http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T09:07:47Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Koh%20Lanta%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/12/21/24722/717 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/srilanta.jpg" class="top"><p><i>All this week, HotelChatter's roving correspondent <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/ced183"><b>Claire Duffett</b></a> will be reviewing several beach hotels that she visited during her trip through Thailand. Got questions or suggestions? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Send them to us</a> and we'll have Claire answer them for you.</i> <p> Here was our impression of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/SriLanta/local/1425"><b>SriLanta</b></a>: Meh (see uninspiring photo to the right). The third Koh Lanta-based hotel we visited is nice enough, but its multitude of competitors overshadows this high-end boutique hotel. <p>Because it retains the intimate bungalow feel of its backpacker-oriented neighbors while offering the same amenities of the ostentatious resorts on the island, the hotel falls into the same category as <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/12/21/22414/709/hotels/Hiding_Away_at_Lanta_s_La_Laanta"><b>La Laanta</b></a> and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/12/21/2825/9682/hotels/Takin_it_Nice_n_Easy_on_Koh_Lanta"><b>Nice &#145;n Easy</b></a>. But La Laanta is ced138 2009-01-07T09:30:09-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/12/21/22414/709 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/lalaanta.jpg" class="top"><p><i>All this week, HotelChatter's roving correspondent <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/ced183"><b>Claire Duffett</b></a> will be reviewing several beach hotels that she visited during her trip through Thailand. Got questions or suggestions? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Send them to us</a> and we'll have Claire answer them for you.</i> <p> <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/La+Laanta+Hideaway+Resort/local/1422"><b>La Laanta Hideaway Resort</b></a> embodies its middle name. Getting there requires traversing narrow, pothole-covered dirt paths, then descending down a &#147;road&#148; that more resembles a vertical climbing wall than anything intended for vehicular travel. The trouble of getting there makes it a true hideaway.<p> Located on Bamboo Beach, Koh Lanta&#146;s southernmost beach, it is also the closest hotel to the island&#146;s national park, making it perhaps the most isolated. The island&#146;s mountains serve as a backdrop. ced138 2009-01-06T12:02:03-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/12/21/2825/9682 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/7156/niceneasy.jpg" class="top"><p><i>All this week, HotelChatter's roving correspondent <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/ced183"><b>Claire Duffett</b></a> will be reviewing several beach hotels that she visited during her trip through Thailand. Got questions or suggestions? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Send them to us</a> and we'll have Claire answer them for you.</i> <p> At first we were skeptical about a boutique hotel named after a brand of do-it-yourself hair dye, but <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Nice+n%27+Easy/local/1419"><b>Nice n' Easy</b></a>, set along Klong Khong Beach on the island of Koh Lanta, delivers a lot more customer satisfaction than a brassy new hairdo.<p> The place has a mod, art-deco feel that reminded us of the cartoonish, other-wordly house where the Dodo family lived in one of our favorite childhood (ok, adulthood, too) movies: &#147;<i>Sesame Street Presents: ced138 2009-01-05T09:30:43-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/