Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas and Apartments Reviews

Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments       83/46 Moo 2, Chaweng Beach, Bophut       Koh Samui, Thailand 84320       Hotel booking

Reviews of recent stays	Comment on the hotel
Ahmad Ridzuan  2007-08-28 until 2007-08-31	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake I m a Moslem from Malaysia and stayed in a Standard Service Apartment during my holiday in Samui. The apartment is NEW, has nice and clean modern Thai interior design, exactly looks like the pictures they show on the website. The hotel offered daily bottled plain water in fridge but no safe box available. The breakfast is nothing to shout about, it s served a la carte, you can choose maximum 5 dishes in the menu only!. If you can only eat Halal food (Moslem food), I ve found one opposite Bangkok Hospital Samui in Chaweng (never tried), and the other one at Lamai Food Centre in Lamai (excellent, spicy food). Basically you ve got to rent a motorbike or a car in order to go to the beach, as it s located quite far from the beach. However, it is located near to a Tesco Lotus, where you can easily get your necessities, if you stay long in Samui. The reception guy, Tom (a Thai guy) is so helpful, and you can trust him. You just need to be nice with him, and he ll assist you whatever he could. I ve booked a motorbike (competitive rates), a trip to Angthong National Marine Park (cost lesser than the counter price) and a car transfer (it s big and new - standard market rate) to the peer on my return, all from Tom. I rate this hotel at 8 out of 10 points.
CHEUNG PAK CHI  2007-06-15 until 2007-06-16	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake Nice place!Good service and superb room!
a m lewis  2007-05-08 until 2007-05-18	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake Booked 10 nights in two Premium Villas. Very disappointed with the villas and the attitude of the management, although the staff were friendly. Sawadee s website states that all rooms in Villas are air-conditioned. They are not, only bedroom. It also states all villas have an outside bath-tub as well as the jacuzzi, wrong again, only a bucket full of cold water. Only one villa had cooking equipment (Microwave, fryer etc) and again only one villa had satellite TV, the other had cable. Also, a lot of mosquito s in or around Villa. When these problems were highlighted to the owner his attitude was well I got my money, tough luck for you! There was no gesture of good will offered by him and we were told to take it up with our booking agent. When we arrived, we were offered breakfast in our villas each morning , after our complaint, we never received the breakfasts, which wasn t too bad as the food sucked! Other things to note, if your inclined to bring a guest to your room of an evening, the hotel charges a strict 500baht joiner fee . There is building work going on next to the pool and if you want to hire a scooter don t book it through the hotel, they charged 250 baht for 1 night even though their welcome pack states 200baht and if you were to walk 500m down the road you d get one for 175baht. For the money you can do so much better than the Baan Kao Hua Jook. There is zero customer service from the owner, it s all about money. Which is a shame as it has the potential to be a great Hotel, but I won t be staying there ever again.
Mrs Claire Barker  2007-04-06 until 2007-04-14	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake Overall we felt lucky with our stay here for 10 nights. There was a house being built directly opposite the only communal swimming pool which of course was quite noisy. We stayed in a superior villa with it s own pool so was not inconvenienced too much by this. Unlucky though for people in the apartments. The service was o.k, nothing special - more like a Bed and Breakfast than a hotel. There is no safe in the rooms and the shuttle doesn t run past 6 pm into Chaweng - taxis s are cheap though. The staff speak limited English although try hard to please. The villas were cleaned very well every day so no complaints with this. The breakfast was fine - not much choice but cooked to order. The rest of the food though was not nice - wouldn t recommend anyone eating there. Sunbeds around the pool could also be an issue as there s only a few there and lots of apartments! Another point to note is the once a week Escape House Party that is located across the road (100 yards away or so) - noisy isn t the word!!! This happens once a week from 9 pm to 7 am. I don t think this resort operates a bug programme as the mosquito s were rife! We ve been to Thailand 5 times and even after buying lots of cans of spray for the villa, coils burning and repellent on us we got bit approx 20 times - you can see them around the roof and doors!! Mosquito nets would have been good. So, all in all - not bad for the price paid. The villa was lovely but wouldn t go back again as you could end up in a villa that s overlooked and the service wasn t as expected.
Shalom Ephraim  2007-03-15 until 2007-03-21	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake great service and a pleasent plsce. It is a bit far from the beach and the Chaweng st. - but we were transported there whenever we wanted to by the hotel staff.
amanda & luke  2007-03-13 until 2007-03-19	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake fantastic! had the premium villa and enjoyed the space and private plunge pool immensely! everyone was great and friendly and very helpful :O) enjoyed being a bit away from everything, cheap to rent a scooter/bike to get around quickly.
Sheauyun wang  2007-02-18 until 2007-02-24	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake Itกฆs no กงprivateกจ at all! The building opposite to our villa can directly see inside the villa so we not feel comfortable. The service was also not professional. When we asked the staff to make a reservation to Tamarind Spa for our next day spa treatment. The staff-Tom pushed us to buy their recommend spa store and did not call Tamarind Spa and lied us he already make a reservation for us. So when we went to Tamarind itกฆs full! Itกฆs overprices for that kind of lousy service! And we will not go there again!
Adrian Watts  2007-02-14 until 2007-02-24	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake The staff wre very friendly and helpful. The villa s were very nice and were kept spotlessly clean. The plunge pool was very welcome with the weather being so hot. We hired a 1 bed villa and a 2 bed villa and it was well and truly value for money. The hotel is about a 15 minute walk to Chaweng but getting a bus on the main road is easy to do. I would recommend hiring a moped or car. My one main criticism is that the hotel provides several free transfers to Chaweng however on each occassion we went to use the 8pm transfer they were never running.
ุyvind Skoglie  2007-01-18 until 2007-03-18	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake Stayed in villa, only AC in bedroom, NOT in all rooms ,as stated on Sawadee, where it also is promised credit cards accepted ,which is not true, when we wanted to pay next months rent with VISA or AMEX the answer was can not ,and we had to transfer from bank. Privacy ok in villa, but no air, so the heat almost killed us and we had to stay in bedroom with AC most of the time. Manager cheated about prices twice, told ut special price , which turned out to be presicely ordinary tariff. The nearby Lake side music event played VERY VERY loud music whole night until seven in the morning at least once a week. Will never stay there again.
lio  2007-01-01 until 2007-01-05	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake The hotel has 2 types of accomodations. I booked a VILLA, I dont know about the appartment. The villas are really GREAT !!! Mine, a normal one, was very spacious, around 150 sqm ! Very big bedroom with large and confortable bed, large dinig/sitting/kitchen, with sofa and everything, inside bathroom; outside bathroom ! Everything is very clean and well maintained. The villa is in a private garden ! And, the best of everything, YOU HAVE A PRIVATE SWIMMING POOL in your garden! Its not big, its more than a big whirlpool, but its great ! The staff is very friendly, especially Morn, who will do everything to help you. You can rent motorbikes with them. The hotel is quite far from the beach, I tried once to go there walking and it was terrible and dangerous because of the traffic. So you need a motorbike, 5 minutes from north of Chaweng Beach. I highly recommend this hotel, and 4500 for the villa is really a good price in Chaweng !!!