Hotel Reviews

First Residence
Hotel Address:	27/6 Moo.3 Chaweng Road, T.Bophut [See Map]	Rates from: 767 THB Book now
Hotel Location:	Chaweng, Koh Samui Thailand
Hotel Rating:	incl. Breakfast Recommend
Review Rating:	3.7 / 5 ( From 37 Reviews)

Frantzen Richard
2012-05-02

Visit Date: 2012-04-28

Accommodation and facilities:

We really enjoyed our stay at the first residence. The rooms are naturally not first class but the value for money is very good. Everything was clean and the staff is very friendly.We didn´t have breakfast, so don´t know if it´s good. Swimmingpool is a little small, but we used the big one called chaweng beach tht´s located at a 5min. walk. Surrounding here is very quiet and relaxed. Take a bus (50bath) to the beachfront-street and you´ll find many restaurants bars etc. First residence is really value for money (booked via internet it´s cheaper ;-)

Reservation service:

Reservation is very quick and easy. We got about half price than you´ll pay at the hotelreception.

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Good

Vaaraniemi Kim Andreas
2012-03-20

Visit Date: 2012-02-19

Accommodation and facilities:

Ett prisvärt hotell med bra frukostuffé, bra service och rena och fräscha rum. Poolen ligger i skuggan vilket vi tyckte var skönt. Runtomkring hotellet finns en del restauranger där man kan äta bra mat för en bllig peng. Chaweng beach ligger ungefär 15 minuters promenad därifrån. Ca 10 minuter till det stora shopping stråket. Nackdelen är att längre upp på gatan är ett tillhåll för prostituerade....Vi undevek helt enkelt det hållet.

Reservation service:

Mycket bra fungerade lysande.

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Good

Yulia
2012-02-04

Visit Date: 2012-01-30

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в отеле не понравились только завтраки и обслуживание на них. Они очень скудные были. Если брать без завтраков, то можно на разницу очень вкусно покушать в соседних кафе.

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Very Good

Magnus Modig
2011-04-19

Visit Date: 2011-04-14

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A decent hotel at the end of Chaweng beach road. Close to beach and around 15 minutes walk to Chaweng center. Nothing fancy but OK for the money.

Reservation service:

Excellent

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Fair

Kaj Grönqvist
2011-03-10

Visit Date: 2011-03-01

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A very good choice. I will recomend it for other people. The location is is not the best but acceptabell.

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Very Good

Sarah Bregnhøj
2011-02-07

Visit Date: 2011-01-20

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A pretty good hotel - the room was nice and the service was okay. The breakfast was a bit boring, but the staff were making fresh omelets, fried eggs etc., which was great! The hotel is located a few minutes walk from Chaweng Road (city), but to be where it really happens , you need to walk about 15 minutes. A tuk-tuk only costs 100 Baht per way, so that´s an option. The pool area is okay, but there is only very little sun and only a few sunbeds available.

Reservation service:

Perfect as always!

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Good

Sofia Holmstroem
2010-12-14

Visit Date: 2010-12-11

Accommodation and facilities:

Budget luxury, very nice rooms and balcony. We really liked it. Good price for such comfort. Very friendly staff who spoke quite good english. The only negative thing about the room was that we had ants, but the hotel gave us bugspray. Food had to be kept in refrigerator. Poolarea is very nice, but the times we spent there we had no sun.

Reservation service:

Perfect, simple!

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Very Good

Saint-gilles
2010-08-21

Visit Date: 2010-08-17

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Chambre de qualité moyenne et odeur particulière dans la salle de bain. Trés peu sont souriant à l accueil et au restaurant.

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Good

Amanda Fowler
2010-06-14

Visit Date: 2010-05-27

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I stayed here for around 10 day or so. The hotel is verry nice, food was not good and there was not realy any breakfast that I paid for. When I asked for breakfast the staff wern t nice at all, if I wanted pinapple juce (more than 1) they seemed verry angry. No one at reception couldn t speak any english at all. Even though I can speak sum Thai it was a major problem. So myself and a german girl I met there went around the corner to Lucky House. Beautiful bungalows half the price the owner Jo Jo realy realy looked after us and I would recomend it to anyone. Only thing is no pool, but the beach is like a 5 min walk.

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Fair

Carina Eriksson
2010-05-15

Visit Date: 2010-05-12

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A place we will go back to!! Nice staff,good food nice room.Five minutes walk to the beach.Absolute value for money.Carina/Lars-Erik,Sweden

Reservation service:

Great!!!

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Very Good

Carlo Meier
2010-05-11

Visit Date: 2010-05-09

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Good,clean room, worth the money! Its next 2 the beach and central 2. But the surrounding is still not 2 loud. Check out Siam Star Travel,4 Tours, Travels and any Tickets and Bookings. It is just a bit down the street,direction 2 the beach, on the left side. Thanx 2 Sawasdee!!! Carlo Meier, Switzerland

Reservation service:

Had 2 wait 4 confirmation on arrival but just about 5 min. so MAI PEN RAI!!!

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Good

Gunther Dihlmann
2010-04-24

Visit Date: 2010-04-22

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Gutes Preis Leistungsverhältnis, freundliches und hilfsbereites Personal, ich komme im jedem fall wieder.

Reservation service:

einfach Buchung und guter Service

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Good

Natalia Semenova
2010-03-29

Visit Date: 2010-03-23

Accommodation and facilities:

Хороший новый отель, очень уютный, удобное расположение как к центру чавенга - минут 15 пешком, так и к пляжу - 10 минут, только до пляжа не очень приятная дорожка будет,но для кого важнее экономия и в этом отеле не более 5-6 дней, никакого дискомфорта не будет, но кто подольше лучше поближе к пляже. На завтраке практически есть нечего, тосты, кофе и омлет, если вам достатточно то ок, если вставать ради завтрака до 10 утра сложно, рекомендую напротив через дорогу есть итальянская пицерия, очень вкусный круасаны большие по 40 Бат, также можете позавтракать пиццей, сендвичами там.

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good

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Very Good

Jünger
2010-03-26

Visit Date: 2010-03-23

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Great Hollidays !!!!!!!!

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Very Good !!!!

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Good

Michaellinfield
2010-03-15

Visit Date: 2010-03-04

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Good hotel, 7 minute walk to the southern most part of Chewang beach. Hotel is off the beaten path but provided good location to use as a base. No problems- clean but some rooms could be noisy if they face the street noise. Pool is right beside street so very noisy.

Reservation service:

great as usual

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Good

Kirill Aniskin
2010-03-01

Visit Date: 2010-02-20

Accommodation and facilities:

Good location, very friendly staff, rooms are clean and spacy with a real (a table with two chairs) balcony. One drawback though -- unpleasant smell in the bathroom. Overall impression -- very good hotel in terms of price per value. I would definitely stay there again or recommend to friends.

Reservation service:

Smooth as always.

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Very Good

Uwe Bauer
2010-02-15

Visit Date: 2010-02-12

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Alles in allem waren wir sehr zufrieden mit dem Hotel, beseonders die Sauberkeit und die Ruhe hat uns dort sehr gefallen!!!!!

Reservation service:

Super, hat alles reibungslos geklappt Danke!!!!!!

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Good

Maxim Baryshev
2009-12-09

Visit Date: 2009-12-05

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Hotel is very good, but Wireless Internet is not worked. However, my laptop was connected to the LAN, near reception, for free.

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Very Good

Christina Albertsson
2009-10-22

Visit Date: 2009-10-18

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It was a very clean hotel with nice staff and in a good area. A walk to the beach by 3-4 minutes. Extra plus is that we have acces to First House hotel and their pool (and WC) next to the beach because they have the same owner. Located a bit from centrum but it only takes 10-15 minutes to go (or 150 bath by taxi). By reason of that it was calm and quite. One thing was negative and it was that the staff was very bad of understand english.

Reservation service:

Easy and the hotel was like we expected

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Very Good

Alastair Macdonald
2009-09-17

Visit Date: 2009-09-15

Accommodation and facilities:

I checked the reviews on this hotel prior to booking and like many the negatives stand out more than the positives. I d like to challenge some of the negatives first before making a negative comment my self having spent one week at the First Residence. First off, I read that the pool never gets the sun due to the position of the building and thus is cold. Well I can say that in early September the sun starts hitting the pool at 9am and by 10am is full on the pool and remains there until it disapears behind the hills around 5pm. The pool is cool and when the air temp is around 35c this is a blessing to have. I read somewhere that the toilet/bathroom was smelly. This was not the case for me. Note there is a switch by the main door to turn the bathroom fan on and off when needed! Air con in the room was not smelly (if it was i d have asked for it to be repaired) but it was a bit on the loud side. The staff are helpful but do struggle with their english. Reception has cctv coverage of all floors and when coming down stairs with a heavy bag the bell boy ran up to meet me to carry my bag. No language needed for that type of service. Room was clean, bedding was clean, balcony was clean, really no complaints about the room or the hotel in general. My negative comment is not about the hotel, the staff or even the location. It is about the locals and their noise. Taxi/busses that pip at everyone that is walking as they try to get a fare; Advertising vehicles with blaring music and constant booming voice about Mau Tah at the local Chaweng stadium; and scooters with broken silencers/mufflers. But this did not bother me in the hotel room only at the pool or walking into town. I asked for a quiet sea view room and I got exactly that. I could only just hear this noise when out on the balcony. I recommend this hotel to anyone wanting a quieter hotel away from the party end of Chaweng beach with all music, traffic and crowd noise. Transport via taxi or taxi bike is easy to get and will not cost much. Taxi bike from one end to the other was only 40-50Baht (£1)

Reservation service:

Sawadee.com was not my first choice of booking agent, but they provided me with a good hotel, I got the room requested and communications was good throughout. (I changed things with no problems)

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Good