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Region: Eastern Thailand> Province: Trat> Location: Ko Chang/Bang Bao
Elephant Garden
Terrific for chilling out
Bang Bao, Ko Chang
Trat Province
Tel: (087) 143 2286
Description
In a garden filled with exotic fruit trees, simple wooden bungalows are offered at Elephant Garden. The friendly Scottish and Thai owners will make you feel at home, serving an occasional Sunday roast dinner and an evolving western food menu. Home produce grown in the abundant garden is used in the kitchen, and the common/living room has hammocks and cushions, a full bar, DVD movies and a playstation for whiling away the rainy season hours. A great place for long-termers, despite there being no real beach nearby.
Total rooms: 8
Bungalow fan private b'room
200 THB (low season)
200 THB (high season)
350B for a bigger bungalow
Added to Travelfish on: 8th August, 2005
Last visited or updated on: 1st February, 2007
Guest feedback
Elephant Garden - 
By Fishman ( total comments: 36 
) Stayed here 12/2006
A great place in the time being up until the owners LEAVE to another location out on the pier. Wil and the staff are outstanding, this place will definitely be challenged to meet the levels of accomodation that will be left behind once sold to new ownership. Stay here only if Wil is still sitting around drinking a brew waiting for you to arrive. Otherwise it's a lost cause, go find his new guesthouse out on the docks. Noone can ever make the Elephant Garden as wonderful of a place as Wil and his family and the staff that is a part of this outstanding guesthouse. Please keep in mind that by the time your arrive new owners may have taken over. And politely find where the new location is, this is a small villlage and Wil should be not hard to find. Tell him the crazy Chang man never did care what people really think, I was just a drunk funk on the dunk of a skunk not unlike a punk in the podunk lunk of a trunk riding along before my ship got sunk by the stupidity of being drunk.
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