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Region: Northeastern Cambodia> Province: Ratanakiri> Location: Ban Lung
Tribal Hotel
Too ugly to contemplate
Ban Lung
Ratanakiri Province
Tel: (075) 974 074, (011) 912 322
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Description
This extraordinarily ugly blight on Banlung is supposed to be popular with the NGO set, which gives you an indication of the few places on offer to stay. Located a few hundred metres from Banlung market behind the post office, it's a convenient location and has decent amenities but it's just so utterly tasteless that you don't want to stay here to encourage this kind of 'development'. Staff are pushy and brash too. The open-air restaurant offers a decent enough menu, with a broad range of western and Asian dishes and of course the ubiquitous fruit shakes. The lake fish with Angkor beer sauce sounds innovative, if a bit frightening. We found the owner Mrs Kim to be less-than-honest in some of the information she supplied.
Sgl fan private b'room
5 USD (low season)
5 USD (high season)
Cheapies for $3
Dbl fan private b'room
8 USD (low season)
8 USD (high season)
Dbl A/C private b'room
15 USD (low season)
15 USD (high season)
Upto $20
Added to Travelfish on: 24th November, 2005
Last visited or updated on: 4th December, 2005
Guest feedback
Joan and Lorna - 
By joant ( total comments: 6 
) Stayed here 12/2006
This review is too harsh. We were picked up at the bus stop and found clean, comfortable accommodation. The location is great - in town, near restaurants but away from the dust (!!!) of the main road. When I left prescription glasses in a vehicle, Mrs Lim happily used her mobile phone to track down the driver.
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