i Tara Resort & Spa

Been to this property before many many times. Like the privacy. Food is good.

I could go on for hours about whats wrong now. 1. The names of the rooms are purposely misleading. Having rented the standalone villa on the ACTUAL beachfront before, this is what i wanted. Normal price is around 4k baht+. When I booked the room online i saw only 2 options: A "deluxe sea view", and an "ocean view villa". I booked the "ocean view villa", as there was no other higher option listed and this was 4k+ baht as usual. The room the took me to didn't even have a view of the ocean, and wasn't a "villa". It was a town-house type unit. This is a classic bait and switch technique. Make you think your getting one thing based on description and knowing your 100's of kilometers from Bangkok... have no other option but to accept it. I asked at the counter... "This isn't the room i booked". I booked an ocean view villa." They replied... "No, thats the Beach-front villa" I mentioned "The website had no mention of a higher option and the word "villa" is misleading". Turns out all was full and i paid 8k+ baht for 2 night in a room with no ocean view. 2. When i got to my room, there was already people in there... bags and all. I dont know who let them in, but they were standing there looking at me and asking if I was lost. I showed them my key # and they were in fact in the wrong room, but their key didnt work in the door. How did their bags actually get in the room then?? Someone from the staff must have taken them to the wrong room and put their bags in there. 3. Wanted to swim in the pool around 7pm. I called to the reception and asked what time the pool closed, and he replied back to me "8 pm, but you actually want to swim?". I told him yes but its dark. Instead of replying that he would open it I got 10 seconds of "ummm, uh, ummmm". 4. The beach used to be beautiful.

Very limited facilities: small pool, only few sunbeds and no pool towels offered. Breakfast buffet more adapted to Asian than Western taste.

Nothing

Sea view room cannot see the sea, and the hotel take my Seaview room fee.