Stayed at Phuket Island View Hotel in August 2011. This fairly large hotel is ideally situated towards the south end of Karon and directly across the road from the beach. Perfectly located between Karon & Kata, with a number of nearby restaurants, a few pubs and side streets with massages and shopping. Booked a Superior room which was adequate, wasn’t huge & nothing fancy, but had all the basic’s except a room safe. Rooms are cleaned well & serviced daily. Hotel is pretty old & rooms are needing a revamp. Hotel has 3 pool areas if you don’t want to visit the beach, again nothing big & fancy, but basic. Gardens are well maintained & groomed. The breakfast is standard, as with most 3 star hotels in Thailand, just the normal buffet & the dining area is big enough to accommodate the guests. Overall, don’t expect anything fancy from this hotel, it’s a basic older 3* hotel, but considering the price I paid for the accommodation and the great location of this hotel, was happy with my choice. Although there are a number of hotels in the near vicinity that are certainly a better class would probably return for possibly a night or two again! Karon beach area is great, certainly not hectic like Patong and got a good relaxed island feel about it...The beach is great, with the alternative of Kata beach +-10 min drive away. There are plenty little side walk restaurants all around the area which are easily accessible by foot, it’s not overly crowded and the night life is very quiet, so if you wanna party, Patong is the place…The same applies to the shopping, Karon’s shopping was very poor this time I visited and really didn’t have the good quality and variety of Patong, even noticed the locals weren’t that keen to barter as much as in Patong either, but as Patongs only +-20/30 min drive away it’s close enough to get to when you’ve had enough of the beach…Phuket & Thailand is definitely a beautiful place to visit and would recommend it everyone… PS. Booking with Hoteltravel.com was effortless and easy, brilliant, will book with them again in future

Breakfast is good. Room is clean. There thee pools available in the Hotel are wonderful for R&R if you do not want to travel out.