Koh Chang Grand Lagoona

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Rated 5 out of 5

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• Luxury at budget prices

  I was looking for a midrange place for our second destination on Chang to compensate Lady Tezza for our backpacker style place on White Sand Beach - there are a heap of appealing joints in the 1500b area but none on the sparsely settled south coast which I hadn't visited before. The Grand Lagoona there tends to run at higher prices - except on Sawadee.com which was offering the least expensive rooms at 1200 including breakfast. Crikey, that was the same as the website price for our underwhelming Vong Duern Villa room on Samet and that didn't one include brekka. So I grabbed one. The least expensive rooms are in the floating hotel, a mini cruise liner, the Galaxy. Except they upgraded us. It seemed the hotel was in limited use - only its entry deck was in operation. The rooms seemed pretty good if a bit small - something like a Japanese business hotel. Or an ocean cruise liner I suppose - I've never done a cruise. We got upgraded to a Boat Chalet room. There are actually 4 spacious rooms on each boat (in our type at least - some more expensive boats seemed to have fewer). It seems upgrading is not unusual - a TripAdisor or similar review I saw before booking mentioned the same thing. Our room was huge and had all the inclusions you'd expect in a 2000+ baht room - at 1200! There was also a lounge area with aircon and fridge near the boat's entrance which would be ideal as a common area if families/friends took more than one room. The beachside restaurant and bar was the only one of 3 operating when we visited - Lagoona seemed to be running at less than 10% in early April. Nice aspect with good views out towards Ko Wai and other islands south of Chang. Very good staff. Prices mainly 50 to 100% up on normal budget restaurants but we found a few dishes in our lower budget range. Big Changs a relative bargain at 90 baht. There are budget restaurants a little more than 10 minutes walk along beach towards Ban Bao (hop under the fence near the breakwater) and the restaurants and shopping at Bang Bao pier are another 20 minutes walk. Lagoona's seaside free breakfast is not a buffet but American style, pretty nice. Grand Lagoona has many hectares of nicely landscaped grounds with a couple of km of paved roads and paths to walk or cycle. Cycles are free to guests. Visitors pay 150 baht at the gate for use of resort facilities including bikes. We kept our bicycles alongside our chalet overnight, just the thing for a quick fang to breakfast. Lagoona also has very good mountain bikes for hire at 100baht - takes about 15 minutes to do the 4km over to Bang Bao pier(the road loops inland with a couple of decent hills). I also rode up to Bai Lan and Lonely Beach - more than a couple of indecent hills along that route. Lagoona's grounds include a nice beach with water not too shallow at low tide and free kayaks, a great floating swimming pool on the lagoon near the beachfront restaurant and a pretty oridnary waterfall up quite a good shortish rainforest track. There are some nice trsd style but not cheap riverfront bungalows and very expensive and big seaside villas.

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  Koh Chang Grand Lagoona reviewed by tezza (Total reviews: 37) on 26th April, 2010
  Rated 5 out of 5. after a stay here in 4/2010