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reviews by people who have visited this phangnga hotel.
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Karl-Ola Bjelkeby and Gun Berglund
2008-03-08 until 2008-03-12 |
Amandara Island Resort, Koh Kho Khao
Splendid, as close to the Paradize you can come. Nice and calm place, friendly and helpful staff. The room was excellent and both the poolarea and the beach was very good. Good and tasteful food in the restaurant. We can really recommend this place and resort. |
Excellent as usual |
Yvonne Carlsson
2008-02-09 until 2008-02-15 |
Amandara Island Resort, Koh Kho Khao
This is Paradise! It s a pieceful holiday. A long beatiful beach with only little tourists, and perfect for running s in the morning. The Villas lay perfect at the beach and have lot of space. The staff is always smiling and friendly and roomservice is very good. This place is perfect for a relaxing holiday and we will definitly coming back. |
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Michael Gutmann
2008-01-18 until 2008-01-23 |
Amandara Island Resort, Koh Kho Khao
Paradise on earth... This is what comes to our mind, when we reminisce about Koh Koh Kao and Amandara Island Resort. If thereยดs anything to complain about at all, well, then itยดs the crystal clear water, that is promised in the resort s description, but turns out to have no visibility at all, due to sandy and muddy particles floating in the water. If you are looking for a place to go snorkling, then this is definitely the wrong place to go to. Also, when you are looking for clubbing, party and loud music. Donยดt go to Koh Koh Kao!!!
But if you are looking for a relaxing atmosphere, friendly staff, clean beach houses, one of the best food and nicest located restaurants on the island (in the sand, among palm trees, just a footstep away from the sea, with decent music in the background and no anoying flashing and blinking lights), then this is definitely the place to go.
The Island can be reached by ferry, the best thing to do is to book the hotel s own shuttle service, as the ride from Phuket Airport is about 1-1 1/2h.
The Pool is nicely surrounded by exotic plants, well maintained and clean.
The resorts offers a truly relaxing massage hut, that a lot of tourists make use of. Prices are o.k.
We made use of the hotels own scooter rental (just BHT 300,-per day) and discovered the whole Island, which is a lot of fun, as there is not much traffic going on. Riding up to the North Tip, you really feel far away from any touristic location, itยดs just you, nature and the natives. A big praise to these people, who were all so friendly and helpful (bearing in mind, that most of them have lost friends or family members in the Tsunami). This island has not been flooded by mass tourisms so far and hopefully never will. But as mentioned, it was partially flooded by the Tsunami, some areas in the north of the Island still show, how strong this impact must have been.
Amandara is the last resort on a 20km long sandy Beach, so you can spend hours of walking along the beach, only meeting a few tourists from the other resorts. (or a herd of water buffalos!!! :-) )
If you plan to go diving or snorkeling, the island is quite conveniently located. We went for a one day diving trip to the Similan Islands also the Surin Islands are about the same distance. The Island is not an Island the you need to spend hours on the boat to reach it, like explained, itยดs just a 10min ferry ride from the main land away. This offers possibilities to book various day trips directly at the hotel reception. We booked a one day trip, that was lead by our own guide to the elephants in the jungle, wonderful lunch in the middle of a tree top restaurant and a 1h kajak ride that was adventurous (beware of the snakes :-) ) , relaxing and romantic. Just amazing.
We have spoken to people, who stayed first at Amandara for a week, then went to Phuket for another week and who wished, they could have stayed at Amandara. By the way, the resort was just built in 2003. The only good English speaking employee is Khun Jay, the receptionist. But that s o.k. because all employes really were so friendly and helpful.
If you are planning to stay at Amandara, I suggest to plan at least 7, if not 10 days. Even though itยดs a very calm island, you can book a lot of daytrips, as prior mentioned.
We definitely recommend this resort, if it had clear waters our rating would be A+!!! |
Everything went fine, hotel was informed, would definitely book through sawasdee again. |
Branko
2007-06-25 until 2007-07-02 |
Amandara Island Resort, Koh Kho Khao
Amandara is very nice hotel, but during low season there were almost no people there, most of the time we had the resort for ourselves. The hotel itself is verywell maintained, and everything is clean.
We took superior seaview cottage with and extra bed for our kids. The room vas clean, but because of extra bed there was not really too much space inside, but all together it was more than OK. The pool was very well maintained, our kids also enjoyed the waves on the beach. The hotel restaurant was offering good food, the prices were not too bad for hotel, maybe we were missing some more options in the close neibourhood.
The only real option was to go to the village next to the peer where there are two good and also cheaper restaurants, there are also some small shops there. The peer is about 50 minutes walk on the beach or it is possible to take a hotel Taxi, 50 THB in one direction, which was good option.
The weather in low season was better than we have been expected, not too much rain, but very little sunshine.
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Very good. |
Erik & ร
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2006-12-26 until 2006-12-30 |
Amandara Island Resort, Koh Kho Khao
What a nice surprise. This is the place if you want to relax. Very nice staff, endless beach, great bungalows and beautiful surroundings. We had a wounderful time here and wish to come back. |
No problems at all. |
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