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3 out of 5
Varin Beach Resort
171 Moo 7 T.Koh Sarai, Muang Satun Koh Lipe, Satun

Reviews

7.2

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 32 out of 177 reviews" "
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Rating 4 - Poor. 19 out of 177 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 9 out of 177 reviews" "

7.0/10

Cleanliness

7.2/10

Staff & service

6.6/10

Amenities

7.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

6.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

4/10 Poor

Rob

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Terrible breakfast. Rock solid beds!
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disorganised
The hotel is very disorganized. Rooms not available on time. I had to queue for over an hour at the front desk to check in. The site is neglected. Rubbish and building material lying around the resort. Not good.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2024

6/10 Okay

Cassie

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Room was a good size and clean enough but the grounds were dirty and scruffy. Staff were so unfriendly and u helpful. Checkin took 45 minutes. One person had an issue with his room an the receptionist pretended she didnt understand English even though she had just been having a perfect convention with another person in English 2 minutes priorr to his complaint. The location is great but i th island is that small it doesnt matter whwreyou stay pool also only has 8 beds even though it has 100s of guests so unless u get there at 8am there is no piint using it
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Christopher

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worth the money
Convenient - at the beach, steps away from the ferry dock. Great breaskfast options except for the really long queue for coffee as yhere is only one coffee machine for real coffee asidde from instant. Next to the walking - all in all good place.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Neno

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Clean very helpful staff great service
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Allanah

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Only stayed one night but would go back nice private bungalow good aircon , excellant location right on beach and near walking street
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

SEAN

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Beds are hard as a rock. Location & staff are amazing.
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Ricardo

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great swimming pool. Nice breakfast buffet! Excelent location. In front of the beach, next to Walking Street. Lots of rooms options.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2023

4/10 Poor

Panayotis

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Would not recommend
Good location and has potential but feels forgotten about. Bad breakfast. Bad communication with reception. Banging on door to kick you out at 10am.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

8/10 Good

Rury, Bangkok

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is our third time or maybe fourth time at Varin Beach Resort we always come back here for the good price, excellent location, friendly and helpful staff. Areas of improvement is the food which they lack a bit of western dishes, they do try but still a long way to go, but they're super friendly so it goes a long way in making us feel welcome. We will definitely come back to Varin Beach hopefully end of the year
Stayed 5 nights in Dec 2021

2/10 Terrible

Zackary

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Not recommended
The resort itself is fine - good location, nice pool area, nice lobby. But the "deluxe" room was horribly uncomfortable, with the hardest bed I have slept on in Asia. I ended the trip here halfway through and moved to another hotel - that is how bad the bed was. Three nights of sleeping on that "mattress" and my neck hurt so badly I could barely move. When I checked out 3 days early, the staff did not even bother to ask why. The resort has some nice amenities, but the beds in their deluxe rooms are so bad that it ruined the experience.
Stayed 6 nights in Jan 2020

8/10 Good

Sandra

Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2019

6/10 Okay

Frances

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Okay stay given the entire island is expensive
Positives: - room looked like pictures for most part - big enough room - pool area was nice - big breakfast selection Negatives: - check in and out was incredibly slow - staff seemed slightly rude and it wasn’t a language barrier - when we arrived at the hotel before we were even allowed to step in to the lobby we were hassled by a staff member wanting to see our email to confirm booking before. - pool area could have had some more sun loungers given the size of the resort
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We really liked the breakfast buffet, especially the thai dishes, but it's lacking good coffee. Also, breakfast only until 10 is not good for people who like to sleep long and checkout until 10 is also too early in my opinion. Room was good, staff friendly and helpful and the pool is also nice.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

MOHD HAFIZ

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Comfort
Very nice hotel. Location is very near the Walking Street. However, there's no kettle at the room. So if you travel with baby, is not really recommended. Or perhaps need to choose other type of room instead. Overall its a comfort stay.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2019

6/10 Okay

Mark

Stayed 7 nights in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

George

Liked: Staff & service
Price over rated for what you get at the resort.
The resort looks new but the inside of the rooms is not new and bed was not comfortable and looks old for a new place . Aircon was not working well , also looks like an old one and wifi is not working in the rooms , only at the reception.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2019

8/10 Good

Bethany

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Budget wonderful Bungalow with excellent pool!
I booked the Deluxe Villa, but most important to me is location so I’ll start with that. It has the perfect location for you to get anywhere. The island isn’t big, but a 15 min walk to walking street can get annoying after a few days. This hotel is right next to immigration when you get to the island, and the first resort on the beach next to the beginning of walking street. The Deluxe Villa has AC, a cute setup out front. Table and chairs, towel rack etc. the showers are a bit dated but they are just fine for a bungalow! The pool is excellent and nice change from salt water if you like that. Also open at night! There are many kids during the day, but no noise at night. The only thing is I felt uncomfortable at check in, every time I tried to speak with them they would say something to each other and start laughing. After bwing in Thailand for a month, I realize this is the way when they don’t understand you, and let’s be honest I should know their language if I’m in their country.... but it would have been nice to have some way to communicate. Google translate didn’t work for them either.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2019

8/10 Good

Martin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Martin
Perfect location on a beautiful island Rooms need a fridge and.kettle otherwise fine The speedboat conection is a death trap,overbooked and driven by a maniac-it’s a disaster waiting to happen
Stayed 7 nights in Feb 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2019

10/10 Excellent

Jesse

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing place
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Thomas

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Koh Lipe
I have stayed here before. It’s a great location right on the beach, but a bit of a walk if in a back building. It’s a large complex. If you want a minibar you need to pay a 300 baht upgrade so cold beer off property. There’s still only Thai channels on TV, but with the beautiful beach who cares.
Stayed 9 nights in Jan 2019

6/10 Okay

Navaneetharajah

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Generally Good But rooms do not have Wi-Fi signal
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2019

6/10 Okay

vincent

Disspointed
the location is ideal.but the resort restaurant food really taste awful.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2019

10/10 Excellent

Casper

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
In front of beach. Next to walking street ...good breakfast spread, and taste good, especially local food
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

Alex

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great value for this Top Resort!
We felt very welcome, local area it’s perfect, worderful pool, everything was awesome! I recommend!
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotel is very close to the beach, the staffs are very friendly and helpful. The rooms look better in real compared to the pictures posted online.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Leonardo

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very good location
Very clean basic but clean room in a good location
Stayed 5 nights in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
I booked room using expedia. When i reach there i upgrade the room and the staff was very good.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Wayne

Great location, right on the beach and next to walking street. Room was in new standard block at rear and was large, bright, clean and quiet. Strangely, especially for location, no bar or restaurant ! Only negatives are no tea/coffee making in room or black out blinds which were both advertised on website and no sunbeds on beach, which all other hotels of this type had. Would stop here again though because of location and price.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2018
Response from VR2 on 30 Nov 2018
Thank you for your comment Air S/D not have tea/coffee but Air deluxe ,Air Superior and Air villa have , for make up room the staff will inform when customer check in that , If customer want to make up room ,please inform to reception before 12.00

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Room wasn’t that great very basic and the bathroom was covered in mould. Good for the purpose and location was great. Service was good and they tried to accommodate us as much as Possible.
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2018

8/10 Good

Billy, Australia

Liked: Property conditions & facilities
I love the location of the hotel right on the beach next to walking street, great swimming pool . This is where you would love to stay. Staff nice and friendly especially a beautiful young girl sorry I forgot name but have SUN IN HER NAME. She should be the teacher for reception as she greeted with true Thai hospitality.
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2018

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2018

10/10 Excellent

Bazilah, Malaysia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
located close to walking street
This resort located very closed to walking street. The room is clean, comfy and suitable for couples but not for family since the space is too small. We enjoyed our 2 nights at there. Breakfast is served with delicious local food. Overall, we are very happy with the location and services.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2018

4/10 Poor

WENG KOOI

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lousy hotel in koh lipe
No coffee at all in room.. how to survive? Just a few cents coffee packs cant give! No way named a hotel.. breakiees was like market.. never feel like going back.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2018

6/10 Okay

Amber

Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
OK Hotel, but nothing special
This is a very basic, bare bones hotel. I wouldn't bother waking up for breakfast. It's really not very good unless you just want watermelon and pineapple and nescafe. I originally had a bunglaow with a fan but the bathroom smelled pretty bad, it's a bucket flush toilet which is no big deal but I opted to upgrade to a room with AC. The design of the mid range bunglaows is pretty terrible. Random furniture, the dresser was a werid entertainment center with drawers that didn't really open and a closet that was so small I couldn't fit my suitcase inside. No Side tables next to the bed. So i asked to upgrade a switch to a premium King Bungalow which was much better but still very basic. The location is super convenient to the walking street. The pool was nice and clean. I had to work and Wifi in the rooms (All 3 that I had during my 5 night stay) was hit or miss. You really had to go to the lobby if you needed a decent connection. All in all it was OK... not great but mediocre so if you get the room on sale, I'd say decent value.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2018

10/10 Excellent

Thomas

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Koh Lipe Stay
The hotel is located right on this very beautiful beach. You could not ask or want a prettier setting. The hotel is a basic hotel with limited features, no bar or restaurant no real problem with many places close by. It has a nice open lobby and large pool area. The place is rather large so a bit of a walk from the economy units to the front. The buffet breakfast is large, but limited items for western tastes. The Wi-Fi worked well and the TV was good with limited English channels. The only thing I missed was a minibar. There's nothing better when in the tropics than a cold drink of water after time on the beach.
Stayed 7 nights in Jan 2018

10/10 Excellent

HM, Malaysia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Std Room:Muslim-Friendly, Convenient & Recommended
Just few steps away from the immigration post (right), walking street entrance (left) and the beach (front) , not hard to find it , its in the middle , near to everything . Muslim-and-family-friendly hotel , there's a staff who can speak Malay as well . Hassle-free checkin and checkout process plus welcome drinks . No security deposit if you let them keep your id (driving licence and etc) or 500thb for security deposit if you dont . All the food they served here are Halal . Its a non-smoking building , include the lobby , rooms , toilets , pools , dining hall and walkway . Easy to say , No Smoking throughout the building . But don't worry , they do provide smoking area at the dining hall and opposite the swimming pool , or you can just walk outside of the building and to the walking street . Luggage storage service provided , you can leave your bags and have a walk before checkin or after checkout (free) . The room is great , clean and tidy , smells nice (since its a non-smoking room) , spacious , with hot shower and air conditioning , clothes racks provided outside of the window to hang your wet clothes , and we had a very comfortable sleep ... Their iced chocolate was very nice too . Its just , if you book for a Standard Room , it is far from the lobby and it takes minutes to walk . Their breakfast selection was not much , local taste , need to be improved but acceptable . Checkout time is 10am , the swimming pool open until 9pm and no bidet spray at the public toilet.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2017

6/10 Okay

Marcello

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service
La pulizia della camera non esiste !!!!! La colazione e dedicata a una clientela cinese
Stayed 11 nights in Feb 2024

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Thea

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2024

6/10 Okay

shinhwa

Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

2/10 Terrible

Indy

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Slecht onderhouden park, vuilnis voor de huisjes. Ontbijt was meer dan slecht; 1 koffie apparaat dus minimaal 20min wachten voor koffie, het personeel doet zijn best maar kan het niet bijbenen met alles bijvullen. Kwaliteit van eten was laag. We waren voorbereid door andere reviews op onaardig personeel maar dat viel best mee!
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Traute Veronika

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Die Unterkunft hat eine tolle Lage,wird gut geführt....freundliches Personal!Und hat es super gut gefallen können die Anlage weiterempfehlen! Danke!
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2024

2/10 Terrible

Maria

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

6/10 Okay

Josephine

Travelled with family
Liked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Bra läge, stor pool
Fräsch rum, skön säng, fin stor pool. Ligger precis vid pattayabeach dit man kommer med båten och precis vid walking street men ej högljutt, bra läge! Gott med thai pannkakor (Roti) till frukost. Fanns mycket att välja på till frukost (thai och västerländskt) men tråkig miljö, skolmatsalskänsla med hårdplasttallrikar och muggar. Jättelångsamt kaffemaskin (fanns bara 1), var alltid kö dit, jag valde pulverkaffe.. Snålt att man måste betala 50 baht per timme för lekrummet. Såg ina andra än vi som var där och lekte under dessa 5 dagar. Lite skräpigt på området (skräp som låg kvar under alla 5 dagar vi var där). Mycket tog lång tid, tex när jag skulle betala för lekrummet så tog det lång tid att få växeln (betalade 100 baht), lång tid att checka ut. Som helhet en bra vistelse men finns saker som de kan jobba på.
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2024

4/10 Poor

Ilmari

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Alusta loppuun melko karmea kokemus
Halusimmekin viettää suunniteltua useamman päivän kauniila Koh Lipellä, joten varasimme hintahaitariimme osuvan hotellin aivan piikkipaikalta Pattaya beachiltä. Saavuttuamme hotelliin, karu totuus majapaikasta lävähti silmille. Palvelu respassa oli karmeaa, sekä hotellin aula-alue oli suoraan sanoen painajaismainen😅 Yllätykseksemme joku aulapojista viittoi meidät golf-kärryyn, joka kurvasi meidät läpi kasaan kuivuneen ja likaisen puutarha-alueen perimmäiseen nurkkaan nuhjuisen pienkerrostalon pihaan, jonka pihapiiri oli kuin rakennustyömaa ilman rakentamista. Kaveri saattoi meidät ylempään kerrokseen muovituolirykelmän läpi. Huoneemme oli kuitenkin siisti, ja ilmeisesti äskettäin ehkä remontoitu. Kylpyhuone ei ollut, mutta tarvittavat asiat eli suihku, wc ja käsienpesuallas löytyivät. Huoneessa ei ollut jääkaappia eikä roskakoria. Sängyn lakanat olivat sänkyyn liian pienet. Ilmastointi huoneessa oli, ja se toimikin moitteetta. Aamupala oli kuin hankalasta komediasta. Kiitos kun saatiin käydä, jatkossa menemme kuitenkin muualle😁
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness
Hyggeligt familie sted
God placering af hotellet. Fint med pool af en Ok størrelse, lige ved stranden. Fine små hytter med hvad man skal bruge. Hyggeligt stille hotel område. Der mangler (der er ingen) sol stole på stranden, og parasoller ved poolen.
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2023