3 Double U - Kalim Sea View

Really good.

The entrance to the hotel is at the back of the coffee shop, where people are constantly smoking and making noise. There’s also a 7-Eleven downstairs, but its selection is very limited. Don’t rely on the pretty photos, go and see the place yourself. The rooms are filthy and smell strongly of sewage. The bedding is dirty with odd stains, and instead of a blanket there’s just a bedspread, with no way to know how many people have used it before you. Noise comes through loudly, there are cracks in the windows, and there are ants.

We paid an exorbitant price for one night, and the view was a letdown. The pictures showed no electrical wires, but in reality they were everywhere. The place is stuffy. It’s a hall on the ground floor, then you go up a narrow staircase to the rooms. Each room seemed smaller than the one before it. Honestly, I wouldn’t recommend it at all.

The rooftop is amazing for watching the sunset, and the beach is just across the road. I’ll definitely come back. My family of five usually needs three separate rooms when we visit Phuket and Patong Beach, where we normally stay in five-star hotels costing around 5000 baht per room. Here I found somewhere that can accommodate us together in one area. They have three-bedroom and four-bedroom units, which makes it a good fit for families who want a shared activity space. I highly recommend checking it out.