Dear Mike,
We are still in Singapore and not back to Jakarta yet from our Angkor Wat trip. Below is my comments of this trip:
Siem Reap
Our Guide, Mr. Sophan is a very nice guy. His English is pretty good and easy to understand. He is always trying to help and overall we are impressed with his attitude and personality. He has good knowledge of the temples we visited. I give him a point of 9 out of 10.
Hotel, Prince D’Angkor: Location of Hotel is great. Breakfast is ok. Room is too small to call it a Junior Suite. I don’t like a few things of this Hotel:
Lots of Mosquitoes around the Hotel. There were some mosquitoes in our bed room.
No Elevator in our wing. We requested a room on the 3rd floor (the highest floor in that wing) to avoid the mosquitoes and found out we had to go up and down by stairs as there is no elevator. After a long day visiting temples, going up on stairs was not the most enjoyable things to do.
We experienced a lot of rains (of course, it is rainy season now). To go to our room in the Hotel, we have to cross an uncovered area and get wet from the rain. The Hotel didn’t even put umbrellas in that area to be used by us.
The facility in the Hotel is not well maintained. Pool table is not in good shape. They don’t even provide Chalk for the stick. I asked about this and my request seems to be ignored.
Overall, I give a score of 6 for this hotel.
C Angkor Wat and other temples: Our 3 favorite temples: Ta Phrom, Bayon, and Angkor Wat. We do believe, 2 days Temples visit may be more than enough for average visitors. 3 days is too long and too much. Other than the temples, nothing much to see in the area.
Bus Trip from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh: No scenery to see along the 5-1/2 trip. The land is Flat.
PhnomPenh:
Guide Ms. Vitheany: Her English is pretty good with clear pronunciation. I can’t comment much on her as she was with us for only 4 hours.
Hotel: AmanJaya: The Junior Suite room we had is very good. Size is big (60 m2 ?) and room is much cleaner than the Prince D’Angkor. Location is great, right across the Mekong River (remind me of the Majestic Hotel in HoChiMinh City. I give a high mark for the Hotel, it’s worthed the price.
Visited the Palace and National Museum. Ok but not excellent.
We made a city tour using TukTuk from in front of the Hotel. It is quite enjoyable and feel much safer as the driver is known by the Hotel attendant.
Mike, Thanks for the Service. Overall, your service has been great with the same quality we experienced in our Vietnam tour last March. I will contact you again if we are going back to Vietnam or Laos/ Burma next time.
Kind regards,
Sumanto Hartanto and family