Sofia Garden Resort  

My Thai Wife and I stayed at the Sofia Garden Resort for 6 nights (7 booked but the weather was very bad.) It is owned by a Fin and his wife - they have a daughter named Sofia!! We booked off the web and we think the choice was excellent. The room was extremely comfortable having a tv, fridge and hot shower. The room was made up daily and had clean sheets each day plus 2 fresh towels. There were also 2 small bottles of water put into the clean and serviceable fridge,daily. The room was treated with fly spray daily. Everything in the room worked - each electrical socket was high current as our 2000 watt kettle worked. The bathroom was fully functional with a large clean mirror in place. The electrical shower worked perfectly - the shower head holder was loose but was fixed in the evening after I reported it. The bed was excellent for us - it was very firm - just as we like it. The hotel has a large swimming pool named Sofia (chlorine) which we used due to the sea not being close. (Most people hire a motorcycle (200 Bahts/day) and travel the short distance to a good swimming area. We had our mpv hence we were free to travel. (Costs 420 Baht Ferry return). The hotel had a massage service which we didn't use (my wife is Thai and free!). The hotel is about 3 years old but is well maintained and looks new! The restaurant is open planned, the food is not that cheep but I enjoyed my breakfasts - they call it an American Breakfast - but its as English as I am (hp sauce is great and I had my fair share). 120 Bahts - includes 2 hot dog sausages, 2 fried eggs, a pile of bacon, cut tomato, cut cucumber, 2 slices of toast with butter and jam plus coffee, tea or ovaltine. (Drinks are self service). I really feel the hotel is 5 star - thank you.

We found that the room cleaners did a great job but the brown bath room tiles easily hide green algae. This was reported to the management.

Location - about 5-10 min walk to the nice sandy beach (klong phrao beach - there were mainly couples and familys), easy to reach good restaurants in the surrounding, no loud music - so you can relax very well

No breakfast included, there is a restaurant but expensive for the price you find cheaper rooms in the next surrounding with same comfort!

nice, clean

far feom the beach

Nothing.Could not wait to check out

No valubles safe in room. Isolated location. Room very very basic

The swimming pool was great: big, clean and not crowded at all. Since I love swimming, this was one of the main reasons to book this hotel. The hotel was quiet: good place to rest. It's pretty new, however it seemed to us that owners compromised on quality. Breakfast was good but pancakes took very long to prepare (other dishes were faster).

Our mattress was very hard and the worst was that you could feel springs in the mattress! Extremely uncomfortable and strange for a rather new hotel. The restaurant of the hotel serves Finnish meals only (except breakfast). Toiletries were not supplied every day. Towels had signs of bleach. This shows cheapness in an overpriced, at first sight modern hotel.

Nice clean bungalow

The way to the beach was to long for us

swimming pool

location

Its a hotel for backpackers, but de value for money says something else....

We had a luxery room, but it was a room for backpackers.The smell was terrible, and the matrass from the bed was 35 years old.

The hotel and pool were very clean and our room was quiet.

The wifi was not strong in our room.

The location is excellent, the food is well prepared, the atmosphere is nice and the people (staff and guests) are friendly. The pool is very nice and clean and the availability of motor bikes is a bonus.

I would like to have the option of fruit and whole wheat bread or seed bread for breakfast.

Rauhallinen ympäristö. Mukavia ihmisiä sattui olemaan paikalla. Markolle terveisiä. Huoneet ovat kivoja.

Vaekaus tapaukset ottivat päähän kun pitäisi luottaa henkilökuntaan ettei mitään vietäisi, Joka huoneessa olisi hyvä olla turvalokero mutta oli se hyvä lukollinen lokerokin jotain.

Nulla. E' molto, molto strano trovare delle persone "antipatiche" in Thailandia, noi ci siamo riusciti. Il personale del Resort ( "Resort"quelli veri sono un'altra cosa ) è sicuramente tra queste. I 100 metri dal mare sono in linea d'aria. Se vuoi andare al mare devi camminare almeno 15 minuti. Le lenzuola della camera erano macchiate, la colazione molto modesta. Il prezzo, visto gli altri Resort (quelli veri) e decisamente alto rispetto alla qualità del servizio. L'unica nota positiva è avere prenotato solo due giorni. Da notare bene che non hanno voluto comunicarci I prezzi delle camere, dicendo che le prenotazioni avvenivano solo via internet.

Quelle sopra erano le note positive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!