Sentido Khaolak

Everything was perfect, great location and breakfast. Clean room and great staff.

Very good service staff,comfortable rooms, fully equipped gym. Breakfast is a la carte, nothing special. The beach in front of the hotel is very beautiful, clean, able to swim.

The location was fantastic, the staff were amazing. The hotel was very clean plenty of sun beds on sea front and pools. The sea and pools were like hot baths. I think the hotel is on the edge of the jungle as the insects and animals are everywhere . I got bit quite a lot for me Ants etc. I applied all sorts of repellent but found on the last couple of days skin so soft from Avon seemed to work best. We were bed and breakfast which was very good with a selection for all tastes. Restaurants are close by some straight across the road and others 5 mins ride or 10 mins walk all good. The hotel restaurant food was excellent . We did the Elephant feeding, jungle safari and James Bond Island trips all very enjoyable, the swim in the jungle waterfall was the only time I was cool. I managed to sweat for 2 weeks solid due to the humidity. We had the odd thunder storm which passed after half an hour in the afternoon. We also went to coco beach very good we all had a massage. The hotel changed its name from TUI blu on 1st of May this had no effect on us at all. The pool aerobics were good. And the gym good but better to stand in for a cool down during the day.

I really liked this resort. I was given a Hollywood King room which I don't normally like as it is two single beds put together with a mattress topper. I would prefer a proper King bed or a Queen. In saying that the bed was comfortable. Instead of having a king doona, the bed unfortunately had two single doonas, so I asked for a King doona and was given one promptly. I was in a Grande deluxe room which had a lovely view of the sea, lovely bathroom and very modern with a nice private balcony. The air-conditioning was fabulous. The resort has 5 pools with one of the pools being higher up the hill, which was nearby to my room and hardly anyone used it so it was nice and private. Pools are varying depths. There are stairs to get up and down these rooms or you can use the lift. The only issue I had on the first day was after being escorted and shown my room, I got lost when I went out of the room and struggled to find my way back due to the design of the walkways and stairs on this side of the resort. Some better signage would have been invaluable as it was hot and humid and I had to traverse numerous steps trying to find where my room was again. There are various types of rooms including bungalows although the bungalows are made up of two rooms side by side. This would be beneficial to families who want two rooms. I thought the breakfast was lovely and a good range. I ate lunch and dinner at the resort most days as the cost was reasonable. There was another restaurant but I didn't eat there for dinner but did eat outside a couple of times for lunch which was nice. If you eat outside in the evening take some insect repellant. Resort right on the beach although rocks around, but if you stick to swimming between the flags you will be okay. When I went there was always a sunbed that was free. I know some other reviewers lamented the fact people would reserve sun lounges. Well guests are not supposed to reserve sun lounges so if ignorant people do you are free to use the sunbed. If it is not being used it isn't theirs and all guests are given information at time of booking that sun loungers are not to be reserved. I had some nice massages at the day spa. This resort is close to shops, about a five minute walk. I saw some of the other resorts in Khao Lak when I went on a day tour and they weren't close to shops so I thought this resort was in a good position. There is also a medical clinic 10 minute walk away which I had to use one evening. If you need an iron and board housekeeping are more than happy to bring one to your room. The staff are lovely and helpful.

Going here, you probably want to spend time on a sun chair by the beach. Forget it unless you are prepared to walk down to the chairs st 07:30. Even if they have a no-reserving-policy, people put their towels an some dum item pretending they are around. Get MORE sun chairs! The personell in charge don’t dare to remove the reservings. To many people in the the same location. Unless you are a german/swedish charter tourist that enjoy noisy and crowded all-inclusive buffets…avoid this hotel.