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Reviews of Le Vimarn Cottages & Spa

4.5 out of 5
Le Vimarn Cottages & Spa
40/11 Moo 4, Tambol Phe, Amphur Muang, Rayong, Rayong

Reviews

8.8

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 98 out of 189 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 67 out of 189 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 19 out of 189 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 4 out of 189 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 189 reviews" "

9.0/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

8.6/10

Amenities

8.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Barbara

Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2023

6/10 Okay

Kevin

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Amenities
Location is isolated and it is inconvenient to access town center
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Simon

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Wonderful property, well miantained, very clean, staff great and very help ful, residence sitting in the forest by the beach, very relaxing
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Stefan

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Exceptional value at a beautiful resort
Exceptional value and great service. The resort is located in a beautiful spot. The breakfast buffe was great. Lastly, it was very calm and never felt busy.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Elizabeth, Aylmer

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I completely enjoyed the living quarters which were quiet and remote. I would have loved a little more service when it comes to getting drinks both around the pool and on the beach. Often I had to walk up to place my order. The massage was wonderful and would benefit from other spa services as well.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Alison

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great place
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Peter

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Michael, Lancaster

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very nice,quiet and relaxed resort with a beautiful beach, good food and very helpful and efficient service.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2022

8/10 Good

David

Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2022

10/10 Excellent

Randy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worth a stay
Payab the waiter was the best..... The place in on ghe qiet side of the island away from the big beaches of sai kiew. Amenities and service , great
Stayed 3 nights in May 2021

2/10 Terrible

TomT, Toronto

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
I was racially profiled by a staff at Le Vimarn, Ko Samed. While sitting on the hotels beach, my family and I were approached by the hotel security guard asking for our room number to see if we were guests. The exact question was “What’s your room number!?” in an authoritative tone. No “Hello”, no “Excuse me,…” So this may be innocent enough. Why I was sure this was racial profile was that we were the only Asian family on the beach that morning. It was early in the day and the beach was empty and there was only 3 or 4 families using the hotel’s beach chairs. All were Caucasians except my family. I could tell the security guard was taking issue with us being there because he was lingering around our area (we were far from others) and eyeing us so much. This is not me being hypersensitive. The situation was obvious and noticeable especially when there’s not a lot of people on the beach. Perhaps he thought that we were non-hotel guests using the hotel’s chairs (this is an issue at the hotel). This would be find if the security guard proceed to check everyone but during the hour that we were there, I did not see him engage anyone else. I guess we don't fit the hotel's client profile. Finally, after eyeballing my family a time, the security guard approach us and proceed to ask for our room number (again no “hello” no “excuse me”). At this point I knew exactly what was going on and I spoke back to him in THAI indicating that I was guess an asking why he needed to
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice location, excellent beach !! Good for swimming and relaxing around.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020
Response from Ja on Feb 25, 2020
Dear Guest, Thank you for your positive comments. We are so glad to hear that you enjoyed your stay with us! We look forward to welcoming you again soon. With best regards, Chanyaphak P. Assistant Marketing Communication Manager

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Gavin

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great peaceful place
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2019
Response from Chanyaphak on Dec 25, 2019
Dear Mr. Gavin, Thank you for your review and for choosing our hotel. We are glad you enjoyed the stay with us. We certainly look forward to welcoming you back soon! With best regards, Chanyaphak P Assistant Marketing Communication Manager

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Luxury close to Bangkok
Fantastic island luxury so close to Bangkok!
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Just came back from 3 days at Le Vimarn and we just loved it! The speedboat transfer was amazing and the location of the hotel is just unique! We had a nice room and you can choose between 3 restaurants by the sea. The beach is wonderful but what we really appreciate was the extremely friendly and helpful staff!!!
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Absolutely amazing room and beach. The bad comment is that my holiday is finished!! Will go back 100%
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Our stay was super due to the friendly staff and the attendance to even the small details to maintain a superb level of cleanliness and attractive appearance, inside and out!
Stayed 9 nights in May 2019

8/10 Good

Tim

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disappointing start- beautiful location
Excellent location! Wonderful beach, great rooms set back into the hill, surrounded by trees and well kept greenery. Excellent food. Great pool. Staff very attentive, a little too much at times. Barely put the last mouthful of food in and your plate is whipped away as the waiters are hovering like flies. We had a problem with our check in and speed boat trip over where we were given no information as to the times this was available and ended up being charged 2000baht extra. Management did not seem concerned by the lack of information we had been given and blamed the website we had booked through. Even though I paid through the hotel direct I was still not told about the time of the last speed boat. I spoke to 2 separate managers during my stay, one said they would contact the Bangkok office and get back to me.. they never did. I will be emailing the Bangkok office directly and asking for an explanation. A shame that this is how our trip started out as it is a fantastic place. We live nearby and return to Ko samet often. For the money though, I would say there are better options available on the island.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2019

10/10 Excellent

Andreas

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great beach front property. Very quiet. Perfect for relaxation and families.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very clean and quiet beach. Will definitely return.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2018

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Luxury hotel in a remote location
Le Vimarn is a small luxurious resort on the island of Koh Samet- a paradise only 3 hours from Bangkok. The hotel is around 3km from the nearest village a sonis perfect for a tranquil relaxing holiday. The rooms were spacious and clean, and the private beach, just a few steps from the hotel, was amazing. Staff were always super helpful and friendly, and the food was very good. Highly recommended
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2018

8/10 Good

Sharon

Highly recommended
Great location , amazing service , amazing pool and beach , breakfast can be improved
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

PO YAN POLLY, Hong Kong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent resort, staff, service. Highly recommended!
Stayed 2 nights in May 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
If you want to just slow down and wake up in a piece of Paradise this resort is an amazing place to stay. The beach is beautiful, the scenery is untouched and the resort and staff are friendly and caring. We stayed here for 5 days and didn’t want to leave. Sublime sunsets, Turquoise water, a good choice of food in multiple Restraunts and beautifully prepared rooms. It’s also easy to hire a taxi or a motorbike and go to explore the rest of the island if you want some adventures. We can’t wait to come back.
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2018

10/10 Excellent

LESLEY

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful setting!
Amazing relaxing break. Super friendly staff. Great restaurants. Beautiful beach.

4/10 Poor

lynnmarie, uk

Liked: Cleanliness
Quite nice cottage accommodation on lovely beach
Expensive hotel with very expensive food and drink , slightly faded in parts. Not on a resort just a beach so a complimentary shuttle bus into town would help. Staff slightly disorganised but pleasant. Not up to standards set by other hotels in this price bracket in Thsiland. Lovely beach front location and immaculately kept gardens by very hard working gardeners.
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2018

8/10 Good

Juuso

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great hidden paradise - if you can get there
The hotel is surrounded by an amazing beach. Staff were very attentive, everything was cleaned daily and the garden was kept in immaculate condition. Breakfast was delicious, although the options were a bit limited. There were 3 restaurants in the resort - 1 Thai, 1 European, 1 mixed. The European was quite expensive, but the Thai and mixed restaurants were very good price and the food was delicious. The hotel even had a small gym if you wanted to put in a little workout. The hotel has a lot of geckos/crickets that make a lot of sound. It wasn't a bother to us, but at times it was almost hurting your ears. They do stop at night so you'll be able to get a good night sleep. The only major issue was that we were never contacted about the speedboat to the island, despite getting in touch with the hotel. We had to organise it ourselves.

6/10 Okay

diane

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
nice hotel on the beach
but could use a little sprucing up. Spa services were limited and property could use sprucing up.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2017

10/10 Excellent

Kerry

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Absolutely fabulous
Absolutely amazing experience and hotel. Staff couldn’t do enough for us and the setting is really wonderful.
Stayed 5 nights in Oct 2017

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful setting, staff always on hand and friendly. Private feel to the rooms, wonderful beach a few steps away. Selection of dining options. Pool areas are good and never seem to be crowded
Stayed 5 nights in Oct 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Weekend getaway while visiting Bangkok
The beach here is great, super nice sand. Love how they provide bottled water and a beach bag to take belongings to the beach or pool. Staff here are very accommodating. For me, I prefer islands outside of Thailand. Not a fan of the shampoo.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2017

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We will comeback again.
This was my daughter's first trip to the sea and she was very very happy here. Ofcourse she didn't want to go back home.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
beach location is unbeatable
It's really all about that beach. Tropical views, clean beach right on your doorstep can't be beaten. Service is a little lacking - helpful when asked but not very proactive. No towels around the pool, no drink service at pool or beach despite 3 guys looking bored sitting behind the bar etc. Rooms are spotless and comfortable if fairly basic.

4/10 Poor

phisal

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
very hard to climb up to your room.a long distance to the beach whis is so small.air con in the room is bad under this hot climate end up very dissappoint.not recommend to anyone at all.

10/10 Excellent

Ryan, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great break from Bangkok
Booked for three nights only, all rooms I believe are oceanview, very nice accommodations, large bathroom and shower, comfortable bed, food was fantastic, overall a really great stay

10/10 Excellent

Ryan, Hong Kong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice cottage in front of beach
Nice view with private beach. High privacy. Hire motorbike easily to go another side of island. However, spa centre closes too earlier up to 7pm. I would like to plan to have massage after dinner but failed.
Big bath tub
Balcony
Night view

6/10 Okay

Loretta , London

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely but....
The place is very beautiful and clean and even the beach is very well looked after and tidy from rubbish. However we find the all beach - Ao Prao - rather soul less. The area dont allow any street vendor or any other interesting cultural activity - some shops, some local restaurants...Everything is only available from the 3 resorts there making the all area rather boring and not "very Thai". Even the menu at the resort restaurant was westerner food, we had to insist asking for the Thai menu - which they had one at the end. On our last day some friends came to visit us for few hours with their two kids. At the pool the management came to ask us to leave because guests were not allowed - now, I would have understand if the pool was busy at any point or if we had friends coming every day but it is rude to not allow two small kids jumping in an almost empty pool for 20 minutes.....If you look to stay in a place just to relax and which could be in Thailand or Gran Canarie, that is the place.

8/10 Good

Yuvraj, Hong Kong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Relaxed Getaway!
Nice beachside resort with fantastic cottage rooms. Loved the outdoor pool-bath with the cottage!

6/10 Okay

mian

The stay was ok,breakfast was not that good....

10/10 Excellent

Saijai, United kingdom

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Short family break
Beautiful setting with fantastic beach. Nice choice of food and a range of bars and restaurants a short taxi ride away. Speedboat transfers were great fun too. Stayed for two nights but could have stayed forever. The hotel even fumigate the area in the evenings to keep the Mosquitos in check.

10/10 Excellent

Bruce, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect!
Absolutely perfect! Staff was extremely helpful, but unobtrusive. The place itself is lovely. Excellent food and excellent drinks.

6/10 Okay

Neil C, Sydney, Australia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
A good hotel in a nice location with very nice staff. The F&B manager was actually exceptional, the 'everywhere man'. I would hire him! The Bad plumbing in the rooms means shower and sink do not drain properly, the former flooding the bathroom. This wasn't unique to our room, also read it in other reviews. Also no hot water tap on the sink. The Ugly plastic waste that continually washes up on the beach is an environmental disgrace. The hotel staff do their very best To clean it off the beaches, as did I, very time I went for a swim, but the sheer volume of rubbish in the water is a tragedy especially given the lovely location. We were still charged for an additional night when we checked out a day early, but to be fair we knew their policy was completely inflexible but travelers itineraries do change and the hotel needs to address this. We stayed in the early monsoon season and left on a Sunday, so the place was almost empty. Our checkout took forever with a young woman who spoke very little English and stuffed up the credit card charge split we asked for. What was really Ugly though is, after charging us for the night we didn't stay, taking forever to check us out and failing to split the charges over our two ccards; she then produced another bill for just 60bht for one bottle of water from lunch the day before that they failed to include in the master bill, so we paid that in cash and left feeling less than happy with the experience. Overall though, A good stay.

8/10 Good

Antony, Hong Kong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice for couple
It was a nice stay for couple, hotel with good service, room are not bad.

8/10 Good

Joel, Switzerland

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
a nice place to relax
Really nice and warm welcome ... very friendly and attentive staff, wonderful room with nice view to the beach, calm. great food, great drinks, beach was very clean and the water quality great. It was like a perfect little honeymoon for us

10/10 Excellent

Marilyn, India

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great hotel/property
We stayed for 2 nights and loved the hotel/property. This is not a 5 star hotel but you are not paying 5 star hotel prices to stay here so keep this in mind. For the price we paid we were very happy with everything. We had a standard room, which was huge by big city standards. Lots of storage space, large bathroom, nice balcony with table and 2 chairs,, view of the water. Would not bother to pay for a more deluxe room, standard is perfect. Has a mini fridge with was nice and cold. Beach was clean, private and quiet. There are other resorts down the beach which seemed a bit more crowded and had more kids (great it you want playmates for your children, if not keep to the hotel beach). Water was calm, clear, warm, not large waves due to being on an inlet. Pool area was nice,, a good option for full shade in the afternoon if beach gets too hot. Pool was clean, temp perfect. Food was ok, not amazing, but we came for the water/ R&R,,, not a food trip. We had Pad Thai which was just average, a club sandwich split between us for lunch was more than enough and was good. Dinner one night at the Italian, chicken was a bit dry, but duck was very good. Thai food other night at Buzz, was good. Wine choices limited but we did manage to find some we liked. Beer prices not outrageous and happy hour 5 to 7 on beach drinks half price, they were ok, not great. Staff very nice and friendly. Fun to watch the guys in the morning 'rolling' the dock back into the water.