River Star Hotel Phnom Penh

... to find many Tuk Tuk drivers willing to take us to anywhere.  We got a good taxi driver who drove us to River Star Hotel.  Unfortunately it is a very nice establishment, with very nice staff, however we have blown our budget.  It is ...

... trip and I should be as gungho as Angelina Jolie... The whole tour package which cost US$ 500 included hotel stays at all locations i.e. Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Silhanoukville, and transportation. Was it worth it? Well at least it bought us comfort ...

... Our hotel provided a free pickup from the airport and after a long drive into town we arrived in the late evening at the World Star Hotel on the main road, Monivong Boulevard, which runs the length of the city. The staff were great and the room fine with ...

... so starved they will do anything for a biscuit. Some of these naked armless children looks like barely 4 years old. We reached Phnom Penh in the evening, where we checked into this really cozy and nice guest house called Boddhi Tree. I will give it 5 ...

... commission). But I must admit I'm quite a fan of this place. Below I've listed my top-10 of favourites in Phnom Penh: 1. The Royal Palace The Royal Palace of Phnom Penh is a complex of structures including a.o. the Silver Pagoda. Vaguely reminiscent ...

... here: Cambodian drivers compassionately love to honk...beep beep beep.. beep beep.. My visit to the Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh confirmed the online postings that the stuffs there were rude. They issued a single entry tourist visa instead of ...

... above the clouds since it was so small, it flies low to the ground, lots of turbulence, felt like a rollercoaster. arrived in phnom penh, paid $22 ($20 visa and $2 "penalty for not having passport photo") to get into country, immediately surrounded by ...

... you miss out on when you're living your life. everyone else's! anyway, back to this blog. nha trang, vietnam - written from phnom penh, cambodia! friday 7th november so this morning, or probably more like this afternoon, we wake up with me only ...

... lukewarm to indifferent. In the morning we got up early to get our last free breakfast at the guest house before jumping on a bus back to Phnom Penh, as it is close to the border with Vietnam. Our plan was to get a guest house in the funky part of town by ...

... is improved and the trip is reasonably comfortable. We checked the rooms in a couple of cheaper hotels before we settled on the River Star Hotel with a room overlooking the Tonie Sap River. The rate of $29 is slightly high but the room is very clean and ...

... in one at the standard rate of $7 US/car. Our driver took us to a hotel we found in the Lonely Planet, River Star Hotel, which is pretty blah on the outside, but surprisingly quite large, clean and decent in our rooms, thank goodness! After grabbing a ...

... drive).  First sign of danger... The journey from the airport was a short one, thankfully.  We finally arrived at River Star Hotel (more so a hostel).  There were tiny groups of people, also travellers like us.  We went up to our ...

... !. We all got our stamps (not very friendly either) and went back on the boat for another 3 hours before arriving in Phnomh Penh. Funnily enough the river here is not used at all, we did not see any use of it or barely any life around it. In Phnomh Penh ...

... I think definitely this type of travel is for the young and beginners to travel. We are now in the luxurious Cambodiana Hotel in Phnom Penh after an altercation that it was time to accept our weakness, luxury hotels. I didn't mention the sex trade ...

... off until we just stepped foot inside our hotel, before then REALLY chucking it down, totally flooding the streets of Phnom Penh and confining us to the hotel until the next day. The Cambodia Daily paper reported it to have been 'the worst rain ever'. ...

... my little heart out.   So......from the 27th December - 1st January i attended the 4th Cambodian bible school held at a hotel in Phnom Penh.   I arrived by 'night' bus from Siem Reap at midnight of boxing day. The bus had taken 5 ...

... going right into a hotel and Phil just said five star not five dollars. So to my surprise he had booked us into a five star hotel for a night for our five year mark, was quite strange pulling up to the entrance in a tuk tuk with our grimy backpacks ...

... to them they will grin from ear to ear and wave back, that is, if they haven't done that before you waved. Phnom Penh The capital is a short taxi ride from Pochentong Airport. We stayed near the waterfront in a decent enough cheap hotel ...

... artifacts recovered from some of the temples of Angkor Wat.  We also spent a day lounging around the pool at a five-star hotel called The Cambodiana.  Though most of our time in Phnom Pehn was spent simply hanging out on the deck of our ...