Expat Hotel

The ExPat hotel is a small hotel with rooms situated on 2-3 floors around a small swimming pool. It is in a very good (surprisingly quiet) location close to all the activity of the Bangla Road and a short walk to the beach.
Our room was a “deluxe room” on the ground floor room with air-conditioning, ceiling fan, fridge/mini-bar, TV (with a selection of English speaking channels), comfortable bed, and a basic bathroom (hot water electric shower but no plug for the sink and no shower curtain).
Towels and bed linen were changed daily (even on New Year’s Day!). There was a cupboard with a reasonable amount of hanging space (lots of hangers) but no decent sized drawer space. A room safe was available free of charge. We had a small patio with a table and two chairs but no drying facilities inside or out.
The pool area was very pleasant with plenty of (free) sunbeds and seating areas and there was a reasonably priced onsite restaurant and bar (but beware - happy hour often seemed to end before the stated times after you'd already ordered another drink!)
All in all this hotel provided clean, basic accommodation and the only thing that let it down were the erratic power-cuts (we had 4 in one week), some of which lasted several hours and which of course meant the fan and air-con didn’t work - in temperatures of 35 degrees plus this would put me off staying at the ExPat hotel again.