Angkor Hotel Siem Reap

A package tour of the flight, hotel, meals, minivan with driver, and a guide for 5 days. An efficient way to see the sights over an extensive area in a short time, it was more expensive than a group tour, but still affordable.

... over a beer, a nice way to spend an afternoon! After three days in Phnom Penh it was time to move north to Siem Reap. This is a small little town that would never be visited expect for the infamous Angkor temples nearby. The Angkor temples are a ...

... that sort of place and will only get worse as the Angkor temples continue to grow in popularity. The Angkor region lies around 30KM from Siem Reap and comprises an archipelago of some 200 stone temple and ancient monument sites amidst a 60 Square mile ...

... next day saw us land in Phnom Penh for the final few days of the first leg of our Intrepid tour. If our time in Siem Reap and Angkor was to witness Cambodia's glorious and extravagant past, our time in Phnom Penh was of a more bleak nature - a chance to ...

Arriving by boat at Siem Reap is an interesting experience. Walking down the plank of wood from the boat into a mass of people who are trying to sell you things, get you to stay at their accomodation or taking half empty bottles of water of you. This ...

After the endless journey, arriving in Siem Reap was like arriving in a luxury resort.  Coming in at night, all the out-of-town luxury hotels were lit up so nicely. Shame our budget could not yield that much! After changing accomodation the first ...

... soon on a Bangkok Airways flight to Siem Reap in northern Cambodia. Famed for the 9th to 14th century Khmer temples of nearby Angkor Wat, Siem Reap retains a French colonial feel to the town and offers many other Wats to explore (it's really a wat til you ...

The nearest town to the site of Angkor is Siem Reap.  It is overflowing with hotels and has developed a lot since we were last there, but parts of it still have old colonial architecture and quaint charm.  The markets are great.  Like ...

... a few minutes walk from Old Market, Pub Street and shopping area, with easy access to the magnificent temples sites of Angkor and Siem Reap International Airport. It is Western managed by British/Cambodian couple who have a lot of hotel and guesthouse ...

... Charlotte even got emotional at one stage...lol!!! To sum up Siem Reap we had an unbelievable 4 nights just enjoying Angkor, exploring Siem Reap, meeting the best tuk tuk driver, staying at the best accommodation so far, visting the amazing orphanage, ...

... his English was superb. I would highly recommend him for a day or two of education. He works with Lotus Guides of Angkor and Siem Reap. I think you can more or less tell them what you want to do and they will write an itinerary around that. ...

... . It has become a symbol of Cambodia, appearing on its national flag, and it is the country's prime attraction for visitors. Angkor Wat * (1113-1150 A.D.)  Western Baray   Angkor Thom (1190-1210 A. Banyon Temple (1190 A.D.) Ta Prohm  ...

... a guide and driver for these three days. (Thanks to our friend, John Foster, of Carbondale for the reference for a travel agent in Siem Reap.) Our time there was very hot and we were grateful for an air conditioned van and our expert guide, Boran.  A ...

... Piano. I was then off to the capital Phnom Penh to see the killing fields, S21 and saw my books. Whilst I was in Siem Reap I had read the Killing Fields and Stay Alive my son, both books were written about the atrocities the Khmer Rouge committed ...

... was really nice, what we found out later was that the staff were not so nice and I would recommend NOT to stay at the ROYAL ANGKOR HOTEL since they obviously have no morals and just want to get money from you to the point that when our bus pick up was ...

Fast Facts: Siem Reap town and the temples of Angkor are UNESCO sites Population = 160,000 Day 1 From Phnom Penh, we took an AC bus for a 6 hour ride to Siem Reap.  It was a comfortable bus and the road between the 2 cities is good so ...

... a local posh hotel pool amidst some intense touristing of ... temples! For $5 we got real value for money using the Borei Angkor Hotel's pool for a day. Beautiful sunshine and a spick and span poolside, though I wouldn't have minded the water temp to be ...

12 Feb 09 Siem Reap, Cambodia Bopha Angkor Hotel   Mid day flight from Luang Prabang, Laos to Siem Reap, Cambodia. Late day walk to Old Market - hundreds of stalls selling silver jewelry and watches, cloth weaving of all sizes, stone, wood and ...

... for a westerner and just beautiful with a gorgeous pool (by now I had started to swim laps most days if I could) Siem Reap was very lovely - a really nice city with wide roads and parks with a gorgeous french colonial influence. Restaurants and cafes ...