Solitaire Damnak Villa Hotel

Location is good.

The stay in this hotel went wrong on the very first minute, even before I arrived at the hotel, as I felt deceiving on me started before I arrived. When I went out of the airport arrival gate, I spotted the tuktuk driver holding a sign with my name wrongly spelt. What alerted me was not my name being spelled my wrongly, but was that the hotel’s name was not the one I booked, but the hotel owner’s other hotel, which has a worse location. It reminded me some of reviews by other travelers who used to stay in this hotel. I insisted that the driver should send me to the one I booked. When I arrived at the hotel, the receptionist said that they had no room for me and asked me to move to the other one with worse location. He said I could stay there for 1 night and move back for the rest of the days. I booked the hotel more than one month in advance, not the day before my arrival. I insisted to live in the room I booked. After negotiating for half an hour, finally I managed to live in the room I booked, and it was after midnight at the time. It is not the end of the story. In the evening of the second day, another hotel staff told me she wanted a talk when I went back from dinner. It looks like that she expected that what she was gonna say was not pleasant and took long time. Yes it was. She again asked me to move out, because the hotel wanted to receive a deal of a big group’s booking and they needed my room for my 2nd and 3rd nights. It is ridiculous. If the big group booked earlier than I did, then the hotel should not have accepted my booking. If the big group booked later than I did, why should I be the one to move out? The hotel staffs kept me in the lobby which is without AC and tried to persuade me to move out. I kept saying that I did not want to move out. After half an hour I decided I did not want to waste my time anymore, and went back to my room. The hotel first intentionally asked the tuktuk driver to send me to the wrong hotel.