Review of Island View Hotel

Written: 31 october 2006
Travel time: 6 — 13 october 2006
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 7.0
You can live in this hotel, but if you are demanding and picky, this hotel is unlikely to suit you. I would attribute to significant shortcomings that small ants live in some (not all) rooms. And if you leave fruits or some of the products, they will surely crawl and start eating it. They will also crawl if, after rinsing their mouth, small pieces of food remain in the sink. In general, there are not so many of them, but you will definitely find 50 pieces. So you can't leave open food in the room. They did not crawl on the bed, you can sleep without problems. Breakfast (buffet) is served every day the same. Fried eggs, beaten eggs, rice, sausages, boiled ham, a couple of Thai soups, slices of watermelon, papaya, pineapple, cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, juices, toast with jam. I can say that this is a rather modest breakfast, but you will not leave hungry. Dinner at this hotel is not recommended. When I bought the tour, I chose breakfast and dinner meals. For dinner they sometimes have a buffet, and sometimes they bring a menu where you can choose only one of two options: Thai or European dinner. Drinks at dinner are charged separately. Except for tea or coffee. Dinner there is quite modest and inexpensive. Besides, you might not like it. For example, I chose Thai cuisine and could not eat anything but fruits and tea. Either the food is very spicy, or the taste of it is somehow not so. Maybe they eat it, but I can't, I don't like it. And besides, once, when there was a buffet for dinner, I found a bunch of ants on this very table near the spoons with which they put different dishes. Yes Yes. The same ants as in the room. You know, crawling around every dish, there are a lot of them. A nightmare. It seems that they are also served for dinner as a side dish. This was not the case for breakfast. Breakfast and dinner are served in separate rooms. Dinner is better to buy in any restaurant or cafe you like on the street, of which there are enough and all this is a few meters from the hotel. The disadvantages of the hotel also include that the beach is across the road and you need to go down the stairs to it. Well, this is a mere trifle, compared with ants. They say that here is the cleanest water in Pattaya. I sort of agree with this statement. But it is better to go to the island of Koh Larn and swim there in clean, clear water. The hotel's beach is not deep, legushatnik. To be deep, you need to swim beyond the buoy and further. There are jellyfish, the burn of which can ruin your vacation. There are times when you have to go to the doctor after meeting with a jellyfish, go for dressings, you can’t wet the place burned by the jellyfish. In general, avoid contact with jellyfish. During the rest, I never came across a jellyfish, although I was in the water a lot and swam far away. I saw only a couple of jellyfish washed ashore. But other tourists still had unpleasant cases of meeting with a jellyfish. I will summarize at the end. You can choose this hotel if you want to save money. It is better to order only breakfast. At the same time, you should not eat in the room, otherwise the ants will help you. It is also forbidden to leave open products. The water pressure in the sink and shower is very weak, the pressure of hot water is even worse than cold. Therefore, you will have to wash with cold water with poor pressure. . You will have to walk across the road to the beach and go down and up steep stairs. In all other respects, you will not be deprived. Excursions, shops, shows, restaurants, attractions, beaches on the islands, massage - will be available to everyone equally, regardless of the chosen hotel. Holidays in Thailand brought me a lot of new discoveries and left a lot of pleasant memories. Here I just write a review about the hotel. But I liked Thailand. Yes, and the hotel is needed just to get enough sleep and to have a place to leave things. Some excursions were several days long, so it was not necessary to spend the night in a hotel.
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