Отзыв об отеле Hotel review

We rested at the Peach Hill Hotel & Resort 3 * in the second half of October 2010, so we managed to see both seasons, with storms and rains, and with calm and baking sun. To be honest, I liked the first one. You should not be afraid of rain, take an umbrella (available in the room) and go to the beach or walk. If it rains on the beach, put your things in a bag and go swimming. After 20-30 minutes the rain ends, another 20-30 - and it's dry again.
But I'll start over. We settled in relatively quickly. There were 15 people in our race, after half an hour everyone settled. They settled in the old building on the hill (if you see a room with the sea in the window and a “thick” TV in the photo of the hotel, then these are the upper floors of this building) and in the new one, down under the mountain, near a busy street (because we lived in it, I can say that it was noisy). From the residents of the old building they took a deposit for a bar in the room for $ 100, they didn’t take it from us. I liked the standard room right away - spacious, on the balcony there is a table and chairs, an LCD TV, air conditioning, a bar in the refrigerator (for an extra charge), tea-coffee-kettle for free (although the water from the kettle smelled of plastic, so it’s advisable for those who like to drink tea), a safe, slippers (but used their own), umbrellas, hair dryer, soap, shampoo and shower gel (however, they didn’t understand whether it was paid or not, so they used their own). Interestingly, you can control all the lighting and air conditioning in the room from the bedside stationary remote control. Cleaning daily, with change of towels (3 per person), here there were incidents: a couple of times the cleaning lady took away the old towels, but forgot to leave new ones, but at the reception they apologized and brought them quickly. I must say that Thais are very good-natured people, always hello, thank you, and other magic words. In Russian, no one boom-boom, but you can talk with basic English and gestures. Breakfast in the restaurant is not very varied, but quite edible and it would be a sin to go hungry.
The location of our building at a T-shaped intersection is very advantageous: within 100 meters there are 4 exchange offices, grocery stores, and travel agencies. To the right - 500 meters Kata Beach, to the left - 1 km Karon Beach (very cool sand, crunches underfoot like snow in the cold, reminds someone of the crunch of starch), straight down the street to the traffic light and to the right - the market where you can buy local fruits and dried seafood. Of all the exotics, we liked mangoes and pineapples, the rest you can try “for show”. By the way, about durian, it's not that smelly, it's worth a try. In the evenings, various meats, vegetables, rice with fillers are cooked on the grills near the market, you can eat inexpensively. Comparison: in a cafe, a dish costs 150-300 baht, but here a “complex lunch” of chicken broth, portions of rice and battered chicken costs 40 (forty) baht. They even offered the addition of broth for free. 100 grams of pork fried in front of you costs 40 baht, choose any piece, everything will be weighed, chopped into pieces and packed in a thermal container. I also liked the Thai Tom Yum soup, but they cook it only in a cafe. One spoon was enough for my wife - quite sharp.

We went by tuk-tuk to Patong to see. We arrived at the Jungceylon hypermarket complex. Opposite it, there is the same market for hot snacks, only more. In hyper there is something to buy many times cheaper than in shops near our hotel. In the hall of the complex we watched the show of musical fountains. Then we moved towards the coast along the street with transvestites, barkers at go-go shows and taverns with girls dancing on tables. Dvizhuha, of course, noise-din. We approached the coast and I was happy that we did not live in Patong - a steady smell of urine came from the coast...
A separate word about the hotel guide. They know how to ride on the ears in the excursion trade very well, this especially affects the susceptibility of women. I understand that this is their salary bonus, but why such cheating, not all tourists are oil workers and bankers. If it weren’t for the begging eyes of his wife, he wouldn’t have agreed to an excursion to Pi-Pi for 3500 baht per person !! ! where the same service cost 2! times cheaper, and if you get together with a company, then the discount is provided. Later they did this: they took a tour for 6 people for 1100 (at a price of 1500), and there were much more impressions - elephant riding, an elephant show (although there was one elephant, but very smart), a monkey show, rafting on a mountain river and lunch . If your operator offers a free introductory tour, do not refuse, they will take you to the observation deck, to Phuket Town to the fruit market, where the assortment is richer, to the snake nursery, where they will show a show with cobras, to the latex factory, to the jewelry factory, where you can buy products with precious stones and pearls (it is also grown here). Of course, everywhere they will offer to buy exclusive products, but this is a personal matter, for example, there is a store on Kata Beach where the same latex pillows and mattresses are cheaper than in a factory.
I was also struck by the tides: at high water, the waves splash near the sun loungers, at low tide, 50 meters from them. For lovers of a snorkel mask: the fish are much further from the coast and closer to the stones on Kata Beach, there are even corals, but not as colorful as in the Red Sea.
I wish you all a good rest and do not forget the cream with maximum UV protection.