Kanok Buri Resort, Koh Samui hotels Thailand on samuiwave.com

*Reviews of recent stays*	*Comment on the hotel*	*The reservation service*
Shreyans Dugar 2009-06-24	Kanok Buri Resort, Lipa Noi Beach The hotel was in a great location in a very isolated beach... it was neat and clean and rooms were also well kept. The service of the hotel staff was courteous and they helped me out on whatever issues we had. The only challenge I had was on vegetarian food, the options for which were limited.	The booking process we seamless and vouchers were received on time. No issues faced during the booking and the staff were able to clarify all doubts over email.
Dmitry Balashov 2009-04-04	Kanok Buri Resort, Lipa Noi Beach fintastic hotel, they gave us fo free a better villa, i loved asia, it was my first treep, take a safari or rent a car take a look around. Many Budda oriented placeis to visit. Hotel had a wonderfull restaraunt pulla service, everything on A_ But not for ravers this is total chillout, quiet and peace.	AAA+++
Loh Valerie Teh Fen 2008-07-09	Kanok Buri Resort, Lipa Noi Beach It is a small, simple and charming hotel. But above all, staff is very kind and very helpful. The beach is beautiful and you have a kind of alone in the world feeling . I highly recommand this hotel as it is a very good value for money option in a preserved environment, far from tourism spots.	Smooth and safe. Good.
Menkoe 2008-05-16 until 2008-05-21	Kanok Buri Resort, Lipa Noi Beach very nice small 4 star hotel on Samui s probably last quiet beach. We enjoyed our stay in one of the pool villas tremendously, the villas are modern and clean and the private pool just big enough for a late night dip – standard in the villas: big LCD screen, DVD player and a shower from starship enterprise? The reservation staff where extremely friendly and helpful. The food at the restaurant is slightly overpriced but ok . Breakfast was unfortunately a let down; we would have preferred a small buffet. No jet skies or hawkers to be seen on this long beach . – Rent a scooter and Nathon is a mere 5 minutes away.	fast and efficient
Menkoe 2008-05-16 until 2008-05-21	Kanok Buri Resort, Lipa Noi Beach Nice 4star boutique hotel on Samui s probably last quiet beach. No jet skies or hawkers to be seen on this long beach - perfect to relax! We enjoyed our stay in one of the pool villas tremendously, the villas are modern and clean and the private pool just big enough for a late night dip – standard in the villas: big LCD screen, DVD player and a shower from starship enterprise? The reservation staff where extremely friendly and helpful. The food at the restaurant is slightly overpriced but Ok. Breakfast was a little let down; we would have preferred a small buffet.	fast and efficient!
CHRISTIAN MITATY 2008-05-15 until 2008-05-23	Kanok Buri Resort, Lipa Noi Beach The Kanok Buri Resort in Koh-Samui is a perfect place to rest: beautifully appointed and very clean room (we had a pool villa for 8 nights) with a good bed if you like a firm matress like we do,nice indoor/outdoor restaurant(and a choice of 5 different breakfasts,good enough to our standards,despite some other negative comments),very kind and helpful service (special thanks to Ms Kung!), manicured lush tropical garden, beautiful and clean beach, new fitness room with A/C(just on the other side of the road), beach towels galore (not displayed on the hotel s website)and free internet access (not insuite).Note that the location is 45 mns drive from the airport and Cheweng or Bo-Phut(but we were looking for a remote place,so no bad surprise for us),but you can rent unexpensive scooters from the reception to wander around easily. Among the small improvements at the restaurant,we would have appreciated to have more details about food or cocktails to avoid to eat or drink the same things everyday(personnel is not very trained to explain, though very kindly),more different fruit would be have been welcome(watermelon and pinapple are enough for a couple of times, and mangos or rambutans are available on every market at the season(we unsuccessfully have asked several times).These are small details as the Kanok Buri Resort remains a very good choice if you are looking for a human-scale and luxurious resort away from the Ibiza-style ambience and a very corteous staff. Our only regret was not to have tried a massage under the sala facing the sea (something we will try next time for sure!).	reliable, informative, in one word excellent !
Susana Goncalves 2008-03-13 until 2008-03-22	Kanok Buri Resort, Lipa Noi Beach Kanok Buri Resort is a marvellous place, the beach is good and the staff only desire to make us feel welcome was authentic and made us indeed feel special. A unique place to spend with your significant other, away from all. I d definitely recommended to my friends.	booking service worked perfectly, specialy considering our date changes requests
NICOLA 2008-01-04 until 2008-01-11	Kanok Buri Resort, Lipa Noi Beach beautiful & very clean premises. extremely friendly staff & the beach is one of the nicest quiestest small beaches we have been to in thailand. would highly recommend this resort for ultimate relaxation time out with the most amazing sunsets. great restaurant next door named big johns .
Makiko Shinohara 2007-12-01 until 2007-12-03	Kanok Buri Resort, Lipa Noi Beach My husband and I were there in the beginning of December, The hotel was an ideal place to wind down and relax. The staff are very friendly, The room (garden view cottage) was clean, comfortable and nicely designed. However, The bathtub and Shower unit in our room could have been bigger. The Beach in front of the hotel was beautiful, quiet and clean. The food was also very good. We would definitly reccomend this resort and the beach!!
SERENA BRUGNOLI 2007-08-25 until 2007-09-02	Kanok Buri Resort, Lipa Noi Beach This was our fouth trip to Thailand and second year on Samui, having already sightseeen all the main beaches . We chose this resort mainly because small, on a nice calm beach far from the crowds and chaos of Chaweng and Lamai. ROOM : we booked a seaview room in the main building . The room was nice and comfortable but very noisy owing to heavy trucks and cars traffic running on the road alongside the hotel starting from 5 a.m., where no walls shield the rooms from the road. SERVICE : very gentle and smiling in general but very lazy and ineffective at the restaurant, with a too poor English . RESTAURANT : this is probably one of the weakest points at Kanok Buri. Seen the miserable breakfast we had the first morning we did not want to try a dinner. These were the worst breakfasts we had in Thailand obviously compared to the Resort rating and price paid : no buffet, but this is not the point. We love tropical fruits so we ordered some fresh fruits : we got a miserable tea saucepan with six tiny bites of pinapple and watermelon and dragon fruit. Every morning the same 3 kind of fruits, no variation.Toast was made of old bread and eggs were not fresh . Everything was very low quality and not fresh. This for us is a very bad point because one of the holiday s pleasures is to have a long rich breakfast English style not having to run to work. BEACH : Lipa Noi is still an unspoilt pristine beach with a magnificent view of islets in front : very few people, no skijets and chaos,safe swimming,no bars and clubs a fishermen s village on one end.But do not expect cristalline emerald waters : they are ok, with a nice color but no longer cristalline or emerald , but this is everywhere in Samui.Many broken glasses ! LOCATION : you have to be very independent and either rent a vehicle or make an agreement with a taxi from Nathon , because Kanok Buri is very isolated , no restaurants nearby apart from Big John and no shopping of any kind possible. Nathon is only 5/6 km away and there you have very fresh fish and lots of shopping at very good prices. CONCLUSION : we believe that Kanok Buri is rather overpriced and badly managed, they should lower the prices by at least a 30% to make it worth while. An Italian couple.	With had a second positive experience with Sawadee ,everything went very efficiently.