Travel review of Centara Grand Beach Resort Samui, Samui on tripsthailand.com (55 hotel reviews)

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alister birman 2008-07-01 until 2008-07-10	Centara Grand Beach Resort Samui, Chaweng Beach The BEST direct-beach aspect,on Samui (ALL rooms overlook the beach).The BEST garden on Samui - loads of space , serenity + shade (2 to 4 times larger than other resorts on the island). The BEST pool area, numerous water-rooms + activity areas (if you wish !) alternatively - v.easy to find a sunny, quiet spot. A FAB hotel for All ages, who want to chill . Rooms; sound-proof, well appointed ( extras v.reasonable). Walk-ways + common areas; vast, cool + protected. Food; GREAT (we re Aussies). Staff; smiling + genteel- no issues, a seamless fortnight. The Library + New Star also recommended (mix it up, stay at a few, deny yourself nothing) ENJOY !	Very pro-active, e-mailed all replies- promptly. Inspired confidence. Thank-you !! for a seamless holiday experience. Highly recommend your services. AAAAA+
SUMEER KUMAR DUGGAL 2008-05-23 until 2008-05-27	Centara Grand Beach Resort Samui, Chaweng Beach We had a lovely family vacation at the grand centara. They even gave us a complimentary upgrade to a better room with a fabulous view as they had to accomodate a group. The staff was very courteous.A special thank you to the hotel staff for finding my wallet in the room safe and coming to the airport to hand over the same to me. It saved me from ending a happy vacation disastrously.will definitly stay there again if opportunity permits.
N.Becker 2008-04-05 until 2008-04-10	Centara Grand Beach Resort Samui, Chaweng Beach We were guests at the Centara Grand Beach Restort for the 3rd time already. We enjoyed our stay a lot. Rooms were renovated recently and are up to date. The pool area was also refurbished and is nice but it can t compete with newer 5* hotels. What annoid us was the useless pool towel policy, where you have to deposit a towel card to get a towel. The pool towels were quite old and dirty. The beach is fantastic and the location of the hotel is very convenient for shopping+dining. The hotel was fully booked at the time of our visit (80% Germans) but due to the wide garden, we never felt overcrowded. Hotel staff was friendly, fast and helpful.	Fully met our expectations
Rolf Arnesen 2007-12-30 until 2008-01-05	Centara Grand Beach Resort Samui, Chaweng Beach Family Friendly. Packed Childerens Club but empty Night Club. Not a Bounty Island hotel anymore. Nice restaurants and bars, exellent food, but slow service. We had to call every afternoon to get the room cleaned. Not walue for money. Stay away if you don t bring a bunch of kids.	Very good.
Desilvestri 2007-11-26 until 2007-12-03	Centara Grand Beach Resort Samui, Chaweng Beach The Hotel has still a large part under reconstruction and in the evening when you go out and in coming back you can see ( and breathe) clouds of powder coming out from the wall. The room was not so big but always clean and in order. When we arrived we had to wait for the room a little bit less then 2(two) hours and the staff was non so usefull and polite as the thai people usually are. The seem to be bored many times This hotel is a 4-5 stars just for the price; for itself it should be good 3 stars.For less (I paid URO 126 per night) you will find better places	booking service was good
Desilvestri 2007-11-26 until 2007-12-03	Centara Grand Beach Resort Samui, Chaweng Beach It s an hotel 4-5 stars only for the price. It should be a good 2-3 stars, for the price I paid (Euro 126 per night) you could easily found something better. This big hotel was under re-construction for a large part(50% of the total rooms were unavailable) and it caused a lot of pouder that you could see (and breathe) when we were not on the beach. By the way the room was always clean and nice but not so big. The service was not so fair: we had to wait about 2(two)hours before entering into the room and the the working people seemed to be not as polite as Thai are used to be.	booking service o.k.
Haley Smith 2007-08-20 until 2007-08-25	Centara Grand Beach Resort Samui, Chaweng Beach Good points: very helpful, friendly staff, good central location on a slightly quieter stretch of beach, very attractive gardens, lovely large pool, plenty of sun loungers, excellent breakfasts (choose the quieter outdoor area by the Japanese Restaurant because the main area is a bit crouded). Slightly disappointing points: we were allocated rooms on the yet to be refurbished area and found them to be rather tired although I think they will all be renovated soon. I totally agree with the previous reviewer in that the town is a very busy and noisy with the cab drivers hooting their horns and very loud hailers advertising Thai Boxing. At times there was a very bad drain smell and there are some over zealous sales people. If you re looking for an authentic unspoilt Thai experience then Chaweng is not the place for you! I wish we d spent less time here and longer on Ko Tao - more peaceful and beautiful.	Perfectly efficient and user friendly.
Einar Steenstrup 2007-07-20 until 2007-07-26	Centara Grand Beach Resort Samui, Chaweng Beach We had 5 beutiful days at Centara Grand Beach Resort. We stayed in a double room The Club and really felt a touch of luxury with access to a special lounge and other benefits. The hotel, the restaurants and the beach left nothing to be desired, with a friendly and service minded hotel staff and a lot of sawadee-krap. We felt less about the town/main street of Chaweng Beach, which we found with too much traffic, too narrow side walks, to many shops seeling junk/fakes, too pushie sales persons and less pleasant smell from the gratings of the drain/sewer running in the middle of the street. We found the hotel resturants to serve excellent food (Spicey Island ended up being the favourite) with indiviual levels of hot to suit european tolerance limits. The hotel beach was quiet with all facilities and rentals. Plus is given for the arrangement with the beach sellers , who were not allowed to approach the guests on their sun beds, but had to try to present their merchandise at a 15 meter distance. Centara is not the cheapest accomodation around, but we found it value for money.	Booking via internet went reasonably well. It took 4-5 e-mails back and forth before the hotel could confirm what was really available and what was not. We got however a small discount for this additional trouble, so we as costumers ended up quite satisfied.
Rajeev Bakshi 2007-07-14 until 2007-07-20	Centara Grand Beach Resort Samui, Chaweng Beach Very difficult time and not enjoyable.I had paid almost usd 500 per night for a Pool room.However they gave me a room which had construction going on in the 2 adjoining room with considerable noise and dirt .On protesting they assigned me a Suite after 2 days which was OK but again in the middle of the construction site.Too expensive for the service,very poor staff.It will struggle to be equal to a 4 Star status.Only positive is the location and a good family oriented atmosphere.but I will not visit the hotel again.
Nimesh 2007-05-05 until 2007-05-08	Central Samui Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach My wife and myself were extremly pleased with the hotel in all aspects, checking in, room service, cleanliness, promt maintaince, location, price and most comfortable. I could not think of one bad experience, excellent Spa. I will go and stay there again.	Sawadee.com was perfect no problems ...thank you

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