koh chang

[dougbrook 0]

sorry, forgot to add im looking for places to stay not over 1500baht

 

thanks dougbrook

[IanRaine 0]

Hi , I stayed in this hotel when I went to Koh Chang, I little bit more than your 1500 baht but a very good hotel.

 

http://www.hoteltravel.com/thailand/trat/banpu_koh_chang.htm

 

If this hotel is too expensive see what else they have, I have used http://www.hoteltravel.com/

the last 4 years evreytime I need a hotel in Asia, they are never beaten for price.

 

[JohnnyK 28]

Cooke Bungalow on White Sand Beach, 1000baht, very nice, a/c, cable TV.

Very good restaurant and they will bring the menu and the meal to your veranda if you want to eat privately with your girl.

Nice beach walks, internet across the road, shops etc.

Not too much girl selection on KC so bring a girl with you.

Any Pattaya travel agent can arrange hotel pickup, minibus and ferry. Or book direct with KoChang Travel (near InTown Hotel or soi Diana I think).

[redwood13 56]

Spent the week before Christmas 2004 on Koh Chang. Went down with some long time friends, a married couple from Scotland on holiday from their current jobs in the Middle East. I prepaid 3 nights at Cookies Hotel on White Sands Beach and we took a mini-bus (500 baht one way) from Pattaya to the island. (Mini-bus picks up passengers at their hotels in Pattaya which means if you’re picked up first you ride around for an hour or so trying to find obscure guest houses and if you’re last you’ll be wondering if you’ve been forgotten.)

 

http://www.ash-golf.com/hotels/county/kohchang/cookies.html

 

The mini-bus drops off passengers at their hotel of choice. Cookies consists of a newish motel style U shaped building across the road from the beach. It also has 30 older bungalows just opposite on the sand. The restaurant is also on the sand adjacent to the bungalows. My friends decided the bungalows were too close together and opted for the hotel. Prepaid it was 1900 baht per night. This includes breakfast (buffet style) if you can get there before 10:00 – I never made it so I can’t report on it. Walk-ins could get a room for 1500 but not wanting to arrive without a confirmed room reserved at that time of year, we paid a premium for that, especially as on arriving it appeared the hotel was only a third occupied! OTH the bungalows were probably full. The rooms are ok. Equivalent to an 800-1200 baht room in Pattaya, Dynasty Inn, Lek or Eastiny for example, but we found the balconies useless as the only seats are hard, straight backed dining room type chairs! Not knowing what we were getting for our money we only booked for 3 nights. This was fortunate. There’s an open air bar/restaurant, Oodies Place, just 100 m. N. of Cookies which has live music nightly. Loud music! ‘til 02:00 which sounds like surround sound at Cookies. Time to move.

 

So, morning four we moved a few hundred m. S. to the Bamboo Bungalows. (No website. Phone numbers. 01-9454106, 09-8347875, 039-551158). Eleven bungalows on the beach side of the road. They’re set up in a column on each side the walkway down to the sand. Each has a porch and everything seemed to work ok and much quieter than Cookies. One eccentricity was they’ve left the plastic protective covers on the mattresses and any, uh, excessive motion in bed will make for some strange sound effects or so I was told. Toilet is a bit of old Thailand updated, with the squat toilet having been replaced with a Western style but you still have to bail to flush and the shower floods the bathroom. Poor lighting for reading in bed. (Yes, I was solo.) 1800 baht/night. Had only one meal at their restaurant. Nuff said about that.

 

Only other place I would consider would be 15 Palms. They only have 4 rooms I think and I didn’t see them, but recommended in a couple of places on the net and the adjacent bar/restaurant which I did try is good. In any case it’s a good place to watch football (the soccer kind)/sports on TV, while your friend goes shopping.

 

The island appears to me to be over built, but like Pattaya building is ongoing and it would be wise not to commit long term to any hotel until you’ve actually experienced it. There are new structures going up all up and down the W. coast of the island and established places are being remodeled or expanded upon.

 

We ate most of our meals at Cookies. We were a lot less enthusiastic about it than is JohnnyK. But on the other hand after trying a few other places we always seemed to end up there most of the time. Best meal we had was at the Italian restaurant (who’s name I didn’t write down), upstairs, on the corner just N. of Oodies Place. White Sand Beach is the place for night time activity, restaurants, bars, etc. The resorts further S. tend to be away from the road and you’ll likely need transportation to get about.

 

Also see: http://www.iamkohchang.com for a cynical/realistic view of the island.

 

-redwood