Lost? -- you're looking for a room
Region: Southern Cambodia> Province: Sihanoukville> Location: Ko Russei
Bamboo Island Resort
Overflow only, Great restaurant
Ko Russei
Sihanoukville Province
Contact via email form
Visit website
Description
These bungalows are perched on a beach littered with debris from day-trippers and the mainland. At best, they're a good overflow spot for travellers who'd prefer to stay at Ko Ru's on the sunnier side of Ko Russei. The resort's run by a very friendly Vietnamese family, and their young daughters speak reasonable English. Still, the bungalows are basic and poorly cleaned. One big bungalow had three mattresses piled on the floor, and nothing else in the room besides a few empty plastic bottles. The bathroom was an impressive expanse of tile littered with mouse- and bird-droppings. Small bungalows also have mattresses directly on the floor, mosquito nets, light switches that work occasionally and little else to offer. The beach is haphazardly cleaned, so rubbish punctuates the sand. Water is choppier and the beach is unfortunately shaded for much of the day. Their French and Asian menu, however, features flavourful seafood dishes. Prices are rather high due to a captive island audience, and the French food can be hit or miss, but their barbeque barracuda is both affordable and spectacular.
Total rooms: 11
Bungalow fan share b'room
6 USD (low season)
6 USD (high season)
Bungalow fan private b'room
15 USD (low season)
15 USD (high season)
Added to Travelfish on: 24th January, 2006
Last visited or updated on: 24th January, 2006
Guest feedback
Bamboo Island and Coaster's - 
By Roel ( total comments: 2 
) Stayed here 9/2007
Hi, my name is Roel and i am from Holland. We just came back from Cambodia and we had a wonderfull holiday. Execpt at one place: Coasters and Bamboo Island. Please let me tell the story in short.
We arrived at Saturday. Everything was ok, friendly owner and manager. They helped us great with some things. We stayed there only 1 night because the next day we wanted to go to Banboo Island. Coasters has some cottages there and on the internet it looks perfect. Room at Coasters was ok, nothing spectacular, just ok.
We went to the island. The bungalows are nothing more then some wood and leaves from a palmtree, with a bed made from trees and a small matras to sleep on and a musquito net and 2 towels. This was very basic. I am quite an experienced traveller but this was too basic. No warm water, no flowing cold water, no electricity (from 6 to 10 pm there was a small generator that made a lot of noise), no clean toilet facilities, no clean showers, the water that came out the shower was
try the other side of the island -
By mason3johnson ( total comments: 5 ) Stayed here 9/2006
not woth the trouble
Have your say
Have you stayed at Bamboo Island Resort? What did you think?
You need to be logged in to add a comment. Not a member? you can join here.
Please note comments may be edited for clarity, typos etc. Also, this is not intended as a means to contact the guesthouse or hotel. Messages such as reservation enquiries will be deleted.
