Railay Princess Resort and Spa

5 Anthony Huszar - 3 weeks ago

Certainly not a 5* resort, but a solid 3* option if you go in with the right expectations. Rooms are a good size and fairly clean. Service is good, although services a bit limited. Breakfast is average but good enough to fill you in the morning. Location is great, at the west end of Walking Street. 2 decent swimming pools.

One thing to note, which no one seems to mention, is that the hotel provides free parking on the mainland (if you have you own vehicle), and a cheaper 50baht transfer for its guests. Half the price of the public longtails. And this includes getting pulled along by tractor (see photo)

5 H.Y C - 4 months ago

We really loved this hotel! It’s situated in the best location, just next to the pier, and yet not far from the railay beach with just a street away.

The hotel room is nice and clean with a garden view for all those tropical trees ! Monkeys did visit our balcony during one of our stays! There’s no enough lamps in the room so at night it’s quite dark, the only drawback I would say.

In regards of public service, swimming pools are quite nice but seemed a bit dirty. There’s a small workout room but the air-conditioning was broken and we asked them everyday to fix it, they always said yes but nothing happened. Pity for such service. Breakfast was okay. Overall I would recommend this hotel !

1 Maddison Keane - 4 months ago

The place looked amazing and we were greeted with a warm welcome. However when you first walk to the rooms there is a horrible stench which will have you gagging, I’m not sure if it’s the pond of sewers but it makes you feel sick.
The room is really nice super spacious but you will probably struggle to get any sleep due to how noisy it is. The walls are paper thin and kept us up every night.
Moving onto food, I got really ill since staying here so had no energy to go out so we thought we’d eat at the hotel. How bad can hotel food be.. awful it’s absolutely awful . The chicken is just a mixture of god knows what and the fish tasted like it had gone off. Both of us were unable to eat our meals. Thought maybe a one off. Second time I thought I’d go for something really simple being a pizza. Which was uncooked and ended up getting food poisoning from it so spent the whole night throwing up. Moving onto breakfast . No variety at all, flies all over it . I ended up having toast for breakfast every day which is not what you expect for a 4 star hotel.
Finally some clothing of mine was taken from our room (not by the monkeys as room was always locked) , it stated on there board that they will cover any loss or damage of your belongings up to 5000 bat. When I asked them the were extremely rude, laughing and said that they don’t stick to there policy and it doesn’t mean anything .
AVOID THIS HOTEL !!

5 Hoper Nostawind - 5 months ago

The service is very good but be careful of the monkeys coming in for food or greetings inside. Breakfast is available, but should improve on the taste, most of it will be salty. In the clean room, the air conditioner is cool, there are many amenities, the atmosphere must be very good in the morning, the boat is not heard.

4 F H M - 2 months ago

I was there 3 years ago. And I must it has lost a bit in quality. Especially the breakfast which was a joke.
For the rest, some rooms still have a wonderful view.
Oh and stop playing that ugly piano chill music (one track looped endlessly) in the restaurant. It gets your customers nervous.

5 Roger Cas - 4 months ago

Pros:
1. Good value for price.
2. Awesome rooftop infinity pool - catch sunrise and moon rise, mountain view
3. Awesome 2nd pool by their pond
4. Decent choices of ala carte food in the restaurant
5. Friendly and helpful staff
6. The grand deluxe room facing the pool was an amazing room: size, bath tub, view, bed size.
7. Location: near port, quieter side of Railay, many food options, own mini mart and ATM.

For improvement but not deal breakers:
1. AC is old so a bit loud and no remote.
2. Toilet takes a couple of tries to completely flush.
3. Asking to send credit card details via unsecure email (for booking private transfers).
4. Some parts of the facilities are old and needs some touch ups.
5. Gym has no AC.
6. Breakfast buffet can be better but not too bad.

5 Colin Dunn - 5 months ago

Absolutely amazing resort. My room overlooked a koi pond. And i saw some sort of large lizard , or crocodile swimming in it.
Great view of the mountains out the back. There are large koi is a sort of moat around the restaurant. ATM and mini mart onsite.

Great pool and facilities. Decent WiFi for Railay.

Railay has monkeys as well, which visited. It is 2mins off the pier, and 6mins walk from a self service washer machine place 7kg for 50baht. 10mins to the main beach. As it's on the other side of the island. 5mins to some really fun bars and places to eat.

Room was spotless and lovely. Only problem was it was a bit dark in the room, they provide 2 lamps, but as a remote worker, I looked quite shady on camera. A bit more light in the rooms would be great. There is international TV, including BBC world.

Was so cheap at £22/night for a twin room. Amazing value. 2 bottles of water daily. good breakfast, quite casual, plenty of condiments.
They weren't too fussy about entry at times, I managed to sneak out a mound of toast and fruit to the front during checkout, as we were planning it move on. I prefer that attitude

5/5 would stay again.