Karina A.
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Stayed two nights in Kamandalu. The place itself is perfect for those who’d like to escape the chaos and busy streets. Beautiful hotel with a lot of greenery around. We had booked a garden villa. While the room was very nice, I found it a bit too dark for my liking. As rooms are kind of their own bungalows, not much day light is coming in. Upstairs we had like an open bed where you could lay during the day and enjoy the view, however the whole bed was covered in bird poop by the time we wanted to lay ( not very practical set up in my opinion )
Breakfast was amazing with so many options and coffees, juices, fruits. Egg menu was mind blowing and buffet had many different things for anyone’s tastes.
Staff are friendly and nice but sometimes I felt them being a bit pushy with selling a service, especially when it came to spa. I know that spa is great there but so are the prices which I found quite high. When we just checked in after 3pm on a rainy afternoon, we just couldn’t wait to finally rest in but at the reception they told us that they need more time to prepare the room and would like to give us a 10 min massage ( at the lobby btw ) I wanted to just be in the room after such a long travel and not sit to listen how tense I am and that I need to go and get a full massage…this felt a bit awkward. After that, the room was still not ready so we thought okay let’s get some lunch there. After lunch nobody notified us if the room is ready or not so we had to go and investigate ourselves.
There are not many activities happening other than that. Infinity pool looked a little bit neglected also. They advertise a lot both pools via booking and socials but I was quite disappointed to see how they look….
Location wise you always either need to have a driver or drive yourself as you’re quite far from the city centre. There are several time slots where they bring you to the centre via shuttle bus but if you want to go at the time that suits you best, of course you need to pay extra ;)
Overall it was a nice stay if we don’t go into details but I wouldn’t be back again.