Zazen Boutique Resort & Spa, Koh Samui hotels Thailand on yinyangandtaichichuan.org

*Reviews of recent stays*	*Comment on the hotel*	*The reservation service*
De Lat 2008-11-05	Zazen Boutique Resort & Spa, Bophut Beach Zazen is an experience, a concept of beauty and relaxation. My husband and I went there for our honeymoon and felt treated like a king and a queen by the staff. The surrounding is fantastic, the restaurant looks lovely and the food created by chef Wally is excellent; you really have to trie. We we re pleasently surprised to see all the effort that was made to make our room special for our honeymoon. Two beautifull swanns surrounded by a heart made out of orchids. The rooms are wonderfully decorated, everything is reconsidered carefully. Just go there!!!
M & K 2008-10-30	Zazen Boutique Resort & Spa, Bophut Beach This place is a gem. Beautiful private location, amazing restaurant, friendly staff and all with some luxury thrown in!
guillaume 2008-04-29 until 2008-05-05	Zazen Boutique Resort & Spa, Bophut Beach Great hotel, everything is perfect, just don t go for canopy activity, all the rest is just perfect !
POUJADE family 2007-12-15 until 2007-12-18	Zazen Boutique Resort & Spa, Bophut Beach The hotel is very nice ,the beachfront villas are at only 2 steps from the sea ,with great views and very reasonnable price .The room is well furnished .The restaurant is good ,the western menu is way better than the thai menu which is only ok ,but the restaurant is pricey ,I think there is better restaurant at this price at bophut or chaweng beach . The staff is very helpful. I would recommended this hotel which is really a good value althought the restaurant is not as better as what the other reviews said .We were a bit desapointed by the beach too, the sand is a kind of yellow color and not really white .So the water isn t very clear .The chaweng beach is better ,but there is much more hotel and people too ,whereas the bophut beach is more peacefull L hotel est un excellent rapport qualité prix ,les bungalows beachfront sont à 2 pas de la mer ,avec une vue superbe ,pour un prix très raisonnable !De plus les chambres sont vraiment confortables et bien équipées ( écrna plasma ,ipod ,lit et mobilier de bonne qualité ) Le staff est sympa et parle bien anglais . Cependant nous avions été plutôt déçu par le restaurant ,qui est cher ,et qui n est pas si bon que cela .Pour le prix ,je dirai que la nourriture est juste ok .Vous trouverez de la cuisine vraiment haut de gamme à ce prix dans d autres restaurants ,ou moins cher . De meme la plage de bophut n est pas top, le sable est plutôt jaune que blanc et n est pas très fin et du coup l eau peut etre assez trouble, on ne voit pas toujours le fond ,comme c est le cas avec du sable très clair et fin . Le plage de chaweng est bien plus belle mais beaucoup moins reposant aussi ,car à bophut on est tranquille il n y a pas beaucoup de touristes et de frequentations .	Very helpfull
Mark Hughes 2006-08-15 until 2006-08-19	Zazen Boutique Resort & Spa, Bophut Beach Hotel very plush and welcoming.We chose the garden standard room which although large enougth was quite dark due to the enclosed nature of the garden bungalows. The resort itself is very exquisitely decorated the gardens beautiful but the one area of fault the is no real lounge area where you can sit and drink and with there being no real sitting area in front of our room this was a minus point.The beach and swimming we found poor we preffered meanem.Restaurant and food very good but drinks overpriced.
Janine Francke 2006-07-03 until 2006-07-06	Zazen Boutique Resort & Spa, Bophut Beach Wonderful little boutique hotel, where a lot of love was put into detail. A bit tricky with small children (ours were 3 yrs and 1,5 yrs) because there is a lot of water to potentially fall into, but the very friendly staff always kept an eye on them, so there was no problem at all. Great restaurant. Excellent food for very reasonable prices. Great fresh fruit juices and smoothies and wonderful breakfast buffet. We would love to come back!	Very helpful and no problems whatsoever.
William Dyke 2006-06-26 until 2006-06-30	Zazen Boutique Resort & Spa, Bophut Beach Beautiful pool area and restaurant. Good breakfast. The most comfortable sun beds that I have ever used and the staff were also very nice as were the many nice touches such as the tropical fish in the bathroom. The restaurant was a mixed bag as we had one great meal and one bad one. The Thai food was very bland and expensive compared to other restaurants in the area. There are a couple of small places a few minutes down the beach which did very nice Thai food at about a fifth of the price of Zazen. The bar prices were also expensive. The biggest disappointment were the prices of the massage treatments as they were totally excessive, we used a place further down the beach with a blue roof where we got excellent service at a fraction of the cost at Zazen. Another irritation is that everything you buy including trips etc gets 17% added for service and tax. We stayed in several nice hotels during our trip to Thailand and this was the only place that did this. As for the room it was pretty small and basic, the concrete floor gave it a very down market feel despite the nice artistic touches. A very nice place to stay but after a few days the constant irritating musak that gets played constantly all day was getting on my nerves. The 500 bht taxi fare to the airport just round the corner was also excessive as it only cost 300 bht to get here from the other side of the island. Overall a nice place to stay for a few days but be prepared to pay over the average for everything.	No problems.
Camilla Smith 2006-02-26 until 2006-03-10	Zazen Boutique Resort & Spa, Bophut Beach we stayed 12 days in beach bungalow. Small but very nice. Got a very big baby cot( room for 3 babies. Everything was wonderful. Has been in Chaweng Cabana before. This was 100 times better. Stylish! The beach is not so good, lots of gelly fish. We got used to it! Peace and quiet and still only 15 minutes away from chaweng. A bit irritating with the very friendly waitresses, that always where picking on our 20 moths old baby. She stopped eating. Just tell them in a nice way! We will come back!	Very good!
caroline haworth 2006-01-30 until 2006-02-05	Zazen Boutique Resort & Spa, Bophut Beach Overall we enjoyed our stay at Zazens. The people are very friendly and the resort is nice. It did feel a bit busy at times, particularly if you want to get a sunbed by the pool, I think we managed this once in six days. there were more beds by the sea which was just as nice. I had chosen this hotel in a bid to avoid towels at dawn scenario but was disappointed. The food was generally good but disappointing on occasions. Prices in the resort are quite high in comparison to elsewhere, in particular the spa (if you can really call it that). Try the Tamarind Springs for a real Thai Spa experience or one of the many places along the beach, much more reasonable and just as good! Overall a good resort.	No problems. I wasn t too keen on this resorts policy of taking full payment on arrival with no refund.
Rich Boerner 2005-12-17 until 2005-12-27	Zazen Boutique Resort & Spa, Bophut Beach What a gorgeous property! Pictures on the web are real. A lovely, small hotel with a great, warm feel. We stayed with our two children and other than clouds and wind had a great time. We did not get to experience the beach as the winds would not allow, but the spa and breakfast made up for it. An amazing morning breakfast. Try the banana muffins.	Simply put, impressive!! We had a problem that could have been real ugly, buy Sawadee handled it with class. There was a mistake in our booking and Sawadee had quoted us the price of an ajoining pair of rooms as one room. We confirmed prior to arriving with Sawadee and they had supported that it would be two rooms connecting at one room price. After we arrived and had stayed at the hotel the Zazen shared that it was a per room price and showed us their written policy. We gasped at the prospect of having to pay twice what we had been quoted from Sawadee. The hotel staff and I called Sawadee and sure enough they were good to their word. I just had to read off the email as they had quoted and they covered their share of the additional costs and admitted their error. What a class move by Sawadee. We will use them again and share this story with everyone we meet that plans to travel to Thailand. Thanks Sawadee!!