Hotels near Wat Pho Si Ban Thon, Khon Kaen

Suitable for personal and transitional stays. The clerk does not understand Chinese and English. I do not recommend the hotel for breakfast. It's better to walk to the nearby 7-11 in about 10 minutes. The water heater needs to be demonstrated by the store clerk before you check in. It cannot be used properly according to the instructions. If it wasn't within walking distance of a close relative's house, I wouldn't choose this place.

I am on way home from visit my wife's family in Kranuan. Need a bed in Khon Kaen 2 nights before early flight to Perth tmro morning. Had a very filling breakfast this morning, just about anything you need, except if you dumb Aussie like me, COFFEE, cereal, fruit yoghurt honey breakfast ... so from 7 11 up the street, I had that stashed in the little room fridge. Snuck it into the restaurant this morning and helped myself to the fantastic service of staff and fresh fruit and COFFEE made a good old mess haha. Once again really good service by staff that should get a pay rise. Even the room cleaning lady was friendly

The bed is comfortable, everything works, access and parking are good, rooms are very clean and well serviced by efficient, helpful and friendly staff. BUT . . . .Funky (though irrelevant) decor can never overcome basic problems with any establishment. There is no possible way this place deserves the high rating received. I was unfortunately forced to extend my stay so can write with some experience. First, the noise: the building has a U-shape design facing the street so it cleverly collects all the street noise and directs it into the front rooms, and what street noise. All night bikes and cars, even loud conversations exacerbated by a further design feature, the balconies, which require opening doors and therefore exclude the possibility of well-sealed windows. Then there is the white tiled floors which carry internal sounds nicely ensuring various knocks, loud TV and cleaning activity are clearly audible. Those same white tiles throughout also ensure plenty of reflected glare from sun and downlights as well. It all probably looked good in the plans! More importantly there is the kitchen, or rather lack of one. How a large modern hotel believes it can operate conveniently for guests without any kitchen or even dining area is a mystery. Again, worsened by the lack of reasonable equipment and utensils in the rooms - no sink, few cutlery/crockery pieces, no microwave which you would think a hotel without a kitchen would provide. Enquiring of desk staff what to do the answer was mostly of a shrugging nature. They didn't say eg that across the road was the hotel Le Cassia with a very pleasant dining area and breakfast for 150 baht. A walk around found some recompense in street food and a couple of fancy restaurants but they were a fair walk and not much good for breakfast. So location, also nah! To go anywhere you need a lengthy walk or a vehicle, and there isn't the ready availability of tuk-tuks or cabs as there is elsewhere. All-in-all this adds up to a pretty poor experience, despite any good points the hotel has, and it does have some as described. Value is just as available in other hotels without the drawbacks. The desk staff could be a little less sullen and more forthcoming also, and have some English - it is the hospitality industry after all. Most of this of course cannot be changed by management but more effort to overcome the problems would go a long way to improvement.

Was shocked when we first entered the room as it was old, unlike the marketing photos that were shown on Agoda and in the hotel. The toilet was also badly infested with cockroaches, we had to kill about 20+ small and medium sized cockroaches over the few nights that we stayed there. The reception staff were also unfriendly. We are very disappointed and do not recommend this hotel.

Great place to stay for a short-term trip in Khon Kaen. Near different street food places. A lot of stray dogs nearby but they aren’t dangerous. Is 10-15 minutes away from central plaza.

Very good hotel at a sensible price. Ate breakfast very nice though getting a milk to go with coffee was difficult.Lots of choice and high quality. Ate at the restaurant for dinner and had steak very delicious and only 1300 baht including vat and service charge. Swam in the pool which is lovely but surprisingly cool maybe because it is on floor 28. I would recommend and stay again. Remember this is a modern concept hotel that traditionalists may not favor. Why the bed base is massively oversized l have no idea.

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The room is clean. It's very big and wide, but the sound of the pub is so loud that until 3 a.m. I still couldn't sleep. Even though we're on the 7th floor.

We stayed at the Mantra Varee for 1 night in May 2019 when visiting the Green Market. We did think that it would be within walking distance to the market but on advice of hotel staff we used a taxi for the short drive! Following a swift check in with the very pleasant staff we were lead to our superior room. Having paid only £16 (with a small promo included) I was instantly surprised at how big it was! In fact every aspect of the room was better than I expected for the price. Stylish decor with a decent bed, shower and wifi. Small negatives would be not a fat lot of storage if staying for more than a couple of days and then there was the bed surround. Looked good but a bit faffy and meant you had to get out of bed twice, visit and you'll see what I mean! On exploring the location of the hotel there's not a great deal in the close proximity. There is a 7-11 roughly 200 yards away and if you walk for 11 minutes you reach the neat little Fairy Mall. We had a mooch here and ate some really decent food in the court. The hotel has a pool and gym, neither of which I got to use but I took a look. The pool was pleasant looking for a quick dip but not really big enough for lengths. The gym was what I would call a token gym ie. small and poorly equipped. We did eat breakfast at the Mantra Varee and I would describe it as very so so. There is very limited choice on offer at the buffet. I had rice soup which was bland and unseasoned. There is a 'nespresso' style machine for coffee with buttons to select all manner of fancy coffees but whatever you press you end up with watery black coffee! I wouldn't choose breakfast as an option unless it was included! On the whole, the Mantra Varee is a good budget choice with an ok location and friendly staff. I would stay here again.

The only thing I would like to criticize is that there are not enough cleaning staff. Everything else is good. The security guards provide excellent service and convenience.