Guest User
April 27, 2023
My husband and I stayed at Pattra Vill Resort for 20 days and we enjoyed it there. Our room on the top floor was very spacious with parquet flooring and a balcony. The bathroom/toilet was big and lots of room to move around. The resort is just off the main road in Koh Samui and is very centrally located. 7/11 is just a two minute walking distance. There is a money changer as soon as your get out of the hotel and turn to the right; there's also another one if you go to the left of the hotel. Heaps of massage places and places to eat...but beware...prices are much more expensive than Bangkok. McDonald's is just outside the hotel and is 24/7. We enjoyed swimming in the pool everyday though the water was rather warm due to the intense April heat. The pool is safe for kids as there is an area for kids at one end of the pool. One thing that annoyed is is that the housekeeping staff talk and yell when they are cleaning the rooms and around the pool area. They need to understand and realise that guests are there to relax and it would be very nice if they could tone their voices down. Breakfast at the hotel was mediocre: western food would consist of baked beans, bacon, can sausages, bread, butter and the like and Thai food (steamed dumplings, fried mini spring rolls etc), fresh fruits. juice, tea and coffee. You can have fried, boiled or scrambled eggs and the girl will do it for you. Housekeeping girl Nid (that's her name) is not very generous with water, tea or coffee. She refused to give us the two water bottles that we had paid for in the booking and entitled to as we had some water left in the minibar. When I asked her for our daily water quota, she said we still have water and refused to give. I spoke to the Receptionist girl Botang (her name) about this issue and we had our water then. If you run out of tea and coffee, they don't replenish until you ask for it. We had to ask a few times. Nid would, on several occasions, leave the coffee cups and things unwashed. She was not the best housekeeping girl as she would only make the bed and sweep the floor and she was gone. She was very slack and left a lot of things undone and unfinished. We hired two motorcycles from the hotel, one for my husband and I, and the other for our daughter and her partner who were staying in the next room. The motorcycles were advertised and priced for 400 baht a day at the Receptionist counter. We shopped around outside and the motorcycle place opposite the hotel was doing it for 250 baht a day for a 155cc. So I told Botan and Lek (the other receptionist girl) and negotiated the price, and eventually got it for 250 baht a day for both the motorcycles. We found out later that Botan had given a German gentleman for 200 baht a day only for the same kind of motorcycle hired. So be careful as they would say any price that comes into their mind. You MUST bargain and negotiate or you will be ripped off! We wanted to rent a car for a day from the h