Siem Reap

Try Angorland hotel, I was there a few months ago, very good hotel, huge clean rooms, good breakfast, girlfriendly and is only $50/night.

If you really want to see Angkor wat get 3 days pass for $40

[QUOTE=Noman2]Try Angorland hotel, I was there a few months ago, very good hotel, huge clean rooms, good breakfast, girlfriendly and is only $50/night.

If you really want to see Angkor wat get 3 days pass for $40[/QUOTE]Great suggestion - I have already sent off a request for a reservation...

N_R

Looking forward to your feedback on the hotel scene (and anything else you want to comment on.) This SR forum is a little short on frequent reports. Hope you have a great time there.

My experience at Siem Reap

Went to Siem Reap from Phnom Penh by bus, easy transfer, not too heavy. Before going there I've studied a lot, about temples of course and about fun, forum of Siem reap has been very useful to me, thank you all have spent sometime to write down informations. Is good for everybody to share experiences, from my point of view it would be better if experiences will not become just description of one detailed session, wich it always look like to me just exibitionism. So here is my report for Siem Reap, written mainly to thanks whom have posted before me about. It refers to february 2007. Took contact with Golden Temple Villa hotel by email, quite easy they have a site wich can be found easily, just google the name. Very nice hotel, the guy's team is really funny and if they see you alone they always wonder why, and smile if you get back with a girl, then it is definitly GF and do not cover anything for. Yes there are also tourists in it, but they are almost invisibles all time long. They also have an internet point free for hosts. On the small street of Hotel there are 3 barber shop but they look like garages. In daylight you won't find them but from sunset on, they will be quite obvious with their pink inlights. And if the girls inside, wich look like very lazy just watching the tv, see you, one for sure will jump up like a frog and will try to take you in the garage. But I didn't go. The reason is coming up. First evening in Siem Reap went to Martini wich is absolutley easy to find out. Once at the bridge it is so evident, It looks like a big xmas tree with all its flashing lights. Did not found anything else further, even if in this forum there were some indication of. Went around 9pm, too early, none there, girls outside cickening. Mamasan tough but good, she didn't let me choose, she took one in the bunch and pull her near me. First time in my poor monger's career I didn't choose and it was a very good thing. The girl was shy at first. Not a stunner, ordinary girl, nice 30y. Didn't see any better stuff anyway. Had a bier and then back to hotel by walking, it is very close. Mamasan dealed the all story, 35$. Yak! Bad bad bad! The shy girl who at first behaved like an icecube, slowly start to touching me gently and kissing me, she was very affective and at last when mamasan shot her price, I agreed, not forgetting a funeral face, at least. But it worth. Yes it worth. The shy girl was very nice and gentle, let me do whatever I liked and... she slept with me behaving like she really loved me. Morning, breakfast, she left, in the afternoon she came back to hotel and asked me to stay togheter once again. Shortly, had a real girlfriend for the 4 days in Siem Reap, and she didn't ask me nothing more. We did morning and evening with a total of 8 times for 35$, This is what I really call a deal. Cambodian girls are still gentle, really want to please, she loved me for those 4 days it was an experience for my heart wich has become like a frozen stone living in Italy where women behave... you know, they are all the same all over western states. (Someone call usa "sex prison", I know it is true, but never forget all western states are linked in culture, where one goes, sooner or later the others follow, europe is follwing very close). For this reason I couldn't have the time to join the garages services. Other place of Siem Reap is Zone One. It is bigger then Martini and much more activity. But I had luck at Martini, this can always happens, going to the best place for mongering is never an assurance to get what you are looking for, viceversa sometimes happens to find a pearl in the garbage. Mongering in Siem reap is easy but do not expect a wide choice. North part of town is full of 4 star hotels for tourists and tour operator, south part of the town, around the market is free of tourism. Backpackers are few. At night the two small street behind the market are a lovely place to hang out, music not too loud, good food, good prices. An all you can eat at Golden temple restaurant, wich is not the same of the hotel, 4$, all you can eat. Siem reap is easy, everything is small. All at all had 4 beatiful days in Siem reap, visiting temples with my local girlfriend on a tuk-tuk rented for 10$ a day and from the third day on, the shy girl became a real kitten. Also very useful having a girl for local contacts, it is more then a simple guide, she thinks about you only, really. Cambodian women still THINK for their men, not for themselves. She didn't wait me to be thirsty, she always had a coconut ready for me at the right time. I didn't have to ask nothing, the only thought she had is to please me, and serve me. Yes, sure I was the one with money, the one who payed, these are the two roles in cambodia, at least they are clear and women behave really that way. I finally tipped her before leaving with 40$ for the 4 days.

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Hi,

I will stay during my stay in the Victoria Angkor Hotel in Siem Reap.

Does anyone have any commentary to share from previous experiences?

GF friendly.

Many thanks in advance

Retep1

Hi,

I will stay at the above-mentionned hotel next november - does anyone have any commentary to share from previous experiences? GF friendly.

Many thanks in advance,

Retep1

[QUOTE=Xdentx]I'm also trying to figure out where to stay. My research turned up the above hotel, but I don't know if it would be "comfortable" to bring a lady home. The Steung has a very centralized location which I really prefer.

I sent my research notes on both the Steung and Bopha Angkor to nite runner, but I too would really like to hear more from the experienced travelers. Come on guys...someone out there must know about places other than the Golden Orange and the Mandalay.

Also for the traveler who is interested in the cultural things, tourist sites, temples, and lakes...what is the ideal number of days to visit SR? Thanks![/QUOTE]

I stayed at the Golden Orange, it was a very good deal for the $$$. Clean, great staff, good food, good location, good, good and more good.

Shamas O'Dognasty

[QUOTE=Retep1]Hi,

I will stay at the above-mentionned hotel next november - does anyone have any commentary to share from previous experiences? GF friendly.

Many thanks in advance,

Retep1[/QUOTE]

I honestly don't know, but I'm willing to bet that they did not change their policy regarding lady guests between the first time you asked this question, and the second time, 3 hours and 40 minutes later

[QUOTE=Xdentx]I'm also trying to figure out where to stay. My research turned up the above hotel, but I don't know if it would be "comfortable" to bring a lady home. The Steung has a very centralized location which I really prefer.

I sent my research notes on both the Steung and Bopha Angkor to nite runner, but I too would really like to hear more from the experienced travelers. Come on guys...someone out there must know about places other than the Golden Orange and the Mandalay.

Also for the traveler who is interested in the cultural things, tourist sites, temples, and lakes...what is the ideal number of days to visit SR? Thanks![/QUOTE]Siem Reap is very small. It doesn't matter where you are, you will be close to anything anycase. North part of the city: big hotels for tourist circuit, you will meet for sure some an angry western lady blaming you with eyes and even words, when will see you dealing with your last local chicken. South, less turists. Center is jsut the two small streets and market. But form north to south you can walk in 10 minutes, or take a moto-dop for 1 minute even less, it is so short way usually the guy of moto-dop don't even cover you nothing.

Ideal period for visiting Angkor is 5 days, Unfortunetly pass ar for 1d, 4d, 7d. One day for little circuit (the most spectacular), 1 day for long circuit, 1 day to Banteay Srei (wich surely worth it), one day to the "Group of Roulos", and finally one day to hanging arounf freeely in between The great Palace, the Elephant terrace, The hidden passage, Mebon, and others around. That's it.

So the 4d pass is a little short, but the 7d pass is definitly too long. The 5d pass do not exist exactly for this reason, to make you pay for 7d. I did the 7d one, and I used the 6th day to go to Kbal Speam, but it was long way north and transfer cost me more then the ticket. Now you know. Ticket at Angkor is very expensive. It is not a Cambodian managed site. It is an european one. Lake is Tonle Sap south of the city. There is a hill south, with a climbing stair. Go there at sunset time, you will see. Other lake is the Baray. It is not a lake, in fact is rectangular, have you ever heard about a rectangular lake? With stones boundary and steps all around?

Angkhor Wat pass is 1, THREE, or 7 days (not 4 unless they changed very recently) $20, 40, 60 each. Tickets available on the entry road - take cash

You can do most of the temples in 1 day (after you've seen much beyond Bayon, angkhor thom and the tree overgrown "not too much restored temple" and the 2 or 3 under reconstruction - ONE PILE OF ROCKS LOOKS ABOUT THE SAME AS ANOTHER). 3 days was enough - do the sundown on the hill over Angkhor wat, though, AND take bug spray - the mosquitoes get nasty right after dark and there is dengue fever in the area. Carry water with you (you can buy chilled water out there. Don't drink non-bottled water and make sure you open it yourself)

[QUOTE=Dinghy]Angkhor Wat pass is 1, THREE, or 7 days (not 4 unless they changed very recently) $20, 40, 60 each. Tickets available on the entry road - take cash

You can do most of the temples in 1 day (after you've seen much beyond Bayon, angkhor thom and the tree overgrown "not too much restored temple" and the 2 or 3 under reconstruction - ONE PILE OF ROCKS LOOKS ABOUT THE SAME AS ANOTHER). 3 days was enough - do the sundown on the hill over Angkhor wat, though, AND take bug spray - the mosquitoes get nasty right after dark and there is dengue fever in the area. Carry water with you (you can buy chilled water out there. Don't drink non-bottled water and make sure you open it yourself)[/QUOTE]

I agree with Dinghy's advice , though this is quite a variable issue - some guys will be exhausted by the sightseeing in one day... if you over do it, one pile of rocks starts to look about the same as another... and if you go at this time of year, it will be hot and humid... . But if you have the patience to study a little bit about what you are seeing in advance, and are curious about one of the world's great archeological sites, and you are probably only going to get one chance to see it, I would certainly agree that the three day pass is a better plan. There are incredible relief carvings and sculptures to be lingered over, and if you look into it a bit, you'll find there are interesting differences in what you are looking at. In summer it is hot, so you may want to go out for part of the day and relax for another part... and make sure you have a hat as well as that bug spray. As the temples are fairly widely spread out, it is nice to make a plan that will allow you the luxury of a few days to take Angkor in, alowing for some rest from the heat. But, as I said, this is very much a matter of personal preference. My advice is read uo a little on it in a good guide book and see whether you are interested enough to invest three days. I did and did not regret it.

Thanks for all the great info!

Do any of you guys remember what the veiwing hours are?

Thanks in advance!

hours - "daylight to darkness" (angkhor wat itself is pretty much closed after dark - not many if any lights that I remember) The hill opposite (sunset temple) is open after dark but the bugs will eat you alive - if you walk down take the elephant trail ($15 ride up on an elephant) - not so steep and easy walking - otherwise it's a rock climb - sun goes below horizon, get down before the bugs get up there

great photos at bayon - as good as any postcard. and angkhor wat as well - the wall carvings are particulalry photoworthy. it CAN be done in 1 day but it's 6am to 630 or 7 pm in the process... and the rains seem to come at night right after dark and it gets pretty DEEP on the streets - 15cm was what I remember

good books were cheaper at the wat rather than buying in bookstore - probably cheaper still in the market (where ever that is) The local guidebook is good for the non-mongering stuff. I remember at least 2 free guidebooks (magazines)

there were 3 temples under reconstruction (giant puzzle work) 2 years ago when I went there

can anyone help with the cost from saigon to seam reap? vn airlines will not quote me a price on the phone.

i hope it's not too expensive as i would like to spend the money in cambodia. the golden temple guest house seems like a nice place to stay according to the reports but what is the security like there. do they have in room security boxes so i can keep my stuff in? hotel looks good but is my first choice to the golden orange so i'the like to know. i kind of like the appearance of the golden temple but they will not email my questions regarding security boxes. better safe than sorry. there's a speed boat i read but how long does that take to get to seam reap and cost. the 1st week of october i hope is not too busy of a time to try to get a room at either of these to hotels. guys help me out as i got 6 weeks to try and figure out how i'm going to get from saigon to siem reap. all the reports were very helpful an am getting anxious to get the details of my trip done. 1st stop in siem reap will be martini's. later

The elephant ride sounds like a lot of fun. The carvings sound like something I'the like to see. I will get there in about 6 weeks and will be very happy to leave VN and see something other than hundreds of motobikes on the streets. Don't get me wrong, I like Saigon but need a little change now.