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Reviews of Simple Life Cliff View Resort

3.5 out of 5
Simple Life Cliff View Resort
3/99 Moo 2, Koh Tao, Surat Thani

Reviews

7.8

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 33 out of 90 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 31 out of 90 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 15 out of 90 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 5 out of 90 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 6 out of 90 reviews" "

8.2/10

Cleanliness

8.0/10

Staff & service

8.4/10

Amenities

7.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.8/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

6/10 Okay

Dana

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service
Bathroom towels were horrendous, old and stained with ragged edges. Room was large, AC worked okay. Bathroom had no amenities including hand soap (okay so we used shower gel to wash hands). Location is incredible though and sunsets here are 10/10, so we would recommend this place anyways. Staff was not very friendly or helpful, young woman actually rolled her eyes at me when I couldn’t get our door lock to work. Breakfast was okay, not great but whatever.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Patrick

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great spot to stay in Koh Tao overall.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024
Response from Hansa on 17 Mar,2024
Thank you so much

8/10 Good

Fred

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
The front desk service staffs were excellent. The walkway leading to the rooms require some maintenance work. Not much variety and options with the included breakfast. Only coffee is included as standard while espressos or cappuccinos are extras, which is different from the other hotels we experienced in Bangkok, Koh Samui and Ko PhaNgan.
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Claire

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
The rooms are lovely and location is great, within walking distance of bars & restaurants. It does need some repair works around the pool area
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Divyani

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Good location and the sea view was beautiful. The whole place was pretty run down though (safe in my room didn’t work, tv didn’t work, some holes in bed sheets, bad smelling shower, low water pressure on bidet). I think for the price (quite expensive) these things are expected to be better. Not sure if there are better hotels nearby so I would be open to staying again as the view was amazing!

10/10 Excellent

Dillon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful property and amazing views clean room
This hotel was amazing- beautiful views of the ocean and amazing sunset from our room every night. Very close to great restaurants and public beach. Im not sure where the restaurant/ bar advertised us we never saw one or were told about this. Luckily there is plenty of food a short walk away. We were able to do laundry here affordably. I wish there was more monitoring of the pools and maybe one reserved for adults. Each day kids from a couple families would be leaping pool to pool splashing and loud which we could hear from the room. I was surprised staff didnt ask them to calm down. Otherwise still a great experience just somethings to note for the hotel since it was a more expensive stay for us.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jiang

Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2022
Response from Haymar on 24 Dec,2022
Thank you very much for your great reviews .

10/10 Excellent

Amy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Will definitely book again! Excellent accommodations and staff
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2022
Response from Haymar on 20 Nov,2022
Thank you for your great review. Welcome again on your next vacation.

10/10 Excellent

Jessica

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful Sunset Views
I enjoyed my stay at Simple Life Cliff View Resort so much I ended up extending my stay for an extra night. I splurged on an ocean view room and was rewarded with one of the most gorgeous sunset views I've ever seen. The rooms are spacious and have very comfortable beds as well as hammocks and cushioned benches outside for lounging. The hotel is in a great location on the south end of Sairee beach within walking distance of restaurants and dive shops. They are affiliated with Simple Life Divers which is located less than a 5 minute walk away which I would also highly recommend. The only downsides I can think of is that the reception area closes early in the evening and the water in the shower takes a long time to heat up, but these are relatively minor inconveniences. Overall I'd definitely stay here again while visiting Koh Tao!
Sunset as seen from the ocean view room
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Food good, reasonable price. Nice location and view
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019
Response from Haymar on 2 Dec,2019
Thank you for great review.

10/10 Excellent

Sarah

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Loved this place; fantastic location, close to restaurants, shops etc but not too noisy. Great hotel for families.
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Everything was amazing here. Close to town villages and all loval dive shops away from the music but also close enough to go down to party awesome place to stay
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Huge amazing pools. Overlooking the ocean with decent snorkeling right off shore. Large modern rooms. Close enough to town but not noisy.
Stayed 6 nights in Feb 2019

10/10 Excellent

Lenny&Shelley, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great staff and food! They responded to all of our requests and got us off to the ferry upon our departure. Chef Jim was very professional and personable! Just on the fringe of the night life of Sairee Beack, one can pull back from most of the noise! Breathtaking views! Our deluxe room was huge!!!
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

אייל

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place with great staff
The staff were extremely nice, they even let us see the room before entering. Be aware to take the pool front rooms or better the regular rooms are currently in construction site.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Ortal

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Beautiful view
We stayed in one of the water front rooms close to the waters edge. Enjoyed our spacious patio and the beautiful view. Room was very nice and the staff was excellent. My favorite hotel so far of my trip through Thailand.
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2018

6/10 Okay

Carmen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Nice location but facilities are not considerate
Staff is friendly, location and the view from the room is great. However, there are some areas which need to be improved: 1) there is no shower curtain, so the whole floor of the bathroom gone wet 2) the toilet flushing system doesn’t work, we have to refill the water tank ourselves every time 3) the water pressure of the shower is quite low, and there was one afternoon that there is no hot water coming out from the shower
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2018

10/10 Excellent

Sean

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Dont Miss this place!
What an amazing hotel! I saw other reviews about construction but there was none on the pool side of the hotel and my family loved every day that we were there! Staff was amazing as well. Great location.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2017

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice hotel, delicious foods, close to the beach.
I like this hotel very much. Excellent management, room and grounds are beautiful. Easy to travel around Koh Tao. The next opportunity I'll visited again.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2017

2/10 Terrible

Amanda

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
CONSTRUCTION!! DO NOT STAY IN STANDARD ROOM
I really wish I would have read the review two below this one. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE BOOK A STANDARD ROOM. You will regret it and can easily find something cheaper the day you arrive and not in a construction site. I really have no idea how they are able to rent these rooms out while the area is in such bad condition. I fell down a set of stairs that they had quickly setup to be able to access the room. This was the first night I was in Koh Tao and almost had to get stitches from it. The worst part about the whole thing is that they didn't even offer to upgrade the room when it was clear that they had ample amount of rooms near the pool that were vacant and we had booked on hotels.com for more expensive then they were actually renting the rooms out. Everything about this experience was so bad. I would just avoid staying at this hotel in general unless you can get a pool view then maybe. I would never recommend them to a friend traveling to Thailand.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2017

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Book the new area not the old rooms
The new rooms are fabulous but expensive!! Do NOT book the standard room because they don't look like the picture and your out in a construction site. Our room was dirty and we ended up having to pay full price to upgrade rooms and it was much better. But was not happy at all with the first room. Stained sheets, towels, and nasty pillows.

2/10 Terrible

dz, New York, NY

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Under Construction
This place is under construction. I'm not talking about hammers. I'm talking bulldozers and mud and not being able to get to your door.

8/10 Good

John

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Nice room but too much construction work
Location great, room good/average & reception/people are fine. Too much construction happening for our liking, you have to walk up a big mud/dirt hill to get to your room as this is where the building work is happening however price fair for the room & you can't really hear much going on in the room anyway. There's a pool you can use too which was a bonus.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Good location, get what you pay for.
Big mistake choosing a fan room, too sweaty at all hours. Bed sheets weren't that clean on arrival, didn't get better after room cleaning. Duvet/blanket was a rough bath towel. Apart from that, we had a nice stay. Great location, 3 minute walk from beach and bars. Friendly reception staff. Would go again if we could book aircon.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Construction (Aug 2016)
Last year I stayed here and was very good but now is under construction (noisy).august 2016 . Location is fabulous.

8/10 Good

sara, Exmouth

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good overall unless you like to sleep till late
Good location, only 15 minutes from the pier and close to the beach and restaurants. Confortable beds but awful towels, Wifi not great on and off all the time, cleaners start brooming outside at 7 in the morning and talk very loud but at 8 they stop and then you can go back to sleep :( ...but good for the price you pay

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

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

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good hotel for the price
The room was clean and really enjoyable for the price. Although, the rooms are surrounded by construction areas, which unfortunatly wake us up at 8h00 AM every days.

8/10 Good

danielle, Toronto

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Basic clean cool room
Room is basic but clean and very cool for a fan room, I don't know how they keep it so cool without a.c. but they do.

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Friendly but not comfortable
Staff very friendly rooms not so great bed sheets were dirty, fan was quiet noisey and cockerels shouting as a wake up call could do without,location was good close to restaurants and pubs and beach was a minutes walk away

10/10 Excellent

saoirse

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The stay here was lovely for the price. The showers were cold but that is very common in thailand amoung hotels. The woman at reception was very helpful with any questions we had about the area and organised taxis for us. Overall for the price you can't fault it.

10/10 Excellent

lea, uk

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
simple but perfect
great beach and excellent night life

8/10 Good

Ramon, Utrecht

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Toplocatie, mooi uitzicht. Accommodatie wel verouderd
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

Victor

Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Juanita

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2023

6/10 Okay

Peter

Travelled with partner
Voor 100 euro per nacht exclusief ontbijt viel het een beetje tegen. Het uitzicht was schitterend vanaf ons balkon. In de avond tot laat in de nacht harde muziek vanaf Sairee Beach. Voor Thaise begrippen was dit een duur hotel maar wel gedateerd.
Stayed 7 nights in Oct 2023

6/10 Okay

julie, JOUY LE MOUTIER

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2023
Response from Hansa on 9 Jul,2023
Thank you for your great review.

6/10 Okay

James Chih Min

Travelled with group
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Needs new towels
The hotel location is good. My room has a great view, however the towels are very old and don’t seem clean. The cotton slipper provided seem used.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023

6/10 Okay

Jaakko

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Francis

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
La Plus belle endroit de koh tao tres bien placer personnel au topp merci pour tout
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2023
Response from Haymar on 19 Feb,2023
Thank you for great review.

10/10 Excellent

Henrique

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2022
Response from Haymar on 27 Nov,2022
Thank you for the great reviews

10/10 Excellent

Patrik

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Sehr freundliches Personal, Saubere Zimmer, Schöne anlage Top Roomservice -Internet Zugang etwas mühsam
Stayed 7 nights in May 2022
Response from Haymar on 19 May,2022
Thank you for great review.

6/10 Okay

miwa

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
オーシャンビューにグレードアップしてもらったが、コネクティングルームの隣部屋の音が気になった。
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2021

6/10 Okay

Gaia

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Room comfort
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2019

8/10 Good

Laurent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Snorkeling
Very nice hotel by the beach. They have a nice pool aswell
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Benoit

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice comfortable hotel close to the Sairee Beach
Very comfortable and clean room directly access to the swimming pool. Amazing breakfast with choice between Thaï and Continental food. Possibility to participate to cooking lesson. Pay attention to the cutting stones on the beach of the hotel, better to go little bit far away on Sairee Beach.
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2019