The CHESS Samui

Location: 156/7, Chaweng Beach, Bophut, Koh Samui, Suratthani, Chaweng, th

Star Rating: 2 Stars

Property Type: Guest houses

About this Property

Important Information

Policies

Check-in: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Check-out: 12:00 PM

Amenities & Facilities

• Non-smoking rooms
• Air conditioning
• Terrace
• Luggage storage
• Safety deposit box
• Tour desk
• Car hire
• Shuttle service (additional charge)
• Outdoor furniture
• Key access
• 24-hour security
• Free wired internet
• Internet access
• Housekeeping on request
• Japanese garden
• Bicycle-friendly property
• Accessible shuttle
• No accessible shuttle
• Accessible train station shuttle
• No accessible train station shuttle

Rooms Available

• Superior Double Room

  Larger than Standard Room, this air-conditioned room offers a private balcony with garden views and a cable TV.

  Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Shower
  • Safety deposit box
  • TV
  • Air conditioning
  • Hair dryer
  • Refrigerator
  • Seating Area
  • Toilet
  • Private bathroom
  • Tile/marble floor
  • Electric kettle
  • Entire unit located on ground floor
  • Clothes rack
  • Drying rack for clothing
  • Toilet paper
  • Bottle of water
  • Trash cans
  • Shampoo
  • Body soap
  • Window

• Standard Double Room

  Room offers air conditioning, a wardrobe and an private bathroom.

  Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Shower
  • Safety deposit box
  • TV
  • Air conditioning
  • Hair dryer
  • Refrigerator
  • Seating Area
  • Toilet
  • Private bathroom
  • Tile/marble floor
  • Electric kettle
  • Entire unit located on ground floor
  • Clothes rack
  • Drying rack for clothing
  • Toilet paper
  • Bottle of water
  • Trash cans
  • Shampoo
  • Body soap
  • Window

• Deluxe Double Room

  1 King Bed

  323-sq-foot room, balcony with garden views

  
  

  Internet - Free WiFi

  Entertainment - 32-inch flat-screen TV with satellite channels

  Food & Drink - Coffee/tea maker, minibar (stocked with some free items), electric kettle, and room service (limited hours)

  Sleep - Blackout drapes/curtains and bed sheets

  Bathroom - Private bathroom, shower, free toiletries, and a hair dryer

  Practical - Safe and desk

  Comfort - Air conditioning and daily housekeeping

  Need to Know - Housekeeping on request

  Non-Smoking

  Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Shower
  • Safety deposit box
  • Air conditioning
  • Hair dryer
  • Desk
  • Private bathroom
  • Satellite channels
  • Electric kettle
  • Bottle of water
  • Room service (limited hours)
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Blackout drapes/curtains
  • Free WiFi
  • Bedsheets provided
  • Free tea bags/instant coffee

• Superior Twin Room

  This air-conditioned twin room includes a flat-screen TV with cable channels, a private bathroom as well as a balcony. The unit offers 2 beds.

  Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Shower
  • Safety deposit box
  • TV
  • Air conditioning
  • Hair dryer
  • Refrigerator
  • Seating Area
  • Toilet
  • Private bathroom
  • Tile/marble floor
  • Electric kettle
  • Entire unit located on ground floor
  • Clothes rack
  • Drying rack for clothing
  • Toilet paper
  • Bottle of water
  • Trash cans
  • Shampoo
  • Body soap
  • Window

Guest Reviews

• Maëva (8/5): -
• Michael (2/5): -
• Jamie (9/5): Great - Very near to the beach and amazing location next to beach bars and restaurants. The shower was good, but aimed out of the shower
• Mika (10/5): - האישה בקבלה משולמת. הייתה כל כך נחמדה ונעימה. קרוב למרכז העניינים במחיר ממש טוב.
• Eren (8/5): - Zimmer direkt am Chaweng Strand mit sehr guter Lage. Direkt am Meer und umgeben von vielen Restaurants und Bars. Das Personal ist freundlich und das Preis Leistungs-Verhältnis stimmt Absolut. Die Zimmer sind sauber, jedoch sehr klein und meiner Meinung nach maximal für eine Person ausgelegt. Ich war im Zimmer 15. Kann ich empfehlen :) Die Flugroute verläuft direkt über die Anlage, weshalb es mehrmals täglich etwas lauter werden kann. Damit sollte man bei einem Aufenthalt in Chaweng jedoch rechnen.
• masterolm (7/5): -
• Damien Bryan (7/5): Preis-Leistung ist super 👍🏼 - Die Lage war super und die Zimmer wurden sehr gut sauber gemacht. An der Rezeption konnte man zu einem fairen Preis einen Roller mieten. Das Personal war immer sehr freundlich. Leider hatten wir an keinem der 6 Tage die wir da waren warmes Wasser in der Dusche. Die Zimmer wirken auf den Fotos etwas größer, als sie eigentlich sind.
• Ian (8/5): Good location, nice room - Location excellent, small room but adequate for 2 Minor point, tv didn’t work during stay. Asked at desk and told it was due to the weather !
• Jana (10/5): -
• תמר (8/5): -
• Poonyanuch (8/5): - ชอบทุกอย่างค่ะ ห้องน้ำ ok แต่ไม่ถึงกับดีค่ะ
• Stephen (8/5): Perfect low cost option for a short stay in Chaweng - Great location in the heart of chaweng but tucked away from the hustle and bustle. Very reasonable room rates for the area. The staff were very helpful and friendly. Room was very small but suitable for a short term stay.
• Kathy (8/5): Nice little boutique hotel in great location. - Excellent location close to all the bars and restaurants, 10 minute taxi ride from the airport. Staff really lovely. We were exhausted from a very long flight and they did everything they could to let us check-in earlier. Room really clean and comfortable. Good value for money. The grounds are very well kept and each room has a terrace area. Nowhere to hang your clothes if staying longer than one or two nights and nowhere to put your bags and open them properly.
• hakimi (9/5): -
• Merih (7/5): -
• Rubin (10/5): -
• Cheetham (8/5): -
• David (10/5): Fabulous place to stay in the centre of Chaweng!! - Excellent location. Fantastic, friendly staff! The property is in the centre of Chaweng and is shady with well tended gardens. The rooms are cosy with great hot water and are cleaned every day. A 2 minute walk to the beach. All in a great place to stay on oh Samui! Nothing
• Or Binyamin (10/5): -
• Andrés (1/5): PÉSIMO PERSONAL - La habitación solo. NO LO RECOMENDAMOS. La estancia fue pésima y el personal muy maleducado. En el hotel alquilan motos y alquilamos una. La cogimos para 1 día aprox 27 horas y nos dijeron que solo pagaríamos 1 día. Cuando fuimos a hacer el check out la recepcionista no estaba y solo estaba el de seguridad, queríamos que nos devolviesen la fianza de la moto por lo que el de seguridad llamó a la recepcionista para que viniese y vino con su marido muy enfadado y agresivo con nosotros y sin razón alguna nos empezó a gritar y a intimidarnos. La recepcionista nos cobró 1 día más de moto cuando ya habíamos acordado que era solo 1 día en vez de 2. Según ella habíamos llegado más tarde de la hora y no era verdad. Su marido siguió gritándonos y con actitudes agresivas. Además, dormir aquí es un infierno ya que se escucha muchísimo ruido de fiesta y de aviones ya que está muy cerca del aeropuerto. Sin duda la peor estancia en Tailandia
• Sandra (6/5): - La ubicación, muy céntrico, bares y playa al lado Higiene justa, hay mosquitas en la habitación. Plato de ducha pequeño. El recinto es bonito pero los balcones están muy pegados al resto
• Daniel (8/5): -
• Jairaj (4/5): - Rooms very small
• Hussain (10/5): -
• Joona (8/5): -
• Lilly (7/5): Good -
• Alaraimi (10/5): Exceptional - Thank you for your hospitality and to the cheerful staff who felt like a happy family. I especially want to thank ‘Dao’ she was very fun and always suggested things for me to do during my stay. I truly appreciated her help and energy
• Nayeem (3/5): Poor - Its cheap The room didnt look like the pictures
• Paul (9/5): Superb -
• Vrinda (6/5): Okay - The only good part about this property is its location - very close to chaweng street with lots of bars and restaurants. Also 150 m away from chaweng beach. Rooms were very small although clean Breakfast not available No space/cupboard to keep your clothes
• Michaela (2/5): Never ever come back again even for free - Location is good. In center of Chaweng. Avoid this accomodation if you are expecting heart welcome and super service!! Terrible service in reception. They take you as a piece of white meat. Hard mattress. Too expensive for what is it-simple room with nothing extra. Noisy at night due to a cabaret show accros the street every night late at night. Lady in reception doesnt care about guests. Instead of warm welcome (typical for thai people) she yells at you to get your passports ready while she keeps eating her lunch in kitchen not bordering herself to get up to welcome you. (It was 15 minutes after official check in time started). When you want from her something during check in (which is important for you and also for them, becouse it is about your bookings you made), she tells you that she is eating now, so you should come later.. really??!! Oh sorry to border you, of course i will come later, i will wait, i have planty of time on my vacation.. (that was an ironie)... so i just told her i have more bookings in the same category of room, another booking starting the next day and i left becouse she didnt have time for me... The next day in the morning i came to reception to solve this but there was no one!!! As every single day before 11 am you are not able to solve anything at the reception becouse before 11 am you meet only cleaners! (And after 7 pm you meet only security guy) so evening i came back to my room around 6-7pm and again she yelled at me again that she was waiting me all day for me to pay for the accomodation! (It was secured by credit card on Booking.com) she did it in that kind of manner that how could i dare not to come to pay. I didnt like that behavior at all. And things continued to much worse which i dont want to decribe it here but in short she wanted to send a police becouse she didnt get her payment becouse of her broken payment credit card machine which she didnt want to admit that it was not working and it was their fault...
• Philip (9/5): Superb - Great location and staff.
• Qasem (6/5): Pleasant -
• Roger (7/5): Nice place for a few days - Location very good, just a few steps from bars and restaurants. A little noisy in the evenings. No pool !
• Laura (8/5): Very good - Location great, rooms fine, for the price it’s a ok place to stay for a few days. The staff were friendly on arrival and let us check in early. You can hear the aeroplanes as you’re really close to the airport, I imagine that is the case for anywhere in Chaweng The beds are really hard. The mirror in our room was not clean, even after they tried to clean it it didn’t make much difference, couldn’t really use it.
• Natcharee (10/5): Exceptional -
• Leon (8/5): Very good -
• Kevin (10/5): Staff and security guard lovely and helpful - Nice and compact clean
• Faye (9/5): Superb - Clean and amazing location
• Kanat (10/5): Exceptional -
• James (9/5): Superb -
• Zakariah (9/5): Superb -
• Michael (7/5): Good - Friendly people, decent rooms. Beautiful location/facilities Poor shower. But to expect on an island I guess
• Christian (8/5): Very good - Very lively area! Close to Central Festival and nightlife! Clean. Overall ok, a bit of music from the road, but not loud, and not until too late, could sleep well!
• Nigel (8/5): Very good -
• Itamar (8/5): Very good -
• Andrstravel (7/5): Great if you have cash :) - Great place. Near everything but room still very silent and quiet. Great bathroom and facilities. It is difficult to pay as the card machine is either old or useless.. you need to pay with cash.
• Lawrence (10/5): What I like about the Chess in Samui - Good comfortable bed in a reasonably sized room and bathroom. It is in a great location in central chewang and right beside the beach , a 1 minute walk away. I have booked again in a months time. Recommended They don't have room for a pool and as it was not offered, it's not an issue, but a pool would be nice
• Lloyd (10/5): Exceptional -
• Eva (7/5): Good - we were quite satisfied. Shower does not work good, in bathromm was a smell.
• Liat (5/5): Passable - Good location Noise from air plains, the sheets were stained, and you can't see anything in the mirror
• Nicholas (5/5): Passable, great staff, good location, old room. - It was close to everything. Rooms could do with renovation as things falling apart.
• Chris (10/5): Can only say our short stay far exceeded our expectations - Chess Samui is a lovely place to stay, central, quiet, clean and great value
• David (8/5): Very good - Good budget hotel in a great location Rooms cleaned daily large king size bed and quiet air-conditioning
• Daniel (2/5): Fly Infestation - I liked the setup of the place. It's as it looks in the photos. The bed was nice and big (albeit slightly hard but nothing that prevented me from sleeping). The main bedroom was clean My BIGGEST issue about this place (which a friend also had an issue with when she stayed there several months earlier... unfortunately I only knew this after I booked) was that the bathroom had loads of these little flies and the hotel did not seem concerned enough about them. i could not for the life of me work out where they were coming from. I had to move rooms because it was almost like an infestation. I requested a new room the next morning but They were still lots of them in the bathroom...and every single day (pretty much every time I went into the bathroom), I had to go on a killing spree. I usually killed about 10 or 15 each time with some tissue. I tried loadsssss of Baygon in the first room to kill yhem but that seemed to make the situation worse as even a cockroach appeared 🤮 I found it dead next to my bed yhe next morning. The excessive spray of Baygon seemed to make all the insects try to escape from wherever they were hiding. Sometimes I would go in the bathroom and the flies were already dead, loads just scattered on the floor in the sink in the toilet bowl etc. For this reason alone I would NOT recommend staying at this hotel until they fix this issue. And to be honest, for the price I paid...I feel wholly RIPPED OFF. No one wants to pay for a room and then consistently have to deal with an infestation of flies.... Once this hotel fixes the fly problem, it would actually have been a rather pleasant stay. The bedroom was also very small, especially compared to the bathroom which I thought had ample space (for one person anyway)
• Ofir (6/5): Pleasant -
• Ky (2/5): It was a bad experience to stay at the Chess hotel. Staffs are friendly but the room is too dirty. - Room is close to the beach and main area of the island where all the fun entertainments happen Very dirty. Flies were everywhere in my toilet and somehow get into the room. Dead flies on your bed and luggage. Walls between rooms are thin and you can even hear the people in another room talking.
• Adam (8/5): Very good - Location was good. And good vaule for money. If you're solo its perfect. Beach is on your door step.
• Nitzan (7/5): Good -
• Abdulaziz (8/5): Very good -
• Kaidi (7/5): Good -
• Shelly (10/5): Exceptional -
• Carl (8/5): Very good - Location, clean, good price, modern No beach towels available, more shower gels,
• James (8/5): Pleasant - - Excellent location, very near the main road with lots of restaurants and bars. - Very close to the beach. - Clean comfortable room. - The airport is nearby so there can be noise from the planes taking off. Not a particular issue unless sleeping during the day.
• Anonymous (9/5): Staff was great and helpful, location is great, bike rental is also available with the hotel - Convenient and strategically located. Maybe was just unfortunate luck as I stayed in Room 16, was fine but when was given Room 15 upon check in on another date post full moon, toilet did smell from drainage and there were a lot of flies.
• Madeleine (4/5): - Not Great
• Bronte (7/5): Good -
• Vanessa (7/5): liked the plants outside rooms and great place for young partygoers - The room and the fact that it was so close to the strip . Loud women across the road and sounds of the planes going past, mr tee ice cream across the road was delicious
• Polideukis (10/5): Exceptional - great location, literally a 2 minute walk to all the bars, clubs, restaurants and beach. staff very friendly and helpful.
• Claire (7/5): Good -
• Éamonn (6/5): Small room, close to Main Street but quite noisy. - Location-wise was close to the Main Street. Room was clean. There was a lack of privacy in the room due to large window taking up a wall in the room. Thin walls and seating outside the room resulted in us being woken late at night by other guests. Music from Main Street very loud throughout the night making it difficult to sleep. Gap in door and window allowed many flies into the room throughout the day.
• Millie (8/5): Very good -
• Mohamed (9/5): Superb - the location is excellent they don't have many facilities
• Andreas (6/5): Pleasant - You get what you pay for. Central location in chaweng. Dirty walls, bed sheet needed an update.
• Matthew (8/5): Very good -
• Moo (7/5): Good -
• Lawrence (10/5): My 2nd tme staying here and I will stay again - The Chess is in an excellent location right in the center of Chaweng and is a comfortable inexpensive place to stay. A nice clean modern room with all you require. no negatives about this hotel
• Linda (10/5): Excellent value for money, clean, comfy. I’d stay here again! - Convenient location No pool, but there are resorts nearby that you can pay to use
• Hannah (10/5): Exceptional -
• Rebecca (9/5): Great location - clean and comfortable - Great location, great value for money - clean and comfortable room Centrally located so more noise from road planes and surrounding drinking venues
• Nil (1/5): Bad -
• Mo (7/5): Good -
• Jardon (7/5): Perfect Chaweng Spot - Really great little hotel. Second time staying there, great staff really close to the beach and chaweng strip Can rent scooter from hotel which is handy Great front terrace to sit out on The beds could be more comfortable Kinda hard mattress Apart from that Great stay
• Sam (10/5): Exceptional -
• Ibrahim (8/5): Very good -
• Dragan (9/5): Superb -
• Anonymous (9/5): Superb -
• Alaa (8/5): Very good -
• Louisa (6/5): Fine for a night or two. - good location very small, the ac didn’t really work and the shower didn’t work very well.
• Val (8/5): Very good - Good room , very nice flower and tree in the courtyard Tv was not working but once again who what tv on vacations
• Farhad (8/5): recommended - valuable compare to price fantastic location good access to the beach room design could be better
• Carolina (9/5): Superb - Room was nice and clean. Everything perfect! Can be noisy at night when people is partying.
• George (10/5): Exceptional -
• Sandra (10/5): Exceptional - Location Noise
• James (7/5): Good - great value for money just a shame about the bar directly opposite that has ridiculously loud music going on till early hours everyday
• Danique (9/5): Superb - location and staff our bidet was broken so it leaked in our bathroom
• Lim (3/5): Poor - location very convenient. The room is not very clean. There were a lot of mosquitoes. I complained to the management, but the management did not solve the problem and was not polite. He said we'd buy our own mosquito repellent.
• Benjamin (10/5): great location, clean rooms and friendly staff - great location, staff was always friendly and helpful rooms were very comfortable has everything you need we stayed for 15 days .. nothing. it was exceptional.
• C.butzelaar (4/5): Good hotel for party animals. - Very friendly and helpfull staff. The beds were rock hard and matrass had plastic cover. Low flying airplanes. Rooms are very small. Music until 4 am. Lot's of mosquitos. Very loud environment, but my own fault as I did not check the area the hotel was in. Good place for partying people, defenitely not for me.
• Ruth (7/5): Good location and what you'd expect from a budget hotel - Good location, noisy at night but not too bad. Very hard bed and so many mosquitos around.

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