Ko Samui hotels near Wat Lamai

Pros: Great people, great place, the most spectacular views.

Pros: Free Breakfast was amazing

Cons: The pool in our villa was too cold to swim in and there were many giant lizards around. Also our room was located at the very bottom of a hill so it was so tiring going back and forth and it was a little far from all the nightlife and other activities. However the service was amazing and the food and drinks was great too.

Pros: The environment and the staff

Cons: Na

Pros: Staff was amazing. Complimentary breakfast. Infinity pool view is amazing. Cleanliness was tip top. They literally think of everything you may need. Will definitely stay there again. They even give you a phone for the duration of the stay to contact the villa when exploring the island. Take a group of friends and split the costs.

Cons: Menu and spa services a bit on the high price side for Thailand. The hill to drive up is super steep, but the staff comes to get you.

Pros: Every single thing is wonderful and the hotel stuffs are very friendly and helpful. Restaurant attendees are also very helpful.

Cons: The Air condition didn't work last night in my 4 days stay though hotel offer me a new room or portable AC.

Pros: Excellent service, stunning views, delicious food

Pros: From before we got there until the second we left, we loved everything about the Resort. It was our honeymoon so I emailed the hotel in advance to arrange flowers and a bottle of bubbly and when we arrived and they showed us our villa, there was a bottle of bubbly chilled and ready and beautiful flowers around the room and outdoor bath. It looked amazing and started the experience perfectly.The staff here are so kind, friendly and helpful. The food is amazing and they offer a great variety of dishes, both Thai and Western which was perfect for my wife and I. The little touches like little biscuits brought to your villa as you head to bed with messages wishing you sweet dreams really make you feel like family. The place is immaculate and the cleaners are amazing and so fast. The MD Robert is a great guy and I enjoyed my chats with him. The private pool villas are just amazing and you cant beat the view in the morning and as the sun drops put of the sky at night. The drivers are also fantastic and make you feel safe as they drive you up the hill to the resort. They gave us the best honeymoon a couple could have and I cant thank them and recommend them enough!! ❤

Cons: There is nothing that we didn't like with our stay at Sandalwood Luxury Villa Resort. It is a truly amazing place.

Pros: The wonderful staff for whom nothing was too much trouble.

Cons: Nothing

Pros: The food was excellent with a good choice for all ,they even left a birthday cake for my girlfriend. The spa treatments ,the pool and the room was very comfortable,plus the mobile phone that they give you to help you stay in touch

Cons: Very helpful staff. Always there for you, they run a car service to the 2 local beaches 3 times a day or you can book a driver for times to suit you at a reasonable price

Pros: Everything.

Pros: Location is good and the staffs are friendly.

Cons: The place is a bit old and honestly it's more like 3 stars hotel.

Pros: First of all this hotel on my opinion one of the best if not the best on Lamai beach. It has really good personnel, everyone extremely friendly, helpful and just doing their best to make your stay as good as possible. They organised transfers for us at reasonable price. Cleaning services were just perfect. Hotel has Japanese and Thai restaurant just few meters from it and as far as I understood - they own them. Both has decent quality food and even deliver to your room. Also I would recommend to try some other places in the "city". All of them are 5-10 minutes walk. Swimming pools are clean and not overcrowded. Beach access very nice, you have showers, sun-beds. Sea is rather deep so might not be as good for smaller kids. You have good variety of small shops nearby, cafes, fruit stalls, restaurants. And this property is reasonably distanced from all noisemaker. On Sunday there were very nice street market with plenty of goods and foods just 150m from the hotel. We had 2 bedroom villa and it was very nice. Own kitchen side. 2 fridges, nice in villa equipment, every room had AC and fan, 2 separate bathroom, swimming pool - very private and roomy place to be. And just few steps from the sea. So you can swim at the sea and return to you private sundeck (if you wish so).

Cons: Sea water during our visit in December were nowhere near as it is on the booking photos. It's not dirty in the way of seaweeds or trash. But you wont see you foot while in water. Spa is overpriced and with small texts at the bottom to be aware of. E.g. they advertised us 50% discount on first treatment + 50% discount on wrapping if you take it. In the end it was 20% on wrapping (which is more expensive and with 20% I would not consider to take it) + small text about taxes on top of that. We were not informed of it in advance:-) But there are plenty of other massage centres on the street to chose from and maybe they are not so fancy but do much better job and more the half a price. But maybe it was just some misunderstanding. Spa personnel does not really good english speakers. Not much choice on breakfast. But you wont die starving for sure. Most of the thing they offer - are very decent. Very good coffee and egg station Overall I found that hotel nice but overpriced. For the price they asked for the villas one can manage to find much better options in other locations.

Pros: We had a wonderful stay at Pavillion Resort. The staff were very friendly, our room was large and comfortable (air conditioning, and we enjoyed the private splash pool). The breakfast was excellent. The pool and beach areas were kept clean and comfortable.

Cons: We felt the restaurant and bar was overpriced, so we preferred to go down the street for other options.

Cons: Old one. Need renovations.

Pros: The room is amazing with the bathtub and the beach and the swimming pool

Pros: Staff was very friendly and helpful. Location really good and quiet.

Cons: We were missing a nice lounge or casual bar to sit on in the evenings. Breakfast was a bit weak and the coffee from the machine was really bad.

Pros: Fabulous location easy access to shops and restaurants, super well maintained, mega friendly staff, fabulous breakfast buffet with omlette station, beautiful pool area, mega clean pool, plenty of loungers for everyone, onsite massage station facing beach, and lovely central beachside at Lamai. What more can I say.

Cons: Absolutely nothing!

Cons: Very noisy air conditioner.

Pros: Good location on a lively beach, with a walkable town right behind the property. The breakfast was good as were the lounge chairs right on the beach.

Cons: The rooms and pool were average - nothing was exceptional. The rooms feel like they haven't been updated in some time. The staff could have been better. We once tried to refresh our towels after moving from the beach to the pool and were told they could only be refreshed once a day at 9:00pm. The property was going to charge 800 baht back to the airport while a grab taxi was 550. I wouldn't expect these to happen at a nicer hotel.

Pros: Location is great. Check in was nice and easy. With welcome drinks which we really appreciated after a long flight. Breakfast was really good with a juicer and right next to the beach with a great view. They provided beach towels every evening. Staff were really hard working and would go out of their way to help and even help arrange and plan our airport trip.

Cons: Room view could've been better but wasn't so bad.

Pros: If you don’t have a solid travel insurance, stay away from this place! There is no refund no matter what. Our stay was booked for Dec 19th and 13 nights. The booking and payment was made many months before. Sadly, i suffered a severe traffic accident in late october which made it impossible to go forward with our travel plans. The hotel was notified Nov 2 and all though this should be ample time for the hotel to get new customers on board, and my damages/condition was sertified by doctors, there was no refund. I even offered to move our booking to same dates in 2020 but no cigar. We will travel again to Samui after my recovery but not to this place. I would rather stay in a tent!

Pros: Location in Lamai, close to Night Market and Food Court. Many shops and restaurants close by.

Cons: Staff not very friendly and unable to communicate in English. Pricey for what you get.

Pros: Location, the rooms, the pool. Everything was perfect

Pros: Really lovely staff, hotel pools were nice & Lamai is a good location if you want a bit quieter than Chaweng. Only a short walk (2 mins) to the beach.

Cons: Wifi was non-existent in my room, OK around pool.

Pros: Great location central to beach / restaurants/ bars / markets Had own pool access

Cons: Beds & pillows very hard No Tv channels as broken

Pros: Everything was perfect- the staff,the room,the pool,breakfast,really everything. We really enjoyed our stay here and would highly recommend it to everyone who wants to relax and enjoy.

Pros: The bestest stay we had on samui. Amazing room and staff. Area excellent. Just an amazing 4 nights.

Cons: This is the worst review I ever gave to a hotel and that’s for a reason. When staying at a hotel, there is one thing I never settle on and it is the cleanliness. The hotel gave us a room that was not even cleaned! We discovered feces on the toilet! Seriously, how can you give that to a customer! We called reception, they came, they saw that and they gave us a card to another room, didn’t even bother investigating nor offering to help us move our stuff. They gave us the card and asked us to give back the card of the previous room at reception. No apologies, no follow-ups and nothing else! As if nothing ever happened.

Pros: Nice hotel with great location, the facilities are good.

Cons: Breakfast is poor, too many restrictions and the staff members are not really nice like in most Thai hotels we have been.

Pros: We were staying at a beach front bungalow- beautiful to wake up to the beach- very good location with easy accessibility to all restaurants and stores

Cons: Nothing not to like

Pros: The hotel was super accommodating to my needs and request, i had a late check in, and even requested for a change of room to a better one, and the manager & front desk were amazing! They were helpful and they willing to go the extra mile. I had to cut short my stay and had requested if i could retrieve 1 night and they immediately told me no problem! Is amazing! i love the stay there unfortunately there were rain, or else it would have been even more amazing!

Pros: The accommodation was so good and comfortable. I thought it was more than 3 star level to be honest. The location was great you are right beside the beach, and it’s less than a minutes walk to the end of the road to be in Lamai with all the bars and restaurants.

Cons: There was nothing I was not happy with.

Pros: Very goof location and very clean.

Cons: Breakfast is a little bit expensive.

Pros: We stayed in one of of the wooden bungalows, ours being less than 40m from the surf.. fantastic. The bungalows are set in beautiful gardens and so incredibly quiet considering that Lamai beach road is not that far away. All staff were very helpful and friendly. The resort put on a free buffet and entertainment for New Years Eve.

Cons: The bungalows are ageing a little and we found there was a lack of electrical outlets and somewhere to lay out out both cases. But still comfortable and Casey. I read the many reviews of the breakfast and compared to some places could be described as a little light on but you will never go hungry. The real criticism is they have no idea on how to keep food warm, the burners are there? How hard is it to have warm baked beans?

Pros: It was clean and the pool was clean hotel room clean hotel staff very friendly breakfast was good i will be back over in may and stay at the hotel again be my 3rd year staying there

Pros: Close to the sea and clean. Staff very friendly.

Cons: No comments.

Pros: Friendly staff and close to the beach

Cons: Felt a bit shabby

Pros: Breakfast very good, well served Moderate pricing for the room Restaurant menu large: european and Thai food with moderate prices. VERY GOOD internet, by room and by zone,anywere good quality Nice and easy access to beach. Place on the beach, well covered by old trees.

Cons: Poor English from the staff

Pros: Location staff sea

Pros: Very good stuff, smiling all the time and ready to help you with anything. The architecture of the place and services. We had our own swimming pool by the room which was very nice to be in the evening.

Cons: Not enough sun beds around the main swimming pool. You have to ,,fight” since morning for your place. In this context was not good that a five star hotel accepted a cruise group (not guests of hotel) for half of the day that occupied places by breakfast, by the swimming pool and for lunch. We had to ask for some solution and had to be by the beach directly with no option by the pool. Not a good decision from the management. Small space around the swimming pool. Sometimes very old towels. High prices in the restaurant (not necessary to be that high).

Pros: I would say the property needs to relook at how they portrayed theor services. If i visit Koh Samui again i would relook and choose some other.

Cons: Too old, needed renovation, wifi needs to be amplified!!

Cons: The hotel absolutely does not deserve 5 stars. We cannot understand why a member of Marriott Bonvoy it is. The hotel is old and in our opinion requires capital renovation and reconstruction. Internet works very bad. In most places the Internet connection is so bad that often it is not even possible to download emails or open a website. It could be acceptable 10-15 years ago but not today. We saw 3 types of rooms and layout inside them was not guest friendly. The worst rooms were the ones with small pools inside and entrance from so called garden but the garden was just a passage area between the reception and beach/ restaurant. The small pools are useless at this time of the year because of cold water. Inner doors in rooms are noisy. Walking to/from attached bathrooms which are in open air area (not airconditioned) and necessity of closing that noisy doors in the night was really annoying. There are no irons in the rooms. The rack for luggage has space only for 1 suitcase. The hotel is at the beach but during the high tide which is most of the daytime it is impossible to lay on the beach. The towels at the swimming pool were often dirty like they were not washed but just rearranged and stacked again. If the towels had some unremovable stains, the personnel should get rid of them and buy new ones but it looked that nobody cared. Prices shown in menu cards in the restaurant and bars are net without service (10 %) and VAT tax (7%). At the beginning you get shocked getting bills with almost 20 % higher amounts to be paid than expected. Breakfasts were OK. In general we could notice lack of proper management and lack of supervision there.

Pros: Cozy and simple

Cons: Room toilet, shower, bath tubs are open air. In an island where it is always 30 degrees with humidity percentage that makes it feel like 40 degrees, we couldn’t get our head around the reason why anyone would think that this is a good idea. To top it up, there are so many mosquitoes, that will make you beg for your life. Which is another reason for making the “open air” Design language more than absurd.

Pros: It’s an ok hotel but nothing spectacular. The beach is useless it’s full of rocks and coral. The hotel is dated and it’s looking tired. Besides there is no connection with staff unless you’re there for breakfast as the layout of the hotel makes you avoid the reception.

Cons: See above

Pros: The room was amazing and the resort is very scenic with the beach on your door step. The hotel staff were very helpful and friendly. The first night we had an issue with our room and they changed it immediately to an upgraded room at no extra costs. Excellent staff and very friendly!

Cons: Meals and drinks are over priced at the hotel. We had dinner and it was average, nothing spectacular but i only had the Pad Thai which seemed like they had it precooked and it did not taste great, I am unsure what their other dishes taste like. Eating out was much cheaper and excellent.

Pros: The hotel itself is quite impressive. The rooms are really nice and really good/solid quality. Service, staff and breakfast excellents. It’s a real 5 start hotel.

Cons: If you are passionate about beaches, this may not be your first option. The beach of the hotel is very narrow (the sand part) and you can’t swim. Having said that, one of the nicest beaches of the island is 5 minutes (walking) away from the hotel and they even provide you with free shuttles.

Pros: The villa was beautiful & the pool was excellent. The cocktails at the bar could really do with a revamp, same goes for the food menu. The breakfast buffet was great and the service from the staff was really good.

Cons: Cocktails & service at the bar