About the hotel:
This place is a fun happening place, great location and great staff. The food is very good here, but then you get the free breakfast and its very bad, this is the biggest and only let down at this place. They also have in room safe to lock your stuff in as well.

About the reservation service:
Easy..

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An amazing place, amazing people and great accomodation

About the hotel:
Very noisy espcially at night ...since the rooms are located on the way from the beach

About the reservation service:
Fine

About the hotel:
I thought the hotel , the staff and location was just perfect. Thanks to Terry and Mario and all there staff for a most enjoyable stay.

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I absolutely loved this hotel and would have to strongly disagree with the negative comments made about it. This was my first time staying at Ark Bar and the decision to stay there was largely based on the fact that when I go to Samui I generally spend all of my time at Ark Bar so why not stay there this time around. I was not disappointed either. Whilst the hotel does have a lively atmosphere, the music is stopped at 2.00am and I stayed in the garden room B3 (very close to the restaurant and therefore the noise) and I slept fine every night and I wasn t once bothered by the noise. The food was simply divine and could not be faulted in the slightest. Mario has done an absolutely outstanding job of training his staff and perfecting the dishes. We ended up eating at Ark Bar at least once a day which, I know, wasn t very adventurous of us but seeing as I have been to Samui several times, I didn t feel I was missing out - quite the opposite - I felt like I was having some of the best meals I had ever had in Thailand so congratulations to all the staff in the kitchen as we simply could not praise you enough! Speaking of the staff, I can honestly say I have never experienced the kind of hospitality and friendliness that the Ark Bar staff showed. Everybody from Pat to Mario to Terry were kind, considerate and went out of their way to make you comfortable and have every need met. I fell in love with all of the staff there and there were even tears from some of them as I left. I believe that the staff at Ark Bar were easily some of the best people I had met whilst travelling Thailand. Even if I hated the place (which I certainly didn t!), I would stay there again simply to see the staff and spend time with them again. So all in all, what s my opinion of Ark Bar as a whole? You couldn t find a better location, a better restaurant, a more lively atmosphere or friendlier staff in all of Thailand (or anywhere for that matter) and I don t think I would stay anywhere else when I m in Samui now! I absolutely loved it and so did everybody I met there. Try it and I m sure you won t regret it.

About the reservation service:
Absolutely brilliant - so brilliant in fact that when I booked my friends into a hotel, they emailed us saying that they may want to reassess their choice seeing as the hotel in question had recently had very bad reviews and in light of this, my friends did decide to change hotels and were VERY impressed with their choice. So yes, the service of Sawadee was above and beyond expectations and they have always been incredibly helpful and efficient when I have used them (which is ALL the time!)

About the hotel:
If you don t mind, overpriced, no sleep, average rooms, trance music in your room till 4am, dirty beach this is the place for you. The staff were friendly and it was in a good location, but you could stay somewhere else in the same location just down the road, with much less noise for half the price you pay to stay in this average place! they have a beach party on wednesday night, come to this but do not stay at the hotel on this night, stay somewhere up the road away from it, walk there and then walk home!!!

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great

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thank for everything. exelan holyday

About the hotel:
I stayed ther for 10 nights over the songkrann period and thought it was absolutely faultless. Friendly staff, fantastic food, reasonable room rates and they do a mean English breakfast if you can drag youself out of bed before 11am which is included in the room price. mainly a young croud stay there though as it can get quite lively at night, wouldn t recommend to over 50s unless you like 12 hour beach parties. Would definetly come back 10/10

About the reservation service:
first class, no problems what so ever.

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Stay away from this hotel. That they charge 1800 baht pr night for these rooms is to me a mystery. First off , my room was infested with moskitos. It also had a terrible smell. The bathroom was disgusting. We were also tormented by construction noice from 8 o , clock in the morning.(Since this is a party hotel a 8 o clock wake up call is not wanted :-) ) there is no safe in room , which turned out to be a problem. The reception staff looked like they wanted to kill you every time you wanted something from the safe. When this is said , you can not beat the beach parties that they have every wednsday. The food in the restaurant is also ok. The beach is really bad on this part of Chaweng. Litter and bottles everywhere. But its not worth the money. you can get better rooms just up the street for 700-900 baht pr night. So my advice is , unless they cut their prices in half stay away from this hotel.

About the reservation service:
worked like a charm.

About the hotel:
Pros: cheap price for an excellent location, great lunch and dinner food in the attached bar/restaurant. Cons: bathroom can get disgusting, water pressure not reliable, door lock was broken upon arrival, no lockbox in the room, terrible breakfast food in the attached bar/restaurant. This hotel is good for those people that don t mind sacrificing cleanliness for location. Ark Bar hosts one of the biggest parties each Wednesday night, so it s nice to be staying right in the middle of it. I don t recommend this hotel to families, as the thumping bass plays til 2AM and can be heard from most rooms. If that s your thing, though, this place is a MUST! My friends and I had a great time.