Travel review of Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Samui on samuiwave.com (25 hotel reviews)

*Reviews of recent stays*	*Comment on the hotel*	*The* *reservation service*
Tsai Ching Chun 2008-07-15 until 2008-07-17	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake Very good,very worth money,
ian mcinnes 2008-07-09 until 2008-07-11	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake The villas are looking old now and this is reflected in the price.It wasnt the best palce we have stayed.the villa was clean and everything worked,the staff were friendly and polite.Unfortunately the hotel is situated very close to the Escape monthly party at Chaweng lake,this noisey party was so loud that we thought they were in our bathroom.	Sawadee.com,very professional,excellent service,would use everytime.Thankyou
Kwok Wing Kwan 2008-07-08 until 2008-07-10	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake Find a place that got totally relaxation at reasonable pricing. Servicing is excellent! Specially front line staff.
Shona Wilson 2008-04-15 until 2008-04-17	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake Excellent hotel, good location, great staff, good price, does what it says in the pictures.	Excellent
Mook 2007-6-12 until 2007-1-12	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake It doesnt really look as it does on the website, a lot more old and worn. It need a bit of a revamp. We would not stay again for a few reasons. Mainly the lack of facilities they say they offer. Gym - absolutely NO gym Long distance telephone - NO Bus service to the beach - Yeah when it suits them or if you con them with cigaerettes or cash. But they wont pick you up. We resorted to hiring a motorbike. Internet - eventually, after 4 days, and then of course they tried to charge us for this free and included service We stayed in one of the apartments, the apartment itself was comfortable, though sometimes the drainage gets smelly. Gung the lady staff member was lovely.
Bernard James 2007-10-27 until 2007-11-10	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake On arrival at hotel we were dissapointed and surprised to find that the villa had one bedroom that was part of the living room ( screened off). The furnishings were off good quality but the living area was filled up with a huge table and dining chairs, there was a lasge plasma TV but no where to sit other than the hard chairs. On complaint a sofa was provided. The Sawadee web site does not give a true perspective of the hotel which is not suitable to people with walking difficulties. Steps up to the Bar and reception are very steep with no hand rails. The pathway to villas are also difficult to negotiate and are not suitable for a wheel chair. The staff were very helpfull and tried their best to over come our problems.
Ahmad Ridzuan 2007-08-28 until 2007-08-31	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake I m a Moslem from Malaysia and stayed in a Standard Service Apartment during my holiday in Samui. The apartment is NEW, has nice and clean modern Thai interior design, exactly looks like the pictures they show on the website. The hotel offered daily bottled plain water in fridge but no safe box available. The breakfast is nothing to shout about, it s served a la carte, you can choose maximum 5 dishes in the menu only!. If you can only eat Halal food (Moslem food), I ve found one opposite Bangkok Hospital Samui in Chaweng (never tried), and the other one at Lamai Food Centre in Lamai (excellent, spicy food). Basically you ve got to rent a motorbike or a car in order to go to the beach, as it s located quite far from the beach. However, it is located near to a Tesco Lotus, where you can easily get your necessities, if you stay long in Samui. The reception guy, Tom (a Thai guy) is so helpful, and you can trust him. You just need to be nice with him, and he ll assist you whatever he could. I ve booked a motorbike (competitive rates), a trip to Angthong National Marine Park (cost lesser than the counter price) and a car transfer (it s big and new - standard market rate) to the peer on my return, all from Tom. I rate this hotel at 8 out of 10 points.	Confirmation is sent via plain email. I suggest Sawadee to introduce proper voucher to be sent by mail, like other online agent do.
CHEUNG PAK CHI 2007-06-15 until 2007-06-16	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake Nice place!Good service and superb room!	no problem
a m lewis 2007-05-08 until 2007-05-18	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake Booked 10 nights in two Premium Villas. Very disappointed with the villas and the attitude of the management, although the staff were friendly. Sawadee s website states that all rooms in Villas are air-conditioned. They are not, only bedroom. It also states all villas have an outside bath-tub as well as the jacuzzi, wrong again, only a bucket full of cold water. Only one villa had cooking equipment (Microwave, fryer etc) and again only one villa had satellite TV, the other had cable. Also, a lot of mosquito s in or around Villa. When these problems were highlighted to the owner his attitude was well I got my money, tough luck for you! There was no gesture of good will offered by him and we were told to take it up with our booking agent. When we arrived, we were offered breakfast in our villas each morning , after our complaint, we never received the breakfasts, which wasn t too bad as the food sucked! Other things to note, if your inclined to bring a guest to your room of an evening, the hotel charges a strict 500baht joiner fee . There is building work going on next to the pool and if you want to hire a scooter don t book it through the hotel, they charged 250 baht for 1 night even though their welcome pack states 200baht and if you were to walk 500m down the road you d get one for 175baht. For the money you can do so much better than the Baan Kao Hua Jook. There is zero customer service from the owner, it s all about money. Which is a shame as it has the potential to be a great Hotel, but I won t be staying there ever again.	Never had a problem booking with Sawadee and I hope they address the problems we had by at least amending the facilities details on their website.
Mrs Claire Barker 2007-04-06 until 2007-04-14	Baan Kao Hua Jook Villas & Apartments, Chaweng Lake Overall we felt lucky with our stay here for 10 nights. There was a house being built directly opposite the only communal swimming pool which of course was quite noisy. We stayed in a superior villa with it s own pool so was not inconvenienced too much by this. Unlucky though for people in the apartments. The service was o.k, nothing special - more like a Bed and Breakfast than a hotel. There is no safe in the rooms and the shuttle doesn t run past 6 pm into Chaweng - taxis s are cheap though. The staff speak limited English although try hard to please. The villas were cleaned very well every day so no complaints with this. The breakfast was fine - not much choice but cooked to order. The rest of the food though was not nice - wouldn t recommend anyone eating there. Sunbeds around the pool could also be an issue as there s only a few there and lots of apartments! Another point to note is the once a week Escape House Party that is located across the road (100 yards away or so) - noisy isn t the word!!! This happens once a week from 9 pm to 7 am. I don t think this resort operates a bug programme as the mosquito s were rife! We ve been to Thailand 5 times and even after buying lots of cans of spray for the villa, coils burning and repellent on us we got bit approx 20 times - you can see them around the roof and doors!! Mosquito nets would have been good. So, all in all - not bad for the price paid. The villa was lovely but wouldn t go back again as you could end up in a villa that s overlooked and the service wasn t as expected.	Excellent as always..

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