Superb alternative with great location! Spacious & very clean rooms with big balcony, lovely garden with big pool including a jacuzzi in the outside pool. Nice and friendly staff. They will gladely help you with any problems (e.g transfer to/from airport). Big breakfast buffet with everything you can think of.
Just around the corner you will find restaurants, tuktuk/taxi, ATM, minimarket and, across the street the beach. First we thought that Kata beach was more pretty but if you walk north, as long as you can, on Karon beach you will find, like we did, that this is acutally the best part of all the beaches. It is not packed with people, and there are good restaurants there and if you like to snorkel you can swim out to the cliffs and see a lot of fishes.
Another good thing with the location is, if you, like us, wants to go running in the morning, you can run from the hotel all the way down to southern Kata beach, it will be around 11 km - perfect! We really recommend this hotel!