Phka Villa Hotel Battambang

Phka Villa is a lovely, family run hotel not too far from the centre of the city on the eastern side of the Sangker river. Overall the ambience is good and the breakfast is a choice of Khmer food or a western style continental breakfast. If there’s a low point, the bacon - when they have some - is the usual stripy stuff that wouldn’t be considered worthy of the name in Britain. The coffee is excellent and the omelette always light and delicious. There is a nice small swimming pool for the guests which does it’s job well or paddle and swim in or just sit around the outside drinking beer. (The pool would be better if its tiles were a brighter blue, but otherwise fine.) The rooms are good, with an ensuite shower room and a balcony to let you sit in the shade. Please remember, this is Asia, there will be mosquitoes, lizards, geckos and ants. If you can’t cope with these, you’ve come to the wrong continent, it’s not the hotels fault! The Phka Villa is thoroughly recommended for solo visitors or couples and families.

Just arrived yesterday at night. The family who own the place sleeps in the lobby in mattresses on the floor, we found this sight a little distressing since it's not you normal check in experience. I see here you describe rooms are decorated in Khmer style.... My room is an all white room which you have to access through a glass window, the bathroom is old and not taken care of and the door doesn't lock. It really doesn't have any type of courtain but a cloth. Nobody really speaks english and although everybody seems to have the best intentions that's not really what makes up a hotel. If you split the price they charge per room per day in half it would still be overpriced for the quality of lodging you receive. The pictures that you see were taken some years ago when it was just been decorated. We even received racist comments from the owner when giving him backfired which you can see in their reviews in trip advisor.

The hotel has seen better days as the current state is not as good as the publicity photograph, but is was clean, comfortable and had everything I needed. The family that ran it were very friendly and helpful - nice people. It close to town - 1km - and a quick $2 tuk Tuk ride into the center.