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Island View Cabana

Cheap beachfront huts

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Ideal for shoestring travellers or those who value a sea view more than the highest quality accommodations, Island View Cabana boasts a prime beachfront location but not the finest bungalows. Guests can choose between two sizes of affordable huts, many of them at the beach's edge, with the second row huts offered for the same price. The paper-thin bamboo walls on one side and wooden slats of the smaller huts provide adequate shelter from most tropical storms with minimal leakage, while the larger units are slightly sturdier. The linens are soft and white but add little comfort to hard mattresses and thin, floppy pillows. The rooms are generally clean, if you don't count lizard turds and a stale urine smell in the bathroom. All said, not the finest huts on the beach, but they're cheap. Facilities include a small shop, laundry service (40B/kilo) and beachside massage in addition to a well-placed restaurant offering inexpensive Thai food with lovely views of the sea and Ko Ma. PADI certification and fun diving and snorkelling are offered at the connected dive shop, but if the condition of the rest of this dive are any indication of the condition of their boats and equipment, you may want to shop around a bit.

Contact details:
Mae Haad, Ko Pha Ngan. T: (077) 374 172-3

What we were quoted*

Type of room	Low season	High season	Notes
Beachfront bungalow	400 THB	400 THB
Bungalow fan private b'room	300 THB	300 THB

* Travelfish researchers visit and review properties on an anonymous basis. By that we mean they show up, in person, and pretend to be either be a potential guest, or somebody looking for a room for a friend or relative. Where possible the researcher will inspect at least a couple of rooms. The rates you see above are what either the desk staff told us they were, or what were in the brochure when they just told us to quit bugging them and look in the brochure. For mid-range hotels and up, always shop around online for a competitive rate. Click here to find out more about what makes Travelfish different with regards our accommodation reviews.

Added to Travelfish on: 31st March, 2004
Last visited or updated on: 24th June, 2007

Island View Cabana reviews

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Great Location - 14th March, 2010
While the rooms here are not great, I think the Travelfish review is a bit harsh. The better beachfront bungalows are not brilliant but no worse than countless other set ups on Ko Phangan which recieve much better reviews. The resort itself has very friendly staff and good facilities such as moterbike rental, internet, massage etc. It is also resonably well spaced out on a top quality piece of beachfront. Unlike Had Salad and Had Yao, which are becoming overcrowded and Ko Samui like, this place still has a more relaxed Phangan vibe and isn't blighted by concrete construction.

Island View Cabana reviewed by Kennyd on 14th March, 2010, rated 4 out of 5.
Stayed here 2/2010
Total reviews submitted: 10.
Kennyd also reviewed: Asia Bungalows, Moon Huts, O.T's High Life Resort, OK II Bungalows, Sea Scene Resort, The Red Piano.

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