Baan Pakgasri Hideaway

The location is about the only thing with this place that scores well. On the beach with restaurants and bars close by.

We stayed for 4 nights and had a standard double room. We got room nr 9 which is the one at the end closest to the road and furthest away from the beach. There is a lot of loud noise from motorbikes and scooters on the road. The whole hideaway is quite crammed and our balcony and window directly faced the wall of the entrance/reception bungalow so it felt too squeezed in. Not a nice spot to chill at all. Check out the photo. Breakfast is served on the very small balcony of the room. We travelled with our 10 month old baby and made it work but would’ve preferred a proper table, chairs and food area. WiFi pretty much didn’t work throughout our stay. The bungalow place right next door was renovating day and night. Our bathroom window faced towards that (less than a metre away), and there was no option to close it, it was open aired. Even with the bathroom door shut the noise from the drills and workers was was ridiculously loud and really disturbing. Especially at 3am. There was barely any water pressure in the shower. And on the last 2 days there was no hot water at all. The drainage was behind the toilet so the bathroom floor was wet the whole time. When inquiring about a few of the many the issues that kept coming at us I really didn’t feel that the man at reception was helpful. Things were supposed to be fixed at this and that time and never were. When asking politely if something could be done about the noise as it was nighttime and just so so loud he said we had to go and ask them ourselves. The staff in general never smiled at anyone and weren’t very welcoming. We did read good reviews and all the other rooms were better located so perhaps we had bad luck getting that one. Having said that there were just so many other disappointing factors, had we not paid upfront we would’ve left on day 2.