Travel review of Royal Mekong Nongkhai Hotel, Isan on thailandguidebook.com (16 hotel reviews)

*Reviews of recent stays*	*Comment on the hotel*	*The* *reservation service*
STEINMANN Jean-Paul 2008-03-18 until 2008-03-19	Royal Mekong Nongkhai Hotel, Nongkhai I booked a Standard Room. Very large, with view on Nam Khong. Not high standard but very OK for the price. Restaurant so-so. Breakfast OK. Swimming pool not clean. Very far from the town center. Can recommend.	Good.
Koeppl 2008-02-04 until 2008-02-06	Royal Mekong Nongkhai Hotel, Nongkhai very nice location, clean and quiet, very friendly staff, nice swimmingpool, good value for money	perfect
Eddy Dobbenie 2007-11-26 until 2007-11-28	Royal Mekong Nongkhai Hotel, Nongkhai not a good hotel, it s old not clean, no good location	excellent
Arne Finsen Munck 2007-11-12 until 2007-11-13	Royal Mekong Nongkhai Hotel, Nongkhai The accomodation was ok. Room clean and nice. I am a disappointed about the promise about transfer from the hotel to the railway station. Your clerk at the disk promised to arrange with a tuk-tuk earli the next morning (the train left at 6:00 am). No tuk-tuk!!! Just in time there came an auto ( may be a vendor or so). The driver solved our problem just in time!!!!! Good service!	Ok with the net.
Jack Parkinson 2007-11-01 until 2007-11-08	Royal Mekong Nongkhai Hotel, Nongkhai I would rather have my teeth pulled without anaesthetic than return to this hotel, for the money charged it has been by far the worst hotel we have stayed in on our many visits to Thailand. The hotel is situated about 5km out of town so requires a Tuk Tuk ride to do anything, twice during our 6 night stay we had difficulty finding one. The gate security hut was abandoned with most of the windows broken, and the once white exterior of the hotel was covered with a black algae and was badly in need of a fresh coat of paint. On being shown to our room, we found that we had been given a superior room rather than the de luxe room we had paid for, and the room itself was tired and dirty, with torn seats and stains on the carpet. We complained and were shown to a de luxe room, which was marginally better though only 1 ceiling light out of 3 was working, the wallpaper in the entrance was torn and hanging off the wall, the light fitting in the wardrobe was hanging loose and the bathroom light took around 45 seconds to come on. The bedding was old and grey, 2 of the sheets on the twin beds were torn, there was a large stain on the carpet, hidden with the coffee table, only 1 socket out of 3 worked when I tried to connect my laptop, and the bedside lamp was wired in such a way as to be potentially lethal had we had a child with us, the only toiletries provided was a bubble bath, and there were no flannels provided. Once again I complained and the sheets improved slightly and we got an extra ceiling light, but all else remained the same. To be fair the view of the river was good. The pool and surrounding area was poor with no loungers or tables and chairs, and the pool itself looked dirty and uninviting with a lot of the surrounding large pebble feature residing in the bottom of the pool, with no attempt being made by the hotel to remove them. Breakfast was plentiful, though cold and un-appealing, with a DIY coffee service. There were other faults which I won t bore you with but all in all it is rated as a 3 star hotel, which I am sure in it s prime it was, and refurbished could be again, however in it s current state and with it s current staff I would be hard pushed to give it 1 star, and had we not apid for the hotel via an agent upfront we would not have stayed longer than it would have taken us to find other accommodation, the final problem came when in spite of giving the hotel 24 hours notice that we would be checking out a day early, and checking out before final check out time, the hotel refused to return the unused day to the agent saying we had not checked out until the evening and they could not re let the room. We were already in a decent hotel in Chiang Mai by mid afternoon. My advice would be that this one is a hotel to avoid like the plague unless it is offered for under 800 bhat a night.	Booking service was fine and agent did return the fee for the unused night, though I do not think it was refunded to them by the hotel. I was unable to contact them by phone on the number given on the paperwork, which I tried to do on arrival to see if we could change the reservation.
Les Seaward 2007-02-05 until 2007-02-06	Royal Mekong Nongkhai Hotel, Nongkhai I consider our short stay at the Hotel to be 1st class will have no problem in recomending to any person requiring accommodation in the area. Well Done	No Problems good service
Ross Jones 2006-04-17 until 2006-04-19	Royal Mekong Nongkhai Hotel, Nongkhai Nice hotel, great pool. Rooms clean although well overdue for a refurbishment/paint , big spacy room and comfortable bed. Hotel tour service made it easy to do a trip over to Laos.	Excellent booking service. Everything was as requested.
Heinrich Barth 2006-01-23 until 2006-01-28	Royal Mekong Nongkhai Hotel, Nongkhai ist ein angenehmes Hotel,bedarf allerdings einer Renovierung	Excellent
Robert Benjamin 2005-12-26 until 2005-12-29	Royal Mekong Nongkhai Hotel, Nongkhai A spacious room and an excellent restaurant with amazing decor, if a little dated. Well worth staying at the Royal Mekong to experience a little of the Isaan culture.	Efficient and reliable.
Klaus Kirchhoefer 2005-12-18 until 2005-12-20	Royal Mekong Nongkhai Hotel, Nongkhai Old hotel, we were really disappointed. Again the picturees look much nioer. Poor breakfast, much too expenisive. There are much nicer and cheaper hotels available in Nong Khai. Can not recommend it.	Booking as always ok, but too many email traffic until all reservation steps are done.

Travel review for Royal Mekong Nongkhai Hotel in Isan Thailand. Read 16 reviews by people who have visited this isan hotel.