유토피아 카타

Overall overpriced for what it is, but clean and in a good area. Staff not necessarily very competent. Wifi not great as it only worked in one corner of the room. The breakfast was average (although delivered to the room, which is nice). They tried to charge us for a small stain on the bedsheets.

New built aparments, let out as rooms. Good if you can’t book a hotel you wanted, as was in our case, but still want to be in the same area. Not so good if you want any help. Reception is adhoc, staff, like majority locals in the town, are fed up with tourists and are there literally to funnel you through and make some cash. We had a basic taxi booked to the airport, and when I politely enquirer why it’s 1000bhat, and not what I heard the ‘receptionist’ agree on the phone (800 which is pretty much normal rate), she told me to go and get a taxi somewhere else if I didn’t like the rate (basically in no uncertain way told me to ‘eff off’)... also, it sounds like whinning, but the beds are probably the hardest I tried sleeping on in my entire life. Yes beds are hard in south east Asia, but they went the extra mile.