We stayed at this place midway through our honeymoon in order to fully experience the national park without messing with car rentals and tickets. Communicating via email to book our stay and arrange for our van pickup from Bangkok was super easy (even when our return flight out of Bangkok got rescheduled and we had to change the van dropoff time). The rooms are a bit bare-bones (no wifi outside common areas) but large and serviceable. The food that was included in the package was decent, not the most flavorful of our trip but fast and lots of options. But you're not staying at this place for the glamorous resort experience, you're there for the park tour... which was incredible. The other reviews that rave about Pong are spot-on - this man has spent his whole life in the area, practically has the bird guide book memorized, and could spot a polar bear in a snowstorm. Pong's enthusiasm for spotting wildlife was infectious (he said he once waited with a client in a blind for 6 hours to spot a rare bird!). He'd frequently suddenly pull the pickup over and hurry over with a professional scope and tripod to line up the perfect, Nat Geo-worthy wildlife shot. We saw wild elephants, hornbills, gibbons, bats, and rare kingfisher birds, all in one day! Obviously guides can't control the wildlife, but Pong was absolutely running circles around the other guides we passed because he knew all the off-trail paths and local animal habitats. If you book this place, do so directly (for a discount) and if your dates are flexible, make sure you get Pong as your guide.
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