On New Years Day we drove to a resort just to the south of Pattaya. The Ambassador City Resort is huge, definitely the biggest I’ve stayed in, bigger than Circus Circus in Vegas.
Sadly that is were the comparison with a great Hotel ends. There was definitely a feeling of a hangover from the night before, we tried four of the Hotels restaurants at lunch time to get a meal and in one the food looked so shit as not to bother, another was closed and the other two, after a thirty minute wait to be served we gave up and went into town and ate at Cabbages and Condoms.
The evening was a little better, with an international buffet which was quite nice. The hotel seemed full of Russian guests. Even though they looked western, there is still a cultural divide, saying hello in the lift will be met with a stony glance at best, very little chit chat among guests and no knotted handkerchief hats!
The resort had a nice beach and plenty of water sports, car parking was great and the room was also ok. We had a problem with the Aircon and the phone, once reported both problems were sorted. When the Housekeeper came to see the problem and saw we had Elizabeth, she arranged for a cot to be bought up.
Again breakfast was ok, a good buffet with a 4/10 fry up available. I might stay at the Ambassador again, maybe the day after New Years Eve isn’t the best time to judge a Hotel.
Sadly that is were the comparison with a great Hotel ends. There was definitely a feeling of a hangover from the night before, we tried four of the Hotels restaurants at lunch time to get a meal and in one the food looked so shit as not to bother, another was closed and the other two, after a thirty minute wait to be served we gave up and went into town and ate at Cabbages and Condoms.
The evening was a little better, with an international buffet which was quite nice. The hotel seemed full of Russian guests. Even though they looked western, there is still a cultural divide, saying hello in the lift will be met with a stony glance at best, very little chit chat among guests and no knotted handkerchief hats!
The resort had a nice beach and plenty of water sports, car parking was great and the room was also ok. We had a problem with the Aircon and the phone, once reported both problems were sorted. When the Housekeeper came to see the problem and saw we had Elizabeth, she arranged for a cot to be bought up.
Again breakfast was ok, a good buffet with a 4/10 fry up available. I might stay at the Ambassador again, maybe the day after New Years Eve isn’t the best time to judge a Hotel.
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