La Vida Samui

Thailand , Koh Samui
Koh Samui, 101, Moo.2, Tambon Bo Phut. Amphoe Koh Samui
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50 reviews shown

10/10

Exceptional

03 Apr 2026

Luke

The breakfast was excellent! Catered for western and Asian. The staff were super friendly. We had the private pool villa and it was always spotless and maintained extremely well. The hotel is like an Ibiza euro chill styled place with a walk to the beach from the pool - so if that is what you’re after go no further.

Family_with_children

10/10

Exceptional

12 Mar 2026

geoff

Very relaxing

10/10

Exceptional

08 Mar 2026

PHILIP

Excellent location for all of the local restaurants and bars, but quiet enough if you wanted peace. Pool was perfect and a very short walk over a sandy beach to the sea.
All staff were lovely. On site restaurant was also great for lunch, evening meal or just drinks.

Family

10/10

Exceptional

03 Mar 2026

Terri

Room and pool area fantastic. The exterior building is definitely in need of some work. Painting etc. overall lovely stay. Would recommend

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

25 Feb 2026

Beverley

Lovely hotel in a good location. The hotel and gardens were well looked after and kept clean. The staff were a joy, so helpful, friendly and willing to go that extra mile to make your stay the best.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

13 Feb 2026

Morag

Everything was excellent, fab breakfast, lovely staff, fantastic location.

10/10

Exceptional

23 Dec 2025

Miguel

Great staff and a great view had room 311 last one right in front of the beach/ocean

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

20 Nov 2025

Veronica

This hotel is located in a quieter part of chaweng but easy to walk to everything. Beachfront is quiet and peaceful. The staff are excellent and helpful. The pool is great, love this hotel

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

02 Aug 2025

itai

We stayed at the hotel for 5 nights, it was simply excellent, beautiful hotel, excellent pool, magical beach with white sand, the hotel allows you to take SUP and kayaks, is on the beach, the main street - 2 minutes and a whole world of restaurants and massages.
Bottom line - we will be back again

Friends_and_family Family

6/10

Pleasant

28 Jul 2025

Andrew

Unpleasantly Surprised

Check in was slow, plus we were interrupted halfway through while three of them dealt with another customer who just walked through the door. Very odd.

The rooms were quite pokey, with quite a strange configuration. No draft beer or beers offered during happy hour, only cocktails. Place is very quiet in the evening - the pool bar is none existent.

This hotel is about a 10/15 minute walk to the action, very quiet and quite run down surroundings.

For the money they’re charging guests it should be a lot better than it is. I believe they work on a charge as much as you can policy because I doubt they get any repeat business.

Friends_and_family Family

6/10

Pleasant

16 Jul 2025

TESS

Hotel is situated right on the beach, which is lovely. Great sized pool area, breakfast was good.
Staff were fine, not overly friendly but not bad.
Even though it’s in a busy area you are just at the end so you get no noise from the bars.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

11 Jul 2025

Margot

Lovely, helpful staff. Beautiful resort. Loved our stay.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

09 May 2025

Veronica

The seaview suite was excellent. The hotel is lovely and the staff are helpful

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

06 May 2025

Cherie

Very relaxing hotel in a beautiful location

Our favourite hotel and location during our recent trip to south Thailand.

Great facilities in the room (toiletries /beach towels etc) and very quiet.

Pool and beach location was stunning, free use of paddle board and kayak. Always a bed free and never overcrowded.

Breakfast was lovely, we particularly liked the range of fruit available and the egg station.

We used bar for lunch and cocktails during the day which were also great quality.

The hotel also did a free trip to the local hill top temple, this was a lovely touch.

Overall a very relaxing hotel in a beautiful location

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

30 Apr 2025

Bradley

First time in Koh Samui and would definitely stay here again the staff and everybody in this establishment are beautiful, very approachable and we enjoyed every minute of our stay. Breakfast was perfect in every way, very much to our liking.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

06 Mar 2025

Rachael

Holiday of a lifetime

Amazing beautiful resort, we’re lucky enough to have been staying in the suite with private pool and direct beach access. Every one was so warm and helpful. Definitely 10/10

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

25 Feb 2025

Jane

Unfortunately this hotel didn’t live up to expectations after reading previous reviews. Check in wasn’t great as only 1 person on reception and lots of people collecting keys at 2pm. No assistance with luggage to room. Room was exceptionally small. On the plus side the pool and restaurant area was very well looked after with helpful staff. Access directly onto beach with hotel sunbeds available.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

13 Jan 2025

Armin

Very nice place to stay .

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

25 Sep 2024

David

Great little resort, perfect for just walking into the centre of Chaweng. Staff extremely friendly and helpful. Breakfast was excellent with a good selection of food and drinks. We only ate the Thai food at lunch and dinner which was amazing. Would go back again.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

24 Aug 2024

Farheen

It is far enough away from the center of Chaweng to offer some peace, but close enough to walk into town easily. Rooms are very very small, but clean. Breakfast was good, pool area is nice. However, if you like to swim in the ocean, this beach is not the place for you. It is super shallow and rocky.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

05 Jul 2024

tina

great beach hotel

Excellent hotel, lovely rooms, great pools. breakfast facing the beach is a lovely way to start the day. Staff are friendly and efficient. I have been coming to Samui for over 20 years, its a shame to see that a lot of beach hotels didn't survive Covid and lack of tourist, but this hotel which opened it doors just before is a real bacon of hope for the tourist industry in this wonderful country

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

21 Mar 2024

Anna

Convenient location, beautiful beach, delicious breakfast, clean rooms, friendly staff. Would definitely be back.

Leisure Friends

8/10

Excellent

05 Feb 2024

Benny

Boutique hotel in chaweng

Cute boutique hotel with a couple of pools and on beautiful Chaweng beach. Convenient location.
My sea view suite was on first floor so it’s really pool view with slight sea view. Room was large. The pool gets noisy with families and children.
Checkin was total chaos taking over 40 min as there was one receptionist and a large family ahead.
Food was decent.
Also the hotel guests all put down towels on the beach chaises very early like 8am .
The hotel is convenient. Also a nice sunrise

Self

6/10

Pleasant

23 Jan 2024

Mark

No atmosphere in the evening when all other hotels around La Vida has.
All lights go out at 10.30pm

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

20 Nov 2023

David

Very nice hotel with pool area and beach. My only real negative would be that the walls to the rooms are thin so you can hear next doors tv when they have it on.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

16 Sep 2023

Zi Liang

Staffs services are very good. Breakfast is delicious and resort beach is nice.

Just that our villa (garden villa) size is smaller than expected.

8/10

Excellent

09 Jul 2023

gerald

Only stayed there for one night. Would recommend to go with a bungalow or villa if so stay there longer as the rooms are small. Nice place though, well taken care of, super friendly staff, good breakfast buffet and right on the beach. Overall a great value proposition.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

19 Jan 2023

Verified traveler

Best of our Samui hotels

Small, modern and well designed, We enjoyed that place more then we expected!

We especially appreciated it when we spent 2 more weeks in other two higher range hotels, and visited couple more while choosing next spot.

After our stay, we definitely would’ve choose LaVida over some other 5 star hotels on Samui where we ended up, too bad we didn’t book more nights in advance, willing to explore.

Located on one of the best beaches, hotel is small and easy to walk around, breakfast was excellent, where quality dominate quantity and caters to all tastes. Every room has Nespresso machines with good coffee and tea supply in the room, strong internet connection, and SmartTv. Kayaks and paddle boards at the beach.

I did mention it, because these basic commodities were still non-present in some other 5* hotels, that was a surprise.

The rooms are on smaller range but very functional. Soundproof is not the best, so you might hear some very noisy neighbours, but it didn’t bother us too much.
It is a very quiet hotel but still kind of close to the party-sector of Samui when you go left while exiting hotel, and classier areas are to your right while exiting.
Staff is very nice and professional.
Nice & clean massage place on the right from the exit.
Thank you, La Visa!

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

09 Jan 2023

Walter

Excellent new resort with beautiful pool and beach

Excellent new resort in Samui. Well located few blocks from where the Chaweng action starts but still very quiet and private. Well appointed room with very comfortable bed. Nespresso machine in the room. They provide quality beach towels every day in the room with two handy beach bags. The grounds are amazing. Beautiful pool and lounge chairs, both by the pool and at the beach. The ground keeping staff does a great job of keeping everything pristine (including the beach). Plenty of lounge chairs, no need to fight for one or \"reserve\" like in other resorts. Paddle boards and kayaks available for guests at no extra cost. The staff is delightful and always service with a smile. Breakfast very complete with egg station and espresso coffee machine. Highly recommended.

Friends_and_family Family

6/10

Pleasant

02 Jan 2023

Michelle

Service could be better

The hotel itself is very nice. Great location. Quiet. My only issue was with the service. Our room smelled strongly of sewage. We spoke to the front desk. Both very nice ladies but it was clear they didn’t want to change our room. Said they would have the housekeeper do something to help. Ok fine. We left for the day and coming back it was fine for a bit then later in the night it came back again. With 1 night left we figured we’d just deal with it. Walking around at night, it seemed to be that whole area having a strong sewage smell. We get it. Islands have these issues sometimes.

The bartender - was in some kind of bad mood. My partner asked for a menu and she gave this nasty face as though it was difficult to hand over a menu. Whatever. Maybe she had a bad day.

Lastly, the day we check out I asked if they could call a taxi for us. Instead of saying yes, we were told to walk a little out and find on our own. What? The hotel is in a quiet area so finding a taxi that early is a bit difficult. I politely asked again do you have a number I can call then. Finally she said ok I can call one. So why not call one when I initially asked? Just these small things turned me off to this hotel. We don’t ask for much and always tipped our server and even the rude bartender. Otherwise the grounds were very nice and relaxing.

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

23 Sep 2022

victor

Average at best

Lot's of confusion at the property. Staff mishandled billing, among other things.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

05 Oct 2021

Elisabeth

Great Hotel with Friendly Staff

We had a great stay at La Vida Samui. All correspondence for taxi transfer in advance was replied to very fast, and everything went smoothly. The staff was incredibly nice and helpful, and we had a very cozy stay. The facilities were well maintained, the pool was great, and the room was also very nice.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

11 Mar 2020

Angela

Absolutely beautiful

This hotel is amazing, new and clean. The location is right on the beach on the quieter end of Chewang beach. The deluxe room we stayed in was absolutely beautiful. Staff were all lovely. Breakfast was amazing. For us it was the best hotel, we stayed in 4 other places. It’s a 10/10 for us

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

10 Mar 2020

Verified traveler

Location is superb for a relaxed vacation. Staff are amazing.

8/10

Excellent

01 Mar 2020

Neil

Best beach in Chaweng

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

28 Feb 2020

Julie

Great friendly staff and service, comfortable beds

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

20 Feb 2020

Verified traveler

Great hotel

Great hotel in a good location for Chaweng Beach. Hotel is new and has a fresh feel. Staff are friendly and helpful.

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

12 Feb 2020

Verified traveler

Overall great experience and high value. Love the staff. Good breakfast and amazing location. Great big rooms

No working place in my room. Too much light get inside . Bit moscitos. Cold pool a bit.

6/10

Pleasant

03 Feb 2020

Verified traveler

It was new and clean. However, the staff need more training as they were pretty amateurish which was not what was expected especially for the price we paid. I consider this is the management fault as not enough interest taken by them, especially chefs to ensure it worked like a well oiled machine. Staff were very pleasant, but let standards drop at times - again this is the fault of the management and not checking what they are doing.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

13 Jan 2020

Zaakir

Definately recommended

This Hotel just opened and we were part of the lucky few to score accommodation during the busy December period in this new, up and coming gem on the Island.

The room were clean and modern, the bed was comfy, there was a beautiful pool and the Staff couldn't be more friendly, polite & helpful.

We had an issue with our water temperature, but in no time the staff came to the rescue and made up for the issue in the best way possible!

I would definitely recommend this hotel to anybody visiting the island, the location is amazing and each room is worth every penny!

The only suggestions I have for this hotel is to increase your breakfast selection and in house hotel dining options

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

29 Mar 2026

Christian

Nice hotel overall

8/10

Excellent

18 Mar 2026

Florian

The accommodation needed some renovation. Returning from a stressful meeting, I was quite unhappy and even a bit angry when I wanted to relax and found the air conditioning had been turned off. It took over half an hour to get the room to a comfortable temperature for sleeping.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

11 Feb 2026

Leo

Hotellialue loistavalla paikalla. Henkilökunta erittäin ystävällisiä. Paikat siistit. Huone hyvä samoin vuode.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

24 Jan 2026

Poul

Alt ok
Personale flinke og hjælpsome

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

29 Sep 2025

Thomas

Hatten eine Villa in Strand- und Poolnähe. Es wurde sehr auf Sauberkeit geachtet, das war sehr angenehm. Uns fehlte es an nichts, jeder Wunsch wurde sofort erfüllt. Ein super Team :-)

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

25 Aug 2025

Charlotte

Je me suis sentie en paix dans cet hôtel, seule avec mon fils de 4 ans, nous nous sommes sentis très bien tous les deux et il est bien placé également, proche des commerces.

10/10

Exceptional

10 Apr 2025

Alisa

Nice beachfront hotel. Good breakfast

Leisure Family

6/10

Pleasant

03 Apr 2025

Alexander

War ganz ok

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

01 Apr 2025

Åsa

Fint hotell

Bra service, bra mat, ren pool, bra sovkvalitet, tyst, fin strand. Daglig rengöring.

Rummet var lite mörkt.

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

31 Mar 2025

QUENTIN

Passable

Hôtel au calme de l’agitation.
Cependant niveau accueil au petit déjeuner c’est déplorable personne ne dis bonjour ou viens demander si tu veux un café malgré que cela sois un buffet. Voir le staff assis c’est surprenant.

Self