Travel review of First Bungalow Beach Resort, Samui on toursabuy.com (34 hotel reviews)

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Glenn Robinson 2008-06-06 until 2008-06-20	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Hotel reviews are there for a purpose...to inform people of what the hotel is really like. I just wish I had taken heed to the many reviews about the first bungalow. If you wish to be insulted by incrediably rude, arrogant and disrespectful reception/front desk staff then most certainly you need to book at this resort. No problems ever with the room cleaning staff, in fact they should be the ones on the front desk if they could speak English. I blame the management of this hotel for training their staff on how to be offensive. I m sure that others have had a wonderful holiday experience at this place but for this family of six, we will never return or ever recommend it to anyone.	As always, a very professional, easy to book with company. Have always and will continue to use Sawadee when coming to Thailand
N Watts 2008-05-09 until 2008-05-15	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Located on corner it was beautiful spot and the front beach bungalows are worth it. The Resort is not as flashy looking as a some, and its several minutes more walk to the busy side of town but the beach is much more secluded. I asked my girlfriend to marry me there and she said yes. The perfect setting. Staff friendly. We hired a scooter and motorbike from across the road and you can get around the island at your own leisure.	Excellent, efficient and prompt service and e-mail replies. No problems when it came to checkin into hotel.
sean mustoe 2008-04-12 until 2008-04-15	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach The resort is a little out of town but shares a rather exclusive beach with five or six higher end hotels in a large cove populated by married couples over 30. I immediately upgraded to a beach bungalow which was metres from the beach and worth every penny. Relatively quiet beach and sensible folk. Accomodation was good, but satellite TV had few english channels and few quality channels. Good buffet breakfast which made you get up for it ( 6-10 am). Loved my stay because of the location and nice beach. I have reservations about having to pay over-priced taxi fares and less than friendly staff. I reported brown jellyfish in the water where i was swimming, in vicinity to rocks. A member of staff ame to see me in less than friendly manner and i had to remonstrate with her I was trying to be responsible for good of guests. When i paid, nobody thanked me for my stay. Still a good place to stay, and good massage service on the beach. Do your homework on brown jellyfish though.
A & J Still 2008-03-23 until 2008-03-29	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach First we were booked for the new building room which was a disappoinment. No window,only frostedclass door to toilet and balcony. There was no view, depressing. Later we got a nicer room around the pool. Pool area was beautiful. Price-quality is not very good, a bit overpriced. Beach is wonderful but you need to reserve sunbeds early which is quite dull. Breakfast tasty and sufficient. Overall it was ok for 6 nights stay but we rather not visit this hotel again.	Excellent!
Herfurth Ricarda 2008-02-20 until 2008-02-27	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Wir haben 1 Woche im Resort verbracht. Als wir abends ankamen, bekamen wir ein Zimmer, das wir nicht gebucht hatten. Kein Fenster im Schlafraum, nur im Bad. Von der Balkontüre vom Bad aus blickte man genau auf den Balkon vom Nebenhaus in ungefähr 1 Meter Entfernung. Wir beschwerten uns, bekamen aber erst am nächsten Tag das gebuchte Zimmer, allerdings mit Einzelbetten nicht Doppelbett, wie bestellt. Der Pool war am 1. Tag schon ziemlich trüb, am 2. Tag war er grün und es wollte ihn niemand benutzen. Die Gratisliegen am Strand musste man am besten morgens um 7 Uhr reservieren sonst war alles voll. Die Sauberkeit im Speisesaal ließ zu wünschen übrig, Geschirr und Kaffee waren oft aus und man musste oft bei dem unwilligen Personal nachfragen. Strand ok. Auswahl Speisen beim Frühstück recht gut!
Alicia Bradley 2008-02-16 until 2008-02-20	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Quite nice, the room looked really new and was quite clean except for a small influx of ants every afternoon. The pool is really nice and is a good location, only a short walk into town. Having to walk up and down four flights of stairs every time we wanted to get to the room was a bit tiring but everything else was good. Don t go to breakfast too late as they stop refilling things around 9:30am. Really great hotel and only a short walk to town. We would probably stay here again.	Very easy to use and great to compare hotels around the area you want to stay in.
Richard Rudd 2008-01-29 until 2008-02-05	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach I have been travelling around thailand for about 15 years and stayed in everything from a shack to some really top end hotels... This one is not to be recommended for the following reasons: 1. Bungalows are the most expensive but in a terrible condition, 2. SOmebody died on our beach while we were staying there because of rip tides that exist almost all year round. ( There are several drowning deaths a year on Chaweng side but nobody wants to publicise that!) The hotel doesn t even have a safety boat - when you consider the rip off rates this place charges, they can definately afford one!!! 3. The day to day staff are great but the front of house staff have got a seriously bad attitude. 4. The hotel refused to transfer us FOC and made us pay for airport transfers- My advice: DONT stay here! Its overcrowded, impersonal and plagued by idiots selling stuff you dont want... Go to Phangnan or LAmai or bophut/ Big Buddha beach for a far better trip.... - On the other hand, if you want to be ripped off, treated like cattle and find it hard to find anyone but Russians around, this would make the idea holiday! - What a shame because I love Thailand, and this place betrays it!!!!	Always good and this time no exception
ROGÉRIO GUERREIRO 2007-12-10 until 2007-12-15	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach HOTEL MUITO BEM SITUADO A 5 MIUTOS DE TAXI DO CENTRO. O MELHOR É ALUGAR UMA MOTA MESMO E FRENTE AO HOTEL AO CONTRÁRIO DO QUE SE DIZ É O MELHOR TRANSPORTE PARA DAR UMAS VOLTAS E NEM É NECESSÁRIO LICENÇA DE CONDUÇÃO. HOTEL BOM PARA UM 3 EST. O PEQUENO ALMOÇO MUITO MAU. NO GERAL UMA BOA ESTADIA.	MUITO BOM. MAS MUITOS E-MAILS.
Susan Greenwell 2007-08-10 until 2007-08-17	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach We were upgraded to a beach bungalow because our preferred room was not available the first night, and it was perfectly lovely! The rooms and pool were quite nice; beautiful breakfast location overlooking the sea. The hotel is located at the end of Chaweng, a bit of a walk from the main drag, but still very convenient for restaurants, bars, etc. The hotel staff were very helpful, particularly when we asked to extend our stay.	Easy and efficient booking.
Michal Kosher 2007-08-01 until 2007-08-05	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach We stayed at the hotel in the buildings room and it was a nightmare, the rooms were smelling so bed, like we were at the sewage, there was a problem with the shower it was very hard to work it up, at the last day we didn t have hot water, the staff at the reception weren t so friendly, and there was always a problem to get a towel at the pool or at the sea, the towels were very dirty most of the time. There were a lot of mosquitos near the room and we were stung threw the nights.The Hotel is far from the center and you must use a texi in order to get to the center and the prices are very high considering the prices in Thailnad. The things that we liked at the hotel were the breakfest, it was very good, they have a very good beach, and the restaurant at the hotel was nice with good food and reasonble prices. I certainly won t reccomand this hotel to anyone.	great, although I didn t understand the fact that I need to give my credit card details twice in order to complete my resrvation, I thougt it would be charged automaticcly, and it almost cost me my reservation, at the end everthing was just fine

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