I will try to make this easy and to the point.
It wasn't a horrible experience, The hotel is dated and old looking in the rooms. I have never seen a plastic bathtub in my life. It felt like a mobile home in your room. The t.v is dated, and it got 2 crappy channels. It was not dirty. It was only adequate.
The entry to your room is with a key, they have no safe in your room. The mini bar, was crazy expensive. Like a very very small pepsi....was like 65 baht,,,when on the label it was 10 baht.

For 3 french fries and 3 cokes around the pool it cost us 750.00 Baht.
The hotel was like hawaii prices and no need for it other than there is no where closer to eat..

The hotel also will only call a taxi that will charge you 250 baht oneway to take a 5 Km ride to town. Having done that we seen metered taxi's all through town so the hotel must get rich off kick backs fromn these other taxi drivers. SHAME ON YOU RAYONG RESORT

The service around the pool was ridiculously slow, there was hardly anyone even around the pool and they even forgot our drinks twice!!!! Three lemonades are not hard or difficult,, but they were expensive, 300 baht with the service charge.

If you have children there is absolutley nothing for them to do here. For that fact there is nothing for adults to do either. Perhaps this resort could take some of the people that are just standing around wasting time and get them to get kids invovled in a game around the pool or the lawn.??? It begs the question" ARE THEY INTERESTED IN REMAINING OPEN ONE MORE YEAR???? I
The very fact that they were at less than half capacity for new year holiday should tell evryone there is a problem.
THE BEACH: If you enjoy swimming in a rocky, and polluted beach ( garbage from fishing boats) then this is the beach for you. Just 3 km away is the most beautiful swimmable beach....Although you will pay for it in their taxi ride there.

Do not stay here...'nuff said. But, to elaborate more: The waterfront rooms are NOT on the beach, they are on a rocky and dirty (i.e. littered) side. The kids playground (a bit attraction for us with our then 2-year old) is so broken down that I forced them to rope it off and make it appear to our daughter to be closed. During what should have been a moderately high season there were so few people there that it was obvious they had no money to pay staff...and the lack of maintenance inside rooms and around the property was obvious.

13 years ago some friends of mine visited this resort, and said it was very old and desperately in need of refurbishment. Well, 13 more years have passed and no improvements have been made. The rooms are musty smelling, tatty and equipped with fittings from 20+ years ago. The balcony was dirty with pigeon droppings and had not been cleaned.
There was a power failure in the building for an hour or so in the morning around breakfast time.
The food and drinks are the same price as the 5-star JW Marriott in Phuket, but this is definitely a 3-star resort.
On the plus side, the view and setting is really very pleasant, the pool is clean and inviting, and breakfast buffet was pretty good for a 3-star place
If you are a newcomer to Thailand, avoid this place. It is totally isolated to its own property, and there are thousands of much better places for the same price in many areas.

As residents of Bangkok, we booked 5 nights at the Rayong Resort to get some flood relief. We had two rooms in the main building. This hotel was probably considered luxurious in its hayday but those days are LONG gone. It is beyond old and tired, it's a wreck. All you are paying for here is the view (which is stunning) and the pool, nothing else. The information book in the room was cracked and torn and covered in mold, there is only ONE power point in the room and no internet in any form apart from a weak signal in the lobby where there were no comfortable chairs. (As all schools were closed in Bangkok due to the flooding my children needed the internet to do their schoolwork but didn't manage to connect.) The carpets were dirty and the room smelled. Renovations were taking place from 8am-5pm but I'm not sure what they were renovating. The breakfast was basic and in a completely unadorned room. Dinner was well below average and didn't change. It was the same "international buffet" both nights we were there before heading back to Bangkok 3 days early.

It is also an impossible hotel for anyone with mobility issues. Endless stairs to and from everywhere and it's perched up on a hillside. No beach restaurants and not much beach to speak of. When the tide was out there was maybe 4ft of sandy beach but dirty.