Originally Posted by
goduke7
Wife and I just booked our 10 year anniversary trip- no kids! Took advantage of 5th night free, coming in January 2nd 2020 from Chiang Mai. Looking forward to relaxing a bit. Couple question
2- Has anyone used Oceana Samui charter? I'm thinking of renting a charter speedboat for the day to go to the marine park and back. Looks like they are located close to the resort (and provide the charter boat), so it would save the drive to the marina.
Excellent. The owner is an Australian guy named Rhys and he's on the ball.
[MENTION=13066]pinniped[/MENTION] I would recommend both Conrad Rangali (provided there is a guarantee of no more cruise ship invasions whenever you are staying) and this Conrad. Both have their advantages as have already been mentioned in detail and CKS definintely saves you a lot overall and even more if you have the HPC membership. We were upgraded to 308 and 309 but had a plethora of issues when we were there a couple of years ago but I'm sure with Lyle's 2 years they have been ironed out. The only thing I can say that is probably still an issue is the English language skills of the staff. Hit and miss. Apparently it's really hard to get good English-speaking local staff. Oh, and one more issue. Don't ask for anything in the way of desserts from the pastry chef. He couldn't make sticky a date pudding, a proper pavlova or even plain old custard, would you believe it. It was a joke.