The hotel was very lovely. We arrived at the resort with the Santhiya speedboat, easy and fast way to get to the resort. From the very beginning the resort looked so beautiful. We stayed in Junior Pool Villa Suite, and our terrace and pool were very private. The room and the whole hotel were old thai style, which is very pretty, although some parts of the hotel would need a little renovation. We had an outdoor bathroom in our room, which we liked very much, altough if you are afraid of ants I woudn't recommend it to you. Even though we had our own pool, we mostly used the main pool, because it was located by the sea and the pool area was very nice. Staff was helpful and friendly, and the service was so good, just what you could expect from a five star hotel. Breakfast buffet was so good that we ate there as much as we could and skipped luch altogether. We ate a few times at the hotel's restaurants, food was good but the prices were a little high. Everything was much cheaper in the nearby village by a bigger beach, and we often ate dinner there. The path leading to the beach was well lit and in a good condition.
Most of all I loved the hotel's lush green surroundings, it was like living in a middle of a rainforest. At night you could listen sounds from the jungle and waves hitting the beach, it was very special. All in all Santhiya was a paradise, I would go back in a heartbeat. :)