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[flamme]

I will be in Pattaya next week. I am looking hotel and can not decide it.
I found two hotel like April Suites and August Suites. They have great price and location.
They are girl friendly?
Which one is best or do u have any recommendation for hotel?
My budget is 50-55$ per night. Also I am looking girl friendly hotel and good location hotel.

Thanks.

[fostraswift]

they are definatly girl friendly
august has bigger rooms, april is just as good but the rooms a a bit smaller
both are in an excellent location

[findybear]

The budget is a bit tight for August Suites. Similar good rooms but without pool you can find in Citin Loft for roughly 1000THB.

[Lucky Misfit]

Both are excellent hotels and are recommended.

My preference would be August Suites as I don't like walking up the side street leading to April Suites late at night. There was no street lighting their, and it can be quiet late at night.

Also consider Areca Lodge, I stayed there in May for 1,600 Baht (€40) including breakfast a night.

[asiancup]

Stayed at August suites and went for a look at April suites only
August suites bigger and nicer pool and gym
Better location but I do believe you can walk through
August Suites to get to and from April Suites.
April suites newer rooms but much smaller lobby
Cant beat August Suites location for mine.

[JIMMY OMEARA DUBLIN6W]

August Suites is much better than April Suites but its does cost a bit more, the walls are thin in April suites so you can hear whoever is in the next room and the house keeping phone on the floors seems to ring non stop in the mornings, August has much bigger swimming pool and gym as well if thats your thing. For me i would rate August Suites a 9/10 and April a 7/10.

[adamo]

I stayed five times in August Suites (and tried many other hotels in Pattaya). August Suites is superb, hard to find a better one in that price range. I also had a look at the roomes in Aprils Suites. August Suites is the much better choice.

[bighoppy]

August suites for me, bigger rooms and a much better pool.

[flamme]

Thanks guys for your comment.
I think I will choose August Suites.

Cheers

[Pinkplayer]

How much per night now for August Suites ?

[808pizza]

I stayed at the April Suites last Dec for 15 days. I had a nice room on the 6 th floor. Good location as it is set back off the road so it is very quiet. The best asset this place has is it's staff. Everyone was wonderful and could not be more helpful. Always smiling and no attitudes. The woman who worked at the rooftop pool was tremendous. Her husband worked at the front desk. Both of them were a great part of the place.

The room was new and very clean. It was certainly enough space for me. I did have a couple of issues with the hotel that I feel we're petty on their part for either not providing or not addressing. One issue is there was no fan in the room. No ceiling fan or oscillating fan. So it was either the A/C or the heat of the open balcony door. There was no DVD player. I asked about it and they said one was available for 300 baht per week. I got it but was not happy to pay extra for it. I just left the Queen Vic and they had everything in their rooms for less money.

The shower stall was small and configured in such a way that while showering, when I turned around to rinse off I would bump the water shutoff and change the temperature of the water usually making me freeze or get burnt.

Also in the bathroom there were the little bottles with the shampoo, conditioner, shower gel and body lotion, but they had no small bar of soap to just wash your hands, a small item but still an item that I thought they were skimping on especially since every hotel I've ever stayed in had them.

There were a couple of other small items like that that just seemed to be lacking like I had to ask the front desk to bring me a coffee maker to heat hot water for my tea, no charge for that, but still had to ask.

Nice place but for the money I'm trying somewhere else this year. I was thinking the August suites as the location is great. Yes they were very guest friendly and took Id's from the girls. Had no problems.

So all in all, stay at the August Suites or one of the many other places available in Patts.

[horsebreaker]

i stayed in twin palms on beach road, beautifull quiet nice pool, central to everything and def girl friendly.

[pommie rascal]

mate look at areca lodge near lk metro in soi diana, i have stayed 3 times, 2 pools 1 big one no problem getting a sun lounger, cleaned every day ,good staff, great location, i cant speak highly enough of the place, you should definatly give it a try, it gets a really high rating on trip adviser too.

[rickyt]

Nice hotels, stayed at April Suites very nice, Hotel
but to be Honest there is better value to be found,

[eduj]

I visited both hotels in may and really liked both of them. But if i had to choose, i would take August Suites. Has everything bigger and bed is huge there:).....

[findybear]

I visited both hotels in may and really liked both of them. But if i had to choose, i would take August Suites. Has everything bigger and bed is huge there:).....

Yes that is true. I did stay 5 times in August Suites and I liked it there very much. It started to be very popular and so the price went up. Last time I was in november 2011 there for 1499THB/night city view room. In may 2012 they wanted 1700THB/night which was too much for me.

Honestly 1550THB/night for April is not really a hot deal, just add up 150THB and you get the August Suites.

But on the other side I would always recommend August Suites, as the service is good.

[Uncle Stumpy]

Is it a good area around august Suites? Plenty of places to eat, massage etc or do you need to travel to Buakhao?

Thanks.

[findybear]

Is it a good area around august Suites? Plenty of places to eat, massage etc or do you need to travel to Buakhao?

Yes. It is situated on the Central Road (Klang). In 2 minutes you are on the crosssection to the second road (Baht Taxi). You reach Soi Buakhao by crossing the road.

[Uncle Stumpy]

Thanks findybear. have you stayed there, is it quiet, I am a light sleeper.

[findybear]

I am a light sleeper.

Me too. It is quiet and the walls are strong enough, so that you can hardly hear your neighbours. But at the moment there is a construction towards the "city view" rooms. The pool view room is definitely the best choice.

[whitespider]

Good info guys, especially about the walls at April Suites.

It seems that August Suites is winning hands down although that does surprise me a little as April Suites is the most booked hotel by Addicts on Agoda.

For a quick plug please remember that if you book either through our Agoda account we (Addicts) get paid and we need all the support we can get. Our links are below

April Suites - http://www.agoda.com...es_pattaya.html

August Suites - http://www.agoda.com...es_pattaya.html

[findybear]

Good info guys, especially about the walls at April Suites.

Well, maybe the walls in April Suites are still better than in the [url="http://www.resort-pattaya.net"]Pattaya Bay Resort[/url] 5555

[quietguy77]

, the walls are thin in April suites so you can hear whoever is in the next room

Good info guys, especially about the walls at April Suites.

Well, maybe the walls in April Suites are still better than in the [url="http://www.resort-pattaya.net"]Pattaya Bay Resort[/url] 5555

I stayed in April Suites for 3 weeks in February. I didn't hear anything at all from adjacent rooms. Perhaps i was lucky with my neighbours. It is a very quiet location. I had a Deluxe Room which was big enough.
The rooftop pool is small but nice, and I didn't get biiten by those little bitey black flies that usually attack me at pools at ground level. I thought it was a good hotel and easy to get to anywhere on the Baht Buses.

[shrimp.mcfc]

The budget is a bit tight for August Suites. Similar good rooms but without pool you can find in Citin Loft for roughly 1000THB.

actually citin loft does have a pool , it has an indoor pool near reception i stayed there last year and there are 3 pictures of it on the link you posted

Edited by shrimp.mcfc, 11 July 2012 - 08:28 PM.

[findybear]

... there are 3 pictures of it on the link you posted

Yes Citin Loft has a indoor pool. But at the time I was there (the time when @flamme wanted to stay in Pattaya) the pool was closed for renovation. Maybe it is opened right now, but I do not know that.