Seavana Koh Mak Beach Resort

Seavana is on a beautiful and quiet beach on the island of Koh Mak. If you want peace and quiet then this really is an incredible place to stay

There is very little not to like. Lovely staff, great food, good value. A wonderful place to stay

Beachfront location and great views. Great staff and good restaurant.

The property is old and tired. It needs renovation. Suite was old and not well designed. We had ants and a big spider in the room. Lots of mosquitoes and sand flies around the property. Needs better maintenance. First room had many ants and a small old toilet very low and hard to use. Second room had a new toilet, less ants, and a big spider in the bathroom.

It was low season and the island was quiet, but Seavana felt alive, chilled, and comprehensive. Super nice location, staff, rooms and food!

Not staying there long enough

There is nothing more subjective than evaluating a holiday and a resort. If you are looking for a place with spaces that are visually pleasing, both in terms of architecture and natural surroundings, and if you plan to spend 90% of your time within the resort without moving around much, this is the place for you. The pool is beautiful, though small. The restaurant area is also very scenic. The villas are nicely decorated. Some members of the staff are kind — a few in particular — but overall, we are not happy with our stay.

Overall, the biggest disappointment was expecting a high-standard structure. Instead, it is mostly about appearance (in fact, the place is full of Instagrammers), but what matters most — making guests feel welcomed and cared for — is missing due to a general sense of neglect and sloppiness. The location is particularly inconvenient, isolated and far from everything, connected to the main road by a two-kilometer unpaved path, completely dark at night and full of potholes, which becomes truly dangerous in the rain. If you don’t want to spend your entire stay closed inside the resort, you have 2 options: rent a scooter or use the taxi service (starting from 15 euros per trip, or 60 euros for a full day). Walking is technically possible, but it would take a couple of hours to reach any points of interest. The staff is not well trained in dealing with guests; almost no one understands English, and very few are genuinely kind or helpful (the reception staff, in particular, are brusque and curt). The resort management feels completely abandoned: nobody asks if you’d like a drink but especially concerning is that no one clears tables, and dirty dishes are left for hours, attracting animals, particularly an overwhelming number of ants throughout the property. One evening, after we finished dinner around 9 PM, we watched the staff close the restaurant at 10 PM without having cleared our table, leaving leftover food, meat and vegetables, exposed. Similarly, in the beach area, tables remained cluttered from 5 PM all through the night. The outdoor shower for the pool and the beach was out of order without any notice. Access to the pool is difficult, with no steps or safe walking paths between the decorative stones surrounding it. There are kayaks and paddleboards available, along with life jackets, but no supervision at all if you decide to go out into the sea. The room has no space to store clothes — no shelves, no wardrobes. The bathroom has no hooks to hang towels.