Betong Hotels with Pools

Resort area is clean and tidy. Excellent. Rooms condition; rundown require serious upgrade. Lighting not fully function and toilet facilities require full upgrade. The bath tower is ages old. Need full upgrade in order to justify the price. Breakfast is top notch and delicious. Credit to the kitchen. Interesting resort.

My first road trip to Southern Thailand with my wife in early August 2019. We stayed at Mandarin Betong, a local owned hotel but it overall quality is comparable to international standard of a 4 Star but I was told it has been rated 5 Star in Betong. However, I did not see the display of Star at its reception area. Notwithstanding the rating, the hotel relatively inexpensive. It cost about RM100 for a double room. The food & beverages are also very reasonably priced with plenty of choices ranging from western, Thai, Chinese and also Malaysian food. The lobby is very tastefully designed with plenty of space for guests to relax while awaiting check-in or check-out. Parking space for both private cars or even coaches/buses are plenty and convenient. Betong Mandarin is located right next to the busy part of Betong commercial centre. Tourists just need a short walk to reach their favourite food outlets, shopping outlets and even the central wet markets which sell mango local agriculture produces. The town of Betong is well organised and this is the place where Malaysians from the northern region of Malaya like to frequent for a number of reasons. For the housewives, the food stuff, and kitchen appliances are the major objectives of their visits. For the single, Betong is a good place for a short trip to distress. Night life is free and easy with plenty of night clubs and massage parlours. Betong has also become a preferred tourist attraction to foreigners because of its greenery and comparatively it is also less expansive than other part of Thailand like Pataya, Phuket, Bangkok, etc.

Hotel room is huge but has mouldy smell. Found 2 dead cockroaches in the toilet. Made a call to the receptionist to clear the dead cockroaches and went off for dinner. They did spray freshener in the toilet but never cleared away the dead cockroaches. Have to call them again to removed it. We went off early for our day tour the next day. After came back, the bed is made up half way, with the sheet on the table (forgot or expect us to put ourselves). And during night time, when I shower, I realise the towel looks dirty and with holes. The worst part is the towel (looks more like rag to me) is smelly, as if someone had used it before and never wash (suspect they purposely give us used towels / cleaning rags because of last night incident). Too bad I forgot to take the photo to attach here. I was so angry and called them to replace the towel immediately after my shower. Towel replaced was very clean and smell nice this time. And during the night, 1 cockroach fly onto our bed and disappeared under our bed while we try to catch it! Highly recommend not to stay in this unhygienic hotel. Where as for breakfast buffet, only few varieties and not enough for the guest!