De Pastel Hotel

The female receptionist took the trouble to come in earlier as the restaurant doesn’t open till 830am to prepare my breakfast when I told her I had to leave earlier on a tour. The breakfast included was basic and delicious I like the french/italian decor at the reception and breakfast area All in all, in view of the price per day for the room it is relatively ok

A lot of mosquitoes in the room. There was also a lizard The road to the hotel isn’t well lit and can be flooded with water not to mention the lack of signages and the grass is overgrown as well with many mosquitoes making walking out of the hotel near impossible They do not have universal adaptors so bring your own The water drainage in the shower gets flooded after showering for a short while and takes a long time to drain The bed creaks and there is no back bed frame so if you wish to sit up, you’ll have to lean against the fairly sharp and prickly wall surface when you want to sit up to read on your bed All the tv channels are dubbed in Thai and the batteries in the remote are dead not to mention the tv wasn’t clear With the industrial look; the floor which is essentially cement was extremely dusty and this really becomes a real pain in the toilet which is extremely dirty and the walls are not tiled and you can see the water stains as well as the black dirt and the cobwebs in the bathroom. Horrible experience trying to shower between the dirty walls, bidet and floor and the clogged shower drainage

Bed was large and soft. Front office staff genuinely tried to help with the problems we had.

Many small things that together made the hotel experience unpleasant. A few examples; there were visible marks on the pillows that looked like snot; the room safe did not work; there was no drinking water in the room; the TV signal was very bad most chanels were unwatchable; the shower didn't have hot water - called the reception staff (who were obviously trying their best) fixed it after two attempts and 30minutes of time. When we checked out, the staff told us that the credit card machine was broken (and had been broken for days) so we would have to pay cash, large amounts of cash in Thailand are expensive to withdraw because there are large fees for international bank cards, so I had to endure a large bank-fee *about 1000thb* on top of an already over priced room. The price we paid for the room was the same rate as a 5 star international chain hotel down the road. Do yourself a favour and book elsewhere.