Mai Samui Beach Resort & Spa

Aleks Pawlik

We had a cocktail there as we were passing by on scooters and the place looked gorgeous. The beach was stunning. Looks like a lovely remote place for a holiday. The only thing to note is the beach bar could reconsider the music choices, no need for club house when there's 3 people at the beach chilling... Otherwise LOVELY

Amita Hegde

The rooms are spacious and property is also amazing. Ambience is so romantic with pool right at the beach. Perfect for honeymooners with quite n romantic sunsets at the beach. Breakfast has a vast spread of choices. Just one thing the place is quite far from the city/market area of chawang Beach, however you may rent a bike or take a taxi for this

Gabriel Anichowski

TLDR: Hotel is great value, but certainly not a 5 star hotel from a Western perspective. For 60 USD per night, this is an easy recommendation. The notes below are going to be on the cynical side, but keep in mind this place was very cheap. Notes, 1. Breakfast is great; pub, beach bar, and fine dining restaurant are a let-down. The distance to surrounding towns makes it impossible to eat out without catching a taxi. Watched a lot of people use Grab to have food delivered. 2. Drinks are decent but won't blow your socks off. The swim-up bar is fun and sipping cocktails in the ocean is always enjoyable. 3. Rooms are romantic and spacious, but could use a bit of cleaning. The rooms are very "Instagramy", but when looking up close they could use some remodeling. Bath tub is fun but there aren't any bath soaps other than body wash. 4. Beach was good, albeit a little rocky. Just bare in mind this is SE Asia so there's always noticeable plastic in the water. Kayak needs replaced and 1 of the 2 paddles was broken. 5. The pools were very nice, and massive. 6. Hotel staff were good, although the language barrier makes it a bit challenging to communicate. A lot weren't even from Thailand so the little I knew didn't help.

City of Angels

Reasonably good hotel but needs some improvements. I only stayed here for one night. The hotel is nice but a bit dated and could use some renovation. It’s more like a 3 or 4 star hotel. The room was good and bed comfortable, aircon was powerful and had all the amenities. The fridge in our room wasn’t working though. There’s also not enough staff and the receptionist had to help carry our bags to the room. When we arrived the staff seemed a bit lost and confused and not welcoming. The hotel is located in a secluded and peaceful part of the island. Which for us was great. But if you’re looking for a busy place for nightlife, shopping or restaurants this isn’t it. You can’t walk to anything. Nothing around the hotel but nature. So you will need your own transport to get around. The beach was quite nice and peaceful. There’s a lot of small pebbles and rocks which could make swimming difficult but the hotel does have a large swimming pool. Some trash has washed up on the beach and it doesn’t look like it’s cleaned much. All in all we had a reasonably good stay. But the hotel could use some renovations as some things are looking a bit old and worn and also I’d prefer the check out time was later than 11am.

Lucy Errington

Lovely hotel, staff v friendly. We were there end of October so the low season and it was very quiet which meant no atmosphere to the place. The main thing it was lacking was a bar to go to for a drink in the evening as the beach bar shut at 6pm. It had the Pub & restaurant but it’s not a pub, it’s basically a restaurant and they stop serving food at 8.30pm and they shut at 9.30 ish. I’m not sure if the hours are different in high season. I saw another reviewer complaining about the buffet breakfast having no variety and always being the same. There is so much choice you could have something different every day ! I’d be interested to see what the hotel is like when it’s more full. Swimming pool big and clean, lots of staff keeping it and the whole place clean. Free shuttle bus from hotel into Nathon and Chaweng. Rooms lovely and big, huge hot tub sized bath which we used a few times. There is no elevator so if you have mobility issues you may struggle to get around.