Chaba Inn Srinakarin

Good

It was nothing like the pictures. The building was quite old and didn’t look like it did in the photos, so I was really disappointed. There was one light in the bathroom that didn’t work. I reported it twice, but nothing was done. The floor drain also had a very bad smell. The floor slopes in one direction while the floor drain is in another, causing water to pool in the corner. The walls are quite thin, so I could clearly hear noise from the neighboring room. Overall, the building and facilities felt rather low-quality, and the service wasn’t impressive either. The only good thing was the air conditioning. That’s about it.

Was everything great only There is a smell of sewage on the second floor, but the room is clean.

Check-in was interesting. The guy got me to sign the form, then handed me a key card, which had a faded room number on it. He didn't tell me my room number, my floor, where the lift was, or which direction to head in. Just handed me the key and turned around and continued his work. All the room numbers start with a 2, but there's only 1 building as far as I can tell. The 2nd digit is the floor number. The hotel smells - my local friend refused to wait in the lobby for me, he sat in his car. My room smelled really bad - like you could taste it. Eventually I realised the smell (like a wet dog) was mostly coming from the bathroom, and if I kept the bathroom door closed, the room was a bit better. I couldn't keep the towels in the bathroom because they absorbed the smell. I don't think the bathroom walls have ever been cleaned. There were layers of streaks of grime coating the walls, and mold growing around the base of the sink. I tolerated all this for a few days, but when the cleaner entered my room, without knocking, while I was sleeping, with the Do Not Disturb sign on the door. That was the last straw for me. If the bathroom was clean, and there was no awful smell, and the staff actually could see a big red sign that says Do Not Disturb, and actually honour it, it would be a decent stay. The room itself was relatively clean. Oh, and the walls and ceilings are paper thin. My neighbours were going at it hard at all sorts of hours. At one point I was on a video call with a colleague in Iceland, and he could hear the moaning through the walls. And also the dog in the room above that was playing with a squeaky toy and runing around and crashing in the furniture. All of this was happening around 3am! It's a bit far from everything too, so also don't stay here if you want easy access to any attractions. I have pics that I wanted to attach to this review, but the Add Photos button above is greyed out for some reason.