i stayed here over the full moon period in July, for 5 nights.

It's quite hard to find, being about an hour away from the port, and to get to this place you need to get your taxi to drive you through the grounds of two expensive luxury resorts.

But when you get there it's totally worth it. Its nice and quiet, the bungalows are clean and very nice. But the best thing is, they are affordable! Certainly compared to the really expensive resorts you pass through on the way to the place.

The beach is very quiet, with very few people, but its a nice place to recover after the full moon party. You can get boats to the party itself, just remember to save some money aside for getting back here in the morning!

The staff were very friendly here, and shared some of their food with us (things that we had never heard of).

We had a wonderful stay at Thongtapan resort. The clean and simple bungalows are between the beach and the - almost- wild garden, in the nature just like we love. The two restaurants are delicious : Krua tapan is perfect for good thai family food and Baantapannoi just looks like a movie picture : Pirate of the Carribean ! People working at Thongtapan are very nice, smiling and very helpful for everything, and always kind with children. This place is perfect with small kids : soft sandy beach and turquoise sea, only 5 hotels to share the whole beach, a lovely village at 5 mn walk. It is paradise !

We stayed 2 nights here. The location is of course wonderful. Sitting right on Thong Nai Pan Noi. Just beautiful. The bungalow is too pricey, especially since breakfast is not included. They didn't clean our room either, so on the secound day, the bathroom smelled so bad that I almost got sick every time I had to use the toilet.
Don't think we would like to stay here again.

We've loved the fact that those bungalows were enough apart from each other in a luxuriant coast line setting, away from town.

I'm usually a well tempered empathic person, but this time, I couldn't had taken more...
We reserved in person* ( it took us 40 min. drive -back and forth- on a very bad road to especially go reserve "The" bungalow previously visited because the phones on the island were down.). And when we arrived the next day, our booking had vanished ! They had booked a couple in our specific reserved bungalow, few hours after our reservation!
There were not going to take the blame for it... a story who just got more frustrating with days...

The other guests were to leave after two day. So we waited, thinking, as they told us, that they had made some arrangement with the other guest who was supposedly to change of room or leave. But nothing happens. Our daily follows up was inconclusive; the receptionists just entertained us with vaporous claims. It's only a week later that we learned from the concerned guest that they didn't had really spoken to him about the double booking. He assured us spontaneously that he would had agree to move right away, as he didn't care about the location as we did. This other guest also qualified two of the front desk personnel (except for Bo) as "not in charge and of little reliability".

If you don't mind staying in a place where the front desk staff is IMMATURE and don't care, then go for it !! I must say I've enjoyed that hot spot anyway, despite our bungalow location and the two single beds we've tolerated instead of a double bed.

Fée L
French Canadian

*The spacy front desk guy had reassured me a few time that I didn't had to leave a deposit which I found suspicious enough to ask for reconfirmation twice. The credit card machine wasn't working and he decline my cash proposition. Day after what, he dared accuse me of not having done so !