Montien House Koh Samui Reviews & Ratings

Great resort with excellent value for money. Pleasant staff and a nice pool. Excellent beds and good food. Really nice restaurant on the beach - our favorite! Awesome breakfast, a big buff?!!

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Great stay. Excellent pool! Very comfy bed. Clean. Friendly staff. Most spoke English well. Great food. Beautiful gardens. Good A/C.

Only qualm is that the toilet didn't flush every few days, probably septic tank needed to be emptied out more often. We had to keep asking for them
to empty (which would stink) but once I made it clear that I didn't want to ask again it was fine.

Overall very pleasant experience, sad to leave, would stay there again.

Also, around this time of year (May) ocean water in front of hotel very warm (we chose to spend our time in the pool right on the beach), shallow, and extremely (almost disturbingly) calm. No jet skis a plus -- great for kids. 5
minutes walk north *very* low water, not as appealing. A couple minutes walk south a lot more jet skis, water a little deeper (thighs instead of shins). 15 minutes further walk south there's actual small waves, quite nice.

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Montien House has a great location as it is right on the beach and right next to the shops on the main street. The suite rooms are very spacious with a very nice separate lounge room. The pool is only small, but is still very nice and overlooks the beach!

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In Chaweng beach, many exotic resort. but Montien house has a reasonable rates and good facilities, clean, friendly, beach front pool and beautiful garden. You will have great time in Samui!

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I stayed at Montien House for 5 days in January 08 and I would highly recommend it. The standard room was great and my only gripe would be I thought it doesn't have cable tv.

The gardens were lovely and the pool was great except you need to get in early to reserve a sun bed. Buffet breakfast was great and food in restaurant was also good. Staff were lovely and hotel was in a great location.

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It is a perfect place for this money. The room is ok, the staff is kind. The beach is great, and the location is excellent. Have a good time here, we come back for sure.

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The Montien House is in a pretty good location; you can lie on the poolside chairs and not get hassled by hawkers b/cos you're up a level, or you can walk about 5 mins down to the "real" beach (the bit it is on has some weird concrete structure about 100m out).

The breakfast is OK but I wouldn't recommend to eat there otherwise; they don't understand requests and the food is totally average. Our bungalow (the most basic one) was large and good, however, the toilet seemed to be leaking and the daily cleanings weren't very clean!!

You can rent jeeps (800 B/day) or motos (200 B/day) from there, but don't buy your full moon party tix from them, they price is jacked up 300B! Get your laundry done next door, 40B/kilo.

Overall, Montien is a pretty good place to stay for the money. The grounds are also quite beautiful.

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Very nice place to stay. Central location in Chaweng but very very quiet. Very lovely rooms. We were staying for four nights, finally we stayed three more nights. Rooms very very nice, and service too. We'll return again.

The only bad thing is that the beach in front wasn't the best for swimming, but in 5 minutes walk by the sea, perfect places.

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I enjoyed my stay at this hotel and the location was far enough off of the street that there were no problems. The breakfast was good and there were always people around in case I needed anything.

The only real complaint is that there was way too much chlorine in the swimming pool, it took my eyes a day and a bottle of medicine to recover. The beach was very nice but it would have been nice if there weren't so many hawkers trying to sell junks all the time, if you even looked up from trying to relax there was someone there, and the one night we ate dinner on the beach there was a continuous procession of sellers.

But the room was cleaned on a daily basis, the air conditioning worked and the bathroom was clean. So I would recommend this hotel, and if I go back it will be one of the first places I consider staying.

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March, 2007 - We arrived without a booking and staff was very helpful. We booked a room for 3 weeks later for 3 nights. Deluxe bungalow in front of pool (beach front) was lovely. Very clean and bedding smelled wonderful. Nice hot shower/bath tub (pressure was so good it almost removed my tan!).

Previous reviews regarding bad smell when toilet is flushed was very true. However, we just lit an incence each time toilet was flushed and kept bathroom door closed ... no problem.

Complimentary breakfast was very nice. Fresh fruit, juices, coffee (instant of course!), breads, hot rice/chicken, hot noodles, eggs & omelets made to order, bacon & sausages...what else do you need? Lunch/menu items very good.

The staff was very friendly and helpful, English no problem. Live entertainment (fabulous singer) in the evening at the beach for dinner (good food, good service, reasonably priced). Pool was always clean. All beach loungers around the pool were reserved with towels early in the morning. This is not uncommon, as most of the resorts share their pool with neighboring resorts which do not have one. The beach in front of the resort was quiet due to the breakwater rocks not far out.

I would recommend this resort to anyone looking for a relaxing time. It caters to a more mature crowd, as the thumping music for the younger (party) set is farther down the beach. Shopping is all along the street behind the resort.

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