Karon Phunaka Resort

The location was great Great and lovely staff and they were always willing to help The hotel is close to good restaurants and the beach 10-15 min walk (they have a car service to the beach every hour 10am-5pm) The beach near the hotel (Karon beach) is fantastic

We loved Toon who was super friendly and helpful. He was letting us know what's happening in town every day and where we can go and have fun. He was always ready to assist us with getting a taxi or anything we needed. Our housekeeper was always ready to clean our room when we needed it. Most of front office staff were also friendly.

Really nice view from the hotel and swimming pool, which was really good, not big, but enough! Overall the hotel is good, but some reconstruction is needed, a bit old. The room and shower were clean, but didn’t like the bed and pillow, was uncomfortable for me.. breakfast is ok, not too many choices for 4 stars hotel and didn’t change at all for 4 days. Location is ok, but you better to have a bike here, to the beach is about 20-25 min by walk, but there is a transfer every hour. We lived in building 6, almost on the top and it was about 150 high steps to lobby, so be prepared) not recommended to older people and with children. There is golf car transfer inside in hotel, but doesn’t work in rainy day and fully understand why! Good wi fi, towels for the swimming pool and for beach

This is resort is unique and quite an adventure to stay at! We read the reviews about being quite steep and lots of stairs so we were prepared. The kids loved the golf cart rides to the apartment, it was like a roller coaster ride. We were staying on level 7, quite high up so the cart was nearly vertical. This allowed for incredible view over the sea, mountains and big Buddha. Our 2 bedroom apartment was massive with a living room in between and our own spa. The beds were as hard as concrete, we mentioned it to reception and they immediately placed mattress toppers on to the beds which was heaven! The staff here were so lovely, helpful and tried everything to make our stay perfect. Please note that if it is raining the cart does not go above the level the pool is on so you have to walk up lots of steep steps. Didn’t bother us, just a note. Infinity pool was lovely, basic pool bar, breakfast was expensive for what it was so only had it once. Also not the driveway is extremely steep so most vehicles drop you at the bottom of the drive way and you have to walk up. It is located in a residential street area, takes less than 10 mins to walk to shops and about 15 mins to beach (or they have free shuttle every hour). Visit market at temple, Kiri restaurant and Cappadocia Turkish restaurant, wonderful food.

I really liked swimming pool and view from the room. if you take room with sea view you can see the bid Buddha also