Dusit Thani Pattaya

Location is beach front, it’s on the north end of beach road. Easy to get songtaews to just about anywhere. Not expensieve for a 5 star hotel.

- cleanliness: The interior is tired and ageing, in urgent need of renovations and at minimum a proper deep clean. Not only have the furnishings scuff marks from use, virtually every fixed item has stains on it. Stained carpets, stained walls, stained furniture, even the bathroom floor was stained, which decreased noticably after I mentioned it to Housekeeping. Also saw a giant cockroach which I squashed with the tv remote. - noise: I could literally hear what the neighbours were saying through the connected door. - staff: at breakfast, staff tried to give away my table to other people while I was up and got something from the buffet, and this happened twice! I didn’t feel welcome there. I suppose there is an element of ‘you get what you pay for’ here, as the room itself wasn’t particulary expensive. And to be fair, they are doing renovations to some of their facilities And they do offer all the services you expect from a five star- it’s just execution that’s lacking. But given the amount of options in Pattaya, Next time I think I’ll stay some place else.