First Bungalow Beach Resort, Koh Samui hotels Thailand

*Reviews of recent stays*	*Comment on the hotel*	*The reservation service*
Rachel Jackson 2008-08-14	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Easily the best location on the island. Great hotel, excellent staff and the biggest swimming pool around. Loved our stay here, perfect for children. Nice beach and the breakfast was really good and very filling. Loved it	Will use again as very impressed with how easy it was.
Hanne Hetland 2008-08-05 until 2008-08-09	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Nice location on the beach (Chaweng Noi Beach) and good breakfast. The pool was very nice. Staff didn t know english that well. Have to take taxi to the center of chaweng road.	very good and reliable
Christina Ring 2008-06-18 until 2008-06-24	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach There´s only two good things about this hotel and thats the beach and the pool! I have a hard time finding words to describe how bad the rest is!!! We booked a Seaview bungalow and I can tell you that there was nothing seaview about it at all! Two or three of the bungalows had a seaview and an ok location the rest is not worth the money at all. I have learned the lesson to never book a hotel where I have to pay in advance. We wanted to leave the place but it was too much money involved. Staff at the front desk were rude and had absolutly no interest in helping the guests. For example, the Internet was down for several days and they didn´t pay back the money for unused time to guests that was checking out. The restaurant took forever to serve your food and when you got it it´s cold. We tried it a few times just to see if we had been unlucky the times before, but no. Many guests left the restaurant because just a few in their company got what they had ordered. To sum things up, this is an overpriced hotel that only has the beach and the pool to offer. I´m sure you can find much nicer places with equally good beach and pool acess for this money! I´m glad that we had stayed at two really nice hotels before this one, because First Bungalow does not represent the land of smiles! We (a family of four) will never stay there again!	Great!
Glenn Robinson 2008-06-06 until 2008-06-20	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Hotel reviews are there for a purpose...to inform people of what the hotel is really like. I just wish I had taken heed to the many reviews about the first bungalow. If you wish to be insulted by incrediably rude, arrogant and disrespectful reception/front desk staff then most certainly you need to book at this resort. No problems ever with the room cleaning staff, in fact they should be the ones on the front desk if they could speak English. I blame the management of this hotel for training their staff on how to be offensive. I m sure that others have had a wonderful holiday experience at this place but for this family of six, we will never return or ever recommend it to anyone.	As always, a very professional, easy to book with company. Have always and will continue to use Sawadee when coming to Thailand
N Watts 2008-05-09 until 2008-05-15	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Located on corner it was beautiful spot and the front beach bungalows are worth it. The Resort is not as flashy looking as a some, and its several minutes more walk to the busy side of town but the beach is much more secluded. I asked my girlfriend to marry me there and she said yes. The perfect setting. Staff friendly. We hired a scooter and motorbike from across the road and you can get around the island at your own leisure.	Excellent, efficient and prompt service and e-mail replies. No problems when it came to checkin into hotel.
sean mustoe 2008-04-12 until 2008-04-15	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach The resort is a little out of town but shares a rather exclusive beach with five or six higher end hotels in a large cove populated by married couples over 30. I immediately upgraded to a beach bungalow which was metres from the beach and worth every penny. Relatively quiet beach and sensible folk. Accomodation was good, but satellite TV had few english channels and few quality channels. Good buffet breakfast which made you get up for it ( 6-10 am). Loved my stay because of the location and nice beach. I have reservations about having to pay over-priced taxi fares and less than friendly staff. I reported brown jellyfish in the water where i was swimming, in vicinity to rocks. A member of staff ame to see me in less than friendly manner and i had to remonstrate with her I was trying to be responsible for good of guests. When i paid, nobody thanked me for my stay. Still a good place to stay, and good massage service on the beach. Do your homework on brown jellyfish though.
A & J Still 2008-03-23 until 2008-03-29	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach First we were booked for the new building room which was a disappoinment. No window,only frostedclass door to toilet and balcony. There was no view, depressing. Later we got a nicer room around the pool. Pool area was beautiful. Price-quality is not very good, a bit overpriced. Beach is wonderful but you need to reserve sunbeds early which is quite dull. Breakfast tasty and sufficient. Overall it was ok for 6 nights stay but we rather not visit this hotel again.	Excellent!
Herfurth Ricarda 2008-02-20 until 2008-02-27	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Wir haben 1 Woche im Resort verbracht. Als wir abends ankamen, bekamen wir ein Zimmer, das wir nicht gebucht hatten. Kein Fenster im Schlafraum, nur im Bad. Von der Balkontüre vom Bad aus blickte man genau auf den Balkon vom Nebenhaus in ungefähr 1 Meter Entfernung. Wir beschwerten uns, bekamen aber erst am nächsten Tag das gebuchte Zimmer, allerdings mit Einzelbetten nicht Doppelbett, wie bestellt. Der Pool war am 1. Tag schon ziemlich trüb, am 2. Tag war er grün und es wollte ihn niemand benutzen. Die Gratisliegen am Strand musste man am besten morgens um 7 Uhr reservieren sonst war alles voll. Die Sauberkeit im Speisesaal ließ zu wünschen übrig, Geschirr und Kaffee waren oft aus und man musste oft bei dem unwilligen Personal nachfragen. Strand ok. Auswahl Speisen beim Frühstück recht gut!
Alicia Bradley 2008-02-16 until 2008-02-20	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Quite nice, the room looked really new and was quite clean except for a small influx of ants every afternoon. The pool is really nice and is a good location, only a short walk into town. Having to walk up and down four flights of stairs every time we wanted to get to the room was a bit tiring but everything else was good. Don t go to breakfast too late as they stop refilling things around 9:30am. Really great hotel and only a short walk to town. We would probably stay here again.	Very easy to use and great to compare hotels around the area you want to stay in.
Richard Rudd 2008-01-29 until 2008-02-05	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach I have been travelling around thailand for about 15 years and stayed in everything from a shack to some really top end hotels... This one is not to be recommended for the following reasons: 1. Bungalows are the most expensive but in a terrible condition, 2. SOmebody died on our beach while we were staying there because of rip tides that exist almost all year round. ( There are several drowning deaths a year on Chaweng side but nobody wants to publicise that!) The hotel doesn t even have a safety boat - when you consider the rip off rates this place charges, they can definately afford one!!! 3. The day to day staff are great but the front of house staff have got a seriously bad attitude. 4. The hotel refused to transfer us FOC and made us pay for airport transfers- My advice: DONT stay here! Its overcrowded, impersonal and plagued by idiots selling stuff you dont want... Go to Phangnan or LAmai or bophut/ Big Buddha beach for a far better trip.... - On the other hand, if you want to be ripped off, treated like cattle and find it hard to find anyone but Russians around, this would make the idea holiday! - What a shame because I love Thailand, and this place betrays it!!!!	Always good and this time no exception
ROGÉRIO GUERREIRO 2007-12-10 until 2007-12-15	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach HOTEL MUITO BEM SITUADO A 5 MIUTOS DE TAXI DO CENTRO. O MELHOR É ALUGAR UMA MOTA MESMO E FRENTE AO HOTEL AO CONTRÁRIO DO QUE SE DIZ É O MELHOR TRANSPORTE PARA DAR UMAS VOLTAS E NEM É NECESSÁRIO LICENÇA DE CONDUÇÃO. HOTEL BOM PARA UM 3 EST. O PEQUENO ALMOÇO MUITO MAU. NO GERAL UMA BOA ESTADIA.	MUITO BOM. MAS MUITOS E-MAILS.
Susan Greenwell 2007-08-10 until 2007-08-17	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach We were upgraded to a beach bungalow because our preferred room was not available the first night, and it was perfectly lovely! The rooms and pool were quite nice; beautiful breakfast location overlooking the sea. The hotel is located at the end of Chaweng, a bit of a walk from the main drag, but still very convenient for restaurants, bars, etc. The hotel staff were very helpful, particularly when we asked to extend our stay.	Easy and efficient booking.
Michal Kosher 2007-08-01 until 2007-08-05	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach We stayed at the hotel in the buildings room and it was a nightmare, the rooms were smelling so bed, like we were at the sewage, there was a problem with the shower it was very hard to work it up, at the last day we didn t have hot water, the staff at the reception weren t so friendly, and there was always a problem to get a towel at the pool or at the sea, the towels were very dirty most of the time. There were a lot of mosquitos near the room and we were stung threw the nights.The Hotel is far from the center and you must use a texi in order to get to the center and the prices are very high considering the prices in Thailnad. The things that we liked at the hotel were the breakfest, it was very good, they have a very good beach, and the restaurant at the hotel was nice with good food and reasonble prices. I certainly won t reccomand this hotel to anyone.	great, although I didn t understand the fact that I need to give my credit card details twice in order to complete my resrvation, I thougt it would be charged automaticcly, and it almost cost me my reservation, at the end everthing was just fine
Anton Bashurov 2007-06-03 until 2007-06-05	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Nice hotel. Pool view is the best. 2th flor is twin beds only. Notice that. Breakfast is good. Pool is nice but have some broken bricks - few times hurt a legs. Overall - come back next time.	super!
Wim Verhage 2007-04-21 until 2007-04-29	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Hotel is fine and located just outside the busy center of Chaweng. We stayed in the main building after a bad experience on a previous visit, when I booked an on the beach bungalow. These bungalows are really bad; old, not maintained and still in their late 70 s setup. Fortunately they allowed us to change to the main building, however no refund because the beach bungalows are almost twice as expensive as the (new) rooms in the main building. Reception staff is not very friendly and the staff at the breakfast facility is on automatic pilot.They have to do this every day and you can see that on their faces when they look at you...another tourist out of thousands day after day. I speak a little Thai, and they are making remarks about their guests entering the facility, especially the cooks when a foreigner walks in which happens to be married to a Thai lady like me. Great pool and very friendly and helpfull pool staff; good food at the pool. Strange that you have to walk to the beach to get a hotel towel for the swimming pool(so walk back again)	all ok.
OMER YAVUZ 2006-12-25 until 2006-12-31	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach clean rooms, frendly and helpfull staff,resort is in good condition and full maintanenced. beach is wonderfull. we spent there 6 days for our honeymoon, everything was ok. never hesitate to choose firs bungalow beach resort.	trustable, never faced problem when we check in and out
Gerry Morpeth 2006-11-24 until 2006-12-01	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach The Deluxe room we were allocated on arrival having booked on the internet was very dated and dissappointing. We upgraded to a modernised beach bungalow which was superb. The stay was great, but the restaurant is poor with seriously good competition nearby and the beach which is fantastic needs cleaning of debris washed up. Not much fun sunbathing next to a tyre and bottle all week!	All went suprisingly well. Many thanks.
Artem Gubankov 2006-11-04 until 2006-11-12	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach The hotel is fine. Very good breakfast and clean rooms. Hotel staff is helpfull and friendly. I would definatelly return there again.	Service is generally ok, but I had some problems getting booking confirmation and vaucher for the hotel. I had to re-request this several times.
Grant 2006-10-23 until 2006-10-29	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Rooms where nice clean and good. Pool was large and nice, and great part of the beach. Takes a bit of a walk to get to the main shops etc, but only a short ride on a local bus, or just get a Scooter. Would stay there again.	Fast and Good Service.
Julian Croft 2006-10-19 until 2006-10-26	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Hotel was great with the best pool in Samui. Just out of the busy Cheweng shopping area in a nice quiet part of the beach. I would stay here again.	Booking service was faultless.
Thomas Broberg 2006-08-06 until 2006-08-11	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach The second time we were at First B. Even better than last time, beach lovely, house and service as well. We will return here next time we come to Samui...	No prob.
Bryan Cannon 2006-07-09 until 2006-07-12	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach As the most expensive place we stayed at during our 4-centre stay, we found First Bungalow quite disappointing. The buildings and layout are great, but the staff attitude is not. On arrival, check in was rushed and the reception was chaotic as our bungalow was not ready. Breakfast was great. On departure, we were accused of breaking a room mirror (which we had not), and our treatment by reception staff was poor, hampered by poor English and no manager on site. Bungalow was great, right next to the beach, but the thin wall to next door allowed music to keep us awake during the night. There are better places to stay for the money.	Sawadee booking service was great.
Hilary Finnie 2006-07-05 until 2006-07-12	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach This is the third time we have holidayed at First Bungalow, and would recommend it. It s good value, has an amazing swimming pool, the best beach in Samui, a great breakfast and the rooms are clean and comfortable. The staff are very friendly too. Location wise it s just off Chaweng, away from the bustle but close enough to walk. No doubt we ll be back!	Have used Sawadee for several holidays and find it very efficient.
Claire Robinson 2006-06-11 until 2006-06-17	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Booked this hotel through recommendation of two people i knew, never again! travelled to three different resorts and paid half of what i paid here and they were amazing,left this one till last and we were completely shocked for the standaerd of accomodation we got for our money.looking out of our back window ther was a smelly black beck that led straight to the sea! It said you could see the sunset setting from the beach yes if you were round the otherside of the island. No hot water throughout our stay. Must say the maid service was excellent!	Excellent
Sirkku Keski-Hallila 2006-04-11 until 2006-04-17	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Hotel had a good location on the beach next to the Chewang village. Beach was lovely. Pool was nice and well-kept. Altogether hotel was very clean. Also staff was friedly and helpful. If anything could be changed, I would recommend an upgraded safety system used in the other hotels (locker in your room/at reception but signature asked every time you use it), and laundry coupons that would prove that you left laundry in case it goes missing.	Took quite some time to get verification for my payment.
Hal Waring 2004-11-30 until 2004-12-07	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach An excellent resort. The bungalows are large with a large modern bathroom. Shower was hot and air conditioning worked flawlessly. Room was cleaned and made up daily with fresh towels and flowers. The restaraunt was reasonable and the included breakfast had a good selection. The staff are polite, attentive and helpful. I would recommend this resort to anyone.
Wolfgang Kern 2004-11-04 until 2004-11-22	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach perfect to stay if you prefer not to stay in the center of noisy chaweng beach. the bungalows at the beach are very nice for the price. everytime clean and the service very friendly. I think this place has the biggest pool at chaweng. If you like swimming it s the best place to be.	perfect like everytime
DUPRAZ PIERRE-ALAIN & MONIQUE 2004-09-16 until 2004-09-23	First Bungalow Beach Resort, Chaweng Beach Our stay was marvellous as usual, as it was the 6th time we went to The First Bungalow. The beach front were refurnish, the only think we missed is a safety box in the room.	Very good
Ido 2004-08-09 until 2004-08-13	First Bungalow Resort, Chaweng Beach I ordered from the internet the dates. when i came to the hotel they didnt saved my room instead they gave me another room without sea-view like i ordered. and all that because its more expensive to order through the hotel than order through the internet. this is not the way to treat customers.
Ronald Sidney Pugh 2004-03-28 until 2004-04-16	First Bungalow Resort, Chaweng Beach Very pleased with the hotel, good size room, good pool and beach. Could be more information about the hotel in the room.	Very pleased with the booking service
Yehood Rahamim 2004-03-25 until 2004-03-27	First Bungalow Resort, Chaweng Beach We had booked a deluxe sea view bungalow but on arrival we were given a deluxe bungalow overlooking a noisy restaurant no where near the beach. We asked to change room and the staff were extremely unhelpful but changed us to a bungalow which was not deluxe, not seaview, and not double but twin. Everytime we went to reception for help, no one smiled or was eager to help us out. Certainly not what you would expect from, Thai hospitality. Exttremely disappointing and overpriced. We checked out after one night even though we had paid for two. basicly dont go...