Saisawan Beach Resort

Saisawan Beach Resort is an ok place for a day or two...if you have your own transportation. It is quite far from anything other than a couple of restaurants. The rooms are an ok size and comfortable. The staff is cheerful and helpful. The "beach" a small strip between a breakwater and an outwash from a nearby fishing village, and is not usable in any recreational sense. It is filthy. The buffet breakfast is adequate in that you can get filled up. They cater to the target clientele, though, which appears to be tour buses from a neighboring country, so don't expect the presentation you would find for a place catering to Thai or Western tastes. We were there 2 nights on a 3-day Thai holiday weekend. It's an ok place to rest your head so long as the tour groups aren't making loads of noise in the hallways at night...as was the case both nights for us. We want to emphasize that the staff were very kind and helpful, which is somewhat surprising to us after seeing an upper management level person screaming at the front desk personnel, in front of guests, as we headed into the restaurant for our Sunday breakfast. He was furious because they screwed something up, but I don't think I've ever witnessed a manager losing it like this in public before. Then, when we checked out, they asked us where the 2 empties were from the complimentary water. I'm not kidding. They bothered us for return of the 2 glass water bottles from the room. They were in my cooler. I gave them back full. Weird.