Railay Phutawan Resort

“Amazing views”

Hotel location is beautiful over looking the mountain/sea, the pool area particularly was amazing! (Although as other reviews have said it does need some maintenance of broken tiles). Room was a good size. Would recommend requesting the hotel Tok tok to pick up from longtail boat with luggage part… more

Hotel location is beautiful over looking the mountain/sea, the pool area particularly was amazing! (Although as other reviews have said it does need some maintenance of broken tiles). Room was a good size. Would recommend requesting the hotel Tok tok to pick up from longtail boat with luggage particularly as hotel is up a steep hill. There were also sometimes monkey as the bottom of the hill! We also booked our onward travels with the hotel which proved easy enough to book. However, the transfer company were about 40mins late picking us up at the pier, we were also lead to believe at the hotel it was one bus to Khao Sok but it turned out to be 2 buses and nearly and an hour wait at the Ao Nang bus station.

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“Great little find to relax”

So we booked our deluxe sea view top floor room pretty much for the view and for the pool area we’d seen from videos. In reality it was just as nice as we’d hoped thankfully. Yes we had to walk up Railay walking street to the junction for East beach before we could catch the hotel shuttle, but we k… more

So we booked our deluxe sea view top floor room pretty much for the view and for the pool area we’d seen from videos. In reality it was just as nice as we’d hoped thankfully. Yes we had to walk up Railay walking street to the junction for East beach before we could catch the hotel shuttle, but we knew that, so wasn’t a shock. If we knew it was only another 100 metres or so to the actual hotel then we’d have walked all the way up the path past the incredible Limestone cliffs The hotel’s position is lovely and quiet at the top of the walking path, which is steep at the reception area and a further incline up to the main accommodation building. The room was as expected. A lovely huge comfortable bed with stunning view of the pool area and bar, and a glimpse of sea in the distance and gorgeous Limestone cliffs in the foreground. The bathroom is looking a little tired and in need of a little attention here and there, but this didn’t worry us. The pool and surrounding landscaping has been done very nicely, and again stunning views from the bar area. The sun does disappear behind the cliff around 4:30, but again wasn’t a problem and quite a relief at times. Nice breakfast area with all the necessities at hand. All in all a very enjoyable stay, even if they didn’t let me have what I believed were on the house slippers Best hotel slippers ever 🤩

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“Good but very hilly”

Our stay here was mostly great; stunning views, great food and drinks by the pool. However I don’t feel it’s made clear enough how hilly the hotel grounds are and how there are virtually no handrails at all. I found this hazardous with my young children and mum. To get from the pool to the rooms we… more

Our stay here was mostly great; stunning views, great food and drinks by the pool. However I don’t feel it’s made clear enough how hilly the hotel grounds are and how there are virtually no handrails at all. I found this hazardous with my young children and mum. To get from the pool to the rooms were two huge steps that are crying out for a hand rail or more smaller steps. We knew the resort itself would be hilly and had read they offer golf buggy trips which we thought would be ideal however the availability varies as to who is on the front desk! There are signs saying they do drop offs every two hours but two staff members told us to message the front desk when we needed service which we did and a lot of the time they took us down to the front. Other times they were very firm in saying no even thought my mum finds it difficult walking up the huge hills. Another point to mention is that the entrance to the bathroom from the rooms had a huge lip, I imagine to try and stop the water spilling out from the bathroom but there’s no warning about this so my husband and I both stubbed our toes, my husbands very badly, hence the need for more use of the golf buggies! My tip would be to go and eat on the west side of Railay. The east feels very ‘brits abroad’ and lots of weed shops whereas the west is far nicer

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