Serene Hill Resort & Spa

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

Accommodation and facilities:
we had booked a transfer from the airport which was perfect. the serene hill is a very nice hotel with very nice stuff and a good breakfast. the way to the room was steep, but really ok. the view from our room was not that good, but you don't spend your time in the room anyway. the pool is nice. the place is quiet and has a beautiful nature. you need a bike to move or take the shuttle to lamai beach. its a good place to stay.

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easy booking. all worked out very well.

Date: 10th March, 2012
Written by: Rix

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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Very nice hotel and friendly staff. Only negative was a busy road to cross if walking to shopping and beach. However free of charge transport was offered as alternative. Lamai was nicer than Chewang as little less touristic and noisy but the sand was better in Chewang beach.

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Date: 1st January, 2012
Written by: Karlsson Peter

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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hotel was very nice and clean, very good service. good food and really nice pool. the only downside is the resort massages were extremely over priced. but overall very nice stay and would visit again.

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very simple, no problems

Date: 7th February, 2011
Written by: Luke Tomkins

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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Had a nice time in Samui and have stayed at this resort several times and will be staying there again.

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Great, no problems at all

Date: 3rd December, 2010
Written by: Shaun Boardman

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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I have stayed at this resort several times. The staff are always friendly and try really hard, the prices for the items in the room fridge are very reasonable and you do not get ripped off when having your laundry done. The resort has a lovely pool.

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Excellent, i use siameservices often all over Asia.

Date: 28th November, 2010
Written by: Shaun Boardman

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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what an extremenly beautiful place, the wooden villa was luxurious and it felt so peaceful and breathtaking looking into the lamai hills from my big balcony...wow...I will return!!

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Date: 31st May, 2010
Written by: Eva Guehne

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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We stayed 6 days in February at Serene Hill Resort and it was really wonderfull. We lived in a wooden house - big and with a fantastic view over the city and the sea. The place is withdrawn from Lamai town where there is peace and tranquility. It takes approximately 10-15 minutes to walk to town and beach, or you may be running them free of charge by hotel staff. Hotel staff is fantastic - so helpful and friendly. Cleaning also impeccable. Delicious pool and pool area. We will definitely stay at Serene Hill again if we return to Koh Samui.

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as always super.

Date: 1st March, 2010
Written by: Trine Merete Torp Johansen

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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this is the nice place for relax,and the hotel good as well coz they have the good service during u stay at the hotel,but very sorry i cant tell about the spa coz i nv try thy the spa over there or in the hotel...when i stay in the serene hill feel good coz it won disturb by other transport sound,some more they have the privare view point at their own room...all the staff also nice very good in the behiever...

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Date: 23rd February, 2010
Written by: Lee Willoon

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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We spent 4 nights at the Serene Hill resort and spa and we were quite happy with the rooms but severely disappointed, partially because of we got stuff stolen from housekeepers, as it happened many times in the past too with other guests. The bungalows are quite nice, very spacious and all made of wood, with a nice large bathroom. The rooms are really on the hill as you might have read on other reviews. The bungalows have nice views, but do not expect a seaview. If you do get one, it will probably be a very small view of a small portion of sea, but nonetheless it's nice. The location is OK at the most, around 15mn walk to the beach and Lamai center, however they have a shuttle truck that will drive you to Lamai and back to the hotel anytime you want. It's not the most comfortable ride though, and it can get uncomfortable to ask a ride many times a day. I suggest to rent a moped for around 150 to 200 baths a day. Now the bad sides: The breakfast is officially the worst I have ever tasted, and believe me I have tasted many ranges at many different places. The breakfast they give you is what you would expect from a 5$ guesthouse. Which is really disappointing because you pay around 70$ for the bungalow! You only have a choice of eggs and bacon or yogurt with bread or croissant. Oh, sorry, forget the croissant, they don't have any. Why? I guess it's more expensive than 2 cheap slices of white bread. All served with a low quality strawberry jam (the only one they ve got), and with a coffee that taste worse than dishwater. I couldn't even finish my coffee, first time it happened to me! oh and the cold eggs and the 2 mini slices of bacon doesn't help too. Anyway you see the picture. Also the pool, quite nice looking and big actually, but not as clean as you would expect it to be. It seems they are having some problems with their pump, and half of the pool is empty waiting to be cleaned or repaired, which is not happening anywhere near the future. There was a sign written out of order , and we asked what was wrong and they kinda avoided the question and told us we could use the pool no problem. Ah and many tiles on the bottom of the pool are missing, that looks really cheap and run down. They have only one computer for the internet, which is filthy, I mean seriously, I hardly could type on the keyboard because of the amount of dirt on it. It seems it's coming straight from the early nineties, so of course don't expect any speed. And my major disappointment is that they don't have wireless internet! The rooms are nice as I said, but they could ve arranged the trees and vegetation around in a better way, as it is blocking the view of the sea. They should put trees between the bungalows instead, because as of it is now the next bungalow window overlooks straight into our bedroom, which is OK for now considering there is nobody occupying it, but otherwise... There are so many windows and the curtains are white and I feel like at night people from outside could see the shadows inside our room, which is not very great. Finally I read many reviews talking about theft, and well it happened to us too. My girlfriend got some jewelry stolen as well as some cosmetics. In overall, avoid this place!

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Date: 25th September, 2009
Written by: Samuel Gendreau-belanger

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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Lovely place with fantastic pool, friendly staff and good location, not to far from beach and village, but far enough from noise. We had a pleasent stay and we hope that we can come back soon!

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Perfect!

Date: 21st July, 2009
Written by: Khun A

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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This Hotel was very nice. Good value for the money! Situated 2 km from beach! Very calm and relaxing! The staff was friendly and helpful, free transfer to and from main-street! The hotel was situated in a very steep hill, tough to walk in the heat!

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Quick and easy!

Date: 25th June, 2009
Written by: Örjan Ström

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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What a find! The bungalows are huge and are incredible value for money. All teakwood with large covered terrace and funky semi outdoor bathrooms. Ask for room 106 as this directly overlooks the pool. The staff here are incredibly friendly, and always willing to help with anything you need. Good affordable restaurant and a beautiful lagoon style pool. There never seemed more than 5 people staying here and often I had the pool to myself. This place is not on Lamai, but in a quiet location about 10 mins walk from the centre of Lamai, however the resort will drive you into Lamai whenever you want. Only potential bad points are if the place was at full capacity there is only room for around 12 people at the pool - but was never a problem for me. Also Lamai isn't the greatest place in the world, plently of bars and rstaurants, but can be a bit seedy with quite a few too many girly bars etc...

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Date: 15th May, 2009
Written by: Jon Christopher

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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As well as last year, we had a pleasent stay in Serene Hill. Its a quit nice place, with a verry nice pool area. We have been 5 nights in the wodden villa, which we enjoied alot. Great value for money. Hope we can stay there next year again!

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Date: 8th April, 2009
Written by: Andy

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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Very nice resort,friendly staff,marvelous garden,nearly in the jungle,quiet in the night and day,not cheap but very good.

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uncomplicatet working service

Date: 25th March, 2009
Written by: Werner Gloger

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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Nice clean rooms, with a prompt maid service. We had a standard room and couldnt really see why it was any worse than the others. Restaurant had good food and helpful staff.

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no problems at all

Date: 28th December, 2008
Written by: Richard Wilkins

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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I don't recommended this hotel because the cleaners go through our stuffs and steal some money in the luggages. In the night, there are many frog on the way to go the room and they make noises all night. the way to go each room is very incline. the swimming pool is not very big.

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the airport transfer to the hotel was not done, i had to take a taxi by my self and paid in advance.

Date: 10th July, 2008
Written by: Wong Van Lik

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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the room is very big and special. but the bathroom may be a litter dirty. and there isn't free water in room. everthing in room need money.

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very good

Date: 17th April, 2008
Written by: Zhou Ping

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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We stayed there for five nighs in one of the traditional Thai-style jouses. The houses were beautiful and spacy, the resort is very nice and situated in a tropical garden. Staff was very friendly. The only thing you could complain about was the breakfast - the variety of things is not too big and - like nearly everywhere - adapted to the needs of the English/ American guests with sausages, scrambled eggs,... But I would stay there again, I was amazed.

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Quick, friendly, good.

Date: 31st March, 2008
Written by: Michael Lenhard

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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We had a wonderful stay in Serene Hill.Everything was like it was promise.Very nice bungalow and pool situation.Only the main road of Koh Samui is very close to the resort and too loud .This should be written in the description.

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Date: 30th March, 2008
Written by: Gassner

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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we really enjoyed our stay in this hotel .had the wooden bunglow on top of the hill beautiful view of lamai beach. staff though hardly speak english but they were very pleasant and caring. intially booked standard room but they are crap did not have any curtains and that was 10 pm when we arrived they did not have any other room at the time had to atgued with the assistant manager he wanted extra money for upgrade to wooden bunglow but at the end after phoning the manager he agreed for free upgrade for that night. nice quite and poeacful place will stay there again

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excellent as always

Date: 23rd March, 2008
Written by: Zahid Mahmood

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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We were verry satisfied. Nice place, nice stuff, nice pool, good service, not overpriced. Beautiful plants everywhere. Hope we can go there another holiday again.

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perfect

Date: 18th March, 2008
Written by: Andy

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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My family and I stayed in two wooden villas for four nights in February. Pros: The room was very large and airy. The staff were very nice. Also very accommodating when we requested for the free ride to/from Lamai Beach (make sure you have the hotel phone number as they had forgotten to pick us up once). Pool was very nice and not all shallow so you can play around a bit. Spa was clean and at great price (remember that they automatically add a 10% service charge). Cons: The noise! The hotel is right off of a busy street and you can hear the traffic clearly. We were in the front row, which was right above some construction trucks parking. Even during my spa treatment, which is higher up in the hills, I was still able to hear traffic noise while soaking in the tub outside. Very limited breakfast selections, which was the same everyday. Oh, the room was nice during the day but at night, you have to close up all 10 curtains! They re also white and thin, which will not keep out sunlight, so don't count on sleeping in. Overall: It was a decent place for the price. If you don't mind some street noise then this might work for you. I wouldn't recommend it to a friend though.

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Very efficient! No complaints.

Date: 6th March, 2008
Written by: Vi

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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A great hotel with friendly and devoted staff. Located against a hill it is only about 10 minutes walk to the centre of Lamai and the beach. Very quite and peaceful, while the everything is within walking distance. The hotel has a nice pool and the houses are really nice, done in thai style. Can highly recommend to stay here.

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Excellent and very fast, my compliments

Date: 4th March, 2008
Written by: Anonymous

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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Hotel was clean and nice. Location was ok, but not the best. They had free transfer to the Lamai beach when ever you want. Spa was excellent and value of money was really good in the hotel and in the spa.

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Everything was perfect!

Date: 28th February, 2008
Written by: Virpi Salonen

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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Excellent resort service, high standart of hygiene and well developed spa service. Nice location and walking distance to the beach and Lamai's shopping parades. As for improvement area I would recommend a breakfast food menu as limited, poorly chosen and lack of local cousine.

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Excellent service and communication service

Date: 25th February, 2008
Written by: Martin Haldys

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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The wooden villas were fantastic, quite spacious and clean.I really liked the plants and trees in the bathroom, very exotic. The staff were really friendly and helpful, made us feel very welcome everyday of our stay. Swimming pool is great and has its own bar. We went to the Spa couple of times and that was quite good as well. The hotel is located on the hill above the main road which goes to Lamai. The hotel staff brought us to Lamai every time we needed free of charge. But we walked to Lamai a few times and it only takes 10 min to get there. I would recommend this hotel to everyone and we will definitely return there next time we are in Thailand.

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Very easy to use. Had no problems with booking. Will certainly use this website for our future bookings in Thailand.

Date: 20th February, 2008
Written by: Inara & Conor Conran

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

Accommodation and facilities:
Very nice and peaceful... great if you want to get away from the town. The pool is also very nice. Private villas are great! Staff is also great. Only complaint I had was how they charged for everything… every other hotel we stayed at (during our 3 week trip) gave us bottles of water since the water is not drinkable. They over charge you for it so buy it in town. About a 15 walk to the beach / town… but they will bring you down for free. DON’T take a taxi back unless you like being over charged, the walk isn’t that bad. Also, don’t use them for rides around the island… haggle with the cab drivers. The hotel will try to charge you 2x – 3x more than the cab drivers will… walk out to the street and one will pass every 2 minutes.

Reservation service:
great!

Date: 13th January, 2008
Written by: K. Kinney

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

Accommodation and facilities:
A nice resort with a beautiful pool. Good service and comfortable rooms. A very nice breakfastbuffe. The traffic was noicy and disturbing though.

Reservation service:
The booking worked without problems and was easy to do.

Date: 13th January, 2008
Written by: Eva Sjostedt

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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A beautiful, clean, fresh resort with wonderful staf!!!

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It was my first(but not the last!!)trip to Thailand. We where very satisfied with the hotels we booked by SiameServices and it was very easy to book alsow.

Date: 9th January, 2008
Written by: Elisabeth Kristiansson

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

Accommodation and facilities:
Very nice resort. Steep climb, but villas are very pleasant. Excellent value for money Pool's also very nice. Spa could do with refurbishing

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Very efficient, friendly service, extremely helpful. Will definitely recommend and use in future

Date: 28th December, 2007
Written by: Ruth

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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this hotel is very beautiful and quiet. the service is well . i like this hotel very much and will come back next year.

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very convenience

Date: 9th October, 2007
Written by: Sunting

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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Excellent hotel! Located in a tropical garden, on a hill. Peaceful, quiet place, quite away from the crowdy towns and beaches. The hotel has a pool, a pool-bar, spa and a great restaurant with prices between 70-200 baht per dish. We rented a wooden villa and it was worth every penny we paid. Clean, comfortable, giving you feeling of intimacy. If you re lucky, you'll get a sea view. The air-con was effective, beds were wide, bit hard though, bathroom had a roof-window and smelt fresh each day. Hotel provides regular overnight laundry service (we paid 50 baht per kilo). You can rent a motorbike or car via the rec. The pool is open till midnight. The closes tourist attractions are: Grandma & Grandpa (5 mins by bike), 3 waterfalls (20 mins), butterfly garden (40 mins.), cliff (15 mins.). DO GO to Angthong National Park and stay for the night!!!! Serene Hill place is away from the beach, we didn't mind. Beach in Lamai is not the nicest one I ve seen. Last but not least we loved the staff at the hotel, reception was professional and helpful, the chef is a Master, and Zin ( client manager ) was everywhere and took care of every little problem or question we had. We left some books in Polish at the Rec., enjoy :)

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Perfect with the booking, card payment and the booking amendment as well (we prolongued the stay)

Date: 27th September, 2007
Written by: Jaroslaw Dzwonkowski

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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The infinity edge pool was amazing! Top level had a spa and the bottom level had submerged stools for the cocktail bar which had a very extensive selection. It was fun to watch the staff try to make our obscure choices too. Our room was beautiful! Solid teak as is the entire resort, lends a feeling of luxury. The bungalows are very spacious and the aircon was good. Only bad point was the bed. It was rock hard! Very uncomfortable to sleep on and the pillows were way too thick. We asked for thinner pillows twice and were finally given one. Staff were pleasant, especially Jolli the owner/manager. Breakfast was very average, and when we ordered dinner once, some items were lost in translation. It was a 10 minute walk from the beach (once we figured out the way home) and the staff are happy to shuttle you to and from the beach free of charge anytime. Once the staff are up to speed with the food particularly, we would stay there again because the resort was very peaceful and attractive.

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Excellent!

Date: 9th September, 2007
Written by: Louise & Michael

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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The hotel and the rooms are beautiful. We had an ocean view villa and at night time we could watch the fireworks display from our balcony. The staff is very friendly and is always ready to help. We got free breakfast each morning, and the breakfast selection was excellent. We had dinner twice at the restaurant and the prices were very reasonable. We had accidently broken a glass during dinner and then as we were checking out, management informed us that we had to pay for the glass-100bhat. This we found a little strange. The staff will drive you into town and the beach and pick you up as well, free of charge. The beach is only a 5 minute walk away. We didn't use the spa at the hotel, but got massages by the beach for 150-200bhat.

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Good.

Date: 27th August, 2007
Written by: Jm

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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What a memorable experience. You can have all the hotels on the beach we will take Serene Hill anytime. The name says it all Serene Hill is certainly that and more. If the hundreds of birds that use the edge of the overflow pool for bathing in & the beautiful butterfly's of all colours that live in the spectacular plant life could talk they would tell you the same, or maybe they wouldn't they may just keep it a secret as I probably should. We stayed in a wooden Villa at the top of the hill, it was lovely, could do with some more seating, just a couple of chairs on the balcony would do but don't let that put you off as we noticed some other people had managed to put plastic pool chairs on their balcony. The hill is extremely steep but they use a golf buggy and they will transport you up in that. However when we return I will book a Wooden Villa lower down on the hill due to my old ankle injury as I found I had to be very carefull walking down. breakfast was good and all other meals that we ate here were also good & reasonably priced. The pool is large and the top tier is a shallower pool with a large spa area that overflows into the main pool, this pool also has an overflow edge, you can look down the hill to Lamai and the sea from the pool. great views, great hotel, great staff.

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We used SiameServices for a number of bookings at different hotels during this trip and found them to be excellent, SiameServices were extremely helpfull when we had to reorganise one of our bookings due to a change in flight times because of problems with the new airport in Bangkok. Swadee staff could not have been more helpfull. Thank you to all at SiameServices for helping to make our trip so memorable.

Date: 4th July, 2007
Written by: Colleen Pearson

Serene Hill Resort & Spa

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We were 2 adults and 2 kids from Sweden who stayed at wooden villa No 111. Our villa was in perfect conditions as all villas seemed. We overlooked a mountain area and had also a bit ocean view. A great place! The staff was extraordinary, very polite and eager to help in any way. I m very sorry that there were so few other guests which made the staff unoccupied a lot. The good thing was that we could have the great pool almost for ourselves the whole week. Tha SPA section was a bit of a disappointment though because of their high prices. I tried a two hours Thai massage which was as pricy as 1,400 Baht. Normal fee is about 300 Baht. The staff is high educated though... I recommend Serene Hill Resort for families, single adults and people who wants to be tsunami safe - but not for people who can't walk up hills. It was a steep walk up to our villa from the road. A splendid view though made the walk worth every effort!

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Worked perfectly! No problems at all!

Date: 20th February, 2007
Written by: Mats Svensson