Peppercorn Beach in Phu Quoc Island

In my opinion, this place does not deserve the enthusiastic reviews that other users leave. There are three main disadvantages and I recommend paying attention to them when choosing.
Firstly, this is the territory, which looks completely unkempt. Of course, you can’t tell from the profile photo. There is a lot of construction waste, unkempt paths (some of which lead to nowhere or end in a path), dry bushes and stumps from felled trees. Along the sea line there is a path of sharp stones, which you can hurt your feet on, broken concrete and a mixture of sand and garbage. The outdoor shower at the exit from the sea almost does not work. The pool with sea water is full of dirt at the bottom. A sports ground for sad athletes, three old bicycles, one of which has had a flat tire all week, a cold main pool. All this looks sad.
The second thing I would like to draw attention to is the restaurant. It has a specific menu, very expensive dishes compared to prices in other places (x3 to prices in restaurants on Long Beach), and, most importantly, the food is mostly not tasty. Well, or very much an acquired taste, and because of this you feel like a hostage of the situation - the area around the hotel is not a tourist place and one can say almost no alternatives. Breakfasts are meager, you choose eggs and drinks from the menu, there is also a buffet. There are no salads, the food is cold, all the juices are generously diluted with ice, there are almost no meat dishes. The staff in the restaurant smiles, but then forgets to bring you one omelet out of three. And not just once. The kitchen gives out dishes incredibly slowly during lunch and dinner, because 1-3 people work. And the third point. Small storms happen here due to the wind rose in the northern part of the island. For three days the wind blew from the north, it is impossible to go into the sea with big waves, a lot of garbage has accumulated near the shore due to the surf. On such days there is no possibility to swim even in sunny weather, although on the western part of the island at this time it is normal and the sea is calm. No one cleans up the garbage in the water even when everything has calmed down, you need to go further into the sea through it and then you can enjoy the clean water.
In general, it would be fair to note that they are trying to slowly clean up the territory, but the scale of neglect is such that there is no chance to fix it unless some major reconstruction is carried out.
Of course, there are positive impressions. In general, if you do not pay attention to all this mess, the hotel has a calm atmosphere, the staff is smiling and attentive, the sea is windless and further from the shore is clean. The rooms are large, the water in the shower is warm. There are all sorts of masks and fins for the sea near the pool. They try to clean the rooms, but not very much - in 6 days they did not change our beds. Apparently. We had to ask for this separately. The girls at the counter helped with calling a taxi. Despite the significant shortcomings and the relatively high cost of staying, we had a good rest. But I certainly wouldn’t repeat the experience or recommend this place to others.