Vital Spark wrote:Stayed at the Subhamitra a week ago, and was hugely impressed. Under 1,000 baht (didn't include breakfast) - room was spotlessly clean and huge (room 602, I think 600 is the same). Massive car park, and the luxury of a swimming pool.
http://www.subhamitrahotel.com/VS
It always amazes me how people see some things so differently.
I had reason to use this place last week, and to me it is an overpriced, mosquito infested dump!
The first room they put me in was in the west wing right behind the lift / elevator, which clanged and banged all night long! The room was basic, the bathroom had been renovated, but the tiles inside the shower were dripping with black mould. The window "curtain" was paper thin and the sun come streaming in early in the morning.
I asked for a different room, which, after much grumbling, was given. The room was on the 4th floor and at the front of the building, depite me asking for one at the rear. Is there no health regulations with these places? The "bathroom" was a typical Thai type with no shower stall, just a broken hose sticking out of the wall, and the water sprayed everywhere but where it was needed. But the most bizzare feature was the dividing wall between the bed part and the bathroom. The wall was about 2 feet short ofreaching the ceiling, and completely open to the sleeping area. NO ventilation to the outside AT ALL, with the result the room smelt revolting even before using the bothroom.
The only thing this place has going for it is the parking area.
It has just been posted on another thread about the "Baan Manthana" hotel. This has a newly opened multi storey building with under cover car parking, an elevator, a swimming pool, and is just around the corner opposite the bus station in Sa Song Rd. It is also the same price for a single type room.
Best of all it can be booked from this forum.
decent enough hotel for the money, close to the town centre but not too noisy and as VS says, the benefit of a good size pool.
