Woraburi Phuket Resort & Spa

Great place to stay on Karon Beach which is just across the road. Walking distance to the Karon roundabout for bars and restaurants. Close to eateries and markets. Staff very friendly. Property dated but comfortable after recovering from Covid and lack of visitors. Hopefully will be restored and fully open (kids play area, bar, pool tables etc) when visitors return. We have booked again for next year.

Happy friendly staff. Older property but still in good condition. Building site next door was noisy.

Good breakfast, large rooms. Pool access rooms recommended. Beach across the road. Always plenty of transport nearby or taxi arrangements through tour desk.

Good place a little dated.

Pretty terrible, to be honest. I left early. Loud, construction next door. Ugly rooms, super dated. Kinda creepy, to be honest. Needs upgrades, bad. The area isn't the best, either. Nothing going on, at all.

Overall, we enjoyed our stay at Woraburi Resort. The room was nice, but there was a drawback. Our room was on the fifth floor, and the elevator only goes to the fourth floor. That means stairs every time you want to go someplace or to your room. The pool is an interesting shape (and basically 3 1/2 feet deep throughout), but it has not been well-maintained. Many tiles are missing or loose, leaving holes where the tiles should have been, and it doesn't appear that the tiles were ever grouted properly in the first place. The pool needs to be drained and re-tiled before being refilled. The restaurant is just OK, but there are several other restaurants within easy walking distance, so there is no problem. The breakfast buffet is a mix of Western and Asian. The first three days we stayed there, the housekeeper created towel animals (elephants, swans and turtles) on our beds, which delighted our daughter, but then they stopped making them, which disappointed her. If the creations had continued, she would have been totally delighted. The Resort has very easy access to the beach (just across the road). The beach chairs with umbrellas must be rented. There were plenty of good tours, and the tour desk was very helpful. I recommend the Fantasea Show, the island speedboat tours and the tour with the Big Buddha, baby elephant and baby tigers.

The property itself is a complete let-down. Photos don't tell the true story about this property, as the pool as chipped, cracked and completely gone tiles throughout, which you'll stub your toe on or hurt yourself on completely. The whole property has been going through a repaint but someone ran out of paint so half of it still looks old and weathered. Needs some serious TLC. Will provide photos as well. Please know that when you do book a room, they will put you in the smallest darkest room of all, you need to complain to them and they will move you. When they do, check the shower temperature, we dealt with freezing cold showers for two days until one day a leech came out of the shower head (not to forget that everytime you turn the shower on, it spurts brown mucky water first) then we complained about the temperature of the shower, they tended to have fixed this - but it wasn't a long term fix at all.

The property is in a great area and offers swim-out rooms, unfortunately instead of capitalizing on those strengths it has suffered under what can only be mismanagement. It is rundown, moldy, and infested with mosquitoes. Mosquitoes aren't 100% avoidable in tropical areas, obviously, however this place was infested. There were dead mosquitoes smashed on the walls of our room; there was trash outside in our balcony area on check-in; there were pool tiles missing on the steps from our room in to the pool (which could seriously cut someone); our room smelled of mold (much stronger than musty/mildew) and there was visible mold in the bathroom. I was in room 102 less than ten minutes and already my throat was scratchy and my eyes were watery. To address, management offered to move us a room over, however if you know anything about mold and reactions, moving one room over will not suffice. They sprayed for mosquitoes to address that issue, but the spray caused a terrible headache. I promptly found another place - a beautiful resort just doors down and for $50 less a day (and, bonus, no mosquitoes) - and I checked out. Unfortunately, our room was prepaid and there was no refund from this property and none from Expedia either. This is the only time I've ever had such a bad experience at a hotel that I felt compelled to leave a review to warn others. Stay anywhere else! Be weary of places that require prepayment. Expedia will not refund, no matter the severity.

We had a nice stay however this resort does need a lot of work. The pool has tiles missing, the spa was out of order, the gym does not have working equipment along with other things eg pool table only one out of 3 worked and table tennis had no bats and balls, One of the lovely staff went and purchased bats and balls so it could be used. Unsure about the bottled water left in room as some days we were charged and other days we weren’t and the others we went with said they were never charged at one stage I had 6 bottles and was still getting charged, on check out they tried to charge us for a missing tea spoon my guess is it would have been sent to kitchen as we had rooms next to each other and lots of room service around the pool, which was nice. We had no hot water but they fixed that when asked. If you can overlook all these things, which we did, it’s a nice place. Definitely get a room with pool access.

To the left side of the hotel was a flooded area that looked and smelled like sewage with a 10’ high pile of garbage . I also got food poisoning from the hotel . The beds are very hard and uncomfortable. Staff was very nice but the smells from the area and the food poisoning just killed the trip for me . It was also over priced .