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This is a really beautiful hotel, in an "old colonial" style.  Lovely traditional rooms with dark furniture and individual terraces.  The gardens are wonderful as are the pool areas and the water was a great temperature to swim in.  There are lots of lovely little areas to sit and take your ease and soak up the atmosphere.  The dining room was lovely with plenty of places to sit outside over-looking the pools or the lily pond.  It has the feel of someone's lovely home (which it was).  The only think lacking was the attention to detail on the service.  There did not seem to be a guiding presence on the management side directing the staff.  In fact the impression we got was that the staff were rather demoralised.  Very few people seem to eat or drink in the hotel as it is competing with a lot of excellent offerings in the town a lot of which are, frankly, a lot cheaper.  That said, we did eat in on a couple of nights of our 3 night stay as the setting is so special and the food was good.  Drinks were very expensive though and I do feel that if at least some of the drinks were more reasonably priced a lot more people would stay in and eat and drink.  Lacks the little touches which would raise this hotel above the merely good to the truly excellent.  Come on management - get your act together you have a beautiful property and lovely but demoralised staff.  It didn't help, of course, that we came to Satri House direct from Jaya House River Park in Siem Reap - a hotel that provides a master class in service!