The hotel is a real "wannabe", there is kind of all the stuff that a high-end hotel would provide, but somehow it seems as if they put it together from the leftovers.
The madras on the bed can't even be called firm - it's made of stone. My husband left with terrible back pain after sleeping there for 2 nights.
They don't have coffee for breakfast. No coffee! Instead they are serving nescafe and boiling hot water.
The hotel is either new or renovated, but I guess that the renovation has been done by blind people without any tools at their disposal.
Sure, now it' s all more or less OK (despite the fact that there are spots of wall paint everywhere), but since all the "renovation" seems to be held together by double-sided tape it won't look like now for more than a year.
The staff who works at the reception during the daytime doesn't speak much english and looks very uninterested of anything. The guy who works at night is OK, no complaints.
Don't trust the pictures, the hotel looks as if they just put some furniture in the middle of an unfinished construction site.
Don't waist your money, seriously.
Surin beach is one of the best beaches I've been to... So yes, there is one advantage - the location