We booked this hotel some 6 months in advance and really got a great price for early Jan peak season - around 150$ for 3 of us including breakfast. Over those 6 months I could not find better offer so we stayed here for 5 nights. Location is good - around 10 min walk to the beach and 15-20 to main tourist area (means it's pretty quiet at night). Rooms are with dated furniture and with lack of night tables - only one in the room so had to put my stuff (phone, glasses, meds,...) on the floor beside. Bathroom is also dated with malfunctioning shower cabin. All rooms face the inner courtyard pool and it is banned to smoke on terraces ??!! Cleaning is per request and not thorough. Pool is fair in size, however no service around it. Breakfast is amazing - the best we had on our 2 weeks entire Thailand tour changing 7 hotels. Excellent choice of European, Asian, Indian food - really plenty and good quality of everything. Reasonably, smoking is prohibited on hotel grounds. But, the designated smoking area is prison like. One standing ashtray by the parking lot with no chair or sofa to sit, you can only stand by it - really humiliating.