Overall we had a great stay at Dara hotel. The staff are friendly and the reception staff, in particular, dealt quickly and professionally with issues regarding faulty safes and the room not being cleaned on one occasion.
The pool is about 20m and is cleaned regularly. We chilled here most mornings. The gym is adequate and I appreciated the hotel maintenance cleaning and removing equipment that was broken. I used the treadmill and weights daily. The hotel should have rules for using the gym though, as parents allowed their children to play on the equipment a few times when I was in there which is quite dangerous.
The rooms were spacious and the room cleaning ladies enjoyed making our towels into different animals! They were super friendly too.
We enjoyed the breakfast which was 350 baht each per day. The hotel had an extensive spread catering for western and Asian customers.
I would stay here again as it’s close to 2 huge malls and about 30-40mins from Patong, Kata and Karon beaches, which we liked, but found the location of Dara hotel was an easier pace, less noisy and more suited to us.