I like that they covered the roofs of villas and beach-side buildings with grass to look more natural. They certainly incorporated instagramalbe elements into the design like the pool lights and lobby view. That's not a bad thing - just a recognition that people want to post photos of themselves while on vacation.
Since this video was 2 years ago and maybe some are looking for somewhere to stay in Samui, I thought I would give my two cents’ worth after staying for a couple nights in June 2024. The beach is quite a bit bigger now and the single row of deck chairs have been shifted down onto the beach. There is also a pontoon of sorts where guests can walk further out to the water for swimming or snorkelling. The Sesun beach bar is more integrated into the beach as there is more beachfront seating and a more open concept as the plants dividing the beach and Sesun have been removed. Food is generally excellent, the breakfast buffet is extensive and its quality matches up to it. I would go to the extent to say that there is just way too much good food. The seafood served at Sesun is amazing too. Rooms are still kept in immaculate condition with not a scratch to be found. The sea view rooms are definitely the best and worth the premium. I would even say they are better than the villas as there is not much difference. The pool, however was strangely cloudy during my stay and the water tasted salty. They probably used poorly filtered seawater to fill the pool, so please take note. However, the pool is still generally clean but due to the amount of people you can’t expect a crystal clear and pristine pool sadly. I would say that’s the low point of the resort. This place itself can be considered a high-end resort, but due to the crowds the feeling of exclusivity is lowered and can only be said as a typical property for families. The staff are really fast, kind and helpful in their service. It was about $250 sgd per night, which was really cheap as we booked last minute. After 2 years I think my score for this place would be 92/100 with the main cons being the crowds and huge families. However if you know how to strategise and manage the crowds it wouldn’t be much of an issue.
Also one of my favorite tracks. It is "What Makes Us Human" by The World In Between... but it is a licensable track from Artlist.io, so you might not be able to access it without a sub to their services. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Being a vacation property in an island, it seems ok to me serving breakfast at 7:00am! Love the grounds. And, even if only to have breakfast, I wana be there...
This is the second review of this property l have watched but by far the best! The sunrise views nature at its finest! Also the Sesun restaurant was closed in the other review which was more recent than this video. The soup was made from green split pea or fresh pea hence the colour. The back of the lobby overlooking the beach and pool area is it an optical illusion or is there no barrier? That's a scary drop for s small child if no safety barrier 🤔. Another beautiful cinematic experience through your lens👍
Ah yeah for the Pistou I was just surprised because normally Pistou soup looks like a cross between Italian Wedding and Minestrone soups. Still tasty though. In the lobby there was no barrier but you’d have to step in water to get right up to the edge.
I love your video reviews! They are edited just so perfectly and high quality. I am traveling to Ko Samui in 2 weeks and viewing most of your videos. I wish though you had covered resorts in Bophut beach or close by to it, as I plan to be next to Fisherman village.
That beach walk looks exactly like KO O'Lina Disney Resort in West Oahu. The hotel is AMAZING! Beach looks very much not disreable, compared with Bellow's or Kailua on Oahu or Bora Bora
Thank you for the review. Now i know what to expect at this hotel as I will be going there for the Christmas 2022. A bit disappointed on the beach which is not white sandy beach of which koh Samui is famous for. I am sure you had plenty of exercise for going up and down the hill for breakfast lunch and dinner. :P
My room/status wouldn’t have given me access to the club either way, but it wasn’t yet open during my stay. I believe it opened the week after I was there. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
@@tfft I hope you soon will get to globalist! You deserve it with such great videos! Another Hyatt Regency I love and highly recommend is the Hyatt Regency Ayla in Aqaba jordan if you can make it one day....
Nice video of a really lovely hotel. One suggestion - quieter, less "specific" music. Something more atmospheric and slower... the current piano track gets repetitive and nervous, and it becomes unlistenable if the video is played back at higher speed (which some of us do when we want to see quickly the whole video, slowing at times of more interest).
@@tfft You've clearly made a very serious effort to provide useful content (and honestly, good hotels reviews are extremely valuable!), so I'll give some more feedback. Your voice is fine. It's a bit lacking in dynamics or excitement, mainly because it sounds like you are reading a script. Probably you wrote a script and read it for voiceovers (which is generally better than people who ad-lib "um" "so" and so fort). On the other hand, a sense of "live" is more engaging. Also, live shows a bit of one's quirks and nature, which can actually endear audiences. One of the best tour guides is Aquaholic, who does boat tours. If you can capture his speaking approach to tours, I think you'll level up. And if you stay the same, that's actually quite fine as you're off to a very good start. Just calm the music ;).
It wasn’t fully operational during my stay- I think I it actually officially opened on the day I checked out but I didn’t have access anyway... Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Very nice and detailed review! I have question though, Is the pool in the villa fully private or can be seen from the beach side or pedestrians or staff ?
There is a path you can see in the video that runs from the main beach area to the rocks where I filmed the sunrise which runs directly in front of the villas. The villas are set back and higher up than the path. It's easy to catch a glance in either direction but in order for someone to really see what was going on in the villa they'd need to obviously be trying to do it. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
"His and hers, his and his, hers and hers or theirs" 😄 Good to see your channel is inclusive!! I'm not a fan of a clear wall surrounding the toilet, what's the point of even having a screen if it's clear🤷♀️. The TV looks odd in the room on that stand, lm no interior designer but there is surely a better place for it aesthetically. The whole resort is Instagramable no need for those silly metal photo frames when it is framed already👍
Hello Kevin, can you explain what it means to be „in the club“ / to have „access to the club“. Been thinking of booking a room in this resort, thanks to your report :-)
Many Hyatt hotels have clubs which only certain guests can access depending on their guest status or the category of room they stay in. The clubs are separate indoor/outdoor spaces which always offer breakfast and afternoon drinks/canapes and sometimes much more.
Great video review, and I'm a fan of your videos and really appreciate your honest feedback given in all your videos. However, I am scratching my head a bit based on the higher rating you gave the Sala Chaweng over this particular Hyatt Regency resort. Granted it's not an entirely apples to apples comparison as it would have been more suitable to be able to compare the Hyatt's base rooms to the room you stayed at the Sala Chaweng. At the end of the day, I guess ratings can be subjective and also a bit based on personal taste I gather
The only reason I had a villa at the Hyatt is because of the damage from the heavy rains- it wasn’t a typical upgrade. If it was an on arrival upgrade then yes perhaps it would have been higher, but the normal price of the villa at the time was more than double the price of the room I had at Sala. I try not to assess based on my own tastes, but rather if it is ‘as sold’ and relative to the price I paid. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
How far is this hotel from Chaeng Beach? What 2 or 3 high end resorts on Chaeng beach would you recommend? Thank you very much! Robert (I live on Jomtien beach, Thailand - next to Pattaya)
It’s about 3km north of Chaweng (what I assume you mean). You can check out the Sala Chaweng and Vana Belle resorts on my channel. Both directly on Chaweng. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
We went for a quiet beer or two at the beach bar around midday. Pleasant at first but then blasted by a DJ who set up, playing to the 3 people present at full volume. Asked him to turn it down so we could chat but this didnt work! We left, peed off!
@@tfft wow we will need to compare notes. Airport transfer driver was late, they gave me a mouldy room at check in at 10pm, I asked for a room change it took 2 hours only to put me back in the same room. I waited more than 24 hours for someone to come address the issue but no one came. After that fiasco, my whole family got food poisoning 2 days into our stay, from their beach restaurant and we know for sure because we hadn't left the resort since we got there and we know exactly what it was. I asked to speak with the GM and he basically palmed me off to another manager without even a proper handover. Someone cooking the food is severely under qualified to do so. I then checked google reviews to see if this was an isolated issue... Take a look for yourself, it has a sleuw of food poisoning complaints. I travel alot and have never experienced such a horrific management. I've been to Thailand probably 15 times, never had food poisoning before.
Every country/brand/organization gives out stars differently. I remember when Zannier Bãi San Hô was categorized as 3 star for it's first 6 months haha... so I just 'assign' them what I think they're trying to go for :) Thanks for watching 🙏
…is just… completely relevant in 2021 when Test & Go was in it’s first month, the government regulations were very clear and all 12 other properties I visited in Thailand on the trip followed their own protocols 100%? Yes, I agree. Has nothing to do with fear. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
This resort is too isolated. You pay a hefty premium to stay there. Then you have to spend lots of money on transportation. Plus, fight for pool and beach chairs. Not a good experience or value.
We gave it a fantastic review and score. If that’s moody, sick with life, and “a boring,” then we’ll take it everyday of the week! Plenty of other sponsored channels with stock footage, press release details and AI narrators out there for your perusal. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
My wife and I are planning a trip to Thailand and are so appreciative of your thorough and opinionated reviews. Thank you.
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"I tried" at 2:54 🤗- little creative things like this are what keeps me tuned here
Gotta keep myself entertained too! haha
I truly enjoyed this video, especially your sense of humor. 😁🤗 Thank you so much 🥰
Glad you enjoyed and thank you for watching 🙏🏻
I like that they covered the roofs of villas and beach-side buildings with grass to look more natural. They certainly incorporated instagramalbe elements into the design like the pool lights and lobby view. That's not a bad thing - just a recognition that people want to post photos of themselves while on vacation.
Sure, I fully support the Instagramable vistas- I just think the physical metal photo frames all over the property are silly ☺️ Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Since this video was 2 years ago and maybe some are looking for somewhere to stay in Samui, I thought I would give my two cents’ worth after staying for a couple nights in June 2024.
The beach is quite a bit bigger now and the single row of deck chairs have been shifted down onto the beach. There is also a pontoon of sorts where guests can walk further out to the water for swimming or snorkelling. The Sesun beach bar is more integrated into the beach as there is more beachfront seating and a more open concept as the plants dividing the beach and Sesun have been removed. Food is generally excellent, the breakfast buffet is extensive and its quality matches up to it. I would go to the extent to say that there is just way too much good food. The seafood served at Sesun is amazing too.
Rooms are still kept in immaculate condition with not a scratch to be found. The sea view rooms are definitely the best and worth the premium. I would even say they are better than the villas as there is not much difference. The pool, however was strangely cloudy during my stay and the water tasted salty. They probably used poorly filtered seawater to fill the pool, so please take note. However, the pool is still generally clean but due to the amount of people you can’t expect a crystal clear and pristine pool sadly. I would say that’s the low point of the resort. This place itself can be considered a high-end resort, but due to the crowds the feeling of exclusivity is lowered and can only be said as a typical property for families. The staff are really fast, kind and helpful in their service. It was about $250 sgd per night, which was really cheap as we booked last minute.
After 2 years I think my score for this place would be 92/100 with the main cons being the crowds and huge families. However if you know how to strategise and manage the crowds it wouldn’t be much of an issue.
Thanks for sharing ✈️
Yo! Kevin. Nice shots. Mind sharing the music playing on the background. Very soothing when watching your recommendations. Thx
Also one of my favorite tracks. It is "What Makes Us Human" by The World In Between... but it is a licensable track from Artlist.io, so you might not be able to access it without a sub to their services. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Love the lush green gardens. Another quality review FF 🍺
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
Correct me if I'm wrong, this resort is $200 bit feels like $400. The vibe and setting are stunning😘
It is certainly a good value for the setting you'll get. Thanks for watching 🩴
The whole Thailand is very near to nature.
Very detailed and informative video. Thanks
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
This is just beautiful.
Great work
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Being a vacation property in an island, it seems ok to me serving breakfast at 7:00am! Love the grounds. And, even if only to have breakfast, I wana be there...
Sure, it fits most needs, but 6:30 or even 6:00 is certainly the standard these days. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Thanks for another video
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
This is the second review of this property l have watched but by far the best! The sunrise views nature at its finest! Also the Sesun restaurant was closed in the other review which was more recent than this video. The soup was made from green split pea or fresh pea hence the colour. The back of the lobby overlooking the beach and pool area is it an optical illusion or is there no barrier? That's a scary drop for s small child if no safety barrier 🤔. Another beautiful cinematic experience through your lens👍
Ah yeah for the Pistou I was just surprised because normally Pistou soup looks like a cross between Italian Wedding and Minestrone soups. Still tasty though.
In the lobby there was no barrier but you’d have to step in water to get right up to the edge.
Great review, thanks !!
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Nice resort for a destination I want to visit!
Hope you’ll be able to soon! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
I love your video reviews! They are edited just so perfectly and high quality. I am traveling to Ko Samui in 2 weeks and viewing most of your videos. I wish though you had covered resorts in Bophut beach or close by to it, as I plan to be next to Fisherman village.
Appreciate that! Thanks for watching 🩴
Great map! So many miss that!
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
Please do a review of the Centara Reserve Samui. Looking forward to see it in all those details. Your reviews are just on another level of greatness.
Won't be back to Samui until at least 2023 but it is on my (long) list 🙂 Thanks for watching 🙏
That beach walk looks exactly like KO O'Lina Disney Resort in West Oahu.
The hotel is AMAZING!
Beach looks very much not disreable, compared with Bellow's or Kailua on Oahu or Bora Bora
Hard to make that comparisson considering this Hyatt Regency likely costs 1/5 of what the equivalent in Hawaii or Bora Bora would cost :)
Thank you for the review. Now i know what to expect at this hotel as I will be going there for the Christmas 2022. A bit disappointed on the beach which is not white sandy beach of which koh Samui is famous for. I am sure you had plenty of exercise for going up and down the hill for breakfast lunch and dinner. :P
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Great review of a fantastic hotel! 👏
Thanks very much 🙏🏻
Big thanks 👍
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
thanks for this very nice review! Loved it! didn't you also tried the regency club? This is the only thing I would have missed :)
My room/status wouldn’t have given me access to the club either way, but it wasn’t yet open during my stay. I believe it opened the week after I was there. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
@@tfft I hope you soon will get to globalist! You deserve it with such great videos! Another Hyatt Regency I love and highly recommend is the Hyatt Regency Ayla in Aqaba jordan if you can make it one day....
Best advertising for the hotel 👍 You should get paid by the hotel.
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Nice video of a really lovely hotel. One suggestion - quieter, less "specific" music. Something more atmospheric and slower... the current piano track gets repetitive and nervous, and it becomes unlistenable if the video is played back at higher speed (which some of us do when we want to see quickly the whole video, slowing at times of more interest).
I certainly wouldn’t want to listen to that song (or my voice 😂) at 2x playback, so well noted! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
@@tfft You've clearly made a very serious effort to provide useful content (and honestly, good hotels reviews are extremely valuable!), so I'll give some more feedback. Your voice is fine. It's a bit lacking in dynamics or excitement, mainly because it sounds like you are reading a script. Probably you wrote a script and read it for voiceovers (which is generally better than people who ad-lib "um" "so" and so fort). On the other hand, a sense of "live" is more engaging. Also, live shows a bit of one's quirks and nature, which can actually endear audiences. One of the best tour guides is Aquaholic, who does boat tours. If you can capture his speaking approach to tours, I think you'll level up. And if you stay the same, that's actually quite fine as you're off to a very good start. Just calm the music ;).
Thanks for the video. But what about the Regency Club?
It wasn’t fully operational during my stay- I think I it actually officially opened on the day I checked out but I didn’t have access anyway... Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Stunning.
It is! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Very nice and detailed review! I have question though, Is the pool in the villa fully private or can be seen from the beach side or pedestrians or staff ?
There is a path you can see in the video that runs from the main beach area to the rocks where I filmed the sunrise which runs directly in front of the villas. The villas are set back and higher up than the path. It's easy to catch a glance in either direction but in order for someone to really see what was going on in the villa they'd need to obviously be trying to do it. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Marriott Nai Yang review please!!
I will take a look! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
"His and hers, his and his, hers and hers or theirs" 😄 Good to see your channel is inclusive!! I'm not a fan of a clear wall surrounding the toilet, what's the point of even having a screen if it's clear🤷♀️. The TV looks odd in the room on that stand, lm no interior designer but there is surely a better place for it aesthetically. The whole resort is Instagramable no need for those silly metal photo frames when it is framed already👍
Thanks for watching 🙏
I'd be going if it were possible.
Thailand is open to tourists of just about all nationalities. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Hello Kevin, can you explain what it means to
be „in the club“ / to have „access to the club“. Been thinking of booking a room in this resort, thanks to your report :-)
Many Hyatt hotels have clubs which only certain guests can access depending on their guest status or the category of room they stay in. The clubs are separate indoor/outdoor spaces which always offer breakfast and afternoon drinks/canapes and sometimes much more.
Great video review, and I'm a fan of your videos and really appreciate your honest feedback given in all your videos. However, I am scratching my head a bit based on the higher rating you gave the Sala Chaweng over this particular Hyatt Regency resort. Granted it's not an entirely apples to apples comparison as it would have been more suitable to be able to compare the Hyatt's base rooms to the room you stayed at the Sala Chaweng. At the end of the day, I guess ratings can be subjective and also a bit based on personal taste I gather
The only reason I had a villa at the Hyatt is because of the damage from the heavy rains- it wasn’t a typical upgrade. If it was an on arrival upgrade then yes perhaps it would have been higher, but the normal price of the villa at the time was more than double the price of the room I had at Sala. I try not to assess based on my own tastes, but rather if it is ‘as sold’ and relative to the price I paid.
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Not bad, not bad :)
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How far is this hotel from Chaeng Beach? What 2 or 3 high end resorts on Chaeng beach would you recommend? Thank you very much! Robert (I live on Jomtien beach, Thailand - next to Pattaya)
It’s about 3km north of Chaweng (what I assume you mean). You can check out the Sala Chaweng and Vana Belle resorts on my channel. Both directly on Chaweng. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
@@tfft Thanks for the fast reply. Will check out both those reviews tonight
What is the background music please?
Not a clue off the top of my head lol. All of my music is from Artlist.
At 16:15, you say "we'll see where this door leads in a bit".. but then we never got to see, or did I miss something? 😅
Yes, you did lol. The outdoor shower is later shown.
Room and bathroom design very much reminds me of W maldives - I wonder if its the same designer
I’d say that makes the value at this HR even better! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
the music is a little bit loud, all the others are great!
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We went for a quiet beer or two at the beach bar around midday. Pleasant at first but then blasted by a DJ who set up, playing to the 3 people present at full volume.
Asked him to turn it down so we could chat but this didnt work! We left, peed off!
Thanks for watching 🩴
Ok boomer. Next time try a old age home
Try a retirement home next tome
Try a retirement home next tome
God bless us start and end your day with our ALMIGHTY GOD. THANKS
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Kevin, I just stayed at this resort with my family and I think I need to give you an urgent update on it.
...why? Some of my family was there last month and raved about.
@@tfft wow we will need to compare notes. Airport transfer driver was late, they gave me a mouldy room at check in at 10pm, I asked for a room change it took 2 hours only to put me back in the same room. I waited more than 24 hours for someone to come address the issue but no one came. After that fiasco, my whole family got food poisoning 2 days into our stay, from their beach restaurant and we know for sure because we hadn't left the resort since we got there and we know exactly what it was. I asked to speak with the GM and he basically palmed me off to another manager without even a proper handover. Someone cooking the food is severely under qualified to do so. I then checked google reviews to see if this was an isolated issue... Take a look for yourself, it has a sleuw of food poisoning complaints. I travel alot and have never experienced such a horrific management. I've been to Thailand probably 15 times, never had food poisoning before.
@@tfft did my reply come through? I thought I had posted it.
Did you notice a snake cross your path at 9:05 ?
I did NOT and in retrospect quite happy that I didn’t haha! Thanks for keeping your eyes opened 🙏🏻
Nice review but boy the soundtrack is annoying.
To each their own!
I would just say dual sinks/vanities
A bit of inclusiveness never hurt!
Thanks for another great review - the hotel is not 5 star though - the Hyatt Regency brand is generally a 4 star no more no less
Every country/brand/organization gives out stars differently. I remember when Zannier Bãi San Hô was categorized as 3 star for it's first 6 months haha... so I just 'assign' them what I think they're trying to go for :) Thanks for watching 🙏
I think the food stopped i left the video
Umm ok lol.
Seems like it's kinda far away from everything.
🤔… its like a 6 minute drive to Chaweng, Choengmon and the airport…
Always say there is power in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ it is your own tongue it will enters into your heart you will be blessed your own life
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Jkji
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Man scoring a property based on ur fear of covid ie staff nor wearing mask is just….
…is just… completely relevant in 2021 when Test & Go was in it’s first month, the government regulations were very clear and all 12 other properties I visited in Thailand on the trip followed their own protocols 100%? Yes, I agree. Has nothing to do with fear.
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
This resort is too isolated. You pay a hefty premium to stay there. Then you have to spend lots of money on transportation. Plus, fight for pool and beach chairs. Not a good experience or value.
Too isolated? Have you been to Samui? It is convenient to everything on the island and transport is very cheap...
THE PLACE IS WONDERFUL. The person narrating seems to be very moody and sick with life. A boring.
We gave it a fantastic review and score. If that’s moody, sick with life, and “a boring,” then we’ll take it everyday of the week!
Plenty of other sponsored channels with stock footage, press release details and AI narrators out there for your perusal. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻