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Welcome to Dara Samui Beach Resort, a 4-star beachfront resort with authentic Thai architecture, strategically located along the most exciting beach on Samui - Chaweng Beach. It is a short walk to a variety of important "facilities" for every visitor - Thai spas/massage, money changers, banks, 24-hour convenience stores, beach bars, restaurants, street shopping, high end shopping and night life. We have 24-hour reception, 5 room categories, complimentary wifi access in all guestrooms - lobby - restaurant, breakfast restaurant (7am-10.30am),1 beachside restaurant (6.30pm-10.30pm), room service (7am-10.30pm),1 freeform swimming pool (7am-7pm) with outdoor jacuzzi (10am-12pm and 2pm-5pm), poolbar (11am - 11pm), tour counter and airport transfer services. All rooms and suites have electronic key card access, rich wooden fixtures and fittings, individually controlled air-condition, private bathroom, in-room safe deposit box, satellite TV, sofa or day bed, balcony and complimentary wifi. Due to the structure of the resort, we do NOT recommend guest with physical challenges as there are many stairs and steps - no guests elevators/lifts. Since 01 November 2017, the resort operates as Adult Only resort - minimum age 12 years old.
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HOTEL STYLE
Business
Classic
Languages Spoken
English, Thai
Location
162/2 Moo 2 Chaweng Beach, Chaweng, Bophut 84320 Thailand
Name/address in local language
Dara Samui Beach Resort
1,576 reviews
Getting there
Great for walkers
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Dara Samui Beach Resort is frequently celebrated for its exceptional service, with guests feeling warmly welcomed by the attentive and professional staff. The resort's rooms earn commendations for being spacious and clean, although some guests note that the decor could use refreshing.
While opinions on value vary, the prime location and relaxing amenities, including a beachfront pool and luxurious atmosphere, are widely appreciated. The resort's cleanliness and serene yet central setting near Chaweng Beach also receive high marks from travelers.
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Comfortable
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Reasonable
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Spent a restful and relaxing week at Dara Samui. Situated beachside on Chaweng Beach road, it is conveniently surrounded by a number of shops and restaurants. Although centrally located in Chaweng, the room was a quiet and peaceful sanctuary from the hustle and bustle of the street. Our traditionally furnished Thai styled room was both comfortable and spacious. Special mention to Mas and her team who ensured our stay was comfortable. Their professionalism and warm welcome are to be commended. We found all the staff to be friendly and helpful without being intrusive. Breakfast offered a wide selection of choices that encompassed both local and Western food. Dining on the beach in the evening is a must do experience. The backdrop of lights from off shore fishing boats and other resorts along the beach added to the charm. Dara Samui offered us great value for money given its central location on the beach in Chaweng.
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Date of stay: July 2024
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Response from Dara Samui Beach Resort, General Manager at Dara Samui Beach Resort
Responded 29 Aug 2024
Dear Coral and Greg, Thank you for staying at Dara Samui Beach Resort and for taking the time to share your experience during your stay with us. My team and I truly value your constructive suggestions and compliments. It is our delight to provide you with the highest level of services to enhance your stay and making this a more memorable vacation for you. Thank you for your recognizing our team members and me. They truly make a difference in guests’ experience, and we are indeed very grateful to have them with us. Once again, thank you for staying with us, for sharing your feedback and we look forward to welcoming you back at Dara Samui Beach Resort. Yours sincerely Mrs Juthamas (Mas) Acting Resort Manager
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A great weekend in Koh Samui and a pleasant stay at Dara Samui. Very central location, in the heart of Chaweng, very well-kept rooms and structure, possibility of booking trips/ferries/transfers directly from the hotel. Amazing breakfast and very helpful and smiling staff, especially the receptionists Yatee and Nes were kind, supporting all our needs.
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Date of stay: August 2023Trip type: Travelled with friends
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The most memorable thing about the Dara samui has the be the people that work there, From check in to our early morning departure they were all helpful and friendly without exception. The hotel is not perfect but it is unique and even a little quirky.
The lavishly decorated lobby area is showing signs of its age both in its furnishings and in its decoration and the hotel does have a problem at the moment of not their own making as all of the rooms face a peice of undeveloped land that has become a hot bed of mosquitos. The beach when enough is exposed for bathing does have sharp rocks and debris that can not all be seen beneath the water,
However the positives for us far outweigh the negatives and for the tarrifs that the Dara charges they are excellent value for money.
Their adult only policy whilst obviously is not ideal for families does make the hotel a serene quiet place and is a huge advantage for those not travelling with younger children. ( I understand that older children are accepted).
We had a Delux double room on their top floor, The room was nicely decorated, and serviced daily, It was a spacious room and had a large bathroom with both a bath tub and a walk in shower. The room had its own mini router making wifi access fast and reliable whilst in your own room. I don't know if the public areas had wifi or not the network I was connected to worked well with no signal issues.
Breakfast was good, very good, an egg chef was on duty every morning and a large variety of other items offered to suit all tastes and diets, unlimited coffee (nice coffee) and juices. On the day that we departed for an early flight a breakfast box was provided for us to collect at reception and the security man on duty in hotel bought our bags from the room for us.
The Dara does have a restaraunt set up in the evenings that looked very good. We did not have opportunity to eat there as we like to eat Thai style and graze on street food and experiment while in Thailand.
The Dara is situated at the end of the busy Chaweng beach road (Don't expect to see the beach from the Road)
On reflection perhaps Chaweng was not the right resort for us to stay in on Samui but the Dara was an oasis from the party town and most days we went out and enjoyed activities and places away from the hotel. For this reason and because of the long journey to get to Thailand we do not like to repeat our experiences, we are unlikely to stay with the hotel again, However I can recommend the property to anyone wanting a hotel experience that is different from what the huge name hotel chains offer and want a break from the party town of Chaweng that can be left outside.
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Date of stay: March 2023
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Room Tip:There are steps and ramps to negotiate and there are no lifts (elavators). there are only 3 levels.
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Response from Dara Samui Beach Resort, General Manager at Dara Samui Beach Resort
Responded 13 Mar 2023
Dear ghostw733 A real pleasure having you stay with us and a delight to know you had a wonderful stay. Your feedback is sincerely appreciated and we will continue to improve with the furnishings and decorations. As for the others, we will continue to extend our service excellence to drown out the challenges which are beyond our control. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Best regards. Mark Suppiah
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This is a difficult review for me to write as I really wanted to give this hotel five stars. Let me start with the positives of the hotel. The staff was absolutely lovely. They truly made this experience as lovely as it was. Junji at reception and the manger Emy were not only accommodating but incredibly kind.
Due to the hotel needing repairs I had the experience of staying in two different rooms. One on the third floor and the other on the ground floor next to the pool. The one on the third floor was lovely and had a fantastic large bath that I was able to enjoy, however, half into my stay major construction began to take place next to my room and it was far too loud to concentrate on my work or even stay in the room. I was then shifted to the ground floor room and while it was very beautiful the room and bed were smaller, the shower was in an outside area (not necessarily an issue) and, sadly, the tub was dirty and the water that came out of it smelled very bad. Therefore I did not use the tub at all.
The restaurant presents a nice Buffett in the morning but if it is not included in your room I found the price to be rather high at 500B. This said, I think this is the going rate for other hotels in the area as well and I was not able to find a breakfast spot on the beach that served a’la cart. The food was excellent however, and the staff again was lovely.
The pool seemed nice but I didn’t use it. One disappointment is its location on the beach. The water in front of the hotel isn’t good for swimming and when I did go out into the water I would walk down to the parts of the beach in front of other resorts.
Finally, the price on this for me was good, Yet, when you add in the extra 500 B for breakfast I do think that you could get a better value at other resorts.
Ultimately if I return it will be because of the staff who I feel are like family.
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Date of stay: August 2024Trip type: Travelled solo
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Response from Dara Samui Beach Resort, General Manager at Dara Samui Beach Resort
Responded 9 Sept 2024
Dear C M, Thank you for staying at Dara Samui Beach Resort and for taking the time to share your experience during your stay with us. My team and I truly value your constructive suggestions and compliments. It is our delight to provide you with the highest level of services to enhance your stay and making this a more memorable vacation for you. Thank you for your recognizing our team members, Khun Junji and K. Ammy. They truly make a difference in guests’ experience, and we are indeed very grateful to have them with us. Once again, thank you for staying with us, for sharing your feedback and we look forward to welcoming you back at Dara Samui Beach Resort. Yours sincerely Mrs Juthamas (Mas) Acting Resort Manager
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The cleaning staff went through my luggage. We'd had trouble with not being provided enough towels. The reception had told us we had to pay 50 baht per towel per day to get more than the single bath towel we'd been provided. My room mate had negotiated an extra towel each and because I'd planned to wash my hair in the evening I'd put the clean towel in my bag so we wouldn't have the same argument over the towels again. That evening we came back to the room and my bag had been rummaged through and the towel was gone. I also believe some of my medications were missing. I spoke to the manager who said they just needed to educate the cleaning staff but I can't imagine a reason that any staff would believe it was reasonable to go through a guests bag. I felt nervous the rest of my stay. If I'd been by myself I would have changed hotels.
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Date of stay: April 2024
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Room Tip:Very noisy air conditioning. Under airport flight path. Many steps so not accessible. The fish on...
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Response from Dara Samui Beach Resort, General Manager at Dara Samui Beach Resort
Responded 21 Apr 2024
Dear Navigator38758247197 We sincerely appreciate your support staying with us at Dara Samui Beach Resort from the 5th to 11th April. With ALL guests, we provide - 1 set of bath towel and hand towel per guest. - we clean every occupied room DAILY (unless there is a Do Not Disturb sign) - during the cleaning services, any towel left in the bathtub or on the floor will be replaced - if a guest requests for an additional towel, we will replace the old towel with a new towel - on the beach or pool, we have towels available at the Towel Counter by the pool - if our guest is going on an excursion, we also provide our guest with a towel available at the Reception Rest assured, we do emphasize our guests' comfort during their stay with us. On 9th of April, you requested 2 additional sets of towels, in addition to the towels we had already provided. We did inform you of our hotel policy on additional towels. Nevertheless, we did provide you the additional towels at no additional charge. On 10th of April, when our Housekeeping staff saw the hotel towel UNDER YOUR LAPTOP IN YOUR OPEN luggage, our staff did remove your laptop to take the towel and placed the towel from your luggage in the bathroom. She did NOT rummage through your luggage and she definitely did NOT take your medication which you "believed" was missing - you shared this review on 20th April, so it is obvious your "believed" medication was never missing. Once again, thank you for staying with us. Best regards. Mark Suppiah General Manager
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We came for six nights, stayed for 17. The hotel is stunning, the rooms are comfortable, large, clean, with a large balcony, the air conditioning works perfectly, the water in the shower is always hot (the bath is also available). Breakfasts are varied and hearty. I want to mention the staff separately: polite, smiley, always ready to help, caring. The sea is clear, clear, the sand like flour, deep enough to both wander and swim. In the evenings, tables are set up on the beach for dinner overlooking the sea. The hotel is on the first line, nearby all infrastructure: 7/11; cafes, massages, two markets.
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Date of stay: October 2024Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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One of the most highly regarded hotels in Chaweng Beach is situated directly on the beach and offers spacious and well-maintained rooms. The hotel staff is exceptionally courteous and attentive, ensuring a swift and seamless check-in and check-out process. I wholeheartedly recommend this hotel to those seeking a tranquil retreat away from the noise.
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Date of stay: November 2024
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Responded 10 Nov 2024
Dear Yusuf, Thank you for staying at Dara Samui Beach Resort and for taking the time to share your experience during your stay with us. My team and I truly value your constructive suggestions and compliments. It is our delight to provide you with the highest level of services to enhance your stay and making this a more memorable vacation for you. Once again, thank you for staying with us, for sharing your feedback and we look forward to welcoming you back at Dara Samui Beach Resort. Yours sincerely Mrs Juthamas (Mas) Resort Manager
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Our stay at Dara Hotel Beach Resort was simply amazing. From the moment we arrived, we were warmly welcomed by the friendly staff who did everything to make our stay unforgettable.
The location is breathtaking, with stunning ocean views and direct access to a pristine beach. The rooms were spacious, stylishly decorated and equipped with all modern comforts, including a comfortable bed and a balcony with a magnificent view.
The breakfast buffet was excellent, with an extensive choice of fresh, local dishes. Dinner in the restaurant was also a culinary treat. The fresh seafood and local specialties were delicious and beautifully presented.
What really made the stay special was the serene atmosphere and exceptional service. From the pool with sea views to the relaxing spa, every detail was perfect.
Recommended: Book a room with sea view and enjoy the spectacular sunsets!
Conclusion: Dara Hotel Beach Resort is a perfect place for those who want to relax in luxury, with top service and breathtaking surroundings.
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Date of stay: December 2024Trip type: Travelled with friends
Room Tip:Boek een kamer met zeezicht
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For our 50th wedding anniversary my husband and I, went to Thailand and for part of the holiday we stayed at the Dara Samui Beach Resort at Chaweng Koh Samui What can I say , everything about our stay here was wonderful. The building itself is traditional and beautiful and central for all amenities but also peaceful and quiet. Our room was on the third floor with patio doors onto a lovely sized balcony with a sea view and it was kept spotlessly clean . The cleaners were always pleasant and we were always greeted by them with a smile. The only downside to our room, which I have found in most Hotels lately, is there are no longer chests of drawers to put any of your clothes and odds and ends in, so anything that couldn't be hung up was laid in piles on the settee. We were not far from the pool which was a nice size. Because of the shape of the pool and the area around it there weren't many sunbeds but on the beach area there were plenty which were positioned according to the tidal flow. The pool staff always seemed to find beds and umbrellas for everyone. They were very helpful and pleasant, again there were always lots of smiles and hello's from them. The breakfast was very nice and again so were the staff. I now come to the staff on reception who were amazing. Nothing was too much to ask, there were always lovely smiles and greetings. My husband damaged both his large toes , one of them quite badly, on damaged paving on the main street. When we got back to the hotel we asked for a first aid kit as there was blood all over and the wounds needed cleaning. The staff came over and cleansed and dressed the wounds They were amazing. Every day for 5 days, twice a day one or two of the staff cleansed and dressed the wounds. Also the Manager , Mas came regularly to see how my husband was. She was very kind, helpful and pleasant. All the staff on reception contributed in some way but we must personally thank the staff that took care of his feet and without whom our holiday could have been ruined. They were Boom and Myo who were hotel staff and also the young lady called Not who was a Tour consultant working in the foyer of the Hotel. We would just like to say again a great big thank you not only to you, but to all the staff in the hotel for making our stay so wonderful Would we go back, you bet.
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Date of stay: March 2023
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Response from Dara Samui Beach Resort, General Manager at Dara Samui Beach Resort
Responded 22 Apr 2023
Dear Neve05 Thank you for staying at Dara Samui Beach Resort and for taking the time to share your experience during your stay with us. My team and I truly value your compliments with special mention of Khun Mas, Khun Boom, Khun Myo and Khun Not. It is our intention to provide you with the highest level of services to enhance your stay and making this a more memorable vacation for you. All of us hope Mr Murray's toe has fully recovered. Once again, thank you for staying with us, for sharing your feedback and we look forward to welcome you back at Dara Samui Beach Resort. Yours sincerely Mark Suppiah General Manager
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This is the fifth time we stay at the Dara Samui Hotel and we will continue to stay there whenever we come to Kosmui. This time we stayed there for a week and enjoyed it very much, starting with the service of the entire staff, the cleanliness, the food and ending with its central location. Everything was to our satisfaction this time as well. Highly recommended hotel!!! Not to be missed ♡♡♡
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Date of stay: March 2024
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Hi, We stay at the hotel in August, by then the hotel was between 90 to 100% full. The pool area is not large enough to accommodate a lot of guest. You can still use the beach area. We didn't have many problems getting one. Even they don't reserve the sun lunges, we saw guests putting their towels on them before going to breakfast. Around 4 pm they start putting tables on the beach area for dinner. I think the best beach area is when you leave the coral barrier, heading south, more open sea water, clear and deeper, more sand. The main reason we moved there was because our first hotel has a very strong smell of a room that was closed for so long. We visited a few others and we have the same kind of smell. When we visit Dara the room was very fresh. Wish you a very nice trip.
Javier.
There are more places to choose from in the Chaweng area.
PRICE RANGE
AU$126 - AU$362 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
ALSO KNOWN AS
dara samui beach resort & spa villa hotel chaweng, dara samui beach resort and spa villa, dara samui beach hotel
FORMERLY KNOWN AS
Dara Samui Beach Resort & Spa Villa
LOCATION
ThailandSurat Thani ProvinceKo SamuiBophutChaweng
NUMBER OF ROOMS
70
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