much reduced charge of 400 Baht - most likely because we didn't have photo's at the time of rental.||Lesson learned. Document everything with photos and let the rental person see you...

We really don’t care, you are just some suckers who are staying for 3 nights & will never come back again - that’s the consistent message we got. Our 9-month-old baby got over 30 bites overnight in the baby cot they provided. The uniform answer from reception to management office was basically 'can’t help, no idea, never seen them before'. Maybe mosquito bites (no, looked completely different & we had mosquito net over the cot in any case. & what sort of mosquito would leave 20 bites on one little baby arm overnight?), allergic reaction to the sea (then why only on the arms & face but not the legs which were actually in the water?) No, can’t possibly be bed bugs! No idea. Why don't you go to the pharmacy yourself? We have travelled with our baby to 5 countries in the past few months, and as a reasonably well-presented young professional couple with a cute baby, we've had great experiences until now. Normally hotels would be extra informative and helpful to us, which we greatly appreciate. Not here, all service staff look annoyed when you ask even the most basic question or the smallest favour (such as bringing an extra small bowl), screwing up their eyebrows like you are greatly inconveniencing them, then bark a non-answer back at you. A taxi to the airport for 2 people? 1600 baht! (But the market rate is 800-1000?). Tuktuk, small taxi, 8 seater minivan are all the same price, 1200 baht for 2 people u don’t like the price then go get a taxi yourself! (So we did, for 1000 baht without bargaining). A 5 minute drive to the Karon view point? That’s 600 baht. Unreasonable? What do we care? We'll never see you again anyway. Food was ok but nothing to write home about. The Boathouse next door had way better food at similar price and much better service p.s. the view over the sea is actually pretty good. Unfortunately it’s also a bit of disaster if you have a small baby with you, since the loud music, drunken singing & fireworks won’t stop...