Not to be confused with golden banana resort or superior! Down one little alley there are (I think) 4 golden banana residences. They are part of the same chain but otherwise independent of each other – so you can’t use the others pool and if you eat in one that your not staying in you pay there, not via your room bill!
Room: our room was up a flight of stair and then split over 2 floors! The first floor had a tv, comfy chairs, a table and mini bar. The second floor was a very spacious bedroom and nice bathroom. The decor was rather bohemian and rather trendy with some bizarre painting of laughing men in pants which I think is meant to indicate the fact that the hotel is gay friendly!
Each room has a ceiling fan and there is aircon in the bedroom!
We had a balcony over looking the pool which was lovely and had a wicker chair swing suspended from the ceiling!
Food: hmmm. We had lunch at a member of the hotel chain next door. I had noodles and James had chicken Khmer curry. While it tasted good we were both ill that evening! One from one end and one from another!! It may well have been due to too much sun but I would still be weary!
Breakfast was nice! You choose off a menu which includes fried breakfast, omelettes, museli, pancakes and fruit. I had a pancake and so far so good!
However if you’re going to do a sunrise adventure through your hotel and therefore miss the allocated breakfast time, it would be nice to have some kind of replacement!
Facilities: the hotel had a lovely salt water pool with approximately 12 loungers around it. The situation is very pretty with some lovely pink flowered trees overlooking the pool. However this means if you are a sun worshipper like ourselves you may find yourself sun bed hopping to get out of the shade! Luckily for us it was quiet yesterday so it was easy!
There is a bar by the pool that is open most of the day until 10pm depending on how busy it is.
Staff: our hotel’s staff were friendly and most spoke relatively good English!! they arranged a Tuk Tuk to take us around angkor wat for a day no problem.
Problems: our main problem was with the water supply. Siem reap is experiencing a period of low water so the hotel had to shut down its water from 11am Til 3pm and again from midnight to 4am. This is fine and neither of us had a problem, it’s hardly the hotel’s fault! However what was annoying is that when the water was meant to be on it didn’t work up to our room! The pump had apparently broken and it took an hour to fix on the first night delaying us from exploring as we both needed to shower! The next day in the morning before our trip to angkor there still wasn’t any so it was a rather stinky couple that visited the sunrise! After a firm word with one of the better English speaking staff though it was sorted finally! I think having a bathroom on the 3rd floor was what caused the problem so the lower to the ground your room is the better off you’ll be!
Verdict: 7/10 only low because of the water problem really!! And the lack of loungers in the sun but that’s a really personal thing!
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