10/10 Excellent
Duncan
9 Aug 2024
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful refuge… lush, labyrinthine gardens around a really good pool and pool bar. Cabins are arranged along ‘sois’ that fan out from the pool area, and are super clean, well appointed and comfortable. Staff are charming and efficient. When I arrived, the aircon in my cabin was not working… before I even had a chance to report it, a technician appeared (clearly the cleaner who had just finished preparing the room had reported the problem). I was instantly given a different cabin – again, this was arranged before I could even ask.
Some reviews mention the bats… This will depend entirely on you. My father would have turned round and run away. There are hundreds of fruit bats that roost in the huge trees around the edge of the compound. At dusk, they fly up and away to feed in the countryside at night. They come back at dawn. Personally, I loved them. The sound they make is a restful white noise, like a waterfall. I found them fascinating to watch. They never come down from treetop level. And they’re fruit bats… they don’t drink your blood :)
My only negative experience was at about 5 pm when someone came round with an incredibly loud fog machine to spray some noxious insecticide against mosquitos. (Of which there were, unsurprisingly, therefore none.) I’m not sure how this sits with the whole ‘we are part of nature’ thing here, but I suppose it’s unavoidable. If you hear that fog machine, though, keep your distance. The smoke is nauseating.
Duncan
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2024