Walkabout hotel review

[mats 0]

Walkabout Hotel Review

 

 

This hotel is locaded in downtown Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

The hotel has it`s own restaurant and bar which is open 24 / 7.

They have 3 or 4 tv`s in the bar, showing all major sports events ( at least thoose found in Cambodian cable ).

Let me just say this at once, the bar is filled with girls at any point during the day / night. At night the place really reminded me about how JP`s bar in Pattaya is at 4am. Crowded with girls and punters.

The booze is cheap. 1 USD for a beer is a good deal.

The girls where a nice mix between the viets and their khemer sisters. No drink preasure as they don`t get a kickback from the bar and the atmosphere was good, even at 6 am one night which is when you can expect people to get abit edgy, but all was good.

The bartenders where a good bunch and always had a beer waiting. Remember to ask for a chilled glass.

Btw, it`s pay as you drink here so not the same as thailand where you can run up a check bin.

 

Food was priced around 2 - 7 USD. They mainly serve western food like hamburgers, sandwhices, chips, steaks etc. They have cambodian food aswell. I only had one meal there and it was ok. I did see alot of other guys eat so I guess it`s good.

 

They have 2 bars, one downstairs and one upstairs. The upstairs bar has 2 pooltables and there is one table downstairs, I think they both where free to use, but im not sure.

Anyway, the girls are hot and the beer is cold in this place.

Note, if you want to get to bed early this might not be the place to stay as the music just keeps going 24/7 aswell.

 

The hotel, rooms where rundown ( abit worse then the nana hotel in Bangkok ) and not once during my 4 day stay did they come to clean my room. I had to grab my own towels at the counter downstairs.

The guys and girls working the reception ( which in reallity is the bar ) where great and delivered any message I got and always had my key ready before I even asked for it.

The room had both an aircon unit + a fan and both worked great. They have 5 different room catagories :

Standard Fan Room $8, Standard Air Con Room $10, Superior Air Con Room with inside window $12, Superior Air Con Room with outside window $15, Superior Room with Private Garden Balcony $18.

 

I got the 18 dollar room and let just say that if your legs are weak, stay away from this room.

They have no elevator and it`s locaded on the 4`th floor. 4`th floor might not sound so bad, but to get to the room was a challenge each time as you had to cross 2 different floors and basically walk around the entire hotel. Not fun at 7am when your drunk out of your mind.

 

The cable tv was good as it could be, didn`t really watch too much tv actually. The room itself was small ( agian like the size of the nana ) but everything was clean and the water preasure in the shower was good.

 

They also have an airport pickup service for 7 usd. He never showed up to meet me, but it was no hassle getting one at the airport.

 

The private balcony outside of my room :

 

 

The room, there is even some leftover happy pizza on the bed ;D

 

 

 

View from the balcony :

 

 

 

Sorry for the lack of pics from the room, but I hope you got some sort of impression from the ones I took.

 

Mats

 

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[Hub 203]

Mats:

 

Thanks for the report and pics, very interesting.

 

Hub

[GoodMorning 0]

Nice report Mats! Did you bring the mia, or did you have some real fun

 

Tor

[mats 0]

Tor,

 

The wifey had to stay back home on this trip

 

Mats

[Flash_Basbo 0]

So Cambodian guests in your room are no problem I would imagine?

 

I'll be traveling through Cambodia overland to Vietnam with a few days in PP. Any other hotel recommendations or places to avoid?

[ting_tong 63]

Flash, I pm'ed you some cambo info.....just navigate to the cambo section. T_T

[tazzydevil 0]

So Cambodian guests in your room are no problem I would imagine? 

 

I'll be traveling through Cambodia overland to Vietnam with a few days in PP. Any other hotel recommendations or places to avoid?

I have stayed in Walkabout a couple of times & found it good value, another place I can recomend is California 2 Hotel it is along the riverfront

http://www.cafecaliforniaphnompenh.com/

Jim the American owner is good for local info & will give you some good advice on the area

Both Walkabout & CA2 are guest friendly

 

Plenty of motobike taxi's in front of the hotel for about $5-7 you can have the driver & motorbike for all day, a trip to the killing fields & Toul Sleng Genocide Museum (S21) is worth a visit. There is a rifle range where you can use AK47's, M16 & a range of pistols, prices are variable depending on what you want to shoot, I think I paid $10 to shoot the colt 45 & $15 for the AK47.

Russian market worth a trip for CD's & DVD's have found them cheaper than Thailand & good quality I was told the DVD's come from Malaysia

[Skytrooper 0]

Originally posted by tazzydevil:

There is a rifle range where you can use AK47's, M16 & a range of pistols, prices are variable depending on what you want to shoot, I think I paid $10 to shoot the colt 45 & $15 for the AK47.

 

A target range holds the same appeal for Flash_Basbo as a libertarian book store or a military recruiting office.

 

Originally posted by Flash_Basbo (resident Sicilian-American statist, liar, and coward):

I'll be traveling through Cambodia overland to Vietnam with a few days in PP. Any other hotel recommendations or places to avoid?

 

1. So you're visiting your comrades and political bedfellows in Vietnam; what a surprise. Be sure and visit the former "political reeducation camps" where Vietnamese who weren't keen on living in your idea of a "modern society" were imprisoned, tortured, and often killed. You'll get a kick out of it and perhaps bring some fresh ideas back to the People's Republic of Illinois with you.

 

2. Be sure and drop by Havana on your way home and share a cigar and rum with your statist colleague, Fidel.

 

3. "Places to avoid?" Anywhere within ten grid squares of any former Cav troopers, recondos, paratroopers, or other RVN combat veterans or the victims/next of kin of the tyranny you advocate would be a good idea.

 

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[wombat 5]

reeducation

re-education..........

[Skytrooper 0]

Originally posted by wombat:

re-education..........

 

Per Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, it's spelled "reeducation."

 

I don't instruct Aussies in how to get drunk, belch, scratch themselves, use vulgar language, speak with a bizarre accent, raise inferior grade beef, or engage in "unnatural" acts; kindly don't seek to give me advice on correct English usage.

 

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[Flash_Basbo 0]

Originally posted by tazzydevil:

 

 

A target range holds the same appeal for Flash_Basbo as a libertarian book store or a military recruiting office.

 

Originally posted by Flash_Basbo (resident Sicilian-American statist, liar, and coward):

 

 

1. So you're visiting your comrades and political bedfellows in Vietnam; what a surprise. Be sure and visit the former "political reeducation camps" where Vietnamese who weren't keen on living in your idea of a "modern society" were imprisoned, tortured, and often killed. You'll get a kick out of it and perhaps bring some fresh ideas back to the People's Republic of Illinois with you.

 

2. Be sure and drop by Havana on your way home and share a cigar and rum with your statist colleague, Fidel.

 

3. "Places to avoid?" Anywhere within ten grid squares of any former Cav troopers, recondos, paratroopers, or other RVN combat veterans or the victims/next of kin of the tyranny you advocate would be a good idea.

 

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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man. — Thomas Jefferson

 

Since the protection of individual rights is the only proper purpose of a government, it is the only proper subject of legislation: all laws must be based on individual rights and aimed at their protection. — Ayn Rand

 

Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest. — William Pitt

Ever get the distinct feeling you're being followed?

[Skytrooper 0]

Originally posted by Flash_Basbo (resident Sicilian-American statist, liar, and coward):

Ever get the distinct feeling you're being followed?

 

The word you're looking for is "paranoia." Paranoia (noun): a psychosis characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations; a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others. Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.

 

Here's a word you have down pat — Coward: one who shows disgraceful fear or timidity. Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.

 

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[lemons 0]

I've heard about a beer bar complex being built in Sihanoukville near Occheteal Beach. The developers are claiming that it will be OK for bargirls to operate from the bars - Thai style. From my travels in Cambodia, I would have thought this unlikely, but apparently some bars in P/Pehn have girls you can barfine. Has anyone heard of this?

 

Lemons

[ting_tong 63]

Lemons! you cant talk about that stuff in the non members section!

[lemons 0]

Oops, I'll restart it in one of the members forums.

[kjvegas 2]

Nice hotel, my kind of place, they have Tiger Beer. BTW how was the happy pizza?

cheers

kj