Nantra De Boutique Pattaya

The hotel is situated quite close to the beach, good restaurants and small shops, but in a street where not many people come. This is quite ideal. When you arrive there you see it's not too big. This, combined with the fact that the staff is very friendly (although most don't really speak English very well) and the first view of the hotel breathes tranquillity makes you feel relaxed almost instantly. Unfortunatelly I must also mention a few downsides:My room was situated at ground level, right by the pool. The door was very weathered and the room is VERY poorly isolated against noise.The refridgeratorwas also noisy, and close to the hotel lots of work is going on at buildings. Since the hotel is so poorly isolated, I heard everything from that loudly.I must admit that people have told me that most hotels in Thailand are pretty noisy, so that shouldn't neccessarilly be a bad side for this specific hotel. The mattress was way too hard for me, but that's personal.The room itself really was big and looked quite luxurious. Unfortunatelly there is some lack of maintanance here and there. The drain of the sink is leaking and the fan for fresh air in the bathroom has some dirt in it, so I didn't turn it on, but there was a bag of fresh smelling herbs hanging under it, so the bathroom always did smell quite nice. The room itself and the bathroom always were cleaned very well every day.Behind the room there was some sort of little sauna which I haven't used. The roof there is leaking a bit and since the roof is made of thin waveplates (under which a little branch of a tree was coming through), there was even much noise there than in the room itself.I must admit that the lack of maintanance actually did give it some charm. If everything is absolutely perfect, I'd feel as if I was in an expensive European hotel. This actually made it a bit more special and "right" if I look at my earlier experiences in Thailand.Back to the good things: I really must put emphasis on how friendly and helpful the staff is. They do not charge you extra if you bring a visitor with you for the night and call someone if there are language problems, even at night! They really do care about you feeling well there. They also like to chat with you now and then.I may go back there some time, even if the hotel does have downsides.

Pros: Good location, only 100 meters from the beach road and very near to alcazar and tiffany show theatres. hotel staff was very friendly and helpful. if there is any reason for me to again visit this hotel, it will be its staff's helpful attitude.
Cons: The hotel was not exactly on the sea shore which was not what i thought from the website. if your only interest is to visit the walking street, then it is not the ideal location.