This place is an “Our Pick” in the Lonely Planet Guide. Maybe they never really stayed here.
The place is a combination restaurant and hotel in a single building on the river front; one of several in a row of guest houses. It’s a three story place. There are rooms and an open-air restaurant with a large deck on the bottom floor. There are rooms on the second floor. Not really sure if the third floor is rooms for rent or owner accommodations.
The building is all wood.
All told, there are probably less than ten rooms.
The upper floors look down on the first floor, so sound carries up from the restaurant level. Add to that walls and ceilings and floors that lack any soundproofing, and you get to hear everything that goes on in the building. That includes folks in the next room going to the bathroom, and the toddler of the family that operates the place running around and screaming on the first floor.
And that brings up the feel of the place…that you are staying in someone else’s house – because the first floor being treated as a playroom, complete with Naked Grandpa running after her, doesn’t make for a feeling that you are staying in an actual business establishment.
(Naked Grandpa wasn’t really full-on naked, but he was shirtless all the time.)
On top of that, the place was overpriced. 750 baht in the off season for a small room, that leaked rain water, in this otherwise-inexpensive part of Thailand? 245 baht for a breakfast of coffee, three pieces of toast, and a small plate of mango and pineapple? Service that was never given unless chased down; and was delivered as if it was an inconvenience?
Oh, and Lonely Planet was wrong about the verandas for the second floor rooms. They are tiny pieces of shit.
