Sabai Lodge

[bongoz]

Stayed there once once and will stay abain a good hotel and good location

[gaprau25]

Sabai Lodge looks nice, although never stayed there. Sabai Inn was pretty dark, dank and musty. The bathroom was pretty horrid and the bed was the worst I've had in Pattaya. Stayed one night then moved to the BJ Holiday Lodge on Soi 3. The staff at Sabai, however, were fantastic. Loved 'em.

[bongoz]

been to the sabai lodge its the best

[17hrs2freedom]

Yes, I stayed in the Sabai Wing last week. I wanted to spoil myself a little, and booked one of the "Sunset suites" for two nights at a list price of 2500 per night, ( I think), they got back to me and offered the room for 1750.... so good deal there.

On arrival I was impressed with the courteous welcome, and the room was excellent. It just wasn't their fault that some bastard had built an even taller hotel between the room and the sunset... nor was it their fault that someone was using a piledriver to excavate the foundations of an even newer building project next door (TIT).

The double glazing was top class, and even the pile driver hardly bothered me in the mornings. ( Very minor problem compared with staying in a room above Angels Disco in Nana hotel!)

The room was spotless, as was the bathroom and shower stall. As to the local water, I would never drink tapwater in Thailand, ( hell, I avoid it at home!), They provide bottled drinking water free of charge.

I cannot speak for Wi Fi availability in the rooms, But frankly, even if I posessed a laptop, I know I'd have better things to do in Pattaya than lurk in my room and get webbed up.

The pool isn't vast, but very pleasant, and the bar is efficient.

Room service isn't 24 hr, but the front desk were happy enough to order me a pizza at 02.45.

I will definatly stay there again.

 

 

did you hide your laptop in your suitcase and lock it, or just leave it in the room for staff to see? i never brought a laptop to TH and a little skiddish, but it sounds like it won't be a problem.

 

thanks in advance.

[Captain Murgatroyd]

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[muffaslut]

 

Now lets be clear abut the Sabai Lodge hotel, because you all seem confused.

 

If you stay at the sabai lodge, the following things will definately happen.

 

1. You will get food poisoning.

2. Any girls you take back will develop gonnoreah from the filthy bedsheets.

3. You WILL get AIDS from the mean receptionists.

4. The gang of hairy katoeys will break into your room and gang bang your little bottom till you bleed.

5. Your knob will go green after two days.

6. The police will plant a kilo of heroin in your room, bust you, and demand a million baht in compensation.

7. Gary Gliiter will be your room mate.

8. The cops will think you are Gary Glitter.

9. The staff will steal all your cash from yoir safe.

10. Your credits cards will be cloned.

 

 

I hope I make myself clear. Now fuck off you cunts and find another hotel, this one has got far too crowded over the last 8 years, and I like having my bottom reamed by the katoey gang.

 

Fond Regards

Muffaslut.-Defiling Thai Pussy for 30 years.

Edited December 9, 2007 by muffaslut

[Camray]

Muffaslut's post convinced me, Sabai Lodge for me. Thanks guys for all the information.

[Captain Murgatroyd]

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[Jeremia]

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Well bumped Murg....am staying there again.....in two weeks time .... yeeeehaw!!

[Captain Murgatroyd]

SABAI WING

I think it's fair to add to my previous trip report on this excellent hotel.

I stayed for a week over The New year this year... and for the first time I encountered a few problems...

Not massive problems... but I thought it fair to mention them.

1/ Laptop : I have a 15" laptop, and for the first time, bought it on holiday with me... It wouldn't fit into the room safe... almost, but not quite... Also the wifi definately does not work in the room... to access the hotel network, you have to take it downstairs and use it in the lobby by the pool table. Even there, their internet access is intermittant, and has a tendency to either be unobtainable, or go down halfway through your session... (But I understand that this is symptomatic of all access in LOS)

 

2/ View and noise : The Sabai wing is built in a horseshoe shape, with the open end facing the bay. Previously the rooms at the open end of the horseshoe, had beautiful views of the setting sun, and the bay...

Unfortunately a new hotel is being built about 75 yards away which, when compleated, cut off the view of the sunset and the bay completely, and will markedly reduce the sunlight on the pool area during the afternoon. There was a lot of noise starting at about 07.00, until about 20.00. One morning, some enterprising construction worker started hitting a flat sheet of metal wirh a sledgehammer, for no other apparant purpose than to wake the surrounding farang toutists... which he must have achieved over something up to a half mile radius... I watched him through binoculors, and there truely seemed no purpose to this excercise other than producing noise.

 

3/ laundry : As is my wont, I put a selection of laundry in to the hotel on arrival. One item was a nice linen suit, that I was rather proud of, but wrinkles like hell whenever it gets packed. This is an expensive garment. When the laundry came back... the suit did not. When I asked about it, I encountered what can best be described as the Thai runaround : I was first told : Yes sir you have suit back with other laundry... I said that this was not the case... Then I was told : It will be back tomorrow sir, Dry clean take longer. It wasn't. The next day I was told : Not our fault sir .. up to laundry.. I said that I had given them the suit, and it was their job to get it back from the laundry, not mine... another day passed.

It was now the 4th day, and I only had another three days before I was booking out. I had to deal properly with the matter, or run the risk of never seeing my suit again. My first task was to obtain documentary evidence that they had taken my suit for laundry. I went down to reception first thing in the morning, where I encountered a receptionist that I had not discoussed the matter with before... I asked her to check my file as I needed to cash a travellers cheque to pay for room service, mini bar, laundry etc... as she was reviewing the accumulated charges, I asked to see the blue copy of my laundry sheet. There it was : 1 suit for dry cleaning. I asked for a photocopy of this recipt, No Problem sir,was the ever smiling response,, and thus armed with proof that they had recieved my suit, I asked when it would be back... she went and made a phone call, and returned slightly less full of smiles... "Suit be back tomorrow sir... dry clean take longer, and hab Buddha holiday, so 1 day longer than usual..." Now I knew that new year's day didn't exactly qualify as a Buddha holiday... but this was an excercise in face saving, so I let it go... I had made a phone call to my credit card company, and explained the situation, and told them that if the suit had been lost, and was not returned, I would not be paying the hotel bill that had been "Blocked" onto the card, as the cost of the suit exceeded the cost of my weeks stay it the hotel... after some (rather expensive) delay, they confirmed that they would only authorise the bill If I spoke to them again and specifically told them to allow my card to be charged. Cost of call ... about 30.00 GBP. Only on the next day was the suit finally located and returned... so I then had to make another expensive call re-authorising the charge on my card...

 

4/ Shower : Whilst having a shower, I placed my soap in the soap dish attatched to the shower unit. As I did so the whole unit came away from the wall. On closer inspection the whole shower was attatched and depended on one screw... the shower unit was chromed and rust proff... not so the single screw which had rusted away to nothing... How Typically Thai not to go the extra expense of a steel screw... when maintanance came and fixed it I made note of the screw he used to repair it with : Yep, sure enough, another iron screw...

 

5/ Bed : THe first night I was extremely uncomfortable in bed... It seemed that springs were poking me and the mattress couver was paper thin...

The following morning, I checked it out, (not having wanted to wake up my sleeping tiilak the night before). I discouvered that the mattress was upside down,,, and that this matress was definately not a reversable mattress... after turning it over, and revealing an unsightly stain, I asked for , and got a replacement mattress. This was fine, and we enjoyed a comfortable nights sleep thereafter, (Until the construction workers got started at about 07.00).

 

 

Apart from these issues the hotel was, as usual, welcoming and accomodating. I was staying with my (Thai) wife to be who was made as welcome as I was... no sniffyness there. The hotel is Girl Friendly, and makes no charge for people who bring a lady back to share their room for the night... (assuming a double room has been booked). Rumor has it that you may be charged if you bring more than one girl back with you... ( So don't be greedy )

All things considered, I will stay again, and the rooms at the end of the horseshoe are still worth the extra expense as they are considerably larger, and the balcony has a full sun-lounger on it as well as table and chairs. ( These rooms are described as "Sunset Rooms", a name that they might consider changing to "De-luxe", as the sunset will soon be unavailable, obscured by the newly constructed building). I was annoyed by the business with the suit... but it was purely a face saving excercise, and I know the rules to that game, I didn't get cross, or put any single individual on the spot over the issue... and thus the matter was brought to a sucessfull conclusion... with everyone blaming the (faceless) laundry for the temporary disapearance of the suit.

 

To the sun worshippers amounst us... the new construction will be a big issue in the long run, but as I am a shade seeker, it suits me down to the ground... or will as soon as the construction and early morning noise is finished.

Murg

[shuten]

thanks for everyone's reviews. it helps to make a hotel decision

[Captain Murgatroyd]

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[Guest Q]

Just a note about laundry if you are in the SL. I never used it and neither do my mates.

 

We use the laudry underneath my condo here in soi2. To get to it come out the soi 2 exit from the SL and turn towards the beach and about 100 yards down the road on the right opposite the entrance to the A-one hotel you will find a wee cafe/laundry/convenience shop. The lady that owns it is called Porn and is very helpfull. I have never lost a single item in the 5 years i have been using it and my good lady says "she very good laundry" and she is fussy as when we lived in pattayaklang, we did have a laundry in our condo but she hated it and used to use one down walking st!!!!

 

The food is also great in here as we use it nearly every day.

[Guest dozy2891]

I love this hotel. The staff are really friendly. good location too

[sticks]

Hi all, ive booked this hotel for my first trip in august.

I'm staying in the sabai wing. standard room, was quoted 1100 bhat. Is that a good price for this room?

cheers, sticks.

Edited May 9, 2009 by sticks

[NOKSUKOU]

by show up without any reservation will the price be cheaper or higher or the same ?

 

greetings

[jökke85]

for me it´s have been same. Sabai lodge is very good place. nice pool´s and rooms are clean. all things is near by, big-c, laundry sevice, good bars and taxi´s go all the time in soi 2