Hotels near Wat Tham Trai Rat (Magic Cave land), Pak Chong

I was here for a few days. It’s quite a lovely place and the facility and the staff are great. Just a few things to be aware of when choosing to book here: The rooms are spacious. Mattress is medium soft/hard. The buffet breakfast is plentiful and well serviced but it’s quite limited after a few days. The pool area is lovely as is the garden area but it needs updating. I’d advise you to check your room for hot water and mold before you settle in. The room safes are not secured to the wall so someone could, technically, take it out of the room and break open. My room, A318, had no hot water at all. I did talk to the desk staff about it and they tried to get it fixed eventually telling me it was fixed but it was always cold. I don’t need or expect hot water in Asia (I live in Thailand) but cold water kinda sucks in a shower. They offered to move me to a different room but I declined. There were spotty areas of mold in my room - be careful of that too. The hotel is a bit tired, especially the grounds and some of the furnishings and fixtures - it could all use a facelift and refresh. I did enjoy my time here and will consider returning but I will definitely be more careful about the room. They have a published water conservation policy posted in the rooms but it’s not followed at all. As per the policy, I hung my towels on the rack so they wouldn’t be washed. I came back and had new towels. When I informed them of the hot water situation they told me the engineer said to run the shower water for 10 minutes to get it hot. Odd? You betcha! So much for conservation and environmental awareness. Nonetheless, it’s good medium priced small hotel worth giving a try.

In Khao Yai there are three types of hotels: 1) Many quite local, inexpensive hotels of varying quality that cost ~B1000 (in other, non-touristy locations, these hotels would be B500-B600). 2) A few very fancy and quite expensive hotels. 3) A few hotels in the middle - nicer than #1, and less expensive than #2. Fortune fits into this nice middle category. We enjoyed our stay at Fortune, but it is quite expensive for what they provide. The Beds were quite nice (i.e. soft yet supportive) for this big Farang, and for that one big reason we paid the higher price. The room was OK, but nothing fancy. The included breakfast was quite basic, but edible. We choice to skip the breakfast after the first morning. While the gentleman at the front desk is *quite* helpful and responsive, and the rest of the staff do their jobs, there could be more attention paid to making sure things are done well. For instance, our bath mat was pretty disgusting and when we left it on the floor to be changed, the maids just hung it back up. Broadly, Fortune could invest in some maintenance. Visitors should seek discounts, either on-line or in-person when they arrive.

A small hotel On Thanarat Road At a little price While other hotels in that area, the price per night is more than three thousand baht or more. Let's see the advantages of this hotel. 1. The price per night is not expensive 2. On Thanarat Road and in the middle of many tourist attractions. Many restaurants on Thanarat Road 3. Smiling staff, good talk, good service 4. There is a strong wifi, good signal 5. There is a swimming pool. (Not a swimming pool) 6. Have breakfast 7. The bathroom has a clean shower hose with warm water as well. 8. There is not much parking, but can park outside the hotel fence under the Big wood 9. Value for money at the price.

The hotel is built on a large area and has a very interesting architecture. You enter through the parking garage, upstairs is a friendly reception. The room numbers are confusing, it takes some time to understand the system. The room is nice and big with an extra sofa, a balcony, a modern trendy bathroom with bath and there is a fridge. One side of the bed has no nightstand. At the end of the area is the restaurant and the swimming pool. The pool is very big and circles around a central area. It is 1.20m deep. It is very quiet (aside from loud guests from time to time) and there are many places to sit, lie and relax. The restaurant has a great menu of Thai and western dishes. The food is very good and the prices are reasonable. The steak was great and the pizza also nice and thin with good topping. Service is with attention to detail. So far so good. Back in the room, wanting to relax a bit with the remainder of the wine we were exposed to the thumping bass of music from a party at least 100 meters away. Extremely irritating to a point that I had to leave the room and go for a walk. The noise came from a small restaurant on the main road with just a few visitors. It could be heard hundreds of meters down the road and also in the pool area. No escape. I don’t directly blame the hotel for this, but they should contact their neighbors and ask for some consideration. At half the volume it is still more than loud enough for the dancers. It went on till well after 10 pm. After that you can hear some traffic, so I would recommend to ask for a room farther from the road, the second building row. A place where I have to leave my room cannot score high on my come-back list. Unless of course the issue is solved. What a pity that in such a nice place the fun of a small group can affect the guests of 72 rooms in this hotel alone.

Hotel is beautiful with unique Thai ‘Esan’ concept. Great services, Check in/out is very fast, breakfast is very good with Thai ‘esan’ food style. Hotel location is good near main road and close to many restaurants.

Excellent hotel with friendly staffs, good breakfast as well, this hotel has got beautiful landscape, and nice environment, will definitely come back again to stay here. In Khao Yai this is one of the affordable hotel to stay for few nights without burning your wallets 😊

Beautiful setting. We booked the room with the upper floor, all nice and well-equipped with everything we need for our stay. Staff were friendly and helpful. Few points that we think the resort could take into their account to improve. 1. The pool area is really nice, except the beach bar and their music choices. I think they are trying to make it look like a fun beach bar but instead, look very cheap and out of the setting. Their music playlist is a crime. There were about 10 songs and they kept playing in the loop. If you cannot put together some nice and chill playlist (all covered song, not even the real artists), rather just don't play it at all. 2. Towels were run out at the pool area, we had to ask 3 times (within 1.5 hour) to get towels. There were no other guests at the pool area….just two of us. Not sure why they took so much time to get towels…. In my opinion, whoever responsible for the pool area should take more attention to improve it. 3. The seating in the room’s balcony had lots of dust.

Back in its heyday this place must have been the Francophile owner’s Versailles, even today it looks grand despite the crumbling buildings, potholed roads, and overgrown garden. Highly recommend to stay at the new residences wing at the back, which are very new. It’s a short walk to the open air breakfast area. The main resort buildings are in a pitiful state and seem to have squatters in them, seeing from the laundry hung outside. We stayed in a one bedroom apartment complete with kitchen & living room in the Bellevue building, which was really nice & big. Only complaint was the phone in the deserted lobby kept ringing non-stop until I took matters in my own hands and took the receiver off the line. Later someone put the receiver back and it started ringing again, this time I unplugged the line but discreetly left it under the phone so no one can tell.

I stayed for 3 nights. The room was a garden view villa overlooking the mountain and green country side. IT was so quiet and peaceful. A nice change from busy Bangkok. The room was very comfortable and clean. However, the bathroom was very dark even with the blinds open. It needs much better lighting in the bathroom. The towels were a bit old end should be replaced. Meals in the restaurant were okay but the staff seemed not too interested. English was a problem but I am used to that. I will most certainly stay again when I need to chill out and get way from Bangkok. I want to mention Khun Gift at the front reception. She was very pleasant and did an great job to welcome us. She likes her job and is proud to work at The Paz. Thank You Khun Gift.