| Date and traveller | Comment on Thavorn Palm Beach Resort - Phuket - Karon Beach | Rating |
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22nd January 2012
Ewa Hansen | Nice pool aria, good breakfast, Room ok, I think there are better room in the hotel then we got. Big negativ thing: the staff wasnt very friendl!!! | 6/10 |
23rd December 2010
Anne-Lie Kjellander | I usually don´t complain, but this hotel really needs complaining.
The location on the beach of Karon is good and so are the pools. But this hotel really needs refurbishing, quit old and the bathrooms small and smelly. Cleaning service bad and the towels and bedsheets are not often changed. They even hang back one towel we had on the floor. When we asked several times for new towels they said finished . And the prices in the hotel restaurants and bars are ENORMOUS. Example, one coktail 245 Bath ++ , which means + 17 % tax. And the hotel has menues in russian rather than in english because of the many russian tourists in the hotel. The last day we got a form to fill in how we liked the hotel, everything in russian. They knew we were Swedish so atleast we could get one in english, but no. The last day they checked the minibar and we had to pay 145 Bath for a bottle of water we had not taken. Would not recommend this hotel. | 4.8/10 |
15th October 2009
Fang and Andy | We used to stay at this hotel in 2008 and it was really nice so we decided to go back there again this year with an expectation to have the same service we used to have. We booked a deluxe room which was nice. The room was spacious and also had a big balcony. The facilities in the room were good. The location was great. We could just cross the road and then we were at the beach. The beach was much better than Patong. Clean and clear water. But nightlife in Karon wasn t much interesting. The weather was also nice. We only had rain on the first day we arrived. Actually most of the things at the hotel were good including the location. The only thing that we were disappointed was the service, especially the maid service. They didn t care to change our bed sheets and pillow cases from the first day we checked in to the day we checked out. We stayed 5 nights, by the way. We ve been traveling a lot and staying in many hotels around Thailand and other countries but we ve never had this kind of experience before. We understand that the hotel might have policy to save water and protect the environment so they try not to change towels or bed sheets and pillow cases everyday. But 5 nights was a bit too long. We didn t have any problem about this last year. Maybe we were there during a low season. Bedsheets and pillow cases wouldn t be changed until the high season started again! So we would recommend this booking service to our friends but we aren t sure if we would tell them to stay at this hotel. For us, we are definitely NOT coming back there again. | 8.2/10 |
12th October 2009
vaughan Lock | I have stayed at this hotel 5 times for lengthy periods in the past. This hotel is quite dated now and maintenance has clearly been thin on the ground for many years - we were usually prepared to tollerate this as the resort was always quiet and there was a choice of pools. This has changed this year and the resort has clearly decided to focus on Russian Package deals... I think that this has let the resort down as I do not wish to have russain meal nights etc and I did not like being practically the only non russian guest. They generally did not leave the resort, they were generally rude to other guests and particularly the staff, they did not say please or thank you, the smoked in eating areas, reserved all the deck chairs at 6am with a towel and never tipped - I tried to put this down to language barriers etc etc - but I cannot accept this - the first words that anyone learns in any foreign country are generally please and thank you. I have no reason to return to this resort. My advice would be to spend a little more money and go somewhere not offering package deals on the Bangkok-Moscow Thai route. | 5.6/10 |
18th August 2009
Stefan Lorch | We had a good time there, the breakfast was quiet okay, they have several pools. Very good accommodation in this area. | 7.2/10 |
15th August 2009
Fan Aihua | I like this hotel very much. It has Big room, nice swimming pool, beautiful orchid garden, warm hostess. The location is great, which is closed to the Karon Beach. But I was annoyed by mosquitoes some nights. Generally, would stay again. | 8.2/10 |
24th July 2009
Kristy Aquilina | Very large resort which had good sized rooms with nice balconies which overlooked the beautiful gardens and pool area. Breakfast was Buffet and was excellent as it had a large selection of foods to choose from. Nice resort and good location and very fair price. | 9.4/10 |
10th July 2009
Brian Atherton | Just spent another fabulous week in Phuket staying at Thavorn Palm Beach resort for the first time. Would definitely stay there again although it was a hassle most days getting towels replaced and the internet often wasn t working, also there was a total powe outage one night but it was fixed fairly promptly. So why would I stay there again? Because the swimming pools and swin up bar are amazing, the buffet breakfast is delicious and the staff are on the whole very helpful. Also the rooms are big and well equipped but pay the extra for a deluxe room. It s a big resort and you don t want to be too far away from the best pools and the standard rooms are just that...very basic. | |
29th June 2009
Elizabeth Hammer | Great hotel. Rooms very nice. Everything very clean. Grounds and pools lovely. Buffet breakfast excellent. Stayed for 5 nights and would definately stay at this resort again. Great value for money in low season. Location good. Close to restaurants and cafes and beach. | |
3rd May 2009
babeboat | Room is very old and smell bad. We had to ask for bath towels floor towel and pool towels. Breakfast are very expensive, 550 Baht for adult and 275 B for a child. | |
5th April 2009
Anna Lundberg | Very nice hotel! The only thing I can complain on is that it is very expensive in the hotel area. The poolbar too. I would like to eat lunch sometimes at the hotel but that was not possible, 400 baht for a pizza..... The room was big and we where 4 persons with one extrabed and one child sharing our bed. No problem, our bed was huge!! Very nice staff and the breakfast was great! I would like to come back! | |
3rd April 2009
Kerstin Gustafsson | This hotel is wery old, we hade a upgrade room and the first room we get smelled wery much mould but the next day we get another room and it was much better. It is near the beach, you have only have to pass a road. | 6.6/10 |
25th March 2009
Kylie | Room was very nice, only problem being on the ground floor and the constant noise from the room above, Walls are very thin. Staff very friendly. Food is expensive though a huge variety at breakfast. Hotel has five pools but good luck getting a sunbed as certain nationalities feel the need to place a towel on the beds as early as 7am (even when its raining) but not use to the afternoon. In 5 days we had a sunbed twice. If the hotel introduces rules like other hotels their daily bar/food takings might be higher. | |
25th February 2009
Piotr Wójcicki | Beautiful Hotel in green surrounding, proper for family with kids.They have 5 swimming pools and access to the public beach while you cross the street. Staff was very polite and helpful. Rooms nice with spacious terraces with two sunbeds inside. Meals were ok, however hotel is very expensive so great number of guests prefered to eat outside the hotel. Great pleace for rest after 2 week exhousting sightseeing | |
5th January 2009
Vladimir Vengerov | Hotel is okay very close to the beach, green and nice deluxe rooms with a view, not noisy, but too much russians and very old - definitely, needs renovation. We didn t like huge Karon with lots of people and no scenery at all, but if you want to be in a quiet place just across the beach for that price is the best option there. | |
21st October 2008
Mrs Gan (Malaysia) | A very nice, cosy and good value hotel, Thavorn Palm has very beautiful grounds with a matured garden and rather uncommon ginger plants. Our deluxe room (ground floor) is spacious and can accommodate comfortably the double bed and the extra bed. We thoroughly enjoyed our one night stay. | |
19th October 2008
Yahya Derick Phan | If you are looking quite place, for relaxing and source searching, Thavorn place is suitable. Beach and Resort are nice, exactly located at Karon Beach at just opposite, beautiful and clean sea and much more cheaper than Patong Beach.
But the only standard of Food for breakfast, it is poor. I did show to one of the waitress that Fried Me got one hair, and the waitress reported to Supervisor, but there was no comment or apologizes from the supervisor on their food. SILENT | |
11th August 2008
Dr Vaughan Lock | We love staying here as it is located on large grounds.... lots of pools to choose from .... usually always quiet. Nice breakfast..... at southern end of Karon beach - short walk to shops and Kata beach. | |
24th April 2007
Mrs. Keveena Howard | We had a very pleasant stay at the Thavorn Palm Beach Resort. A peaceful alternative to the in your face bustle of Patong, Hat Karon is a lovely stretch of beach. The room was good for the price, the bathroom could do with some renovation, the grounds and facilities of the resort were lovely. Well situated, easy walk to everything, directly across the road from the beach. We would definitely stay there again. | |
15th April 2007
John Tinker | Hotel is perfectly located on Karon Beach only a few minutes walk from local shops and excellent restaurants. Gardens and pool areas around the hotel are well maintained and impressive. Buffet breakfast excellent with wide range of food available. Guest rooms are not so good and are looking tired. We checked in after a long haul flight and shower did not work, then air-con failed etc. The faults were reported and the hotel maintenance fixed them immediately. Two situations to be aware of before staying at the Thavorn Hotel - 1) room service is poor, the earliest our room was cleaned was 3pm and even then we never got a full room service. Towels were not replaced (because they did not have enough), bottles of drinking water were not replenished etc. 2) If you go to the Thavorn wanting to relax and sun bathe around the pool then be prepared to claim a sun lounger early. By 8am, most loungers have a towel on them and are then not used all day. This is one of the worst hotels we have experienced for this practice. The hotel management is aware of the problem but does little to control it. Meals at the hotel are expensive and no one eats there, excellent food is available a short walk away (try the local sea food restaurants, turn left out of hotel on beach road and 5 minutes walk). We stayed in a deluxe room that was very quiet but some of the standard rooms are only a few metres away from the noisy beach road and late night bars. We would stay at the Thavorn again but there are other hotels to choose from on the same beach that look better value for money. | |
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7.0 (23 reviews)
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