River Kwai Hotel
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There is a problem with music late at night which makes it difficult to sleep. The air conditioning units are very noisy. A kettle and coffee in the room would be good. W-fi should be automatic. Staff need to have better English.
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Fine
Date: May 01, 2012
written by: Joan Beaumont
River Kwai Hotel
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A big hotel with an even bigger breakfast buffet, good location as close to bus station and railway station
After these two points everything is downhill as far as the hotel goes. First surprise front desk people can hardly say a few words in English. Second surprise free Internet for only 3 hours a day. This was never disclosed by Sawadee nor the hotel and amounts to misrepresentation
Awful hand basin tap which when turned on would spray water all over. Plastic underneath the bed mattress which creaked the whole night long but the paper thin walls and the parties in adjoining rooms BOTH helped in preventing you from sleeping
PLEASE AVOID AT ALL COSTS ? Dirty dilapidated room, torn shower curtain were the other highlights
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You should have made it clear that Internet was NOT free and that there was a charge after 3 hours. Please investigate your facts thoroughly before you state them Partially stating facts can amount to misrepresentation nevertheless
Date: Feb 12, 2012
written by: Sultan H Merchant
River Kwai Hotel
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is very good, the resteurant cow boys is very very good
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ok
Date: Dec 06, 2011
written by: Terrile Piero
River Kwai Hotel
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Be careful to some rooms which are located just above the main karaoke in town ! Because if you are in one of these rooms, you can not sleep because the sound is really too strong... I have admit that some voices are not pleasant to hear ^ ^
But a very good hotel overall. Breakfast buffet plentiful, many choices.
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very satisfied of sawadee !
Date: Aug 02, 2011
written by: ORVAIN VINCENT
River Kwai Hotel
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Gammalt och slitet hotell med mager frukostbuffe och ett tradlost internet som inte fungerade.
Pa plussidan ar att det ligger valdigt centralt och har en bra restaurang pa utsidan om hotellet och ett diskotek om man gillar att dansa.
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Bra websida att boka hotell i Thailand pa.
Date: Jul 13, 2011
written by: Ulf
River Kwai Hotel
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Hotel is not what I expected. Rooms and hotel in very poor condition.
Would not reccomend this hotel to any one.
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excellent as always
Date: Jul 10, 2011
written by: Les Horsford
River Kwai Hotel
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Loved the city, people, and the hotel.I would go back again. Pool was nice, morning buffet was excellent. Room was cleaned daily. All in all I was pleased.
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The booking service was on spot. No problems.
Date: Jun 22, 2011
written by: Ronald Richmond
River Kwai Hotel
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Old rustic charms! Translates into: Broken almirah door (I have photos), Torn curtains, worn carpets, wash basing tap spilling water on you. However, great location being very close to and in between the railway station, bus stand, night market, war cemetery and River Kwai death railway bridge. Coffee machine with coffee/tea sachets is a standard service these days but not at this hotel. Despite written confirmation by Sawadee, they refused to provide the coffee maker, though they provided free hot water in thermos. Fairly good services including free wi-fi, swimming pool and gym. great interiors and collection of nice paintings and murals are over once you leave the reception area. The themed bar with live Rodeo music seemed nice as I did not use the services. Breakfast was average. If you want to connect to history, its nice. Howeevr if you prefer nice maintenance, young courteous staff and standard services, go for a newly constructed hotel. However the hotel did not honour the promise of providing water heater/ coffee maker.
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Booking was smooth and even considered my request for change in dates and promptly provided the revised confirmation voucher.
Date: Apr 18, 2011
written by: Sudershan Singh Gusain
River Kwai Hotel
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The hotel location is in the city (not near the bridge). the rooms are very big. The hotel did not have available room for us when we arrived (late). They wanted to upgrade with no charge but only for 1 night out of 3. (We did not want to change room and they did not accept to give us 3 night upgrade so they gave us room with air-condition problem and flush problem in the toilet. Breakfast was very good
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the hotel did not keep a room for us
Date: Mar 19, 2011
written by: Dr. Abed Yosef
River Kwai Hotel
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It s a good bargain for money. But the disco on the 1st floor is quite noisy till mid-nite if your room facing the street.
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Speedy and good. Got confirmation within 2 hours
Date: Feb 22, 2011
written by: Hao Ning Chang
River Kwai Hotel
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Have stayed here before, poolside bar would benefit from a better beer fridge.
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Date: Feb 20, 2011
written by: Neil Sandilands
River Kwai Hotel
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Excellent service from all staff. Room looked a little tired but very good value for money. Good menu and food quality was excellent. Location is a tuk-tuk ride away from the tourist part of town on a busy road but does not suffer from traffic noise.
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Used Sawadee several times before. Always good service. Highly recommended.
Date: Mar 11, 2011
written by: David Alfred White
River Kwai Hotel
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The Hotel was dirty old and very dated. Carpets grubby, everything very tatty and in desperate need of refurbishment. Breakfast not worth bothering about. The worst was the late night music and dreadful vocal accompanyment till 2am. We shall definately not be staying there again.
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Very good as usual.
Date: Dec 31, 2010
written by: Christopher Leo Sweeney
River Kwai Hotel
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Nice Hotel.
Staffs are helpful, especially the parking crew who would greet and chat about our activities.
Should have more informations on festivities, e.g. where and when are the celebrations.
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Great. No problems.
Date: Nov 27, 2010
written by: Lim Tow Heng
River Kwai Hotel
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- Rooms are a bit outdated.
+ Very friendly staff. Made us feel very welcome and did everything to make our stay comfortable.
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Date: Nov 15, 2010
written by: Jasper
River Kwai Hotel
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The hotel looked promising when we went in and staff were efficient. The main part of our room was fine, but the bathroom was a bit dilapidated both decoration wise and there were a few broken tiles and some mould on the walls with some frayed old paintwork. In their favour they do appear to be doing up the rooms bit by bit. Staff were very nice and helpful. There were no internet services after 11pm as their cafe closed around that time, but they do have free wifi if you have your own computer.
The hotel is about 5km from the bridge, but handy for the food market every night which is well worth a visit and things like the bus station and the TAT office.
The breakfast wasn t up to much, although there was a lot of choice the quality was not great, although not appalling.
The main problem was on our second night at 1.20am we awoke to the sound of running water and it was literally raining in our bathroom. This was interesting, as it wasn t raining outside! 3 people came from reception who didnt really speak much english but who were terribly concerned. They bought a technician who declared that the problem couldn t be fixed. The manager was very willing to please and relocated us in a better grade room. He also allowed us to leave our belongings in the rainy room, so we could tidy up in the morning. Unfortunately the better grade room, while it looked very nice, smelled very peculiar and one of us had a damp bed. So the next morning we requested to change again and were given a room that was the same as the rainy room, but luckily minus the rainy bathroom! Again the bathroom was a bit worse for wear but much better than our first one.
All in all it didn t get in the way of our enjoying Kanchanaburi but I would recommend that you have a look at the room before you take it.
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Date: Nov 09, 2010
written by: Taya Bose/Victoria Rhodes
River Kwai Hotel
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The place to go in Kanchanaburi. Real value for the money. My wife and myself came here several times.
When we arrived a double bed room was ready while we asked for twin bed.However we could change.
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Date: Oct 28, 2010
written by: Werner Schittenhelm
River Kwai Hotel
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The hotel is excellent value for money and the restaurant provides delicious and inexpensive food. The hotel staff were very friendly and efficient. The hotel is a little worn and shabby e.g. carpets, fittings etc and it would be nice to have tea and coffee making facilities in the room. The hotel is only a short distance to one of the war cemeteries and the excellent Thai - Burma Railway museum across from the cemetery.
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Date: Oct 17, 2010
written by: Jennifer Valmai McKay
River Kwai Hotel
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I really liked my stay at your hotel the staff was very nice and helpfull I really enjoyed it and also I liked the swimmingpool.
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really handy to use
Date: Sep 04, 2010
written by: Jeroen Cote
River Kwai Hotel
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quick check in, rooms were a bit dirty not a ideal location or not the best place we stayed on our thailand trip.
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excellent
Date: Aug 26, 2010
written by: Doug Hunter
River Kwai Hotel
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Everytime we come here we enjoy this hotel. Very good price, great breakfast, WIFI very fast and free of charge. Great entertainment outside in the evening.We certaily come back again.
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Date: Aug 09, 2010
written by: Werner Schittenhelm
River Kwai Hotel
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Reasonable standard. WiFi collapsed for most of a day when I had started to book another place; kept saying would be fixed in 2 hours, one hour more etc. Breakfast O.K. Room reasonable size. WiFi is free for 1 hour per day. Staff are very nice.
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always worked great to date.
Date: Jul 25, 2010
written by: Graham Morgan
River Kwai Hotel
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I was treated truly as a guest, the accommodation was very good, good value for money and the staff were very helpful. I will certainly use this hotel again.
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Excellent and very helpful.
Date: Jul 12, 2010
written by: AE White
River Kwai Hotel
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Hotel is average but location is good as it is in the town area and close to facilities. Bathrooms need upgrade.
Breakfast spread is fairly good and the staff are friendly and good service.
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Booking confirmation can be improved by immediate confirmation rather than to wait 48 hrs.
Date: Jun 28, 2010
written by: LOH WING YIP
River Kwai Hotel
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Not very good at all. Poor room, unfriendly stall bad location. You can do better for your money closer to river Kwai district.
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Very good.
Date: Jan 24, 2011
written by: Mr L A Murkitt
River Kwai Hotel
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Nice and clean room.
Very good breakfast.
Silent location, not the backpackers ares.
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Date: Nov 23, 2010
written by: Nikita Skvortsov
