Seaview Bungalow

There are actually a lot of advantages. An ideal place for those who want to retire, be with themselves in silence, fall asleep to the sound of the waves, or swim on a boat. The beach on the spit of an uninhabited island, where you need to go in a kayak, is wildly beautiful, simply perfect, the view from the balcony of the sea and the island is very cool. A quiet hotel village, very far from civilization. The staff is nice, smiling and very adequate, as in all of Thailand. There is an affectionate kitty on the territory.ButThere is one huge one in the form of a senile German grandfather, who, in fact, is the owner of the main hotel to which the bungalow belongs. Grandfather is just so damn mean and tight-fisted, and all the existing disadvantages flow from this. Free bicycles are junk, probably the same age as my grandfather, paid bikes (250 baht per day, no discounts, even if you rent for a long period) - junk is a little newer, helmets are beaten, broken, scary - they should have gone to a landfill long ago, the air conditioner rumbles like a tractor, you can hear perfectly well when your neighbors turn it on, room service is only once every three days. Well, greedy rudeness. For example, to dissuade people from ordering relatively inexpensive items on the menu of his restaurant (with greatly inflated prices, as for Thailand), because they are “boring”; at a random moment, out of the blue, decide that his employee, who gives out free kayaks, will no longer be give us kayaks, and we have to drag them ourselves, because there is asphalt, not sand, at low tide the water is about 5 meters away. Lie when asked about food stores nearby, saying that they are not there, when they are, although they are pretty bad, more like stalls. Disgusting Wi-Fi, because the routers are only near my grandfather’s house on the pier. Simply terrible. If you suddenly need to work remotely, especially with video calls, you will have to organize your mobile Internet. On each of the two floors in the bungalow there is a good preparation for the kitchen - a sink and cabinets. There is only a fee to use the shared kitchen in the main hotel - 150 baht per day, because then you won’t eat in its restaurant, where you also have to wait an hour and a half for your order. The lights in the yard are turned off by a timer; before you have time to get from the gate to your room, take out your phone, there’s no point in wasting electricity. The “keychain” for the keys with the name, address and phone number of the hotel is huge, it’s even a little larger than my Kindle reader. That is, you can’t just put it in your pocket and go for a walk, and you can’t unhook it from the key either, because the ring is tightly sealed.In general, it’s as if you are not clients who paid for their room, but people who asked to visit, for whom the grandfather is doing a favor. But in principle, you can avoid him, resolve all issues through his Thai wife and staff, who are very ok, which is what we did.