芭東海景酒店 - 巴東 Seaview Patong Hotel

Location. As have organized a breakfast (under my request) in birthday of my wife.

Room is moist with old furniture, moist bed. A long time it is being needed of repair. It was Deluxe room.

The hotel and room were elegantly designed and better than I expected for the price. I had a nice sea view room and it was just a two minute walk from the street to my room, unlike the lengthy walks in larger hotels. Wifi cost US$10 a day extra but worked seamlessly. Breakfast buffet was excellent and also better than expected for a 3-4 star hotel.

On checking in the receptionist demanded that I pay for my entire stay upfront before I could even see the room. I still refused but compromised by paying the first night upfront. The next day I found that the receptionist had charmingly cancelled the rest of my reservation but fortunately the hotel was not full and I was able to reinstate it. The hotel charges 2,000 baht for visitors, even to come up to the room for a few minutes, almost the full room rate. The fridge in my room was only tepid, so I wasn't tempted to buy anything from it - bad luck for the hotel if they were too lazy to fix it.