The food at Santhiya is rather dull – absolutely not a gastronomic experience. It’s classic hotel food lacking in authenticity – a little overpriced, but it works fine for a quick lunch. The highlight was a pizza, which says something about the level.
The menus are fairly similar at the two restaurants and offer:
If you’re staying here for a longer stretch, I’d definitely recommend eating at the small, charming places along the beach. It often costs a third of the hotel’s prices, and the atmosphere is really lovely.
There’s also street food in the evenings in the little town nearby – it looks wonderfully cosy.
Because of illness we never got to eat anywhere else – and most days it was room service, as we were really poorly and took it in turns to be ill.
Price level
- An ordinary lunch with a little food and drink for 2 adults and 2 children costs around 600 DKK
- Dinner at the hotel can easily run to 1,000 DKK if you also order a glass of wine with the meal.
- At the hotel you should budget 1,200–1,800 DKK per day for food for a family of 2 adults and 2 children – depending on your choice of drinks, of course.
We received a voucher worth 1,000 THB per day that could be used for food and drink – it’s deducted at check-out.
Everything is ordered via their tablets or by scanning a QR code, which works fine and means you avoid waiting for the bill and awkward tipping moments and so on. A fee is added on top of all prices.
As most communication takes place via the app/QR code, it also means the staff’s English is limited, which makes it difficult to deviate from standard orders.
As a rule it wasn’t possible to adapt the dishes, as the staff mostly didn’t understand what you were asking for.
We did manage it once at Saitara, though, where we were served by a really sweet waiter who spoke good English.
Breakfast – the beach beats the top restaurant
Breakfast is served in two places:
- Saitara Restaurant – at the top of the resort – access only if you’re staying in a pool villa
- By The Sea – right on the beach – open to all guests
We had breakfast in both places, and we clearly preferred By The Sea.
It’s more manageable, airy and relaxed. Saitara is beautiful, but big and a little confusing – especially when there are lots of guests.
So there’s no need to feel hard done by if you don’t have access to Saitara. We thought the breakfast on the beach was clearly the better one.
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Tak for din anmeldelse – den forberedte os. Vi var på rolige autentiske og chill Ko Lanta og tager pt de sidste 3 dage i Thailand på Santhiya. Her er fyldt med danskere og vi er vilde med beliggenheden, naturen og udsigten og alt det smukke træ, som villaerne er i. Men det er også det. Vi synes modsat dig ikke at afstanden og transporten er et issue. Og vi bor i den eneste 2-etagers (connected floors) villa – der er placeret længst væk.
Maden er sgu træls og al form for autencitet er væk. Så ja, vanvittigt flot og fancy. Men det bliver ved det.
Pizza og burgeren på dine billeder er hvorfra – restauranterne?
Hej Linette
Tusind tak for din feedback på mit post 🙂
Ej men vi var også vilde med Koh Lanta – absolut vidunderligt sted 🙂
Ja udsigten er virkelig smuk der – naturen også og omgivelserne også.
Vi troede måske, at vi synes afstanden var ekstra træls, netop fordi vi var dårlige og overskuddet ikke var der – men vi mødte flere som delte samme holdning.
Blev i mon kørt i golfvognene? Vi kunne se, at de blev brugt ved de villaer der lå højest 🙂
Ja maden er virkelig ikke noget at skrive hjem om, og jeg vil faktisk sige at deres pizza var højdepunktet 😉
Både pizza og burger er fra stedet.
Jeg undrer mig faktisk også over at så mange skrev til mig at de synes det var det mest fantastiske sted de havde været, og det skulle vi glæde os til.
Sådan havde vi det absolut ikke – og maden er jo også en kæmpe del af det at rejse, så der skuffer det virkelig.
Rigtig dejlig dag, jeg håber I får nogle skønne dage 🙂
Warm wishes, Dianna