I've just come back from 4 nights at the Andaman on Koh Lipe. Having arrived with no reservation and spending several hours walking up and down sun rise beach looking for a reasonably priced room (expect to pay 1,800+ bht for an aircon room just off the beach which was a little steep for us) we finally got one of... More

I paid around 700 baht per night for a basic wooden hut on the back row of this resort in March 2011. It was very basic - hard bed, old toilet, cold water, broken fan etc but these huts had a great balcony with (limited) views of the sea and beach and out of the blazing hot sun, under some... More

One of the best beaches! We stayed in one of the blue older concrete bungalows (one of the 2 single ones in the first row on the beach) for 6 nights. This review probably only applies to the low season. I am not sure if the place was even officially open. The restaurant was closed and we were the only... More

Remember the old days in Thailand, when no a/c bungalow were available and it took a couple of days to adjust to dark and spiffy (full of holes) wooden bungalows with straw roofs? well this is such a place twenty years on, with hardly any maintenance work done to the property. What has changed is the cost, in 2007 those... More

Small, old, dark rooms with no furniture but a bed on a wooden platform No breakfast included At back of the resort with no views Fan only No TV or fridge No water in rooms Old, revolting bathrooms, that emitted a sewerage smell most of the time - a sink and a toilet only with nowhere to put toiletries No... More