Situated behind the royal palace in Phnom Penh, this hotel is a little bit of paradise! We arrived on a Tuk Tuk after a 5 hour journey via mini bus from Siem reap, and stepped through the entrance into a world of peace and tranquility! Such a contrast from the crazy street outside!
It’s obviously very new and very well cared for as everything is clean and shiny!
Rooms: our room was beautiful! It was a double with a pool view. It had a 4 poster bed with clean, new (and therefore attractive) mosquito nets draped over it. It also had a day bed by the window – just in case a couple falls out lol!
The bathroom was the first half of the room separate bus floating mirror and the sink stand – the toilet was in a separate room with a door so not quite all open plan!
The room also had balcony overlooking the gorgeous pool plus the obvious tv and mini bar etc.
Spa: I actually got to use the spa this time! I had a full body massage as a treat to myself on my birthday and it was lovely! The young girl who is was very polite and charming, she’d been working there for a year and definitely knew what she was doing!
Your greeted with the most delicious tea! No idea what was in it but it was very very good! Ginger, lemongrass, honey…. Yummy!
The hotel was offering a 30% discount at the time so it only cost $17.50 for the hour.
Food: oh my god the food was good! Breakfast was great, loads of choice and plenty of everything!
We had lunch twice because it was so good the first time, and we ate in the restaurant for dinner on my birthday!
The restaurant by the pool has a pizza menu and the general menu which is mainly western food with a bit of Khmer twist. Off that we’ve had the carpaccio – amazing, I had it twice! – the tuna, chicken and the lasagne. All delicious especially the tuna!
Then James had the chicken off the Khmer menu from the front restaurant by the red pool. It definitely a hit!
This restaurant is situated at the front of the hotel and is open to the public.
Pools: there are two!!
One is at the front of the hotel with the open restaurant and is tiled in red! Very cool! It’s surrounded by funky loungers and nice to sit by for an evening drink, however it’s busy during the day and seemed to have lots of kids in it one day! This didn’t matter though because the other pool is beautiful and quiet, filled with sensible gently floating adults! This pool is blue. It has some sunbeds in full view of the sun and others situated in pairs under wood gazebo type structure surrounded by lovely curtains! Some of these had pool steps running from them! They also doubled up as a nice place to have a drink in the evening!
Staff: all lovely and most spoke very good English! We had no problems at all!
Verdict: 10/10! Definitely worth a visit if you need somewhere to stay on Phnom Penh, it’s not cheap though!
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