We have just spent nine amazing days at the Ocean View Resort, and I must say I have no idea why people do not give this place top marks.

From the second we were picked up by a lovely, chatty lady with great English skills at Saladan Pier to our last night giving goodbye hugs to the staff, everything was perfect. And for the price of 1400 baht in high season, it was a steal! Yes, we chose the cheapest room with a fan, but it was more than good enough, with a fridge, a tv, free drinking water every day, a hot shower and daily cleaning. Oh, and only a 20 meter walk to a beautiful, not too crowded beach. After working in China and partying in Phuket, this was the relaxing place we were looking for.

But the number one thing about this place is the bar and restaurant, The Koala Bar, run by a friendly Australian and with the nicest waiter you could ever meet! Aman (sorry if I spelled your name wrong!) is an absolute gem, always happy and helpful, and just an all-round fantastic guy. On top of that, the food is the best we had on the island, even though we visited much pricier places. And with a huge, yummy strawberry margarita for just 100 baht, we soon realised there was no reason to go anywhere else.

Thank you to all the wonderful people at Ocean View Resort, hope to see you again some time:)

Ida & Truls

We booked 3 nights at the Ocean View Resort. We arrived in the evening and it turned out that they gave our room to someone else. I had informed them in advance that we would be arrriving late. The god thing was that they at least had made arrangements and booked a room for us at the nearby Bee Garden, where we ended up staying for nearly 3 weeks.

I looked around the resorrt which looked okay. The pool was very small and the bungalows did not exactly look new.

But we kept coming back to their beach restaurant for dinner. In our opinion the best one on Klong Dao beach! Nice and friendly service and great food!

This resort have a nice location at the Klong Dao beach. Pool is very tiny and small.
Stayed in a 'seaview bungalow' which was fine.
The only drawback is that some of the bungalows is located very close to the mainroad. So some of the paradise feeling got lost as it sometimes felt like staying in the middle of the highway.
There are some cheap plastic chairs chairs outside each bungalow, and a hammock. Worked ok, but not very nice. Also very close to the bungalows on each sides, no privacy at all. Cleaning was ok and there was a fridge in the room. A/C worked and TV worked. Bathroom was ok, water pressure in shower poor.

Breakfast was good with 4-5 choices.
Restaurant is pricy but with good food. A little mart across the road with good prices.

English skills of the people worked here are poor. ( I mean bad )
Some of them do not able to communicate in english at all.


All in all i think this is OK value for money.
Would maybe go there again.

We booked this hotel after through booking.com, paying 2000THB per night. We were supposed to stay for 3 nights. The only good thing about this hotel is that it is on the beach.

When we arrived to check in, no one spoke or understood english, the receptionist (the only one who could speak english was at the airport at the time.

We wer shown to our room and it wasn't even the room we had booked back in October. They said that the one we had booked wasn't available until the following day. The room that they wanted us to stay in was very dirty, had a view of a broken shed and little insects crawling inside of the room.

We couldn't stay there - it was just too disgustingly dirty!! Would not recommend this hotel to anyone.

We left and walked down the road - ended up paying 2100THB per night to stay in the Andaman Lanta Resort which was absolutely briliant. It was so clean, had a beautiful pool, and a sea view. For that extra 100THB per night - it was definitely worth it.