Orchid Riverside Villa

Excellent hotel, the room was clean, modern, great bathroom and a massive room. The staff were very helpful and great for booking trips. The female receptionist has good english and was very attentive and even walked us to the trip pick up point.The food is limited but good and a reasonable price. The only slight drawback is the location, which is at the end of a long road over the river and about 20 mins walk to the centre. If on a budget (and dont mind walking) we would highly recommend this place. We stayed here for 2 weeks, sometimes other guests were a bit noisy, not a major issue as most guests stay for a few nights.

The gentleman working on the front desk was kind, helpful, informative, attentive and spoke very good English. They have bicycles you can use for free. He gave us information on what to do for Christmas. Unfortunately everything else is a total disaster and it absolutely does not look like the pictures. The beautiful pool that we booked the hotel for was abandoned and closed which we were not told about when booking. The hot water only heats up when your key is in your room and takes about an hour, so coming back from a long day in the rain and cold on a motorbike, you can't just have a shower, you have to stand in your room muddy, cold, dirty and tired. After an hour of heating the water up, it lasted 2 minutes so only one of us got a hot shower. The sink leaked onto the floor when you used a tap, we mentioned this and demonstrated it pouring onto the floor but he wasn't interested. There's a huge gap under the outside door so the outside temperature is essentially what your inside temperature will be. For us this was 14 degrees. The staff smoke inside the hotel downstairs. This makes its way upstairs and into your room and it stinks. The hotel is in a residential back street. It's incredibly noisy with karaoke and parties. Dogs will aggressively bark at you as you try and navigate back to your hotel. We cancelled the rest of our stay and left immediately the next morning.

Looking at the map, this place looks a bit out of the way, nothing could be further from the truth the location is great for walking in to town (about 20 mins) but has the advantage of being relatively quite. Main points  Decent sized pool for a small hotel  Friendly helpful staff with some English spoken  Simple but well prepared breakfast  Reasonable sized clean rooms some with balcony  Helpful with organising travel arrangements  Relatively close to a well stocked mini-mart IMO This hotel represents excellent value for money, providing clean and friendly environment in comfortable surroundings. Being slightly older with limited mobility, the staff were helpful organising a grab/taxi and onward train travel.