Bakong Tours and Activities

This is a super spot in Siem Reap. The 2BR suite we had was huge and really well appointed. The pool and pool bar were great. Staff are awesome. Breakfast was really good with very good choices in Western, Asian and fresh fruit.

This place was fine, but I'm pretty sure a huge percentage of the reviews are fake. There are multiple reviews under the same name and stay date, and they all praise the same vague things with the same sentence & paragraph structure. A lot of the common comments I disagree with, like that it is "central" (while not super inconveniently located, it is definitely a drive away from most things that travelers would want to do in town), "quiet" (between the cicadas and tree frogs at night, a rooster in the morning, a nearby temple where there was drumming and chanting one day, and the construction project technically next door, but overlooking the pool, I would say, construction notwithstanding, it's very peaceful -- but definitely not quite), and "clean" (housekeeping does a good job, but none of the doors and windows really seal up properly, so there were always bugs and lizards getting in). I will say that it is absolutely beautiful, a tropical paradise. But all the overblown reviews raised my expectations unrealistically high and I was disappointed. In the end, I'm on a working holiday, and needed good strong WiFi and ideally an air-conditioned place other than my room where I could work for several hours each day, and this did not have either of those things. I ended up checking out early.