Green Papaya Beach Resort, Koh Phangan

Although “charming”, the infrastructure is old, services are very basic and not to the level of the price. We stayed in the Pool Villa (the highest standard of the hotel). The air conditioner in one of the rooms worked randomly, the fan was simply missing (the switch was there but the fan was taken out and never put back again). The pool is “OK”, but the terrace urgently needs to be restored. Maybe we were “unlucky”, but during our visit, but the restaurant was not operational either. On the positive side, the beach is really beautiful and has many nice dining options with beachfront. Overall, for this kind of infrastructure and services, it would have been fair to pay half the price we paid, not more We end-up leaving the hotel one day in advance, disappointed. We kindly asked for reimbursement of the day paid in excess, but got only half of it.

This place is really great. It is located on the south end of Salad beach. The pool is 1,8 meters deep, well kept and right next to the beach. When we visited they were renovating the restaurant so there were no buffet breakfast however the a'la carte options were truly good. The overall location is in the middle of the jungle and it felt awesome and I would recommend everyone to visit this place.