Personal fave. May be pricey for a 30-day stay.

Big Daikon wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:40 am Personal fave. May be pricey for a 30-day stay.

How is the wifi at the sun and moon?

armchairlawyer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 10:23 am

Big Daikon wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:40 am Personal fave. May be pricey for a 30-day stay.

How is the wifi at the sun and moon?

I thought it was quite good two years.

Awesome pool and breakfast buffet as well.

I had to stay in hotels for a couple of weeks a little while back. I discovered that they tend to drop their prices two or three days before the booking date, so the best value policy was to keep booking 3 days at a time, booked a day in advance. Of course that sometimes meant that I had to move hotels. I could usually get a price of $30-40 on the OTAa (booking.com or agoda), often with breakfast. I don't think any of the hotels were anywhere near 50% occupied.
The ones I used were:
Ohana (st148)
Harmony (148)
OK Boutique (19Z)
OK Palace (19Z) - you can book this one but it was closed and they actually put you in the OK Boutique
Blue Lime (19Z)
Lux (136)
Palace Gates (254)

Most of these places have very nice rooms, good size and with plenty of hardwood fittings, but in need of a refurb. The Wifi was often really bad, never fast and could cut out frequently.

If you try to get a better rate by asking at reception, they will generally offer rates that are higher than on the OTAs, even after haggling. But if you tell them you want to stay for two weeks or more and will pay in advance, you can get a deal. The Ohana offered $30 including breakfast on that basis.

The cheapest price on the OTAs for the Sun and Moon was $50.

Stayed at Ohana twice. Older building but decent place. Plenty of restaurants across the street.

My two favourites were

Frangipani Palace (opposite the gardens and arts place). I stayed there April/May 2018.
Rarely ate there- life changed dramatically 4 days in. Room was good. Location was good. Didn’t use the Wi-fi much.

Okay Boutique. I stayed July/August 2018.
Breakfast was great, room was good, but like many needed some freshening up. Pool was good for a hotel rooftop. Bed broke. Wi-fi marginal/terrible. Booked via Booking.com.

Most other locations I stayed were the cheapest of guest houses, or COVID incarceration. The latter demonstrating just how bad a hotel can be with bad management.