Kata Garden Resort

Due to force majeure, we had to book this hotel a few days before departure, since there were no other options for this money in the Kata/Karon area. Well. First, the good. The hotel location is excellent - 7 minutes to Karon Beach and 10 minutes to Kata Beach. The hotel is slightly on a hill, but the walk is comfortable. The hotel grounds are large by Thai standards, green, with lots of beautiful flowers, a pond with fish, and gazebos. This must have been a beautiful hotel once... The air conditioning worked well and was quiet. The room (mini-suite) was large, you could even see the sea. That's probably where the positives end. The entire hotel consists of dozens of steps that you need to climb to get to your room. If you book a mini-suite, be prepared for a long climb from the reception. It's not easy in the heat and is probably only suitable for young and healthy people without problems with the musculoskeletal system and without children. The rooms are very old. Everything is falling apart. Dirty! They seem to clean and change towels, but the plumbing is dirty, the mirror is covered in spit, the kitchen is just awful. I washed what I could myself, but it didn't help much. There are no mosquito nets on the windows, but it seems there were no mosquitoes. The hotel grounds are poorly cleaned. I saw trash in two gazebos - they only removed it on the third day. Part of the hotel is abandoned. Leaves are floating in the pools, we didn't dare to swim there. The reception solves tourists' problems "in a haphazard manner", they want money for everything. The breakfast in the restaurant is average, but, in general, you won't go hungry: they make an omelet/fried eggs, there are tomatoes, cucumbers, salad, fruit - watermelon and pineapple, yogurt, pie, toast, bacon, potatoes, something hot. The tea is terrible - brewed from a bag. The cleanliness, flies and birds raise questions. But this is Asia, so we take a philosophical approach here. There are problems with the water - the water does not switch to the shower head, you have to drain the water for a long time to get hot water. One day there was no water at all, but they seemed to fix it quickly. Overall, the hotel is not worth its money at all. The owners and management do not care about tourists, they do not want to invest money in staff and repairs.

We stayed in this hotel for 2 nights in February 2024. The impressions are twofold, firstly positive, the location is close to Katya and Karon, the walk is about 10 minutes maximum. There is a night market nearby where you can eat inexpensively, along the road there is a 7/11, where we bought all the necessary drinks))). Now about the negative aspects, the rooms are old, smell damp, water drips from the air conditioner straight onto the floor, I had to put a towel on it. The view from the room’s window was on a concrete wall half a meter from the window. There are only 3 sockets per room, so choose either a TV, a kettle or a telephone))). . Because We have 4 phones with children, we have never turned on the TV, and it is very ancient, almost a tube one. There is a swimming pool, but it is quite small, but for those who like to dive, the depth on one side is 2.7 m and it is very heavily chlorinated; the children’s fingers were all corroded by the chlorine. As a result, we don’t want to return to this hotel, but the territory is beautiful and the location is convenient, but the number of rooms spoils the whole impression....even going up the hill wasn’t that stressful.

There for almost two weeks, as a family. The first room was nice, upstairs, lots of greenery and lots of stairs. It was too far for me, so we changed to a room near the pool. No view but newer. The pool is nice. Sufficient loungers. The breakfast is ok. Could be better@ But it's ok. The restaurant is extremely overpriced. And not very good. Always almost empty. The location between Kata and Karon is great. You can book with confidence.

Not a bad hotel, but rather similar to the style of the resorts in the Krasnodar region in Russia. The pool is not bad, there is enough space for everyone. There are a huge number of cafes nearby, close to both Kata and Karon beaches, within a 5-10 minute walk. The golden mean for a budget holiday