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Reviews of Da Kanda Villa Beach Resort

3 out of 5
Da Kanda Villa Beach Resort
19 Moo 1 Ban Tai Beach, Ko Pha-ngan, Surat Thani

Reviews

7.6

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 72 out of 257 reviews" "
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Rating 2 - Terrible. 12 out of 257 reviews" "

7.2/10

Cleanliness

7.8/10

Staff & service

7.0/10

Amenities

7.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Irene

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
This was a good mid tier resort to stay at. The property is beautiful. Beach front dining. Food was not that great but edible. You can get better food just a walk away. The rooms were good, except for the last couple of day we were there, but that’s not a bad thing. Staff were nice, on the ball. All requests were answered promptly. I personally would not stay here again, since there are many other resorts I would like to visit.
Stayed 5 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Raymond

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The property and surrounds are beautiful and it is right on the beach and the rooms are so comfortable. I can really recommend it
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

6/10 Okay

Sannita

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

peter

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2022

10/10 Excellent

Jason

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great value. Nice room close to the pier
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2022

6/10 Okay

Yulia

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2020

10/10 Excellent

Brian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Right by the beach
My girlfriend loved it, she said it was amazing for the price. Great location near the beach, staff were great.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2020

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The room was very dated and it was meant to be a deluxe room. The curtain covering the door looked like a moth had spend a year eating it. Bed was lumpy and pillows very old. Then on top of that at check out they kept the deposit saying the bed sheet was ruined for a tiny bit of oil has spilt on it. They even said I was lucky to only take the 500 baht deposit as they would normally charge 2000 baht. I never normally write a bad review just don’t bother is the place is not so good, but feel this place should be avoided by all. Room was c 07.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

4/10 Poor

Gypsy, Canada

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We booked the deluxe Villa. We came for a week so thought we would pay more. Our first negative was the complimentary taxi that never showed up at the ferry for us. Every other resort seemed to have taxis waiting. They said they were busy. The property is very run down and in desperate need of upgrades. When first we checked in the white closet door was filthy. I wiped it down with a wipe and it was filthy. The room had a dank almost smoky smell. In the bathroom there was a window with dirty open slats that did not close and no screen. There bugs, mosquitos and geckos. Ants crawling around. We wanted to check out but we're told no refund. We had to tape a plastic bag to the window to keep out the bugs. The front desk said the cleaners would've back the next day. There was no drawers in the room or cupboard shelves. We had to keep our things in our suitcase. The one chair was old wooden white slatted chair and very in comfortable with no padding. The same chair was on the patio and was so old it was falling apart. We did get them to replace it. The two beach loungers were so rusty that there were holes in the metal and actually scary to sit on. Again no padding. I went up the beach and dragged back one beach plastic cushion. But even that was really old. The list goes on and on. Worn out towels and linens. The cleaners came and clean the next day and sprayed. The following day, I was ready to check out I'm forfeit the money I paid.
Stayed 7 nights in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
We were recommend to stay here by a friend due to the beach location, and the view did not disappoint! The staff on reception were lovely and so helpful with recommendations of places to eat etc. The rooms and bathroom were a great size and we’re clean on arrival, didn’t spend any time around the pool so can’t really comment, the beach chairs need replacing they aren’t usable their rusting that much. If it’s a view your after and central location then this is great.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Miguel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice
Great place
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness
Very unique villas located on the beach. Restaurant was okay, key deposit is unnecessary and more then the stay at the hotel. Decent but not above and beyond overall. Better places to stay for less
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Can’t say whether good or bad because we never got there, big storm and choppy seas prevented us
Stayed 6 nights in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Patty, Toronto, Canada

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Booked during full moon party so most hotels were booked a month ahead. Although it was a 22 min taxi ride to the party it only cost 150baht/person. Hotel charged 500baht for pier pickup which was 3 minutes away so we got our own taxi for 100baht. Original hotel had bugs and dirty sheets so we were upgraded to a beach villa free of charge which was beautiful. Beach all over the island on this side was dirty sadly so we did not swim. So sad that there is so much trash (probably from full moon party). Tour to waterfalls and Temple was the best tour we’ve ever taken! Company was called Safari Boat!
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2018

2/10 Terrible

Bernadine

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worst treatment in 30 years
This is the worst hotel in my 30 years of travelling They charged me season price during an off-season period which is dubbel When I complained that I pay dubbel the price for the same room reception raised their voices at me and told me it is because I booked on-line in advance during peak season which is unheared of They also took the full amount from my account prior to my book-in date without informing me or stating on their website that that is their policy I wanted to pay cash but to them it is as if you have no rights When I tried to talk to them they raised their voices again After this they refused to talk to me or be of service When I asked for hangers which the other quests received in the same kind of rooms than mine they told me to go and buy I have never been treated so bad by a hotel I just wanted to understand why they charged my dubble and took the amount from my account prior to my book-in date To them we are just ATMs and not tourists They treated me like a dog
Stayed 7 nights in May 2018

10/10 Excellent

Karrah

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent service and resort
Very clean as rooms were serviced every day if needed. Staff were helpful and the food was great. It's had everything you needed I.e. pool and beach

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good hotel, no complaints at all:)
:-)
Stayed 6 nights in Jan 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place on a great beach
One of the bartenders, I forget his name, if i ever knew it... was great. Perhaps the best bartender in all of Thailand. Certainly on Phangan.
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great hotel on a quite beach
Beach villas located are right on the beach. Easy walk to town and if you use a bike its close to everything. We stayed at different hotels on our trip but this was our favorite, and we decided to go back for our last week of the trip. Definitely worth paying extra to be on the beach side.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2017

10/10 Excellent

Todd, Chicago

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great hotel next to the beach.
The room was clean, spacious, close to the beach and very quiet. The perfect respite after some long days traveling. I attended the Full Moon party and the hotel not only had a Tuk Tuk to take guests to the party ($100 Baht), but made sure I had a business card for the hotel so I could easily get back home. Brilliant! Welcoming staff at the ready. Wonderful stay at a reasonable price. I would highly recommend staying here.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2017

2/10 Terrible

Jodie, UK

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
HORRENDOUS! Do not book this hotel!!
We were due to stay at this hotel for 2 nights on 2nd-3rd of November 2017 as we planned to go to the Full Moon Festival. We booked this accommodation as it was more expensive than many others (£35 per night) with air conditioning and a pool so we expected a good 3 star standard of hotel. THIS WAS NOT THE CASE... the room we were first given was damp, smelled of mould, had severely stained and dirty sheets, had a concrete bathroom, no skirting boards and was in desperate need of modernisation. The room made me physically itch and so we asked to be moved. The hotel staff tried to sell us a bungalow for an extra £106 on top of what we had already paid (THB 4600). Instead of paying more we just asked to try another room on the next floor which was just as bad but with the addition of BUGS IN THE BED! Needless to say we left this establishment immediately with no refund given and ended up booking a room on the spot at Phangan Island View Hotel who were very helpful and even gave us a lift to pick up our cases from Da Kanda Villa. The Phangan Island View Hotel cost £25 per night which was cheaper and 100% better in cleanliness and facilities.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
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Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great hotel great staff the beach front room has beautiful views
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2017

4/10 Poor

Anne Marie

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Awful
Bugs in the bed, dirt on the walls, geckos on the ceiling
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2017

10/10 Excellent

Ofir G, Haifa, Israel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing place and great staff!
We had a great time in the standart room. We booked for 2 nights and decited to stay for 4 nights more. The room is big, comfurtable and clean, with a garden view balcony. The pool is awesome, the beach is beautiful and we felt very relaxed and cozy. The staff are very friendly and helped us with anything we needed. The resort's restaurant food is tasty. I highly recommend this place. Good value for money!

10/10 Excellent

Ashleigh

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great room and facilities
Fab hotel! We stayed for one night only before moving on and wished we had longer there comparing it to other places we stayed. On the beach front with a great pool, great views and lots of areas to sit/chill out. Although on a dark and quiet street just off the main road. But this is where a lot of the hotels are as it is the beachfront. Plenty of restaurants and shops within walking distance. Really good value for money we thought. Very nice spacious room and lots of complementary toilettries and amenities including a fridge, water bottles and outdoor seating area at the front of the room. We asked for a kettle and the staff let us use there's in the evening to make our own hot drinks. Would definitely recommend!

10/10 Excellent

Jose Vicente

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fantastic stay - felt like a luxurious dream!
The great customer service in reception and amazing villa made our 2-day stay a great time in spite of the torrential rain that ruined our beach holiday. Instead, the great facilities and room made it worth it. Definitely the dream accommodation for an unforgettable break in KPN

10/10 Excellent

David

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place, Great price, great view!
Great little place for the price. Nice restaurant, beautiful sunset from the resort, very helpful staff, walking distance to pier/ ferry would stay here again.

8/10 Good

woodsprite, citizen of earth

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Really nice place
We stayed in one of the delux villas. It was spacious, clean and comfortable. The bed is a bit hard but that seems to be standard to the region. The bar and restaurant are nice, beautiful view and right on the beach. The music is very USA contemporary and not very good in my opinion. But that being the worst of it, it is a very nice hotel.

6/10 Okay

Gerallt

Disliked: Room comfort

6/10 Okay

dave , chico, ca.

Liked: Staff & service
Great location, good price
Overall good experience for the price , check in was easy, we stayed in a low end bungalow. AC worked great, shower ok, bed ok, place is just a little tired -' as they say...but for 3 guys and 65 bucks a night...on the beach, Walked to town, moped to everywhere....yes perfect for budget, maybe not for honeymoon WOULD STAY HERE AGAIN

4/10 Poor

yocheved

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good value close to everything and walking distance from harbour

2/10 Terrible

Shachar

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Horrible.
The rooms are bad. Bad bad bad. There's no air circulation, they smell bad, the shower is mediocre at best, The bathroom door doesn't close! There is 0 wifi reception in the room. The beds are tough.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worth to stay
Strategic location. They price and the room totally worth to stay.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Strategic location
Strategic location, very convenient. Spacious room and clean. Worth the stay with then price

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Hotel with beach
Hotel was ok, quiet but quite a distance to town. Have to walk around 10-15min to town area to get food, 7-11 or massage center. Hotel restaurant food was ok, affordable price, along the beach get to see sunset.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Julie CLEMENT, guadeloupe

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Quiet and clean hotels
We stay 4nights, we meet some trouble with the airconditioning but the staff it's amazing they always smile and help you. The room it's clean and big maybe to much place :).

2/10 Terrible

Jake, Bournemouth

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Checked in, Checked out
Awful place, poorly maintained, badly run, very run down and looked nothing like the pictures. We were looking forward to staying here and after having already paid for 4 nights we were bitterly disappointed to the point where we decided within an hour of arriving that we would pack our bags again and leave to find a better hotel. The beach was dirty, the pool was unusable, full of leaves and with an electrical light fitting just hanging over the side. The place was overgrown with litter everywhere to the point where the staff couldn't be bothered to empty the bins. There was broken glass on the floor between our bungalows, I could go on and on about how bad this place was and I told the owner exactly what I thought. We had a stand off for two hours because we were refused a refund, even after initially offering to pay for the first night and only take a refund for the following 3 but they laughed at us like we were in the wrong. We contacted Expedia who contacted the hotel but were extremely difficult and didn't want refund no matter what. Please don't be fooled by the pictures and even if you are tempted do not pay in advance like we did, wait until you get there, have a look around and decide for yourself. Or better yet, just look else where and save yourself the hassle.

6/10 Okay

Billy

Liked: Room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Could be better
We booked the beach bungalow for the great view and that didn't disappoint. It was lovely to wake up each morning for the view and the sound of the sea. Overall we enjoyed our stay but you reall get the feeling when you're here that if the hotel just made a bit more effort with the upkeep of the place it could be a lot better. You have to ask for your room to be cleaned which is a little annoying and the beach has rubbish on it which surely would take long to clean up!

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Get a villa they are lovely. The small rooms aren't good

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
room very bad smell
we book 2nights but my first 1night the room was very bad and not good smell so i tell the staff to change my room but they said 200B for upgrade. then i decide to checkout this hotel and they remove us to other room.

6/10 Okay

Evelyn, Vancouver, BC

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Small comfortable resort
We were booked in a standard room in the main building, it was very basic, a cement room (the bed frame was cement) !! The room fit our needs, although the air conditioning blew onto the bed, which was annoying and the bed was too hard. We enjoyed the balcony. Some friends stayed in a deluxe villa and it was far superior to our room, I did try to upgrade with Expedia when the price of the villa went down to below what I had paid, but they were no help at all !! They couldn't even get my itinerary number right. The pool area was enjoyable and the beach was nice to look at but not too good for swimming as alot of seaweed. The location was good, about a 10 min walk to town and 15 mins to the pier.

8/10 Good

richard, Neilburg canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
We'll be back
Loved it. Close to everything we needed. Staff was exceptional. Scooter rentals allowed us to explore the entire island. The lead man in the resteraunt was great very good and provided exceptional barbecue and traditional dishes. The beach was ok however paled in comparison to other beaches on the island. The bartender looked after Us Very well and was able to communicate in several different languages. One of our favorite staff was a little grounds keeper we called 56 who, tho couldn't speak English, entertained us with kind gestures and his agility on the volleyball court. The little guy at the front desk was also able to communicate in English somewhat and was very helpful as well. The grounds were beautiful. The air conditioner in our room struggled and our bathroom could have used a little update however between us all we had 5 rooms and all the other rooms were good

8/10 Good

Carol, Salt Spring Island, BC. Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Most enjoyable stay...booked six nights and stayed for eleven. Would recommend for couples or family.

6/10 Okay

James, Victoria BC

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Relaxing stay
All good - great staff - good restaurant - happy people - as others have said the beach is poor

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort