The hotel was wonderful. The rooms were...
The hotel was wonderful. The rooms were large, the facilities were very clean, the people were very friendly and the food at the restaurant was ok and moderately priced. The problem was that the beaches were dangerous for our small children. Broken glass, rusted metal, medical bottles, plastic and trash were floating in from the water and littered all over the beach. What a shame that a beautiful hotel sits on such a filthy beach.
The second problem is that the hotel is very far from anything and the cost to hire a taxi or driver from the hotel is very expensive. In fact they were charging more to drive my family to the nearby town than what it cost us to drive to Rayong from Bangkok. Since we were a family with two small children, the hotel served our needs as long as we stayed away from the beach and spent our days swimming in their very clean swimming pool and avoided looking east at the large petrol refinery which was a bit of a shock to see when it doesn't show up on any of the tourist maps.
Overall the hotel is fantastic, but the environment is not.
