I really don’t understand why the reviews for this place are so good. It is SO LOUD all the time! Not relaxing at all. The beach would be lovely if the water wasn’t crowded with a fleet of diesel water taxi boats all the time that sound like Volkswagens with no muffler. Just running all day. And the beachfront restaurant would be nice if not for the boats and the screaming children running around and wailing babies everywhere. Like being in a daycare center. It was wild. Our room was no better. Surrounded by dirt paths and with walls like wood mini blinds, you hear all the motos and Tuk Tuk’s blasting by at all hours, families walking by yelling with kids and babies wailing away, like they were in the room with you. Sit on your nice private veranda and everyone down there on the paths is literally staring up at you like you’re television. No privacy or relaxation anywhere here. Biting bugs massacred us in our sleep, despite the mosquito net. The veranda doors have no screens, but try closing them to sleep and you’ll feel like one of those wailing babies forgotten in a hot car. The one awesome thing about the permeable walls was that I had a cute frog buddy in the shower!! He enjoyed the cold water (there is no hot water) more than I did, and that did make it worthwhile. The servers were nice in the restaurant, the food was fine, the guys in the equipment rental section were wonderful. We enjoyed renting a kayak and also going snorkeling. The young European woman who checked us in tho was so off-putting. She really treated us like she was annoyed we were there and had better things she needed to rush off to. Thankfully she seemed only to be working check in. I was so confused when we arrived, because the vibe of the place is just not what I expected from the website or the reviews. The only buzz word I’d agree with them on is “rustic”. I literally checked my emails thinking we must be in the wrong place. Chic? No. Relaxing? No.
