Name: Paddy's Bamboo Guesthouse
Address: Chicken Farm Road, Koh Kong, Koh Kong, Koh Kong, 09000, Cambodia
Rating: 8

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Free bicycle rental

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Paddy's Bamboo Guesthouse

Koh Kong

I booked four nights at Paddy's with the plan to do an island tour and some jungle trekking while on vacation from Phnom Penh, where I live and work. I booked the property on Booking.com after finding it on TripAdvisor. My reservation was accepted, as usual, and I sent a message asking about jungle trekking and received a response (from Booking.com, not TripAdvisor's fault here) saying that they would be able to organize this for me. Upon arriving after an 8-hour bus ride it was obvious that no one had lived or stayed at the place for months. There was not a single person there (guest or staff), everything was broken, the bar and office had become a storage area, and all the beds in the rooms had been stripped with the mattresses in the hallway. Once again, the place is NOT open and is completely abandoned. I had to run across town to find another place to stay for the night, nearly missing a Zoom meeting for work. I then had to completely restructure my trip, as most tour operators are closed or suspended because of the covid-19 tourism drop. I was jusifiably under the impressiont that this one was still open.

I realize that many businesses have been forced to close because of the circumstances, but this place is pretending to still be open, accepting reservations, and collaborating with both Booking.com and TripAdvisor to spread this lie. There ARE still people in Cambodia, both locals and expats, who travel within the country when they can, and for the place to refuse to admit they had to close is completely disrespectful to the schedules and plans of others.

It's hard to take the "lovely people" reviews to heart after my experience. If this guy ever tries to reopen, the place should be burned down immediately to teach him a lesson about communication and competence.

All property information was a lie -- this place is CLOSED and ABANDONED

We booked two rooms on Agoda the same day we arrived. But once there, we have been told by the owner - a good hearted and kind guy - he forgot to close his bookings on internet, he actually had only one room for us. 
We did not agree so somehow, instead of losing the deal, he managed to give us two rooms, although not what we have booked. One was on the first floor, with no real windows just pieces of glass so very noisy, no key on the door. Other one had a small , let’s call it toilet:))), but the door couldn’t be closed from inside, missing even the door handle. We had to find an exchange so we put all in one room and used our own padlock from outside to somehow keep the door shut.
When the owner saw us coming back on that evening, he looked very surprised and told us he rented our room out because he hasn’t seen our bags inside it and thought we don’t like it.
We very a lot unhappy as it was almost midnight and no solution was to be found, not even one place available in the whole city. He was really sorry and was visibly suffering from his mistake but at the same time I was not ready to accept my dad sleeping on the floor with a mosquito net as offered.. In the end he went to wake up some guesthouse owners and asked for at least one room for us. He found it shortly after. I wasn’t feeling comfortable to leave my dad there (some really bad and drunk old guys from Norway insulting us), so I offered the owner to pay him our one room we locked, and asked him to find us two rooms somewhere else. He did so, in a guesthouse in front of him, took us with his tuktuk, offered us 2beers as we hadn’t use the room we paid for, and apologized a lot of times. He is a really nice and kind guy but a bit messy:)
It turned out for 10$ we had superclean big room, with private WC and shower, real walls, beds, hot water, windows, lights, tv etc. If you have the chance to pay 4$ extra, do not hesitate, as Paddy’s may be more an experience to tell than a place to stay. 
We also headed there because it was mentioned in Rough Guide for its excursions in the rainforest&mountains, but turned out not lot of stuff was doable, it felt like no one really wanted to do more than a one day touristic trip.
From all offers exposed around the guesthouse, very few are at disposal.. in the end we walked and asked some local places and found even more rooms for a very good price, with even breakfast and pool!

Kind owner, but everything very disorganized 

All staff were really friendly and helped us out with any questions we had, great atmosphere with everything you needed including comfy beds and mozzie nets! Paddy’s eco treks into the Cardomon mountains are also fantastic, would definitely recommend both!

Super helpful, friendly and comfortable

Paddy's Bamboo Guesthouse is a very pleasant place with its terrace, the rooms are rustic but everything has made it convenient for the price ($6). I was lucky enough to have one at the rdc, they are cooler and better insulated. Paddy is an exceptional host, friendly, helpful and very available. It is possible to rent motorcycles and book excursions from the guesthouse.

A bubble of oxygen

Laid back and cozy atmosphere, great prices and nice rooms, lovely staff always with a smile and willing to help and find solutions to any situation. I did the two day trek with them and had a wonderful time, an authentic and happy experience. Thanks to Paddy and all the staff for a relaxing and good time in Koh Kong. Take care!

Lovely place and lovely people

I arrived late on a cambodian holiday and was originally heading for Phnom Penh that same day, but the buses were all booked up so i figured ill stay the night.

I checked in very late at Paddy's Bamboo but the person on the night shift was super friendly and let me pay with thai baht, sold me some water bottles from the already locked fridge and accomodated me with an ashtray to bring to the room, sweet!, and also i tried to overpay the night shift guy because i didnt know the prices so i offered him 500 baht ( i just wanted shelter at this point and somewhere to lay down) but he insisted that i didnt overpay, and made a counter offer of 150 baht, VERY honest!!.

Im always honest in my reviews so ill not sugarcoat it, i stayed in a private 1 bed room in a hallway, lets just say these rooms have seen better days, it was not very clean and didnt smell very pleasant, there were cockroaches but luckily you had access to this huge mosquito net you could tuck under all sides of the bed making it impossible for any bugs to enter (Nice!), mattress was actually very comfortable, the pillow aswell, you could lock the room aswell as the windows, there was only a small fan in there wich doesnt really make a big diffrence in the heat, but hey, if you are going to backpack through SE Asia, get used to it!.

I planned on staying up the whole night because it was already past midnight and my bus left at 07, so i was scared of not waking up. I ended up falling asleep anyway and missing my bus and had to take a taxi, but thats another story :) .

Final Verdict: Perfect and very cheap place to just crash for the night, to put a roof over your head and get by, this is not a luxury hotel so dont get picky, you will get through it! perfect for backpackers passing through.

You get what you pay for

Hello, you don't have to look for the comfort of a hotel in Paddy's house, but for the rest, this Guesthouse is a great place. The price is very affordable on the rooms, drinks, food, excursions... he advises us and takes care of a lot of things for us. After 3 nights we can only very strongly recommend this place to do activities around Koh Kong and to stay alone or with several people!

Super guesthouse.

Paddy's is the only real backpackers in the city. It has both privates and dorms. It's not the most beautiful place in the world but if you want to feel nostalgic for what traveling used to be like you should stay here. Paddy himself is one of the most honest and caring people I've ever met. He came to koh kong to find some balance between business and nature after working as a tuktuk driver in Phnom Penh.  I really wouldn't stay anywhere else. It's hard to describe the off beat magic of the place and all that Paddy does. It's unbelievably fair. I get upset with these reviews that don't quite get the motives behind the guesthouse. It isn't supposed to be flashy. It's supposed to be inviting and warm and honest. More than that it's here to show you the real koh kong before it's gone. If you want to Thailand 20 years ago you'd be lucky staying in a place like Paddy's. 

The only real backpackers in the city 

I don't like to write bad reviews of family places, I'll try to be objective, the taxi driver from Sihanoukville took us to the homestay, as it was late, we didn't see any problem staying one night to get up early to cross the border, the attention of the staff is very good, sounds very kind, the food isn't bad and is as good a price as the beer, but, the room has serious bug problems, even though it was smoked and the mosquitoes died, if they could feel ticks in the sheets, there must be mites, tiny ants or fleas, I don't know what bugs they were, but suffered a tremendous algebraic reaction the next morning.

The problem of plague.

Friendly and helpful but quite run down . Food was ok . Coffee was ok . Beer was cold .  Nicely priced but  needs a revamp . Mosquitos really bad .  Resident tuktuk driver will take you to the beach 13 Kms away .  Will organise tours to waterfalls etc .

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