We have just returned from a 26 day stay in Sentido. I will begin with the positive aspects. The hotel is beautiful, the grounds and gardens are immaculate. The gardeners do a really wonderful job and the beach is cleaned every morning and all leaves etc. removed from the sand.The staff also make sure that people do not get up in the middle of the night to reserve the sunbeds at the beach. Any towels, sunhats, bags etc. put on sunbeds before 10am will be removed. The hotel has placed a table next to the sunbeds on the beach so that people can put their bags and towels on it before going for breakfast. After breakfast people can go to the beach and find sunbeds there. It's a perfect system and works extremly well. We also have a big complement to the staff who all very friendly and attentive. The made our stay really pleasant. We had a pool access room at the small pool which was perfect for my husband who has mobility problems and it was close to the restaurant etc. The rooms have a large covered terrace which was pleasnt to sit out, even when it rained. Now to the less positive aspects of this hotel. It was our fourth visit and was adults only during our last visits. Since last November last year, families are allowed to come. As the hotel has no facilities whatsoever for children and still being described on the website as an exclusive retreat fot travellers who like a relaxed enviroment we didn't really think the hotel would attract people with children. Khao Lak has many other family hotels with children's pools, waterslides, playgrounds etc. The first week of our stay all went well,it was very peaceful. Maybe just one or two children at the most who were very quiet. In April however, when the Easter holidays started lots of children arrived. Suddenly the wonderful peaceful atmosphere was gone and in the afternoon the small pool in front of our room turned into a children's pool with very noisy children jumping in and out of the water and playing ball. I complained several times because it was no longer possible to sit out and enjoy a coffee on our own terrace. We ended up going up to the Mountain Bar which is lovely and quiet ( no children allowed there) and has a beautiful view. We spoke to many other people during our stay who were all the same opinion as we were. This new policy is not good and some changes need to take place as the hotel will loose many of its regular guests who have been coming for years. The pools where the pool access rooms must be reserved for adults. It's not fair for adults who pay extra for these rooms and have to put up with noisy children. The main problem is bad parenting, parents who just let their kids run wild and have no respect for others. Another thing that I noticed for the first time this year, was that a family with two children were packing a lot of food into plastic boxes at breakfast time to take out with them. These are not the kind of guests who should be coming to the hotel. Just imagine if everyone did this!! We enjoyed our holiday in spite of this and managed to avoid certain guests as much as possible. We hope some modifications will take place as we hope to be back next year.