Little Moon Villa in Mak

The hotel is very isolated, with no restaurants or shops nearby, forcing you to eat all your meals at the hotel restaurant, unless you rent a scooter for the duration of your stay. The staff is attentive and quite helpful. The beach is dirty, the sand is earthy, with lots of rubbish and debris strewn across the ground. The sea is not pleasant, with numerous banks of land, rubbish, and very little depth making swimming very unpleasant. The rooms are spacious, but there is no furniture or storage cupboard, not even a rod or rack to hang hangers on. There is just a coat rack. So you are forced to leave your clothes in your suitcase or backpack. This is a really big problem when you stay there, like we did for a week, and of course there is no safe in the room. The sink area of the bathroom is not lit, and there is just a small mirror placed behind the sink, forcing you to do gymnastics to see your face. On the other hand, there is a large bathtub in the entrance which is completely useless. In the bedroom there is no curtain to hide the upper windows, as a result you are woken up by the daylight every morning from 6 a.m. The restaurant offers dishes at quite high prices. The dishes are quite generous, but rather greasy and salty and are really nothing exceptional. Breakfast is served at the table and must be ordered the day before, it is quite generous, but pastries and espresso are extra. The island of Koh Mak is very small (about 5 km x 7 km). There are only two sandy beaches where you can swim about 6 km from the hotel, it is around one of them that shops, hotels and restaurants are grouped. Unfortunately, there's almost no dry sand due to rising water levels. Despite regular cleaning of these two beaches by an association, there's still a lot of trash washed in by the tides. Trusting the positive reviews of the hotel and the island of Koh Mak, we wasted a week in a hotel and an island that had absolutely no interest.