Ma Doo Bua Stay

With giant lotus lillies surrounding the entire cafe 🪷IG worthy spot ❤️their food was lovely and quite affordable. They also offer drone photo-taking services too !😍We paid about ¥396 (for 8 pictures & 4 poses) they will airdrop to your phone !Love their Thai massage 💆♀️ . It’s totally worth the visit and you can take as many cute shots as you want.Also there is an accommodation there . Definitely worth recommending ❤️To friends and family.

So many things to note. This hotel is truly focused on the instagram aesthetic. And purely focus on day visitors more than people who have booked there. Spent one night here (thankfully) all because I wanted to also get the famous instagram pictures. My request was not prioritized at all. Was told I had to pay cash and go to an atm that is 2km from the hotel, which was completely absurd. Later on they came to me “trying to accommodate me” …allowed me to pay by card, rain interfered but received my shoot eventually. Ordering room service is a nightmare. They cater so much for people who are day visitors more than ones who have booked. Was told they are under staffed and I need to come to the restaurant instead (which I did not) Minimal service in the room itself, only 2 bottles of water, coffee & tea. Do sense abit of racism as a person of color, but not much will be said. Truly disheartening as this place is really serene and nice but you don’t enjoy the atmosphere at all because as a guest you are not prioritized or seen. Not feeling welcomed. Paid for a late checkout as my flight was later in the evening, had to pay an extra 900baht for 4-6hrs. No one to help you with luggage. Everything is cringe! But what was I expecting… The only think I did was enjoy as the massage I got before checkin. (Full body Thai massage- 900baht).

This property seems to have suffered from over-tourism from their popular insta-worthy cafe. As such the staff are rude and treat those that are staying at the hotel as second class citizens. We were pressed to pay food bills in the middle of eating the dish, the breakfast is not their usual menu but very old bread and over-fried leftovers from the night before and bad coffee, the staff behave as if you are an inconvenience taking up precious table space for their bus loads of tourists and they clear away the plates whilst you are still eating the food on them. One key was lost and despite the 500 baht lost key deposit and being told by staff it costs 500 baht to replace we are then later told we must pay 2500 baht! The staff were really disappointing and perhaps have become that way due to experiencing numerous and possibly rude visitors on a daily basis. My friends visited for a meal yesterday and faced the same service issues. We stayed five days and regret it due to the staff who really do not care. The rooms are a good size and clean with balcony, the issues are all to do with the staff. The pool is nice too but some building work happening, no bar or towel service but a couple of staff taking photos of people on the boat in the lily pond. I used to live in Phuket so I know the cafe well. If I realized it had changed so much, I would have got room only so that we were treated like a proper customer at the restaurant. I would like to forget it now and won’t go there again.