Rabieng Restaurant and Guesthouse

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Rated 1.5 out of 5

Based on 4 ratings and 4 reviews

• Awful - eat, but do not sleep here

  We stayed 1 night and it was by far the worst of our 4 week trip. From the outside the wooden building looks attractive, but the whole structure, rooms included, is effectively open at the doors and sides, without even mosquito netting. The shared bathrooms are dirty and full of mosquitoes, the sheets were clean but covered in bugs that had crawled in the carved openings at the top of the walls, and these same openings are on a main road so from 5 in the morning you get the sound of scooters blasting past 5-10 metres from your head... to top it all off, the owner and her daughter sit all day in the reception area taking photos and posting on Facebook, rather than just taking the time to sort out their hugely wasted opportunity of a guesthouse. We met another traveller int he restaurant who said there is a clean and cheap place down the road, not listed here. BUT DEFINITELY EAT LUNCH/DINNER HERE! The restaurant is beautiful with an extensive list of well priced dishes - we ate here twice and these were some of my favourite meals in Thailand. Phetchaburi is ok, but the town itself doesn't have more than a days worth of sight seeing, if that (we din't get out of the town). The royal villa on the hill was definitely the highlight, the temples are ok, more for temple buffs than casual tourists, and overall there are more interesting towns in Thailand.

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  Rabieng Restaurant and Guesthouse reviewed by MichaelC (Total reviews: 4) on 21st January, 2013
  Rated 1 out of 5. after a stay here in 1/2013

• strange

  nice if you got money an children to show them - livesnoteasy loud, small& toilet other floor 500 meters to the train station have a nice for under 200B -no english signs, but they can!

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  Rabieng Restaurant and Guesthouse reviewed by thaiXplorer (Total reviews: 7) on 18th April, 2012
  Rated 2 out of 5. after a stay here in 2/2012

• Heed the warnings, this place is the pits

  I arrived in Phetchaburi without any idea where to stay except for the SE Asia Graphical guidebook by Mark Elliot which only listed Raebing for accomodation in town. Found it easy enough, its located on a main road right on the river and therein lies the problem: noise. There is noise nonstop all day and all night. The Thais seem to somehow be unaffected by noise but my Western ears were crying and sleep was near impossible. My room was right on the street side and astonishingly it was quieter outside the room than it was inside. Noise was my main complaint but as the reviewer pointed out, the sheets were dismal and the bed hard (bring a sheet/liner+sleeping pad!) and the Western style toilets have no seats, makes for an awkward squat. 120baht though, you do get what you pay for. On the up side the teak building looks pretty cool and Raebing seems to be one of the only outfits doing jungle treks to the nearby national park.

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  Rabieng Restaurant and Guesthouse reviewed by BikeManDan (Total reviews: 2) on 23rd January, 2009
  Rated 2 out of 5. after a stay here in 1/2009

• Misery at it's Best!

  I arrived tired from 14+ hours of bus travel to make my way south from the north. Found a taxi and was dropped off here at the Rabieng Rim Nam after dark with nowhere else to go. The room was small, dusty, and noisy, bathrooms shared in the lower level, all having real toilets but no rims to sit on. Dreamed about demonic pigs here during my restless night during which I could not stop my nose from running due to the dirty and dusty room, I emptied my stash of tissue/toilet paper quickly and had to reuse what I had left repeatedly through the miserable night. The bed had long black hairs on it and smelled bad, sheets had not been changed in maybe years. So I slept restlessly for a couple of hours of ill,waking up already packed to leave and racing my way to the street for an escape from this **** of a guesthouse in literal terms. I don't know why anyone would consider staying here, it's a complete waste of the hours one could spend in this nice town at a much cleaner cheap hotel.

  Rabieng Restaurant and Guesthouse reviewed by Fishman (Total reviews: 39) on 14th August, 2007
  Rated 1 out of 5. after a stay here in 1/2007