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Dr. Sarath Withanarachchi Samaranayake -
4 years ago
Cathay guest house located on Nipat Utith road in Hatyai, Thailand, is not a convenient place to stay due to several reasons. One is the toilets system where they have squatting pans in bathrooms with a shower fitted up to the forehead level of a person. Elderly visitors cannot use this type of squatting pan. The bathroom and rooms are very old with broken floors. The bathroom is hopeless as far as cleanliness is concerned. Some rooms have no ceiling fans. Instead, there is a pedestal fan. For the whole room, only one plug base is available and there is no any other plug base. A double bed, a small folding table, a plastic chair and a stool, a very old dressing table with a very short improvised towel rack are the only furniture one can find inside the rooms. They provide two towels and a bedsheet. Another most important thing to note here is the Wifi connection of which signals are not strong and during my stay, I experienced several breakdowns of Internet- one day the whole night there was not internet. Good points are also there with this guest house. One is that it is close to the Hatyai railway station and several malls, banks, restaurants and hotels. It maintains a restaurant within the guest house, so visitors can have their meals and drinks at their cost. They provide breakfast and lunch. The staff is friendly and room cleaning is done upon request. The room charges seem reasonable, but they still can provide a better service to the customers. Another important that every visitor to this gust house should remember is that online booking using websites such as Agoada, hotlecom, thee prices shown at the time of booking for the room you have chosen per night may be low for one night. However, you will not get the same price for the second or consecutive nights you expect to stay because they charge their normal price, for example, when you are booking they offer you a room with double bed for 250 Bhat but it’s actual price is 300 Bhat. So, don’t expect the online booking price to be the same for other nights. Given all what has been mentioned above about this guest house, your discretion will be the last.
