Think & Retro Cafe Lipa Noi Samui

Think & Retro cafe is very cosy, has remote and peopleless location (whole beach to ourselves!!!), and the best cuisine I’ve met in Thailand so far))) I was apprehensive about accommodation before coming, as in my experience containers are usually too small and too hot for comfortable living. But guys made wonders with them! They made double roof, which prevents containers from heating and also controls noise (otherwise during rain it would be like living inside drum))) ). So rooms are generally quiet and cool (conditioning is your friend). Through all stay we were literary the only ones on a beach for 100-200 m! It felt fantastical not to worry about children or too eager students and just lay lazily on the water. Small supermarket is across the road, plenty cafes in hotels in short beach walk, motorbike rental and excursions office are in 15-20 min walk. Hotel staff is very helpful, and can order taxi for you (trip to nearest town is 400 bahts one way). We tried other cafes around, also in Lamai and Boput: Think & Retro cafe was both best value for money (cheapest except for market food) and most delicious))) in fact, it was the most delicious out of all cafes I’ve tried in Thailand in all my trips (Phuket, Samui, Bangkok).

My sister was worried about housekeeping: they take out trash once in 2-3 days, and did not clean bathroom through all our stay. I’m ok with that since trash did not contain anything smelly anyway, and bathroom was pretty clean (we are not too piggy :) ), but for someone it might be a problem. Upon arrival rooms were clean.