Chaweng Buri Resort Reviews

Chaweng Buri Resort       14/6 Moo 2, T. Bophut       Koh Samui 84320       Hotel booking

Reviews of recent stays	Comment on the hotel
manuela  2007-08-11 until 2007-08-18	Chaweng Buri Resort, Chaweng Beach Chaweng Buri Resort was a real disappointment!!! we stayed there one week, when we arrived the room was a smoking room and it smelled of smoke (we have requested a non-smoking room) we went to the reception desk in order to ask to change room and the lady was really unpolite with us saying that they were fully booked and at that moment we could not change our room. The room was very old-fashioned, we stayed in samui paying less but having much more comfort, the bathroom was dirty and old. Finally, we got a new room, but although the room was nicer Chageng Buri doens t worth the price we paid. Only positive aspects were the beautiful beach and good location. we don t reccomend this resort.
Hermenier Valerie  2007-05-09 until 2007-05-13	Chaweng Buri Resort, Chaweng Beach tr่s tr่s bien, tres agr้able, bien qu เ c๔t้ de la rue principale de CHAWENG, l h๔tel est tr่s calme. Les chambres sont propres, le petit d้jeuner est vari้.
Kikke & Nils H. Spj๘tvoll  2007-03-19 until 2007-03-25	Chaweng Buri Resort, Chaweng Beach This must be one of the best places on Chaweng. Staying in a jungle with just a few steps to the beach. Clean an good service, very friendly staff. We will come back!
hillel shacham  2006-12-06 until 2006-12-12	Chaweng Buri Resort, Chaweng Beach very good one, location, everything
Gerald Dunn  2006-10-21 until 2006-10-27	Chaweng Buri Resort, Chaweng Beach Excellent location on Chaweng Beach. Easy walking to restaurents and shops. Very nice beach. Good value for price. Nice clean cabins in a beautifully landscaped area. Good breakfast. Only problem was NO HOT Water for the entire week, even though we made daily calls to the front desk. Even so, we would stay there again, would just insist on moving to a cabin with hot water.
Mario  2006-08-07 until 2006-08-13	Chaweng Buri Resort, Chaweng Beach We ve been in Thailand many times and we were aware that in Koh Samui you are paying more than in other parts of Thailand, but this hotel was a big disappointing. Forget about the nice picture with sun beds around the pool... They are not there. They are on the beach and not enough for all guests. The beds are extremely hard. The only good thing is the good location, near restaurants and shops.The stuff is not unfriendly but do not seem to care too much.Stay at other hotels in Thailand and you will feel the difference. If you want to pay less for the same quality go to Montien house; we lived there last year and it was worth the price. Baan Chaweng Beach Resort & Spa is also much better. If you want quality, Central Samui Beach resort or Amari Palm Reef Resort are very nice, but a little bit too far from the centrum. Everything can be summarized by the words: BAD MANAGEMENT
Giorgia - Italy  2006-08-07 until 2006-08-12	Chaweng Buri Resort, Chaweng Beach very good location, in the central part of Chaweng beach, close to restaurants and bars on the beach. Nice bungalows swimming pool bar and restaurant on the beach. The only negative aspect is that in August, due to a lot of customers, we had to wake up very early to occupy sunbeds on the beach, because they were not enough for eveybody. But in general VERY VERY NICE HOTEL.
Simmar Gill  2006-07-27 until 2006-07-31	Chaweng Buri Resort, Chaweng Beach Spent 5D/4N in Chaweng Buri. Must say had a very good experience. We were staying in the superior cottage which was pretty decent..Chaweng Buri is really good value for money. Its a place surrounded by a lively market on one side and an action packed beach on the other. The resort compound seems like a tropical rainforest kinda place with little cottages... right in the middle of the town. The ONLY PROBLEM we had is COMMUNICATION.. Thailand should have its folks more tuned to English language. Practically none of the service staff( waiters, housekeeping etc) understand a word of English.. and only sign language works with them! Otherwise, a great experience at Chaweng Buri -- would strongly recommend it and would stay there next time as well..
Bozica & Roland Bosch  2006-05-31 until 2006-06-15	Chaweng Buri Resort, Chaweng Beach What a disappointment! We knew we had booked a 3-star resort and did not expect luxury but, having been to Thailand many times and having loved it, never would we have believed that things could be so bad. The resort itself is very pretty and whoever originally designed it, did so with great attention to detail and with a loving touch. Obviously other people have had good times there and we are sure that things must have been very different in the past. The present, however, is very bad. We were a party of four and had booked the two most expensive bungalows, the Grand Deluxe Chalets, which are located in the first row very close to the beach. On arrival, only one of the bungalows was available - despite the fact that we had made the reservation approx. 8 months in advance! However, had this been the only problem, it would not be worth mentioning, as the bungalow became available the very next day. Unfortunately, this was not the case. The bungalow itself looked very run-down with dirty walls and stained curtains, mould on the bathroom walls and ceiling and worst of all, it was infested by cockroaches! In the restaurant, where also the breakfast was served, the table cloths had not been changed for ages, there were huge coffee and food stains on them when we arrived and they were still there when we left. Very often during breakfast one had to go in search of coffee or tea and only occasionally one of the staff would actually walk around and serve the beverages. More often than not something was missing on the table, either there was no cup or no cutlery or both. And it was not because the staff were overburdened with work and simply had not got around to doing it - they were mostly standing together in a crowd and chatting or looking bored. Breakfast itself was ok, other meals were a different matter. Not wanting to leave the resort during the hottest hours we had lunch there a few times and the quality of the food was appalling; the meat was of the meanest quality, the meals arrived at the table in cold or tepid condition. The restaurant staff made a bored and frustrated impression; while friendly enough they seemed to be totally clueless. Their uniforms were old and worn, sometimes even torn; they seemed not to have been trained in any way and did not know how to properly serve food or beverages; on one of the poolside tables various things left there probably by a guest were not removed for days. Our impression was that the management of this hotel simply does not care! We received very good proof of this when two days after our arrival the (paying!) guests were evicted from the pool area from the early afternoon onwards because the hotel manager was holding a private celebration there! This included very loud live music which went on until the early hours of the morning and prevented everyone (except those fortunate enough to have ear plugs) from sleeping! With this kind of attitude from the management towards their paying guests it is little wonder that the staff cannot be bothered either. The next outrage was the beach. It is certainly not the hotel s fault if the guests behave like pigs and throw all sorts of garbage into the sand and water; I must say to the hotel s credit that they did make an effort to keep the beach clean. However, what was incredible was the fact that the (paying!) guests who wished to swim were forced to do so within a very small fenced-in area which was sandwiched between two jet-ski rental stations. Moving outside this area might have proved lethal as the jet-ski lenders and users did not show the least consideration for people who did not wish to limit their swimming to a few strokes in each direction, which was all that was possible within the small pen into which we were crammed. And this is not an exaggeration: People who did venture outside this very small and very crowded area found themselves chased for fun by jet-skis and had to turn back for fear that the fun might go wrong. It was very obvious that somebody was making money off these jet-ski rentals and regarded normal swimmers as a nuisance which had to be kept within a very limited area. We would not have been surprised if one morning there had been signs on the beach saying Swimming Prohibited ! We have been to Thailand many times (for me it was the 7th time!), we love Thailand and we love Samui; we are aware of the cultural differences and we do not expect things to be like home . We don t mind mistakes happening or not always being understood because of insufficient language skills. Generally, our experiences with Thai people and Thai hotels have been wonderful. But this time we felt that the only thing this hotel management was interested in was our money; once we had paid it (unfortunately we had to pay the full sum in advance) we were only a nuisance. Chaweng Buri Resort - never again!
jurgen arts  2006-05-27 until 2006-06-12	Chaweng Buri Resort, Chaweng Beach The resort was fine en the service was good. They cleaned the room every day. Rooms and facilities where great. Special thanks to the barman at the beach. I would recomment this resort. We had a very pleasant stay.