Chura Samui

The hotel compound is very nice. Especially the garden is well maintained. The rooms are nice with a large balcony and bathrooms. The wifi is good. The breakfast was sufficient, but could use a bit more fresh options. It is good to have the inhouse breakfast because the hotel is not too centrally located. It is by the north side of the Chaweng Beach, so in the afternoons it is lovely to walk the shore and have drinks and dinner in one of the many places on the beach. The staff are overall helpful and friendly. Hotel's beach is not the most ideal because of the ocean itself is too shallow and mossy but the pool side is nice. There was a problem with the online payment but the hotel was helpful in solving that so thanks.

There is no rubbish bin in the room besides the one in the bathroom, which gets annoying after a while. There is no sufficient space in the room for opening up the luggage. The room service food and drink prices are a bit expensive compared to surrounding places but there is happy hour option for drinks. The hotel is located at the start of the beach so it takes time to walk to the centre of Chaweng beach and walking is only an option from the beach side. Cabs and Grab cars are very expensive on the island so keep that in mind if you want to travel around. On a more personal note, we were there on our honeymoon, and every other place we stayed during this trip had some type of nice, warm touch in the room regarding that -it was a bit disappointing that there was not even a single note recognising that, even though we noted this during our reservation. We would expect a bit more effort from a romantic resort.

This is going to be a very honest review about Chura Samui Hotel. First of all, the hotel area including the room, swimming pool and hotel beach were very nice and clean, so totally worth the price we paid. We especially enjoyed breakfast, as they offer a good variety of different meals both Western and Asian style, which are all included in the hotel price. Every Tuesday and Thursday the hotel offers tasty dinner banquets including evening entertainment on the beach, which we enjoyed but found a little bit overpriced. Overall, we really enjoyed the stay at Chura Samui!

However, the hotel receptionists really disappointed us and did not meet our expectations at all. We approached them with a few common questions about day-time activities, sightseeing trips and restaurant recommendations. Unfortunately, they proved to be very unhelpful as we got the feeling that they neither know the island very well nor were willing to give broad answers but only tried to sell their expensive hotel restaurant and hotel trips and deals to us. The worst part of it was that the receptionists had no interest at all in giving useful tips and thus protecting us from the overpriced tourist industry. In fact, they tried to talk us into ridiculously expensive options when there were different alternatives.